Talk:Developers/LQT Archive 1

Magnus gave me developer access to the Wikipedia SourceForge servers two years ago when I asked to become a developer. However I've never had access to the Wikipedia servers that I'm aware of. What's my status ? Am I a developer or not ? -- Derek Ross 06:17, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * "MediaWiki/Wikimedia developers are people who write MediaWiki software and/or do systems administration work on the Wikimedia servers." So since you write MediaWiki software, you are a developer. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 03:04, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)

History
The following is the record of versions that are no longer accessible.

Legend: m = minor edit


 * 08:01, 28 Mar 2004 81.250.192.201
 * 07:48, 28 Mar 2004 T0xic (Tim Starling is a master of PHP)
 * 13:20, 21 Feb 2004 Tim Starling (+snok and gwicke)
 * m 06:55, 18 Jan 2004 Ojigiri (+ja)
 * 06:45, 1 Nov 2003 Tim Starling (Jason Richey -> Jasonr)
 * m 00:48, 27 Oct 2003 Tim Starling (wikification)
 * m 03:41, 26 Oct 2003 Tim Starling (+Neil)
 * 03:33, 26 Oct 2003 Tim Starling (Jimbo's status)
 * 03:21, 26 Oct 2003 Tim Starling (mostly rewritten)
 * 15:40, 15 Oct 2003 Ed Poor (silly developer poetry -- the verses are silly, not the developers (mostly)
 * 18:22, 10 Oct 2003 Ed Poor (re: sysop promotion & power vs. authority)
 * 18:19, 10 Oct 2003 Ed Poor (+ Tim Starling + Marumari + random comments on each Developer)
 * m 23:13, 17 Jun 2003 Derek Ross (typo)
 * 22:15, 11 Jun 2003 LittleDan (adding Eloquence (erik) to list of developers)
 * 04:43, 15 Apr 2003 Lee Daniel Crocker
 * 23:16, 18 Feb 2003 Enchanter (Updating)
 * m 10:12, 30 Nov 2002 Maveric149 (* Ed Poor ; there are others )
 * 06:43, 23 Sep 2002 The Cunctator (initial entry)

Alternative formats
How's this for a compromise (assuming one is needed)?

Name                 CVS   Shell   Root   CVS admin   Remote power Elisabeth Bauer       * Axel Boldt            * Camille Constans      *      * T.D. Corell           * The Cunctator         * Johan Dahlin          * Peter Danenberg       * Lee Daniel Crocker    *                      * Michael Dill          *                      * Mr E23                *      *       * Andre Engels          * Fantasy               * Jens Frank            * Guillaume Blanchard   * Jan Hidders           * Simon J Kissane       * Matthias Jordan       * Christian List        * Magnus Manske         *                      * Erik Moeller          *      *       *       * Christoph Mussenbrock * Nicholas Pisarro, Jr. * Evan Prodromou        * Nick Reinking         * Jason Richey          *      *       *                     * Derek Ross            * Valerio Santinelli    *                      * Chris Seaton          * Chuck SMITH           * Bogdan Stancescu      * Tim Starling          *      *       *       * Marian Steinbach      * Tarquin               * Timwi                 * Anders Törlind        * Luc Van Oostenryck    * Brion Vibber          *      *       *       *             * Ashar Voultoiz        * Jimmy Wales           *      *       *                     * Tomasz Wegrzanowski   *      * Gabriel Wicke         *      *                             *

Just a thought -- I'm not invested at all in this... BCorr | &#1041;&#1088;&#1072;&#1081;&#1077;&#1085; 04:52, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Look like good. A &#9774; ineko 06:16, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Or, of course, we could use the MediaWiki table syntax! Reformat the below to your heart's content... IMSoP 18:24, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

ASCII art isn't that bad, I'm not about to get into an edit war with Brion over this :) -- Tim Starling 02:21, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

deletion of versions
as on #wikimedia nobody replies i put it here;

the listet versions are copyvio. please delete them:


 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2271369
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269374
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269342
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269295
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269285 ...de:Benutzer:Sicherlich

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Changing username
Could somebody please handle the requests at Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Changing username?

wikisarcoidosis francais
hello, I would like to add all the languages on my mediawiki, how to make? as well as the carecteres speciaus at the foot of the page in mode edict ggauthier http://www.combbs.net/mediawiki/

Please help identify User:KingOfAllPaperboys
Developers, I don't see a notice board so I am trying this page. Please help us identify User:KingOfAllPaperboys. He got blocked the evening of the 25th for harassing User:Netoholic, but a review of his history leads me to believe that he is the sockpuppet of an administrator. The user was created in december 2004, and after about 4 edits over two months on Feb. 10th there was a burst of activity helping to fight a vandal attack, on pages he'd never visited before, and he fought it like a professional. Therefore it looks like he is the alter ego of an admin. After very little activity for another month or so, suddenly he shows up harassing User:Netoholic who has made himself unpopular recently, especially among the admins with revert wars over templates and policies. However, that is no excuse for an admin to have a sockpuppet and misbehavior. I think there should be zero tolerance for such behavior and immediate revocation of admin status. But identifying the culprit requires developer assistance. I have tried to track it down via contribution histories and have three candidates User:172, User:Snowspinner and User:Itai, who each had the motive and some significant but not conclusive gaps that coincide with KingOfAllPaperboys activity.

Please assist in identifying this abuser of the community before the IP trail grows cold. He may be sophisticated so make sure he didn't come in under a separate IP, during the 24 hours KingOfAllPaperboys was blocked.

Please let me know ASAP if I have managed to reach anybody in this manner. Otherwise, I think my best hope to would be to try Jimbo's talk page, but I don't want to bother him unnecessarily. -- thanx, User:Silverback

The above message seems to be signed by a user with no userpage who was not logged in at the time. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 05:26, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:User:Silverback and Wikipedia:User talk:Silverback. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 05:30, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)

"New" user ID'ing
Hi there! On en.wikipedia, there have been a couple of newly created accounts that went straight for some voting pages and had strong opinions on some controversial issues. While there's nothing wrong with that, it seems unlikely behavior for a newbie. Would it be possible to run an IP-check on two or three new accounts to verify they're not used simply for gaining a second vote? It would be much appreciated. Radiant 09:17, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)