User:Aaron Schulz/Fun stuff

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/video/6086530/big-rigs-over-the-road-racing-video-review - I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a Bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill - "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true." - "President Dwight Eisenhower expressed astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans had below average intelligence." - Generally, the NCCAM has funded more than a decade’s worth of worthless studies, ideologically conceived, poorly designed, and whose results have been largely ignored (especially when negative). --Steven Novella, MD - "yey and did Fonzie downstairs cometh from his apartment above the garage, and

sayeth he, reassembleth will I the pieces of my motorcycle

though i suffereth from temporary blindness and

yey for i am holy, befriendeth i will Sticks Downey, the only negro in the state of wisconsin,

amen.. "

Notes on Parser.php

 * [21:15] Tim Starling did a major rewrite creating the skeleton of what we now call the "parser" a few years ago.
 * [21:16] Naturally, time and user demands called for this to have new things added, and I don't suppose it really occurred to anyone to write a formal spec.
 * [21:17] Now we're popular, and everyone wants to be able to use our content, and when they ask how to do it reliably, we're caught trousers down with our regexes hanging out.

Notes on extensions
Many core developers write extensions and have them peer reviewed. However, there are also many third party extension, some that are not hosted on the WikiMedia SVN site, some even with unprotected code on wiki pages. Be careful when installing such. Potential breakage (like DeleteUser and logs), security vulnerabilities like inefficient easy-to-DOS queries, poor default user permission settings, failure to escape inputted data by users when outputting as HTML (can cause JS injection), SQL injection and other such stuff is more likely to be present.

Also, instructions can be a bit unclear and confusing:


 * [22:38]		How do i install Infobox? i tried the one on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Infobox_Data_Capture, but the SQL has error when i try input into database
 * [22:39]		MySQL said: Documentation
 * [22:39]		#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '.`_infoboxdata` (
 * [22:39]		`ib_from` int(8) unsigned NOT NULL def' at line 1
 * [22:39]		VoiceOfAll, LOL.

MediaWiki skins
link to a site with a sweet skin
 * [21:53]		Why must MediaWiki's skinning system be so hard?

Sysadmins and Wikimedia servers

 * [23:28]		watches brion love the servers
 * [23:29]	 	AaronSchulz: hey that's a private moment between a man and his machine
 * [23:30]		that's going on my userpage ;)


 * [05:09]	 	brion can't kill me
 * [05:09]	 	brion is too small

DB slaves

 * [07:07]		anyway, the general concept is that we don't show the user up-to-date information
 * [07:08]		because that's expensive
 * [07:08]	 	we don't show exact information either, sometimes
 * [07:08]	 	and people get frustrated.
 * [07:08]	 	actually, it can be just interface message changes
 * [07:08]	 	"wait, calm down, get a coffee"
 * [07:08]	 	this reminds me, I need to get a coffee
 * [07:08]	 	this reminds me, I need to get a coffee

CSS

 * [21:04]		yes, well
 * [21:05]		CSS has a thing called specificity which means that if two rules apply to the same thing, the result is determined by a complex scoring algorithm that nobody can understand
 * [21:05]		and thus effectively random

Code documentation
[07:20]		I think brion has perfected the art of using jokes as a replacement for documentation:

Sysadmins

 * [03:37]	 	the wikitech page is incorrect :)
 * [03:38]	 	why are people so incompetent nowadays

Philosophy
[19:21]	 	why humans so crazy [?]

Good bug report example
[23:00]	 	hi... I cant get media wiki to work

Dorm life

 * [22:27]		ok, my dorm fire alarm sounding again
 * [22:27]	AaronSchulz	sighs
 * [22:28]		we had an evacuation a couple of weeks ago because some pot-smoker saw the RA and panicked and threw his joint in the trash can
 * [22:28]	<Scott5114>	the RA didn't see it, but the trash caught on fire
 * [22:29]	<Scott5114>	obviously, the guy was high, so the logical thing to do is throw the flaming trash can in the hallway

Arguments about code

 * [10:36]	<Splarka>	geez, you two are like Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne
 * [10:36]	<Danny_B>	:-)
 * [10:36]	<Splarka>	"Information is not lost" "yes it is" "no it isn't!"
 * [10:36]	<AaronSchulz>	:p
 * [10:36]	<Splarka>	or was it John Preskill

Football
[14:16]	 	bunch of sweaty men wearing tights running around throwing a ball, hey, whatever works for ya ;)

Bots

 * [19:31]	 	reedy * <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/77935> /trunk/extensions/CodeReview/ui/ (CodeRevisionListView.php SpecialCode.php):
 * [19:31]	 	Revert r77839, tiny subtle change is subtle
 * [19:31]	 	$formatted = strval( $this->formatRevValue( $field, $value, $row ) );
 * [19:31]	 	!=
 * [19:31]	 	$formatted = strval( $this->formatValue( $field, $value, $row ) );
 * [19:31]	<mw-bot>	I don't know anything about "=". You might try: !anglebrackets !cookies !damneditcount !defaultsettings !domdocument !dpl !errors !g !googleit !iis !mw !mwbot !numberedparams !passwordsql !purge !smw !sqllog !tidyforidiots !upload !votes

Security via obscurity

 * Krinkle: TimStarling: 'live-1.5/fatal-ifjwghy9ibag.php' was created in 2007 afaik, any idea if it is still relevant? its keeping git status dirty. Would be nice if that '?' could find its way out of PS1 in my shel
 * Krinkle: (you own the file)
 * TimStarling:the filename is meant to be secret

Whining

 * [22:07]	<TimStarling>	MW was written by people who know CSS
 * [22:07]	 	i don't want to take the time. i'm lazy.
 * [22:07]	 	if that's the only then i will
 * [22:07]	<TimStarling>	not so lazy
 * [22:07]	<TimStarling>	you're prepared to moan for half an hour in this channel trying to get someone to help you
 * [22:08]	<TimStarling>	that takes commitment

Deployment
aaron@fenari:~/mediawiki/maintenance$ scap Checking syntax... Error in /home/wikipedia/common/php-1.17/crap.php line 3: syntax error, unexpected $end Found syntax errors, cannot sync

Wall time

 * [17:45]	vvv	wall clock is a real-world time, right?
 * [17:45]	AaronSchulz	yes
 * [17:45]	TimStarling	it's the kind of time that the clock on the wall shows

Off topic rambling

 * [20:08]	Muhammad	In the Name of God, the beneficent, the Merciful, all praise be to Allah, the lord of the Universe
 * [20:08]	Muhammad	O God hasten the arrival of the Mahdi and make us his followers
 * [20:08]	Muhammad	and bless those who attest of his righfulness.
 * [20:09]	Carmela	Muhammad: Did you have a question about MediaWiki?
 * [20:09]	Muhammad	Carmela, I am getting reports the Palestinian settle of Ramallah has been sieged
 * [20:10]	Carmela	Sounds like you may need to install the ParserFunctions extension.
 * [20:11]	Muhammad	ParserFunctions
 * [20:11]	Muhammad	?
 * [20:11]	Carmela	Don't worry about it.