User talk:Aaron Schulz/archive 1


 * I've copied across the three files for Extension:CheckUser into my extensions folder, but when I go to Special:Userrights, the Available group 'checkuser' does not appear. Any suggestions?
 * It would nice if future versions could look-up a user's email address too. -- Ian --84.9.191.165 19:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Two things. First, the patch for the newer version (which will be on svn soon) is here. Second, make sure that you add "include_once('extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser.php');" to localsettings.php (assuming you put it in the extension directory). Voice of All 21:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. Indeed I had omitted the "include_once", however, I am now getting an error
 * "Warning: main(/home/752/knowhow/www.plasma-universe.com/public_html/extensions/../ExtensionFunctions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/752/knowhow/www.plasma-universe.com/public_html/extensions/CheckUser.php on line 18"
 * And I can't find any occurrence of ExtensionFunctions.php --84.9.191.165 00:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * ExtensionFunctions.php should be where localsettings.php is. Make sure that you have latest version of MW.Voice of All 19:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Question
Hi Aaron, first thanks for the nice extension Extension:ConfirmAccount, still I got a problem to get it working... left a message in the Extension Discussion ;-) -Dholzmann 18:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi When ConfirmAccount I'm not seeing variables specified in LocalSettings.php reflected. Is this: --MichaelR 02:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * a hallucination on my part
 * known issue

proposal
I suggest a proposal to Pathoschild in metawiki and he guide me to here for Aaron Schulz. further, I suggest another proposal about speed deleting in en.wiki. if anyone will answered to me and want to talk with me about them, write a message in my talk page at fa.wiki. best regards,--Gordafarid 19:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, I'm not sure how to get that data from users in an efficient and non-obtrusive fashion. Aaron 23:07, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I`m not professional in software science, but heard that admins in the forums use the cookies for adding that extra hardware informations. it maybe not be necessary for en.wiki, but in fa.wiki is enforceability for disturb the bad bands. if you can do it, that`s very well. regards,--Gordafarid 15:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

DeletedContributions
Dear VoiceOfAll,

I was thinking of adding a README file to DeletedContributions extension. I created the file, but didn't feel bold enough to submit it as a patch. I'm pasting it here, so you could add it to the SVN if you liked:

DeletedContributions is an extension for MW 1.8 that adds a Special:DeletedContributions page to MediaWiki (see bug 1699).

This page shows all deleted contributions by a user. This page shows the information only to users with the "delete" right, typically members of sysop group. It looks similar to Special:Contributions.

Each entry has, in this order:

- The date - The link to all deleted revs for the page - A link to the specific deleted revision - An m for minor edits - The edit summary

Prerequisites
Run the following SQL query to add a user index to the archive table (deleted revisions) if you are using a version of MediaWiki older than 1.11:

ALTER TABLE `mw_archive` ADD INDEX `usertext_timestamp` ( `ar_user_text`, `ar_timestamp` )

Note, your prefix may not be 'mw', use the appropriate one.

This index is required by the extension. It can be modifidied otherwise, but doing so is not recommended for larger wikis.

Regards, Huji 10:26, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

ConfirmAccount
Hi Aaron, I just wanted to pop in say thanks for the great ConfirmAccount extension. :-) -- Sayuri 18:02, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I noticed, though, that this interface is a bit out of date. Aaron 05:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

ConfirmAccount
Hi Aaron, I'm experiencing problems with ConfirmAccount Extension. First it didn't find the file ExtensionFunctions.php. i download one and was wrong with it. So i searched again on the net and i found a file that seems to be OK. Now, when i try to connect to mediawiki it says : 404 page Not Found!!!! Really Funny. Any help please.??

ConfirmAccount Extension & Blank Page
Hi Aaron, all I get, as soon as I enable the ConfirmAccount-Extension, is a blank page. I'm on
 * MediaWiki: 1.10.1 (r24786)
 * PHP: 5.0.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 4.1.13

I have created the tables. Any hints? --Mzeecedric 14:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Enable error_reporting for PHP, I don't get blank screens on the sites I've tested it on. Aaron 18:32, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanx, I've done that. I get an open_basedir restriction.

PHP Warning: main [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/php5/ConfirmAccount.i18n.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/srv/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs:/tmp) in /srv/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/wiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/SpecialConfirmAccount.php on line 39 [client 89.49.229.19] PHP Warning: main(ConfirmAccount.i18n.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /srv/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/wiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/SpecialConfirmAccount.php on line 39

PHP Fatal error: main [function.require]: Failed opening required 'ConfirmAccount.i18n.php' (include_path='/srv/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/wiki:/srv/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/wiki/includes:/srv/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/wiki/languages:.:/usr/share/php5') in /srv/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/wiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/SpecialConfirmAccount.php on line 39 Line 39 is require_once( 'ConfirmAccount.i18n.php' ); Do you have an idea how to solve this? Or do I have to change the basedir restrictions on my server? --Mzeecedric 11:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Aaron, this is what I had to change to avoid the php errors listed above. Have a look at the diff:

--- ConfirmAccount_new/SpecialConfirmAccount_new.php	Wed Aug 22 20:15:22 2007 $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['confirmaccount'] = true;
 * ConfirmAccount/SpecialConfirmAccount.php	Wed Aug 22 20:22:31 2007
 * 36,43 ****
 * 36,43 ****

# Internationalisation - require_once( 'ConfirmAccount.i18n.php' );

function efLoadConfirmAccountsMessages { global $wgMessageCache, $wgConfirmAccountMessages;

--- 36,43  $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['confirmaccount'] = true;

# Internationalisation + require_once dirname (__FILE__). '/ConfirmAccount.i18n.php' ; function efLoadConfirmAccountsMessages { global $wgMessageCache, $wgConfirmAccountMessages;

# Register special page if ( !function_exists( 'extAddSpecialPage' ) ) { ! 	require( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../ExtensionFunctions.php' ); } # Request an account extAddSpecialPage( dirname(__FILE__) . '/ConfirmAccount_body.php', 'RequestAccount', 'RequestAccountPage' ); --- 70,81  # Register special page if ( !function_exists( 'extAddSpecialPage' ) ) { ! 	if (is_file(dirname(__FILE__). '/../ExtensionFunctions.php')){ ! 		require( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../ExtensionFunctions.php' ); ! 	} ! 	else { ! 		die ('ExtensionFunctions.php required! See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions#Installing_an_extension'); ! 	} }  # Request an account extAddSpecialPage( dirname(__FILE__) . '/ConfirmAccount_body.php', 'RequestAccount', 'RequestAccountPage' );
 * 70,76 ****
 * 70,76 ****

All changes are based on your Revision 25064. --Mzeecedric 18:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I've modified the file requiring lines a tad. Aaron 00:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Improving the Documentation
In the current documentation, it says: "Older versions of MediaWiki may not show the link to Special:RequestAccount at the user login form. You can edit MediaWiki:loginprompt to remedy this.:

However, there is no information about how to edit the MediaWiki:loginprompt. This should be added, because otherwise the entire extension is really not very useful for installations which get this error.

Extension:FlaggedRevs - does it work also with 1.11?
As 1.12 is not stable yet and we would like to try out FlaggedRevs in a stable wiki installation, I would like to know which missing features prevent FlaggedRevs from working with 1.11? I would be grateful for either a post here. Mybluesky 11:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Please add new comments to the bottom of the page, otherwise, I may not notice. Anyway, it should work with 1.11, but it would have some issues like rollback edits not being auto-reviewed as well as deletion then undeletion of a page with flagged revisions will result in a page that seems to have no flagged revisions (a referencial problem). If those two problems don't matter, then you can try it on 1.11. Aaron 16:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Extension:FlaggedRevs - Not technically a page action
True enough. Do you have a recommendation for an implementation type? Or do you feel that you have used so many different techniques to pull Extension:FlaggedRevs together that this is really a general user interface extension and shouldn't be subcategorized beyond user interface? Egfrank 04:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm wondering if we need a "review" implementation type - is this really an implementation type? Egfrank 11:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Extension:FlaggedRevs with diffenrent groups
Hi, will it be possible to make different groups that can review and validate different articles? I just can read that groups can validate and review every article. But I want some special right.

For example:
 * Group A can review every Article in Category B but not in Category C
 * Group B can validate every Article in Category C but not in Category A

Is that possible? Would be helpfull for zertification. You can mail me here if you want. --GKittlaus 07:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Too much complexity, not really worth coding. Aaron 23:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Viewprevnext
Hi VoA - why did you delete my addition of a css hook to this system message? --HappyDog 17:46, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The css style code was being escaped and looked terrible. Aaron 19:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * In a couple of places - most pages were OK. I logged 11454 to deal with this, and it would have been useful to keep the bad examples here as reference in the meantime.  However, it could take a while, I guess, so I suppose removing them is probably sensible.  I'm going to try and recreate the problem on testwiki so we still have live links to the problem pages.  Once it's fixed I will revert the deletion here, assuming your only objection was to the breakage. --HappyDog 01:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

+sysop here
Hi. I am a sysop on en.wp and Meta, and I have been quite active here recently. I think I could help out as an admin in clearing out the various junk pages that get posted here. How would I go about becoming a sysop here? -- Anon  Diss  08:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. -- Anon  Diss  06:52, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Sysop
Hi, I've already transleted a lot of pages in italian, including all those on the sidebar and I would start translate pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Can you give me sysop rights so that I'll be able to do that? Thanks, --Kronin▄¦▀ 15:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm...like what pages? Most of these are message files, which are configured via i18n files in the software. Only custom local messages that are wiki specific are done in several langauges by editing MediaWiki: pages. Aaron 00:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I mean pages like the sidebar, the recent changes text (to link to pages in italian) and other system messages like MediaWiki:uploadtext or MediaWiki:Sharedupload --Kronin▄¦▀ 14:41, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Those first two don't have any other language links, maybe you should discuss that first before starting a new pattern like that. Aaron 17:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * When I said the sidebar i didn't mean MeidaWiki:Sidebar, but all the pages included there. A great part of those pages has the traslation in ru and some also in de or fr --Kronin▄¦▀ 19:28, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Username rename
Could you change my username to User:O? Thanks, vishwin60 22:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Done. Aaron 17:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Request
The admin page here says to ask an 'crat for sysop access. I'd like to help with importing pages over from meta. Could you give me access? Thanks,  Mønobi 21:48, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

System Operator Request
User_talk:Robchurch. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  17:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser
Replied at support desk. --82.42.237.84 19:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

ConfirmAccountContact problem
Aaron,

Thank you for the wonderful ConfirmAccount extension. Just what our company's sensitive data needs!

I'm having some trouble with administrator notifications of new account requests. I've added $wgConfirmAccountContact = "admin@mydomain.com"; to the LocalSettings.php file, but no notifications are being sent to the administrator. Notifications/Confirmations are being sent to the requestor.

Any thoughts on this? Thanks! 65.203.61.135 21:34, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The notices should only show once people confirm their email addresses. Aaron 05:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * My apologies for the false alarm. Spam filter was catching the account request emails, but allowing the other emails to pass. 65.203.61.135 17:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

I noticed you gather some quotes on your user page...
... and I wondered you might like this one, on #mediawiki:

brion: man, where did all these flaggedrevs specs come from? ;)

Posted 10 minutes ago. Huji 20:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser oddity
I got CheckUser working, as well as Oversight and Makesysop, and surprisingly, despite what the CheckUser page here tells me, I didn't need to run the command-line to get it working (to be honest, though, I actually had no PHP commandline utilities on XAMPP. Just added the SQL queries, and then copied the files to extensions directory, and for some reason, it actually worked and did a query. Is this a bug or is this meant to happen?? Should this go to Bugzilla?? Thanks, AP @ --82.42.237.84 11:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Email
You've got mail. Computer Fan 20:38, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Did you get it? Computer Fan 02:18, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Project:Requests
Hi Aaron, if you see there, I have requested to become a bureaucrat in light of the creation of that page, among other factors, but Kylu has asked me to find the opinion of another bcrat. If you could be that bcrat, I'd appreciate your input. Anon Diss  12:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Why do you want it? Aaron 18:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * For reasons listed there. Since the page has been created, I thought I'd be able to assist with requests. I understand there isn't a backlog (lol =p), but there arent really a huge number of active crats, so I thought I'd be able to efficiently fill the shoes in order to ensure requests are speedily dealt with. -- Anon  Diss  20:58, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * In fact, only really you have made more than 50 edits this year. -- Anon  Diss  21:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs test wiki
Hi Aaron, I have some question about FlaggedRevs on [http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_S. en.labs.wikimedia.org] Could you mind take a look. Thanks. Borgx 03:23, 8 April 2008 (UTC)