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| − | Please, I found a fan-produced book that copies the entries of different factions. I'm not sure if this is acceptable or not. This is the thread at the OF, please contact Red Pins. https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=45897.90#lastPost
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| − | : Nic (and Red Pins): I addressed the concerns on the forum. --[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 20:41, 28 April 2018 (EDT)
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| − | == Version 1.28.2 ==
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| − | Morning, Nic. Thought I'd share this tidbit with you: MW 1.28.2 automatically lists cited references under a section called "references", without any need for the ref code (''i.e.'', '''<nowiki><references/></nowiki>'''). Not a reason to update alone, but I discovered it by accident on one of my wikis. Cheers. --[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 11:38, 25 June 2017 (EDT)
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| − | :Thanks Revanche! I plan on doing a full update to MW 1.30.0 soon. [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 21:41, 6 February 2018 (EST)
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| − | ::Today we were upgraded to MW 1.30.0! [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT)
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| − | Hello there. I've [[BattleTechWiki talk:Project BattleMechs#New infobox|been told]] that you are the one to speak to about scripted/bot tasks.
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| − | I made some changes to [[Template:InfoBoxBattleMech]] to improve its functionality, but they do mean that [[:Category:Empty or nonstandard InfoBoxBattleMech tech base parameter|hundreds of mech articles]] need updating to use [http://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Template%3AInfoBoxBattleMech%2Fdoc&type=revision&diff=447100&oldid=349082 the new parameters]. I don't know the first thing about bots or scripting to avoid having to do that by hand. Do you? [[User:Cease to Hope|Cease to Hope]] ([[User talk:Cease to Hope|talk]]) 19:50, 9 September 2017 (EDT)
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| − | :Hi [[User:Cease to Hope|Cease to Hope]]! If you have a database (CSV, spreadsheet, etc) of the 'Mechs and their corresponding Tech Base values, I can make a bot to update all of them. [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 21:44, 6 February 2018 (EST)
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| | : That is a really good idea. I checked on the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserMerge UserMerge extension's Page] but no one has asked for that feature yet. I'd suggest proposing it there to see if anyone picks it up -- if not, I can see about adding a checkbox some rainy day :) [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 21:50, 6 February 2018 (EST) | | : That is a really good idea. I checked on the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserMerge UserMerge extension's Page] but no one has asked for that feature yet. I'd suggest proposing it there to see if anyone picks it up -- if not, I can see about adding a checkbox some rainy day :) [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 21:50, 6 February 2018 (EST) |
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| − | == Categories not populating == | + | == Max article size? == |
| − | Hey Nic,
| + | Hi Nic, is there a limit on the size of articles? Some, like the product list, are very long already. And if we should try to implement nice sortable tables then the article size may double... [[User:Frabby|Frabby]] ([[User talk:Frabby|talk]]) 15:34, 20 May 2019 (EDT) |
| − | | + | : The default max article size is 2 MB [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMaxArticleSize $wgMaxArticleSize], aka 2,196,608 bytes. We could increase it if needed. The [[List_of_BattleTech_products]] is only 87,000 bytes right now. |
| − | I have noticed that Categories do not appear to be populating anymore, the Clan Bloodnames, Noble Houses and Solaris Characters have all had a number of articles added in the last few weeks but do not show up in said category. Older articles seem fine, just newly added/created articles (I have not tried to see if this happens a new category just existing). This might also be effecting the search engine as an article I was working on this morning did not show up in the first few items of the search (I searched Hartford, and House Hartford was not in the first 3 pages, it was picking up the word within articles). Any chance you could look into this? [[User:Dmon|Dmon]] ([[User talk:Dmon|talk]]) 04:16, 22 February 2018 (EST)
| + | :Why would enabling sortable tables double the size though? That should all be done via JavaScript, with the <code>sortable</code> class added to the table. [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 09:23, 28 August 2019 (EDT) |
| − | :It's apparently more than that. Categories don't seem to change/update at all anymore. See [[BattleTechWiki:Administrators#Category and What Link Here issues - February 2018]] and [[User talk:Deadfire#Category Link Template]]. [[User:Frabby|Frabby]] ([[User talk:Frabby|talk]]) 13:03, 8 March 2018 (EST)
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| − | ::Indeed I saw Frabby. We have a major problem it seems. [[User:Dmon|Dmon]] ([[User talk:Dmon|talk]]) 14:24, 8 March 2018 (EST) | |
| − | ::Looks like Nic fixed it. Thanks Nic! [[User:Frabby|Frabby]] ([[User talk:Frabby|talk]]) 15:22, 26 March 2018 (EDT)
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| − | :::Yep! Was able to roll out a MW 1.30.0 today, which I've confirmed fixed this (and other) issues. Hopefully it doesn't bring in any new issues! [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT) | |
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| − | == Adding Fan Sourcebook == | + | == Star League commands order == |
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| − | Hey Nick. I'm a member of the team working on the Death From Above Fan Sourcebook. I have a PDF file we would like to have added to the download section so we can link to it from a Wiki entry. Its a 65 MB PDF. We are hosting it on Box until we can get a permanent home for it here on Sarna. [https://app.box.com/s/zyuv6nw1zqle4el4xzr2yj5qjrijzvun] Please give it a gander and let me know if there are any issues. Thanks for your assistance.
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| − | : Awesome! Added http://www.sarna.net/files/info/docs/fan/dfa-sourcebook.pdf [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT)
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| − | == MediaWiki 1.30.0 ==
| + | I've seen that the Star League commands order is different from the rest. Units assigned in sub-level commands do appear also in the root (something that does not happen in other Military Commands Categories. Am I right if I consider this Category incorrectly done? |
| − | On March 26, 2018, sarna.net was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.30.0 (from 1.28.0). This fixes at least two known issues:
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| − | * Categories were not being updated after articles are saved. This was a known MW 1.28.0 bug that was fixed in 1.29. I've verified pages like [[:Category:Pages with reference errors]] are now updated correctly.
| + | I also think there are categories missing that should help reorganize this a bit better? The level of sub commands can be huge, and I do not even know which is the best way to order them. |
| − | * The [[BattleTechWiki:ToDo]] page was broken because of the DynamicPageList plugin being broken with 1.28.0. The plugin has been updated.
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| − | As with any upgrade, it brings fixes but also the potential for more issues. If anyone finds any issues, please list them here and I will look into them as soon as I can. [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT)
| + | I tried to make this a general query, but have no idea on how to do it.--[[User:Pserratv|Pserratv]] ([[User talk:Pserratv|talk]]) 10:31, 18 July 2019 (EDT) |
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| − | ==Edits missing on Recent Edits page==
| + | I've created and explained a proposal here: [[:Category talk:Star League Defense Force Commands]], could you review and share your insights?--[[User:Pserratv|Pserratv]] ([[User talk:Pserratv|talk]]) 08:56, 7 August 2019 (EDT) |
| − | Something is still or again broken: It seems the Recent Changes are skipping edits. As of today, for example, the list stubbornly refuses to acknowledge or report several edits [[User:Dmon]] made to my talk page, while curiously showing intermediate edits in reply to Dmon by myself and [[User:Pserratv]]. We've reported this problem before, alongside the Categories not updating; but now it looks as if it might be a separate issue that either wasn't fixed in the latest upgrades, or has cropped up again. It is naturally near impossible to spot, it was just lucky coincidence that I was informed of a New Message to my talk page (without a corresponding Recent Edit) or I'd neve have found something was amiss. [[User:Frabby|Frabby]] ([[User talk:Frabby|talk]]) 10:18, 7 May 2018 (EDT)
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| − | == Spambots ==
| + | : Thanks for leading the charge on this! [[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]] ([[User talk:Nicjansma|talk]]) 09:23, 28 August 2019 (EDT) |
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| − | We're getting hit with spambots again - anonymous IPs posting spoof pages. All of the pages tend to follow a common format in their title, and I was wondering if it was possible to adjust Sarna to refuse to allow the creation of article pages containing specific words - for example, I can't imagine we're ever going to have articles here that need the words "Yahoo" or "Netflix" or "Google" or "Paypal", and if we could auto-block the creation of those pages, it would cut down on the spam a bit. I'd prefer to cut down on the spam a bit by finding the spammers and malleting their fingers with a lump hammer until they learn the error of their ways, but a block on new pages would probably be more productive in the short term, if less satisfying. [[User:BrokenMnemonic|BrokenMnemonic]] ([[User talk:BrokenMnemonic|talk]]) 03:02, 8 May 2018 (EDT)
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| − | :"Yahoo" shouldn't be blacklisted. We have several links to Yahoo videos of computer game content, for example. [[User:Frabby|Frabby]] ([[User talk:Frabby|talk]]) 04:14, 8 May 2018 (EDT)
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| − | ::I wasn't talking about blacklisting Yahoo as a term in general - just blocking it from article names. [[User:BrokenMnemonic|BrokenMnemonic]] ([[User talk:BrokenMnemonic|talk]]) 05:05, 8 May 2018 (EDT)
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In the everlasting battle against spambots, I have merged literally thousands of spambot accounts into Anonymous. Merge and delete users is really a fantastic tool.
A suggestion though: In almost all cases, I manually block the user (spambot) in question first before merging & deleting, in order to blacklist the IP adress. The blocking function offers several helpful checkboxes, and I usually check them all except for the last one.
It would cut the time lost on spammers in half if the Merge & Delete function had a similar checkbox option to automatically block the IP the spambot account was created from. It should still be a checkbox because there are cases thinkable where I wouldn't want to block the IP (e.g. we've had a legit user who requested his account be deleted for good, but who wasn't a spammer and would still use the wiki). Frabby (talk) 02:16, 11 January 2018 (EST)
- That is a really good idea. I checked on the UserMerge extension's Page but no one has asked for that feature yet. I'd suggest proposing it there to see if anyone picks it up -- if not, I can see about adding a checkbox some rainy day :) Nicjansma (talk) 21:50, 6 February 2018 (EST)
Max article size?
Hi Nic, is there a limit on the size of articles? Some, like the product list, are very long already. And if we should try to implement nice sortable tables then the article size may double... Frabby (talk) 15:34, 20 May 2019 (EDT)
- The default max article size is 2 MB $wgMaxArticleSize, aka 2,196,608 bytes. We could increase it if needed. The List_of_BattleTech_products is only 87,000 bytes right now.
- Why would enabling sortable tables double the size though? That should all be done via JavaScript, with the
sortable class added to the table. Nicjansma (talk) 09:23, 28 August 2019 (EDT)
Star League commands order
Hi Nicjansma,
I've seen that the Star League commands order is different from the rest. Units assigned in sub-level commands do appear also in the root (something that does not happen in other Military Commands Categories. Am I right if I consider this Category incorrectly done?
I also think there are categories missing that should help reorganize this a bit better? The level of sub commands can be huge, and I do not even know which is the best way to order them.
I tried to make this a general query, but have no idea on how to do it.--Pserratv (talk) 10:31, 18 July 2019 (EDT)
I've created and explained a proposal here: Category talk:Star League Defense Force Commands, could you review and share your insights?--Pserratv (talk) 08:56, 7 August 2019 (EDT)
- Thanks for leading the charge on this! Nicjansma (talk) 09:23, 28 August 2019 (EDT)
