User talk:Bawolff

Extension: write-whitelist namespace
I just saw your Extension:Whitelist Namespaces, works great! Thank you :) Would it be difficult to change it to write-whitelist an entire namespace? on what line in the code do i need to look? Thanks Mauro Bieg 07:57, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Should be fairly easy, just change the

if ($action == 'read') { to if ($action == 'edit') { Should work (but I have not tested). Bawolff 18:56, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your quick reply! Unfortunately it doesn't work for me, even an  doesn't.. :S so apparently it isn't enough setting that $result to TRUE.. whatever exactly happens afterwards. Mauro Bieg

Google Summer of Code 2010
Thanks for expressing an interest in MediaWiki for Google Summer of Code 2010. Please note (if you haven't already done so) that you must apply and a submit proposal at http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student/apply/google/gsoc2010 by April 9 at the latest or a slot will not be reserved. Thanks! -- RobLa 19:38, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the message. I will do that. Bawolff 19:43, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party)
Hi, you add a warning to this extension. Can you please explain what the risk means for sites with this extension? I want to know if I shall uninstall it or that I can still use it. Thanks for your answer. 145.94.74.23 15:20, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi. Basically the warning means that someone with knowledge of the insides of that extension would be able to inject html (including javascript) into your page if you have the extension enabled. Someone could potentially exploit this to put a code in the wikipage to make anyone who views that wikipage make edits to some other page for example. Another example is someone could put code into a wikipage that causes everyone who views that page to be redirected to another website. The most recent version of the extension is slightly harder to exploit, but someone familiar with the internals of that extension could still exploit it. See also Cross-site_scripting and 24199. As a side note, if you're only using the basic features of the extension, you could try using extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) which does not have the above mentioned security issues but has significantly less features. Bawolff 15:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. One more question: Does someone need to log in and be able to edit pages on the site to use this exploit? Or is it something that can be used without any rights? 145.94.74.23 15:20, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, one would need to be able to edit. Basically the exploit is that someone can use the dpl extension to make part of the page behave as if manual:$wgRawHtml was set to true. Thus, all the warnings that apply to that setting also apply to that extension. If its a private wiki and you trust everyone who has access, you should be fine. Bawolff 21:16, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, great. That's good to know. Thank you very much for answering the questions. Would it be useful to copy this discussion to the talk page of the mod, or at least link to it? 145.94.74.23 18:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Feel free to if you want. Bawolff 20:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I've just sent an email to two of the maintainers of this extension, so they are aware of this. --Ciencia Al Poder 17:32, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Cool. Although as a sidenote i think Algorithmix is the only semi-active maintainer of the extension. Bawolff 20:52, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Maybe you know... would 'RunFromProtectedPagesOnly' setting (from here) be enough to make DPL usage safe? Wassily Steik 07:38, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Assuming that its implemented correctly, I believe it should (at least for the issue I found. I have not read the entire source code so there could potentially be other things wrong with it, etc so no guarantees, etc) Bawolff 07:49, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Well, at least it makes DPL usable... Of course, I'll check this twice before enabling it. E.g. currently this option allowed DPL on semiprotected pages (I've already fixed this on my copy - in DPLMain.php under 'Initialization' comment). Wassily Steik 08:10, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I should mention, this of course assumes you trust all your admins :P. Bawolff 08:12, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I understand this :) Fortunately, on my small project that's not a problem. Wassily Steik 08:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

DPL issues?
Hello Bawolff, I saw that you are concerned about DPL regarding security (HTML injection). I plan to work on a major new DPL releasse in January 2011. Currently DPL switches silently to allow HTML for internal purpose and switches back once it has finished. A user knowing this might inject HTML code or even Javascript as cou clearly explained. I plan to restructure the code and to avoid such risks (at least in a default configuration setting). Would you be willing to review or maybe give some advice when I start working on the changes? Algorithmix 07:04, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I am by no means an expert on such issues, but I would of course be willing to review/give advice on any changes. I'm excited to see that you're planning to work on it again, as its quite a popular extension. Bawolff 11:22, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Huh?
I'm not at all sure I understood your edit summary here. If you're saying what I think you're saying, I don't really see the difference between an empty table cell and a non-existent table cell, other than the non-existent one looks really ugly. RobinHood70 21:38, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * responded on your talk. Bawolff 22:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

"javascript for maxlength of the edit summary" in Opera
Hi, could you please revisit the 66913 "javascript for maxlength of the edit summary" (the code is now in mediawiki.action.edit.js) since it does not work correctly in Opera 11.01 (and Opera 10.6)? The problem is,  and   are not recognized as special keys, so user gets stuck with an overfilled summary (only after reading the JS code I realized that cutting the text with a mouse is a possible way out). I could also file this in bugzilla if you want. —AlexSm 18:02, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes of course, I'll look at it right away. Bawolff
 * Thanks. Fixed in 83067. Bawolff 03:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Combating Spam
In the article Combating Spam (why does linking not work?) you reverted an edit i made. After testing it with my own wiki, the bannedips.php extension did not work untill i added the trailing ?>, hence i added it in the article. Code arguments aside, a ?> is not needed but adding it doesn't hurt either, hence i added it just to be safe. Besides, it's good code etiquette ;p
 * If you needed the trailing ?>s, you did something wrong. Closing tags are discouraged by our coding standards, please don't re-add. Max Semenik 13:54, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

pedanticism!
May have killed it. - Amgine 22:54, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Well you know - I enjoy pointing out flaws in wikinews techie articles, without actually fixing them my self. Bawolff 04:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Well played... - Amgine 14:41, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Help:Formatting -> why we wouldn't want to use those templates
Thanks for giving me a note on that.

I was trying to contribute to the goals of Project:PD help. To allow the help to be used on a fresh wiki installation, it should not use extensions. Many of the templates however depend on extensions. In that particular case on Extension:ParserFunctions. This heavily limits the usefulness when copied to a fresh installation. --Nzara 11:48, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, you have a point, but it seems like a lot of effort to not use such templates. Bawolff 19:52, 11 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, let's cut the effort in pieces and let's start, subst is a great help. However, I'm not clear how to handle Template:PD Help Page and Template:Languages. Here a plain subst appears misleading. --Nzara 10:40, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If we started including parserfuncs with the default tarball (which seems quite possible), this becomes much less of an issue (To be honest, has anyone ever actually imported the pd-help stuff to their wiki? I don't know of anyone who ever has). I don't just mean its effort to convert the pages to not use the template, its also effort if anyone ever wants to change what those templates look like, or more generally makes the wiki-source more complex to edit. Bawolff 20:44, 13 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, at least I tried to import the pd-help stuff (that created the idea to improve it). Confronting my target users (definitly digtal non-natives) with a naked wiki created some confusion and a usage barrier. --- I agree, not using templates makes it harder to apply a common style. On the other side, with templates and especially with parser functions the source resembles some sort of programming, creating an barrier to non-programmers. These folks perfere WYSIWYG and cut-and-paste.--Nzara 17:10, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

About Arabic XML tags.

 * Hi Bawolff.

Do you remember this ?! I made an extension to help to do that. would you mind to check it out. because I am very beginner !

Thank you very much --أحمد ش الشيخ 20:17, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi. Interesting. Ideally I think MediaWiki should support i18n aliases for tag hooks in core, that way it could more cleanly hook into how the parser works. The extension probably wouldn't be enabled on Wikimedia (due to not quite being inline with manual:Coding conventions, and if its decided to support translating tag names, we'd want to put it in the part that deals with tags, instead of running a new regex over the page contents). However, for a non-Wikimedia Wiki, the extension would probably be good. Cheers. Bawolff 21:01, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you !.--أحمد ش الشيخ 19:33, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

"Current Date" Parameter
You said here that it is now possible to add a current date function. Yet I have tried it here and I was not successful. Could you assist me with this troublesome problem? -- Phoenix (talk) 09:13, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The basic idea of how to do this is . You pretty much just have to replace with }} and any instances of | with |. You might also have to escape {'s and }'s in your timeline source. Bawolff 18:28, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
 * WOW! Fascinating. Is there a way for 27 to be shown in a 2 day format? The code breaks down there. -- Phoenix (talk) 08:42, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean? like have the day be 02 instead of just 2 (that can be done with ). For more complicated date stuff you can do almost anything with  but the syntax is complicated. [note, I should mention, all this stuff is cached, so the current day won't be updated until next time the page is re-rendered. Normally it probably won't be more than a day off]. Bawolff 23:18, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * YES thanks it had to be in mm/dd/yyyy format and the previous version gave it a mm/d/yyyy result causing it to crash. AMAZING. Thanks. PLEASE can you update the article to reflect this AMAZING addition? -- Phoenix (talk) 08:31, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear that solved it. Which page did you want me to update? Bawolff 14:39, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax Should be updated to include this coding idea :) -- Phoenix (talk) 11:19, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Manual:Update.php
Hi Bawolff, the contents of the page is not exactly outdated but it was incomplete and still is. The problem is that I cannot offer insights into this and had hoped that an expert may do it somehow "on the fly". Please do not take offence for having inserted the label. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; 09:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Bawolff, I just answered on my talk page. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; 16:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Oops, there was some kind of edit conflict. I guess I am ready editing the page. Please have a look at it. Thank you and cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; 17:13, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Extension:Score
Hi, I received your fixes through User:MarkAHershberger, thank you!--GrafZahl (talk) 13:50, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Moving pages
At the support desk, you noted that 'movestable' is required to move pages with stable revisions, however, that right appears to belong to all autoconfirmed users, so I'm confused as to why User:Igottheconch wasn't able to move the page. This is probably just a brain cramp on my end but if you could clarify this for me I'd appreciate it - is a bugzilla needed. I agree with you that this shouldn't be so hard for people to move.

Additionally, do you understand why the links provided by the e-mail notifications of changes to pages don't work for this? The e-mail notice gave me this link: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Support_desk&offset=20111229074439&lqt_mustshow=10213#moving_pages_10213 which doesn't even show the required thread. Is this a problem with LQT or with the e-mail notification system? Does this need a bugzilla? Thanks for your help.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 14:59, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoops, it looks like I totally misread the page listing all the rights. Thanks for catching that. As for email notification, that does look like a bugzilla type bug. Bawolff 00:40, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

$wgTitle
Thanks for fixing the code in Manual:$wgTitle. I saw a glimmer of hope in the Title.php file, but it turned out to be false.. thanks again. --Gbruin 05:20, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Friendly reminder: 1/13 @ 19:00 UTC - MediaWiki Workshop: Preparing extensions for MW 1.19 in #wikimedia-dev
Thank you for your interest in the MediaWiki Workshop, Preparing extensions for MediaWiki 1.19!

As a friendly reminder, the workshop is being held being held in about 12 hours - 13 January, 2012 at 19:00 UTC - in IRC (#wikimedia-dev).

This workshop will be an opportunity to share information about changes in MediaWiki 1.19 that may require revisions to extensions or skins. Also an opportunity for developers to ask questions regarding extension development.

Look forward to seeing you in IRC. :) --Varnent 06:18, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your documentation on Manual:$wgArticle
Thank you for documenting how to move away from $wgArticle. I have it working now on my wiki! -- Tbleher 09:59, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Acquiring reviewer permissions
As you can see from my contribs to this wiki, I have a lot of changes that are still pending. However, my first request was declined a while back.Jasper Deng 05:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * File a new request at Project:Requests and request the Editor right again, The only reason the last one got closed (by myself) is that a question left unanswered for over a month. Peachey88 06:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hhm, how would I handle the fact that I already made a request? I need help.Jasper Deng 06:33, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * A new subpage, eg: Project:Requests/User_rights/Jasper_Deng (2). Peachey88 06:46, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Done; you think my rationale is sufficient?Jasper Deng 06:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * that seems as good a reason for review rights as any. Bawolff 16:16, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

You are correct / my bad
I was going to revert my change this morning. Thanks for fixing it. My problem was using the help from mysql which reads: -p, --password[=name] Password to use when connecting to server. If password is                     not given it's asked from the tty.

I am still trying to get that extension to work... Schalice (talk) 17:00, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries, the mysql help on that is quite confusing. Cheers. Bawolff (talk) 19:21, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Sysop?
I'm not a developer, but I'm pretty active on this wiki.Jasper Deng (talk) 04:28, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Project:Requests is where you are looking for. Peachey88 (talk) 05:36, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I mean, do I stand a chance of passing that?Jasper Deng (talk) 05:45, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You have the same as every one else, But I should also point out, we are trying to limit giving out sysop these days to people that can show why they want/need it compared to "I want sysop". Peachey88 (talk) 05:54, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, my situation is that uncontroversial things like those speedy deletions I just did are made much easier, not to mention the creation of talk page archives. The ability to edit some certain protected pages with minor corrections is also something I'd like to be able to do.Jasper Deng (talk) 05:56, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Support desk
You helped me with a hint to check other skins. However, nobody could help to solve the problem of the watchlist error yet. Could you have a look at this again or forward the question to someone who could help? Thanks a lot in advance, --ThT (talk) 15:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

XExternalEditor Java program does not show preview
XExternalEditor Java program does not show preview suddenly and stops working to upload. It was working fine few days back. Please help --Yjenith (talk) 16:45, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You'll have to ask the maintainers of that piece of software. I know a little bit of MediaWiki's external editor support, but

XExternalEditor is a third party program I've never used and am not familiar with. Bawolff (talk) 13:18, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

OK. I have asked support in Sourceforge's project page. --Yjenith (talk) 02:25, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Workaround for MW image EXIF privacy issue
Bug 20326 deals with removing EXIF data from images. My duplicate bug detailed why that is important. Some use cases require compulsory removal of all EXIF data, as a matter of safety for the uploaders. The quantity of images I need to deal with is not huge, and even when it is huge, the rate of incoming new data should be low enough to accommodate a simple workaround, at least until a better solution is available.

My proposed workaround is to manually remove EXIF data from all images locally, and then update MediaWiki image data using /maintenance/rebuildImages.php. That file dates back to 2009 - Before I break something, can you tell me if I can expect rebuildImages.php to work as promised, after I've stripped EXIF data?

Badon (talk) 23:10, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend using . I'm not 100% sure off the top of my head, but I think rebuildImages.php will only rebuild images that look broken in the MediaWiki db, so it won't catch your metadata changes (and then the sha1 would get out of sync, and that'd be bad as well).   will definitely refresh the metadata of all the images (and update the sha1) [I suppose it probably wouldn't update the archivedfiles and oldimages table. Note that info, including metadata can be gotten from both those tables from the api. archivedfiles is not so much of an issue as you need to be an admin, but info from oldimages can be read by anybody who knows the rather obscure api command needed] Bawolff (talk) 00:05, 29 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Manual:Oldimage table says it only exists as a consequence of overwriting files. I've disabled file overwrites, so that should circumvent that data leak. Manual:deleteArchivedFiles.php seems to be the way to get rid of the problem altogether, if needed. Manual:$wgHashedUploadDirectory is something I'm concerned about, when set to true. If removing EXIF data changes the hash, does MediaWiki move the file? The docs say MD5 is use, but you mentioned SHA1 - are the docs outdated for that? Badon (talk) 01:36, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * There's 2 different hashes mediawiki uses. The md5 one is the hash of the file name (not the contents). It won't change unless you re-name the file (It is used for the hashed directory thing). The sha1 hash is stored in the db, and is a hash of the actual file (used for finding duplicate files and some other stuff). It will change when you modify the file. However, its only stored in the db, and the maintenance script should update it when it updates the img_metadata field (?action=purge also updates the sha1 hash too).

DPL: Help me?
Allowcachedresults=yes+warn is not working, no message is display, I've created a topic here, could you please help me?? - 186.218.184.219 22:17, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not the maintainer of that extension, but if I know anything about your issue I'll post it to that page. Bawolff (talk) 12:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for the barnstar. Bawolff (talk) 12:03, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Math extension error
Did you read my reply?--Luca Ghio (talk) 15:20, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania
Are you at Wikimania? —Emufarmers(T 06:51, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Alas no. Maybe some other year. Bawolff (talk) 12:15, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Manual:$wgExtensionAliasesFiles
Responded to your comment on my talk page.

Re: Sumanah's edit
She's just tried to deprecate 1.0 in favour of 2.0, which is fair enough. The template doesn't quite read properly, but it does the trick. Jarry1250 (talk) 15:47, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it should be the canonical page, but it isn't yet :) Jarry1250 (talk) 16:48, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

PAGEID
doesn't work in mw1.19, is there a simple way (maybe custom .js) to retrieve this piece of information in wikitext? I'm using MW API to gather info and use the wiki somehow as a database, we'll be introducing a way to people to pass this page id as a parameter for a custom IPB forum bbcode to generate some information. The point is, the only way to know a page is to have its name, but I'd prefer just a number, could you lend a help? 186.218.184.139 18:35, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * OMG, it worked! What??? O.o 186.218.184.139 18:36, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * This wiki is using a beta version of 1.20. There's not really a way before that to retrieve the pageid (js can get it from ). You can get the revision id from wikitext, but that changes with every edit. Bawolff (talk) 19:30, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Categorytree-member-num system message
Hi,

A few months ago, you edited Extension:CategoryTree by modifying the documentation of  in categorytree-member-num system message. However, in all wikis I use where MediaWiki:categorytree-member-num is left to default, which is, the output is not the one you described but the one described before your edits (a single number whose value depends on category tree mode).

As a consequence, I am unsure if this is a feature added in the most recent versions (to which some wikis wouldn't be upgraded yet), or if you mixed it up with the value that most wikis assign to it. (For example, in this wiki, MediaWiki:categorytree-member-num has been modified to give the output you described, but it's not the default value, and its value doesn't contain any  reference.)

Please, could you throw some light on it? If it's a feature, it would be sensible to add a note with when or what version this was changed, and what was the prior meaning of.

-- Fomtg (talk) 13:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The change happened on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:35:57. . Which would put it in the 1.19 version of the extension. Its somewhat hard to put versions in extensions, since they do not totally correspond with MW versions, but i'll add a note to that page. Thanks. Bawolff (talk) 17:55, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok. Thanks for your feedback. -- Fomtg (talk) 23:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

mobile fronted extension
Could u help me in installing this extension. i will provide u my ftp password or upload localsettings.php file but make it work. the problem is i make a subdomain for mobile url but when i click on mobile view. its appears that page doesnot exists
 * sorry I don't currently do that sort of thing. I do occasional provide help for free, but more to point people in the right direction to fix it themselves. However there are many people who will do that for you but they generally charge money. Bawolff (talk) 02:22, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

CategorySortHeaders
Thanks for creating the CategorySortHeaders extension. I was trying to figure out how to build something similar until I found CategorySortHeaders, it works perfectly (on 1.18) so you saved me a lot of time! 213.154.239.2 02:15, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear. It is always nice to hear when something I make is helpful to others. Bawolff (talk) 02:22, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

GSoC / OPW IRC AllHands this week
Hi, you are invited to the GSoC / OPW IRC AllHands meeting on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 15:00 UTC (8:30pm IST, 8am PDT) at #wikimedia-office. We have done our best finding a time that works decently in as many timezones as possibles. Please confirm at qgil@undefinedwikimedia.org so I can add you to the calendar invitation and I have your preferred email for other occasions. If you can't make it's fine, but let me know as well. We have left a notice to all students, but your help is welcome making sure yours is aware about it. Thank you!--Qgil (talk) 20:35, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

gerrit-stats / crstats
Hello, it seems that your gerrit-stats is stuck? You may be interested in this: [//www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Gerrit%2FNavigation&diff=726041&oldid=726025]. Cheers, Nemo 12:46, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Sort key
Hi,

I think I need your help to understand something: with this sort : http://collation-charts.org/icu442/icu442-fr.html, what's ordered in first, émis or ermite ?

With this sentence : « It sorts on 3 levels - different letters, followed by different accents, followed by upper-case vs lower-case » of Thread:Project:Support desk/Sort order, I'm not sure to understand…

Regards, Automatik (talk) 09:45, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: you imagine maybe that the ideal for a multilingual dictionary would be to have a sort for every language, and that we add a magic word in the appropriate category to decide of the sort. But it seems obvious that you've ever heard this idea. Regards, Automatik (talk) 09:54, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe émis would be ordered first (Didn't actually test). The first level of sorting, we discard accents. So we compare as if the words were emis and ermite. If we have a tie, than we throw accents back in (so it then becomes émis vs ermite. French does something special with accents though). If we have a tie again, we throw case in. (So if ermite was really Ermite, we would now compare the e vs E ). Does that make things clearer? Bawolff (talk) 17:03, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * That's what I told myself as for the order, thank you. But is there a possibility to display the words in finnish who begin with an "ä" at the end of the alphabet with this sort? I'm not sure. Automatik (talk) 17:14, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * In the uca-fi collation, 'ä' is considered a primary element (a letter), and not 'a' modified by an accent, so it does work. The issue is we have limited support for multiple collations on one site. Liangent is working on some code to allow more than 1 collation, but it still only allows a limitted number of collations on the site (Its aimed at people who want to be able to view the category in any collation on a list of allowed collations). Bawolff (talk) 17:40, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok, so I suppose it's not possible to have this sort with uca-fr at the moment. Is there a chart that solves this issue, like maybe uca-default? Thanks for all your help, it's not urgent. Automatik (talk) 18:09, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * uca-default is somewhat of a compromise. It sorts english and portugese correctly. Most other languages its sorts kind of right, with 1 or 2 letters being wrong (For example in Swedish, uca-default would sort ä beside a instead of after z). Bawolff (talk) 15:17, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. I'll ask Liangent about multiple collations on one site for information. Thank you again. Automatik (talk) 13:19, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I did an experiment once to use liangents code to sort files in a category by rating - http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/whichisbetter/index.php?title=Category:Images . Liangents code would be something like that, but instead of having a drop down of 'alphabetical' or 'image rating' it would be different language sorting methods. Bawolff (talk) 18:04, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Your wikis on Tool Labs
Hey there. I had to disable account creation on your wikis on Tool Labs (bawolff tool) because they were quickly found and infested by spambots. &mdash; MPelletier (WMF) (talk) 15:00, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
 * no worries. I had been monitoring them when I first created them and thought I was safe, guess not. Sorry for any inconviance I may have caused. Bawolff (talk) 15:26, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

re:https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template_talk:Ticker
Hi there, hope you don't mind this posting here as the comments on the newswiki seem quite old,(or I looked in the wrong spot). Just wondered is there any trick to getting the ticker to update on page refresh I tried a force refresh but new added articles correctly categorized are not appearing on the ticker, however if I edit the page and save the ticker updates. I expect its my rather rudimentary understanding of mediawiki that has caused me to miss something (ie a needed hook). Other than the not updating it's ticking over fine (excuse pun), Any help much appreciated.
 * Hi. This sounds more like a DynamicPageList issue than a ticker issue. Ticker gets the list of pages via the DynamicPageList extension. In order to make things faster, DynamicPageList only checks if categories have changed once a day (or if you make an edit to a page), so it can be outdated for up to 24 hours (How often it checks is configurable per-wiki with the $wgDLPMaxCacheTime setting. 24 hours is the default). You can force DynamicPageList to recheck for category changes by purging the page (Adding either ?action=purge or &action=purge [depending on if the url already has a ? mark in it] to the end of the URL) Bawolff (talk) 16:41, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the above, spot on purging a page caused a refresh. The 24 hourly update rate is fine for our use I was just worried I'd stuffed something up in the setup :) - Sirrob01

Example page_props extension
Thanks for that example page_props extension; it definitely made my life easier when I was writing Extension:BedellPenDragon. Leucosticte (talk) 22:54, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. I'm happy to hear it was useful. Bawolff (talk) 23:27, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Suggestion for tweak in gallery packed mode
I love love love packed mode galleries on Commons for nature-related photos. Even at 120px, the thumbnails really "pop", with much more detail and less wasted whitespace. I'm not sure whether you are the main person behind the code, but if so, Thank You!.

I've been slowly converting some article/galleries on Commons to use "packed". I'm not doing it with a bot, just to proceed slowly and see if people notice, like, or dislike it. One user commented that tall pictures have poor layout of captions. I agree with that. A few weeks ago, I found the source to the galleries, and it seemed that it could use the width parameter (currently ignored), suitably multiplied by 1.5, to set the minimum spacing between images. Right now, it's too small, and text sometimes wraps in an ugly way. Do you think it's fixable? I want to use it for many different galleries! Hike395 (talk) 07:03, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear you liked it. I assume you mean with whitespace between the images if the image isn't wide enough? I think 1.5*width parameter might be too much, but the current situation is way too little. (Currently I think it has a hard coded minimum of 40px). Maybe doing something like the narrowest aspect ratio allowed is 2:3 (Which is a film picture in potrait orientation), and if the image is narrower then that, pad with whitespace. Anyways, I'll try out some of those options, and show you what they look like. Bawolff (talk) 04:51, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Interested in mentoring CSS related proposal?
My GSoC proposal is the creation of a Frontend for Vector skin CSS customizations. It's based on an idea I work on since last summer. The need came from my wikis. I think it's high time wikis stop look all alike, or look like Wikipedia, or even look like wikis! I would appreciate your feedback. --Ioannis Protonotarios 02:15, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi. At the moment I'm not planning to participate in GSOC as a mentor (sorry). I will say however that I like your idea. Its high time that MediaWiki stopped requiring its users know CSS to make minor changes to the interface, like colour scheme. In terms of implementation, I would definitely recommend an extension. There's probably many implementation paths you could take. One of them could be having a special page, which stores various "properties" in its own DB table, and also implements a custom ResourceLoader module to output the custom CSS. I would recommend concentrating on making the GUI interface and finding things that can easily customizable, and not trying to parse existing CSS, as parsing CSS is probably going to be a hard problem, especially with edge cases, and is less interesting than the main part of the extension. You may want to make it so that your extension could be extensible by other extensions, so that people making skins could hook into your extension, and add new things to customize. Best of luck. Bawolff (talk) 03:06, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Passwords
Just stopped by to say Thanx for your help in IRC today. Cheers,  Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 22:32, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

About bug 70672
Heiya Bawolff, thank you for your comment and your e-mail on the mailing list. I believe it will be best to create a bug for getting this extra configuration parameter if this has not been done so far? Thus we either get this extra or we at least know where we are standing. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 12:58, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually there now is bug opened by Alexia to work on this. Thanks for your valuable thoughts in this matter. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 08:17, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

derivativeFX not available
Hi Bawolff, I've tried to open Luxo's tool derivativeFX at the Wikimedia Toolserver but it appears only a message that the tool was moved to the Wikimedia Tool Labs. But if I visited the new page of this tool and clicked on Web interface the error message "No webservice. The URI you have requested, /derivative/, is not currently serviced." appears. How could I use derivativeFX in future? --Ak ccm (talk) 09:09, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi User:Ak ccm. There was a project created on tool labs, but it hasn't really been worked on. I unfortunately don't really have time to work on that now. I'm not sure if anyone else does. There's no way to use that tool anymore :(. Bawolff (talk) 23:45, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Heavy pages
Do you know MediaWiki pages heavier than this (700 MB)? --Nemo 22:24, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * no. That's insane (well someone could contrive an example by adding a gig of junk at the end of a low resolution image. Commons sometimes has to deal with people uploading pirated movies in a self-executing rar file with the executable part being a jpg which results in loading a 100mb file [pirates cant figure out chunked upload])Bawolff (talk) 00:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok. :) Better so. Perhaps small thumbnails of animated GIFs should not be animated, or they shouldn't be in categories and search, or there should be a limit. It's not so nice when you search something and Special:Search takes ages to load because of the occasional 4 MB "thumb". --Nemo 06:32, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Starting conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow at mediawiki.org
(Hi Bawolff. I know that you already know, so I'm just adding this here for completism, and for any of your page-watchers. :)

Hello. I'm sending this to you, because you've been one of the top 50 users of LQT on mediawiki.org over the last 360 days, and I wanted to make sure that you'd seen the announcement at Starting conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow at mediawiki.org. There are links in the topic-summary at the top, for other discussions (wikitech-l and Project:Current_issues), and a link to the planned process and timeline (scheduled to begin April 6, with smaller conversions at first). Please do test Flow out at Talk:Sandbox if you haven't tried it recently, and give any feedback/suggestions/requests at that main discussion location. Much thanks, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:14, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Dervative
Hi! I was used to use derivative tool when I uploaded derivative files, like wikivoyage banners or maps, to commons. Last month I found out that the tool was online: even if it was impossible to upload directly the image, you could copy the code generated and paste it into commons (saving a lot of time). Now the tool is offline, could you check and try to put it online again (it's enough that it generate the code as one month ago did)? Thanks. --Lkcl it (talk) 10:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * hi. I know my name is listed by its description, but im not involved with the tool. Sorry. Bawolff (talk)

A barnstar for you!

 * Glad to help. Bawolff (talk) 12:52, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

PageInCat
Hello

I'm a contributor form the french wikipedia. We would like to add to fr.wiki only, the feature mw:Extension:PageInCat. Regarding to the extension talk page and all what you said there, we are wondering if this extension can be applied in a wikipedia in a good way, without troubles, bugs...

Can you tell us what's possible to do ?

Best regards from France (sorry for my engrish). --Archimëa (talk) 11:52, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi User:Archimëa: Getting new extensions deployed on Wikimedia wikis, even in the best of circumstances, can be a very involved and frustrating process. Ultimately, what gets deployed on site is User:Greg_(WMF)'s department. For this extension in particular:


 * The parsoid people (Infrastructure for Visual editor), don't want any new extensions that depend on other parts of the page. They are likely to object to this extension, since the extension does different stuff depending on the categories a page is in. If we set the  option, then previews will use the last saved version of the pages categories, which is much more likely to be ok
 * This extension parses pages twice to make previews look right. This is likely to get the performance people up in arms (Although perhaps this could be made better with newer support for stashing preview parses...). Anyways, again, if we use the  option, that would probably address their concerns
 * Due to a recent change in how MediaWiki processes category additions to a page, after you save a page, the #pageincat function might show the results based on the previous version of the page instead of the current. This may or may not be a problem.

So basically, if you're ok with the extension sometimes using the previous instead of current version of the page for calculating categories, then it is probably do-able. But like all extension deployment requests, it will probably require a lot of nagging. I hope that answers your question. Bawolff (talk) 00:02, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that answer, Bawolff.
 * Hi User:Archimëa. Take a look at Review queue for the steps needed to get an extension deployed on WMF production. Let me know if you have any quetsions. Greg (WMF) (talk) 01:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Greg (WMF), Bawolff : We eventually decided to don't use PageinCat feature, as we discovered Lua can do it with better results.
 * PageinCat beeing really more simpler, i hope futures inproovments will make it works fine.
 * Best regards and thnak you all of two for your help. --Archimëa (talk) 21:32, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Patrolled edits in history
Hello, you were active in some nearby bugs so maybe you have insight on T31611. Fixing the bug for diffs shouldn't be too hard, we already do the check to show the button. As for history, it would be great to have some performance insight on whether it would really be an issue to "simply" join the recentchanges table. Nemo 09:50, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Please provide feedback on suggested improvements to the Code of Conduct
Thanks to everyone who’s helped work on the Code of Conduct so far.

People have brought up issues they feel were missed when working on "Unacceptable behavior" and "Report a problem". Consultants have also suggested changes in these same sections.

These are important sections, so please take a look at the proposed changes. I apologize that this feedback arrived later than planned, but I think this will create a better document.

If you prefer to give your opinion privately, feedback via e-mail is welcome at conduct-discussion@undefinedwikimedia.org.

Thanks. Mattflaschen-WMF via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:18, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Please participate in discussion on updated "Marginalized and underrepresented groups" text
Thanks for participating in the earlier discussion on Talk:Code of Conduct/Draft. There was some support and some issues were raised. I've attempted to propose a better draft to address the issues.

Please participate at Talk:Code of Conduct/Draft. Thanks. User:Mattflaschen-WMF via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Charinsert in Ukrainian wikis
Hi Bawolff,

Following recent changes in charinsert, Edittools (those below the editing window) seem to be broken in several wikis, notably: Ukrainian Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikiquote, Ukrainian Wikinews. Could you please check if this is related to these changes and if you can implement a quick fix? Thanks — NickK (talk) 09:22, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Bawolff (talk) 23:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Charinsert malfunction
Hi Bawolff, Edittools has some malfunction also in the italian WikiSource. As you can see there are two parts: one always shown (that works) and one, under the select, initially hidden (that is broken). It seems that the addClickHandlers method can't attach the event correctly onto the second part. In the method comment is cited a "onready" hook without apparently using it, could be that thing causing the malfunction? Thank you anyway for your work! --L0ll0 (talk) 18:00, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Bawolff (talk) 23:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Broken charinsert in id.wiki & bjn.wiki
Hi Bawolff, Edittools seem to be broken in several wikis, notably: Banjarese Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia. Could you please check if this is related to these changes and fix it? Thanks Ezagren (talk) 03:44, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I wrote a message on the talk pages of the relevant gadgets as to how to fix them. Cheers. Bawolff (talk) 23:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Edittools at mk.wiki
Hello Bawolff. I was advised to come to you about this issue of ours on mk.wiki in the Edittools. It affects the community in a serious way, but I have no skills to use Phabricator to have it fixed. Could you please help us? --B. Jankuloski (talk) 10:07, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi. Sorry for the disruption. I gave a suggested fix at https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8:Common.js#Fixes_for_charinsert_changes. Bawolff (talk) 16:34, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

T41480
Can you make the restricted bug linked here public? I'm told it was a duplicate of T144484 which was already resolved and made public. --Nemo 09:08, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Bawolff (talk) 11:08, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Where are function translated, if anywhere
In this message you explain that one can translate parser functions. If that is indeed the case, could you please me provide some links to documentation on this feature. Possibly, if you are aware of it, an explaination of where the translation is performed would be welcome: I didn't found anything in the ParserFunctions source code. --Psychoslave (talk) 07:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Parser functions are translated in the *.magic.php file for each extension, which used to be translated (only/mostly) at translatewiki.net. Now you can submit patches for each file, or code a solution for everyone. :) Nemo 07:27, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * What nemo said. https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ParserFunctions/blob/master/ParserFunctions.i18n.magic.php is the file in questionfor parserFunctions. Bawolff (talk) 15:57, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

hey Bawolff
Hello. I like ur posts! could you please do me a favor? 😀 My Friend Taher is in a contest and he needs some help. He´s participating in Wiki loves africa contest and he would definitely appreciate if you vote for his photo if you like it.

PHOTO 28.

Would you please go to this link: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Community_Prize_Selection and please click "Edit sign" next to the letter of *PHOTO 28* below, and then add " PedroPinto (talk) 22:26, 6 April 2017 (UTC)" at the end of the pragraph and click save.

Thank you much.

Please support the Sustainability Initiative!
Hi, Bawolff! Please allow me to follow up on a project that was discussed at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago:

I am writing you to ask for your support for the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 250 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has recently passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Now, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation staff to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.

In order to demonstrate that this is an issue that the community really cares about, I would like to ask you to sign the project page as well. Thank you! --Gnom (talk) 16:19, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

phabricator.wikimedia.org
Just 2 Questions:

phabricator is the management software for technical problems at all wikimedia-projects?

Whats the different between the Mediawiki- and the phabricator-account? --Der Keks (talk) 21:21, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * yes phabricator is for all technical issues at wikimedia and in mediawiki. Everything the foundation does uses phabricator. For volunteer managed projects that do not directly impact the production code its optional to use phabricator - some use other issue trackers, some use phab.
 * the account thing is a mess and much but not all of it is for historical reasons, but you are allowed to use either your http://wikitech.wikimedia.org account (aka ldap) or your MediaWiki (aka SUL) account. Unfortunately the two login systems are separate. Bawolff (talk) 21:29, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * You're welcome, but actually most of the thanks should go to Community Tech. I wrote the initial version of the extension, but community tech polished it and made it ready for the wiki. Bawolff (talk) 02:19, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Content Security Policy
Hi! I just started reading about Content Security Policy. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with HTTP headers (I only have experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript), so my question is: Can HTTP headers be stringed together dynamically, and can they be different for different users? If they can, there could be an interface (say, on Special:Preferences) that allows users to opt-in to more restrictive policies. That would ease the transition to CSP, and it would help identify scripts that violate these policies.

Taking this one step further, CSP could be enabled for new accounts. It makes sense that an old wolf(f) would want to keep using his favorite script that imports another script from another site until CSP is enforced, but new users would not have any such expectations. If this is at all possible, the proportion of users that use CSP would just increase by itself with time. What do you think? Nirmos (talk) 01:37, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes its definitely possible to send CSP baed on user preference, and may be a good solution to ease the transition phase. I unfortunately haven't had the chance to work on CSP stuff recently, so we still have some things to go to make it work with MediaWiki in general, not even considering user scripts. Bawolff (talk) 15:14, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Adding template at the bottom of every page
Any clue how to achieve it? Well, I tried to add it to my local wiki's MediaWiki:Copyright, but it decomposes every wikilink. Acagastya (talk) 08:32, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Administrator
Hello! It is my understanding that users that develop extensions for mediawiki are entitled to sysop rights. I have now created two extensions and have been active on the wiki for some time. Thank you -- Examknow ( Lets Chat ) 22:17, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi User:Examknow. Generally the automatic admin thing only applies to core MediaWiki (Particularly people with +2 rights on mediawiki/core.git, although the line is a bit blurry). Please apply for adminship via Project:Requests. Thanks. Bawolff (talk) 19:35, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

✅ right here Examknow ( Lets Chat ) 23:08, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

YGM
You have new mail. RhinosF1 (talk) 19:39, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Separate maxUploads for Flickr import in UploadWizard?
You are listed as a team member on UploadWizard, here's a question: is it reasonably possible to have different values for UploadWizardConfig.maxUploads and maxUploads when importing files from Flickr using UploadWizard? Alexis Jazz (talk) 17:38, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * huh, "Bryan Wolff". Wonder if that's the mythical creature you get when you combine me and User:Bd808. I haven't worked on multimedia stuff in several years, and even back then I didn't have much to do with the front end aspects of UploadWizard. Maybe try asking someone like User:CParle_(WMF). Bawolff (talk) 22:24, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiCon NA AMA: Ask the developers
Hi Brian, I plan to attend your WikiCon NA session AMA: Ask the developers on Saturday, mostly with questions around the limits of Wikidata, as per this session later that day and would appreciate if you could take a look at this accompanying incomplete documentation in preparation. Thanks! I've also notified User:Isarra. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 05:57, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Please keep in mind that wikidata is not the area i usually work on, but I'll definitely answer all questions to the best of my ability and review the documentation you linked. Bawolff (talk) 06:13, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki Gadget not Working
Hi, I've created a gadget for bnwiki and it has been tested on testwiki. The problem is gadget on testwiki is working and gadget on bnwiki not working. Please help me on this issue. Thanks in advance. Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 05:40, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki Gadget definition setup is . Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 18:48, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * One thing I notice, is that its both using the  and wrapping the entire thing in  . Typically you would do only one of these (The $ method if you want it on page load for all pages, the mw.hook( 'wikipage.content' ) if you only want it working on the text of pages that can be edited by users) as they are both different ways of delaying running your gadget until the page has loaded.
 * That said, I think the primary issue have is due to urlencoding. Instead of doing, try doing  . It worked on testwiki as the namespaces use only ascii characters on testwiki, which don't get percent encoded, but on bnwiki letters like "ব্" get turned into "%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D". Bawolff (talk) 02:02, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help, but still same issue for testwiki working and for bnwiki not working. Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 03:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * [without testing, so there could be other issues] The add( markAdmins ); is wrong. Just do markAdmins; on that line. Bawolff (talk) 04:46, 22 December 2019 (UTC)


 * now even not working for testwiki, Both (bnwiki and testwiki) not working! Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 13:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * is more what I meant. I also found an issue in searchExp where it was assuming the User namespace was "User" instead of whatever the translation of User is. Also, mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalNamespace' ) are always english for builtin namespaces (but is translated for custom namespace) regardless of the wiki language. Try the modified version at testwiki. Bawolff (talk) 16:57, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your help, its working on testwiki. let me try at local wiki. Thanks once again. Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 17:06, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Now gadget working. Thanks! Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 02:44, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Extension:PageInCat
Hello Bawolff! I was just wondering: is it fair to say that Extension:PageInCat has been abandoned or do you have plans to update it in the future? I am wondering due to an ongoing hard deprecation and currently open phabricator ticket. If the extension is abandoned, I will close it off. If it isn't, I'll happily submit a patch for the ticket issue for you to look over --TheSandDoctor (talk) 08:05, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * the extension is not abandoned. Bawolff (talk) 10:29, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Can you help me?
Can you help me?
 * please complete your request! Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 18:12, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Topic:Vi8sb2h96i093d1n
I was wondering if you saw my latest response to this topic here. If you aren't able to tell me the answers that's okay. I just wondered if you knew the answers. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 06:16, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I saw, just you know, life was a little busy and I'm a bit behind on my flow messages. Bawolff (talk) 06:27, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay. I just wanted to be sure. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 04:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki Gadget for Wikidata Property creators
Hi, There was a script to create automatically properties when their proposals have reached maturity. The script also reports some common issues back to the proposer and how to improve that property proposals. unfortunately that has been stopped! I was trying to create a gadget for Wikidata property creation but failed! because github code used  and our gadgets are. Could you please help to create gadget for Wikidata property creation. I know it take time but it also will help many users. Gadget should be done: I've created testwiki:MediaWiki:Gadget-createproperty.js as blank, Main script code available here based on. Thanks! Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 07:50, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Parse the proposal template.
 * Perform some checks on the proposal (for instance, for an identifier, it checks that the examples provided match the regular expression).
 * Create the property, adding some default property constraints in the case of identifiers.
 * Add examples on the property (and on the items mentioned in the examples)
 * Add "see also" links in both directions
 * Create a talk page for the property
 * Close the property proposal.
 * sorry, i don't have time to do this. I am happy to answer questions about how gadgets work generally though. Try maybe asking some of the people who make gadgets at enwiki. I think there is an active community of them. Bawolff (talk) 08:14, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Help: Rollback right
Hello Bawolff,

I am a sysop on Yoruba Wikipedia. We do need to grant the rollback right locally to some of our active editors to fight vandalism but it's not available locally (see for example). Please I need help with access to be able to grant it locally. Regards. T Cells (talk) 15:07, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi User:T Cells. Please file a request in phabricator tagged as Wikimedia-Site-Requests. Please include in the request a link to community discussion on yo showing that it has been discussed and approved on wiki. Bawolff (talk) 15:43, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'd start a local discussion and link to that discussion on Phab. Regards. T Cells (talk) 16:39, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Gender
Make sure you set proper gender in preferences ;) --wargo (talk) 16:52, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * there is no gender preference, only a preference as to how the software should address you in the event it is difficult to use gender neutral phrasing. Bawolff (talk) 17:24, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Commons beta
Hi, could you please assign me sysop and bureaucrats/GWToolset users on https://commons.m.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 14:41, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I gave you admin and gwtoolset. Is there a reason you need crat? Bawolff (talk) 17:23, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , It's ok for me. no specified reason for crat, requested crat because sometimes I could assign rights itself (like, IA) or help others. Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 10:28, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Wiki problem
You answered my wiki issue I saw But I want to communicate with you personally I want to give you the information of my c panel Please help me fix my wiki problem And I want you to be the administrator of my wiki The language of my wiki is English Please give me the mail, I will contact my mailAthour1 (talk) 03:07, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry Authour1, i only do the help desk questions. Try contacting someone listed at Professional development and consulting (note: they generally charge money). Bawolff (talk) 15:30, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks User:Lbillett. That's very nice of you to say :). Bawolff (talk) 15:31, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki Gadget DiscussionCloser
Hi, I`ve a DiscussionCloser which close discussion on talk pages like this. I`d like to remove two  from above the section title. could you please help me on this, gadget link testwiki:MediaWiki:Gadget-DiscussionCloser.js. Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 05:50, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * idk, the line  looks suspicious. (I imagine \r gets normalized to \n) Bawolff (talk) 07:06, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , I was also think about that, but that was not the problem. Horever, it has been fixed with this difference. Thank you for your help. Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 07:55, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Sysop rights
I'm not Mediawiki software developer but I'm active here and on IRC for doing anti-vandalism and others. When I find bad, off-topic/spam flow topics, I hide them. Sadly, rollback right is only available to admins here. I'm also a active member of SWMT. Would you please review my work, if sysop rights can be granted? Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 17:43, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * please note that requests should be made at Project:Requests - "Any new flagging to +sysop should have an associated subpage here, except for well-established developers" --DannyS712 (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * DannyS712, thanks for your comment. I know that I've to request at Project:Requests, but I asked to review my work here. You also can review my work here for sysop. Thanks! Regards,  ZI Jony  (Talk) 14:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * if you filed a request, i would probably vote support. Bawolff (talk) 09:07, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for you trust, I've filed a request as suggested. Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 11:26, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * oh well, guess that didn't go well. Sorry. Bawolff (talk) 18:22, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's ok, but they removed my "Autopatrollers‬" rights because they have sysop rights to remove it. please look into that. Thanks! Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 14:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but respectfully, https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Requests/User_rights/ZI_Jony&diff=prev&oldid=3946091 was a bit much and its within a sysops discretion to remove autopatrol. Bawolff (talk) 15:41, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Help me
Please seen here Will you help me if I fail to solve this problem
 * Other people have already answered your question the same way i would. If you have trouble understanding or following their advice, please feel free to ask for clarification on the specific part you are having trouble with. Bawolff (talk) 07:11, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

mediawiki image upload question
I have a small LAN at home that uses mediawiki (which I love), which I set up myself.

I was able to finally upload some png files, but ONLY after opening up the images folder (777). I know this is not good but I've tried other things (without success) you mentioned in a previous thread.

What do you suggest?

Fatal error help
Hello, I still need help with the fatal error that shows up when I try to direct my browser to the installer page:

Uncaught Error: Class "Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer" not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\MediaWikiServices.php:152 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\AutoLoader.php(109): require #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\objectcache\ObjectCache.php(255): AutoLoader::autoload('MediaWiki\\Media...') #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\TemplateParser.php(63): ObjectCache::getLocalServerInstance(-1) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\NoLocalSettings.php(47): TemplateParser->__construct #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\WebStart.php(67): require_once('C:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\Setup.php(138): wfWebStartNoLocalSettings #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\WebStart.php(89): require_once('C:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\index.php(44): require('C:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #8 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\pfwiki\includes\MediaWikiServices.php on line 152

What can I do to resolve this? Vozhan (talk) 18:12, 26 December 2020 (UTC)


 * It's been a few days and you haven't responded yet. Vozhan (talk) 23:10, 30 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Project:Support desk would be the better place to ask your general MediaWiki support question, not a user's talk page. P858snake (talk) 01:36, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I already asked there, and Bawolff was the only one who responded, which is why I'm asking again on his talk page. Vozhan (talk)
 * Support desk is a bit like roulette, you get what you get, depending on various people's knowledge and level of busy-ness. Bawolff (talk) 14:05, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Automatic download extension.json by template ExtensionParametr
Template Template:Extension do automatically load data from extension.json file. But what when is code new version in another branch? It is i.e. branch form-support of the Extension:AccessControl. This code is actualized up MediaWiki main branch, but code main branch of the extension was developed from my old obsolete version. Every not use accesslists based on template parameters for it I do extra branch, but users don't know because template not download extension.json from it. – Want (talk) 16:41, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi user:Want - right now it only supports reading main branch from gerrit. I would suggest taking over the main gerrit branch. If you dont own it but are the main extension developer, you could put in a request at phabricator to have it transfered to you. Alternatively, the extension template can have parameters specified manually which i think mostly overrides the bot. Bawolff (talk) 23:58, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

ifexist clause in image link table
Hello Bawolff, I tried to contact anyone in Phabricator but got nobody: It's about the task T245965

I think the change in Mediawiki software isn't good, to get file names in image link table from images, which have been filtered by the ifexist-clause in templates. So I get images in the database query result from image link table, which are not linked from the page. What is your opinion about this problem? Doc Taxon (talk) 16:05, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

The "New signature" box on "Special:Preferences" page is not displayed
Hi Bawolff, I'm writing to you because I've seen you help a lot at the support desk.

I'm a very experienced Wikipedian and Commons editor, but new to Mediawiki. Recently, I've started a private Wiki in my organization. I've already found answers to most of the issues I've encountered.

Still, I have one unsolvable problem; I couldn't find any reference to it. I've posted it to the support desk and got no reply.

Do you have any clue? If not, can you refer me to someone who might know?

Thanks!!! Gveret Tered (talk) 15:08, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Editing MediaWiki talk:Right-editmyprivateinfo
Hi Bawolff, as discussed on Support Desk I think it would be helpful to add that the right MediaWiki:Right-editmyprivateinfo also hides the change password button. So, I added this as a talk to the talk page of the mediawiki page. It has been there for a week, with no reply. I can't edit it because it's in the mediawiki namespace and I am not in the interface admin group. You are listed as someone who has the right to edit this. Could you either tell me how I should raise this as a discussion more effectively than the talk page? I do think it should be documented that this is the way to hide the change password button (so someone else doesn't need to sample their way through the rights to find out like I did). For now I am adding this on the Manual page instead, but likely without the right translation tags or whatever might be needed (see https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual%3AUser_rights&type=revision&diff=5059000&oldid=5038874 ). If there is a better place or way, I am interested to learn it. Thanks! Tenbergen (talk) 22:59, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Deletion request
Hello, can you please delete this page which is an attack page created by a cross-wiki LTA? I am unable to tag this myself, hence requesting an admin. Thanks, --Svartava (talk) 08:32, 11 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ P858snake (talk) 08:36, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * @P858snake: Thank you! :) Can you also delete the talk page of the LTA which is also an attack page? Svartava (talk) 08:50, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Vector skin help
Ho to add home menu like this image style.herePrince ovy (talk) 19:30, 17 March 2022 (UTC)


 * clear image Prince ovy (talk) 19:36, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * please direct all support requests to project:support desk Bawolff (talk) 19:37, 17 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Yeah can you see my support request.Prince ovy (talk) 19:40, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Price quote request
Hello Bawolff.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wv3hijk4vp87px8y

Will you agree to do this as a job for me and if so how much should this cost please?

I could pay by wire transfer.

Thanks anyway !

Ben, 79.179.87.161 01:28, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * hi, sorry i dont do paid mediawiki consulting anymore. I used to, but i found it is better to keep my hobbies separate from work. There are many others who do do this sort of work so you should be able to find someone. Bawolff (talk) 01:59, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks! Bawolff (talk) 12:22, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

InstantWikidata
You were looking for InstantWikidata the other day. It doesn't appear to exist yet. Izno (talk) 15:21, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Perm-Request
Hi, I've made an inquiry here, hope I'll be accepted 🙂 Justman10000 (talk) 19:04, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

You are honestly a godsend
Hello Bawolff, you probably recognize me from all of the questions that I have been asking you in the past month or two for my wiki. I just wanted to say, before I launch my project (although it still has some issues), how thankful I truly am for your constant and quick help. If it weren't for you, I don't think I would've gotten my project done in time or as much as it is now. It seems there aren't very many people who are on the Support Desk to answer questions all the time, but you are always there, and respond so much quicker with an answer than you'd get anywhere else. You are truly a godsend. Thank you so much Guillaume Taillefer (talk) 01:56, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks :) glad to help. Bawolff (talk) 04:30, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata
Hi Bawolff,

I hope you can help for Wikidata configuration.

I resetted all my Mediawiki Environment with all Wikipedia Extension.

At the moment almost 97% work well, but some interactions with Wikidata doesn't work, honestly I don't understand where, why how to understand how to fix. I'm really angry because I'm not able to do it, and is not normal for me (is my job fix the problems).

I hope you can give some hints to understand the problem.

Regards,

Paolo (Kato) Kato196613 (talk) 15:18, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thank you for your tip.

Lomeno 24 (Contact me here) 02:39, 15 January 2023 (UTC) 

Dependency of the extensions
Hi, I have question for you. I installed Extension:WhoIsWatching what dependency on the Extension:Echo. I see, if you add any changes into Module:ExtensionJson. You can add any code what can select information about dependencies from extension.json files? Hi, I have question for you. I installed Extension:WhoIsWatching what dependency on the Extension:Echo, but I see, that "Template:Extension" give not info about dependecies, similary as info about hook, rights, or parameters. I see in history of the Module:ExtensionJson, any changes from you last time. You can add any code, what can select information about dependencies from extension.json files? Want (talk) 15:12, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The information should be present in the extension.json dump file so it should be possible to add it to the template. Bawolff (talk) 20:18, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * But it's. See please here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWIW/browse/master/extension.json (Echo). Want (talk) 20:32, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Page in Diff has weird space
I had tried to find the problem could you help me to figure out? 

Expected:天然驅蟲劑

at present:天然 驅 蟲劑

Thank you. Willy1018 (talk) 17:43, 4 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, please ask questions at project:Support desk. That said, the likely issue is you need a different version of Skin:Vector for your version of MediaWiki. Bawolff (talk) 02:11, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

thanks
Just to say I notice you've been responding in the support desk for quite a long time and you often respond to my stupid questions. So, thanks! Really appreciate the support and guidance.

Do you do consulting on private projects, out of interest? ElectricRay (talk) 13:32, 21 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi ElectricRay. Thanks :). I work for a company https://wikiteq.com that does mediawiki consulting. Bawolff (talk) 20:09, 21 June 2023 (UTC)