User talk:MZMcBride

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October 2007 – December 2008

Tidy a design?

Hi. I’m definitely interested. I've only a wee bit of m:experience, so I'm not quite sure where to start looking ... will nose about. There’s likely a history to the design and a whole sandbox. It looks like I’ll be needing a few more fonts; “Bishnupriya Manipuri” probably isn‘t User:Bishonen-speak. Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey. The code is loaded from a (fully-protected) page: Www.wikipedia.org template. It has a /temp subpage. (It also appears to have worked with Www.wikipedia.org portal in the past, but that page is now deprecated.) I may be able to make something that allows for live previewing the code, as it has to be in raw HTML. Would that be helpful? And at some point we need to advertise somewhere.... --MZMcBride 04:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'll have a look. I've been busy reading the latest en:wp drama; you've posted there, so you'll know the one. Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:30, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Subsequent discussion moved to Talk:Www.wikipedia.org template#Redesigning. --MZMcBride 23:59, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

sync wikiquote, please

I've been looking around at the siblings of this and found and fixed an issue with www.wikiquote.org

  • here l/r margin was inadvertently introduced to one of the bookshelves and this results in a slight hscrollbar. No one noticed?
  • here I've fixed it as well as made some of the same tweaks I've made here; just a few.

I'm gonna review all of them; looking for ideas, issues. If we push www.wikipedia.org further the others will have to tag along.

  • I tweaked www.wikinews.org, too, and it should be synced; more minor issues there.

Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:38, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like Alexanderps and mxn beat me to it. --MZMcBride 23:51, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orbiting links

Cheers, Jack Merridew 14:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look

      • editor J.delanoy, you can not and DO not remove what I put on someones PERSONAL talk page.

Thought this might interest you, before this aticle was neutral and list all point of views, someone removed all the sources of the article including large amounts of information and references, and turned it into this essay format of their personal beliefs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy I don't know what to call this other than racism and a certain group of admins (who always end up on race topics or bring up races) banding together to abuse their power (manly user Paul Barlow, and Dbachmann) the same editors are the ones on the admin notice boards and if you post a complaint about them or a friend they remove it76.118.238.21 15:49, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You sound like you need the local wiki's dispute resolution system. Try w:Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Sorry I can't be of more assistance (this really isn't my strong area). Cheers. --MZMcBride 19:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ninja request ;)

Details at:

Cheers, Jack Merridew 12:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Above is done; following is needed asap:

Cheers, Jack Merridew 15:55, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What the hell

...is not a reason. Please provide a rationale where people can see it. Thanks  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:28, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was self-evident why blacklisting an entire ccTLD is a poor idea. Clarified now. Love you. --MZMcBride 03:36, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, nothing personal, but this one should have been discussed first due to the problem with spam links and redirects. Please restore it, or join in the discussion. Thanks. --Ckatz 10:16, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the heads-up. I've commented on the appropriate page and have it watchlisted now. --MZMcBride 10:42, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a million

Thank you for the unblock, Mr. McBride. You're a man's man. -- Thekohser 20:53, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

Thanks. I thought I had updated that on all the various projects. Must have missed this one. JoshuaZ 02:35, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Out of curiosity, what's the backstory there? Just taking a break or something? --MZMcBride 02:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Er no. The story is quite dramalicious. I was accused of sockpuppetry which I denied but I resigned since the ArbCom was very convinced. I am I believe one of only two cases where in order to get the tools back I would need to ask ArbCom before a new RfA (for reasons that aren't completely clear to me). I'm surprised you missed all that. How did you know I was a former admin but not know those details? JoshuaZ 02:52, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've got a script installed that puts user rights next to a user's name on their user and user talk pages (w:User:Splarka/sysopdectector.js). I figured the information from 2006 was accurate. Interesting that you, of all people I guess, are dragging the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee onto Meta, then.... --MZMcBride 02:56, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, to be blunt, I think they can be a bunch of idiots. But there's a very precise reason that I haven't applied for OTRS tools and that's that ArbCom ruling. I've thought on and off of applying for OTRS access and if I did so, I'd at minimum explicitly say that "hey, there's this issue which is still outstanding." And I'd agree that it would be a strong argument that I shouldn't be given OTRS access. Frankly, your decision to not mention the issue in your OTRS application bugged me about as much as the issue itself. If you had mentioned it I likely would have stayed out. JoshuaZ 03:02, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vector page

I'm readding the link to the official FAQ. I'd sure appreciate it if you left it there. While I get your sense of humor, I think it's inappropriate in this case. Please stop. Philippe (WMF) 00:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you using a staff account? --MZMcBride 01:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki requests

Thanks for fast accepting my request about wmru interwiki. Maybe you do review for my two other requests: adding Semantic-MediaWiki.org and updating Creative Commons ? --Kaganer 12:15, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Liquidthreads.labs request

Plese per for request permissions at [1] --minhhuy*= 01:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Decision-making from behind a drawn curtain

There is an underlying issue behind some of Wikimedia's latest actions. It isn't really specific to the recent interlanguage link display dispute, but it's certainly present there.

In short, there's a complete lack of engagement and dialogue between the Wikimedia Foundation and the community. Some of this lack of communication was pointed out in a separate thread on this very list. We're seeing a few labs sites put up and criticism is certainly being voiced (on the blog, on the labs sites, on this list), but it's pretty clear that it's falling on purposefully deaf ears.

Every once in a while, a staffer will emerge from an internal meeting or discussion, proclaim something, and then slip back behind the wall. If the archives were working correctly, this would be easier to demonstrate, though anyone who is subscribed should look at the responses from Howie Fung and Erik Moeller from this past week. You see comments like "we discussed this internally" and this is what we decided. Or you have comments like "the Usability team discussed this issue at length this afternoon," followed by a list of further actions that the Usability team feels entitled to make.

What's missing? Dialogue, discussion, and debate about the recent changes. A healthy exchange of ideas and a reasonable defense of the design decisions that were made. You don't have a dialogue, you have a series of edicts. And that's really unacceptable for an organization like Wikimedia, an organization that should be serving its community.

Part of what we're seeing, played out throughout the course of the Usability team's existence, are the issues that emerge from having too many masters. Receiving directed grant money should not give a group more power in MediaWiki development, but that isn't what is happening in practice. In practice, the people signing the paychecks are the ones who are being listened to; the community that the Wikimedia Foundation is supposed to be serving is being ignored. Not just a few vocal critics on the mailing list, the broader Wikimedia community is being pushed aside.

It is not specific to the Usability team's recent actions, but they are a particularly good example of the larger unacceptable problem.

MZMcBride 19:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Test subject 1

Test message 1. --EdwardsBot 23:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Test subject 2

¡Test message 2! --EdwardsBot (talk) 23:12, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 August 2010

Bot block

Okay. I'll leave it blocked for now then; that's prolly easiest, especially if you don't care either way. Thanks for getting in touch. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 00:11, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Enable editnotices

Would you mind enabling editnotices for this wiki, similar to Commons or Enwp?  ℳono  03:28, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's a page for admin requests somewhere. Use it. --MZMcBride 20:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Testing

Test test test. --EdwardsBot 20:12, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talking to ourself, are we? Philippe (WMF) 05:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Lies. --EdwardsBot 05:50, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot test example

Posting for posterity here as requested. I'll poke you on IRC. Jalexander

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EdwardsBot

Hi, I saw EdwardsBot active on nl.wikipedia. Since I have a lot of userpages on my watchlist the botedits showed up alot. Could you perhaps request a botflag for EdwardsBot so it won't show in the watchlist anymore? Local botflag requests for nl.wikipedia can be made at w:nl:WP:AB. If you specify that the bot is only used to deliver the Signpost, there will probably be no objections. Kind regards, Taketa 17:54, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Here you go. --MZMcBride 19:58, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmyface

Hey, we're going to be testing some banners the next few days that should have less of the "creepy jimmyface" factor. You've been around long enough to see the various iterations of jimmyface, so I'd like your opinion on the new ones when they come up (if you have the time). You can catch me on IRC or email, or my meta talk page. Thanks! Regards, ⇒DanRosenthal Wikipedia Contribution Team 01:40, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note

Hello MZMcBride. I am sorry but I've undid your recent addition to MediaWiki:Common.js because since you added it some scripts starting failing, /secure.js was one of them. Regards, --dferg ☎ talk 22:30, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Eep. I tried putting the code higher up, which seems to work (the signature button works and so does /secure.js). Let me know if you notice any other problems. --MZMcBride 23:23, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Still not working for me. Sorry. --dferg ☎ talk 17:29, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Make sure you've bypassed your cache? You can also try logging out to see if it's something in your personal JS that's causing an error. --MZMcBride 23:08, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Logged-out but viewing the pages in the secure server it works, but logged in (and with the caché bypassed) it doesn't. Curious that it started happening since that script was added :-) I'll try to fix it myself. Thanks, --dferg ☎ talk 14:57, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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