Wikiversity:Request custodian action/Archive/2

Request for dynamic page list
A very useful feature on Wikinews is the ability to create dynamic page lists. This allows the re-organisation and multiple display of content with out effecting the original pages. This would be very useful in creating a dynamic Colloquium, talk pages, course structures, blogs and other tools where content needs to be displayed in different ways. This extension can be added to any mediawiki please could it be added to Wikiversity. Mystictim 14:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd support this, but we'd need a semi-formal "local show of support" because this involves making a bugzilla request. --SB_Johnny | talk 15:48, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with both of you. --Remi0o 21:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This feature could be very useful, I'd support it also. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 01:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. We may use it also as threaded discussion channels in Hillgentleman|Talk 08:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. I like generating dynamic content with MediaWiki ... How does it work? Help:Dynamic page list tips? tricks? -- CQ 16:44, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Submitted 10189. AmiDaniel (talk) 15:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Request has been reviewed and fulfilled. DPL should now be enabled (the same version Wikibooks has). AmiDaniel (talk) 23:26, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Yup, it seems to be working :) --SB_Johnny | talk 23:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki?
Why this doesn't work? I want to conect my user page in here with my user page on es. Anyway maybe also other pages in the future.--Juan 15:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe m:Help:Interwiki linking will help you. --JWSchmidt 16:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I still don't know. Maybe there is a problem with namespace, because if trying to contect these to pages: User:Juan and es:Usuario:Juan it links to the article es:Juan, but not to the User name space, Usuario respectively. I think its kind of technicle bug.--Juan 16:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. Now I know why it won't work. Its written in here News. Hopefully it will start to work early.--Juan 18:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Writing  on your English user page and   on your Spanish one should work. sebmol ? 18:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.--Juan 19:12, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Userpage
My userpage over the last month or so has been the target for heavy abusive Ip vandalism and vandal only accounts, is there any chance it can be semi-protected? Student Galaxy 19:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ sebmol ? 07:11, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

vandalism
There are a number of pages that have been vanadlised by User:Drini I fixed Main Page but I have a slow wireless connection that is acting up... and there are more.--mikeu 22:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for posting the problem here. --JWSchmidt 23:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Just a note: Drini is a steward, and this was an impersonator, I informed Drini of this in mid February, and he has reclaimed the account. --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 08:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

More vandalism
User 71.1.72.189 has vandalised PedaGlue I've restored this to the last good edit. Could someone block this IP. Mystictim 12:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reverting those three edits. --JWSchmidt 13:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Block
81.105.252.186 has been vandalising Topic:Spanish (diff). Xenon 15:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Also Fashion Design by 218.111.214.14 is a straight lift from Clothing on Wikipedia.


 * Thanks. Each of these IPs has made a single edit. There is not much we can do except revert those edits. --JWSchmidt 16:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

*.png visibility
Hi, I have just upload a *.png picture at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Image:Language_tree.png and I cant see it. Is it visible for you? What is the problem?--Juan 10:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I downloaded the file. The file generates an error when applications such as Photoshop try to open it. Try saving the file again and then upload it again. --JWSchmidt 14:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.--Juan 16:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandal
Please someone ban the vandal. --Remi 20:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Template bug
Hi, I am having a bug in Template:A-3-3 as you can see it in the third box on the left: Topic:Spanish. I can find it out, could you help?--Juan 16:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Ive just fix it.--Juan 13:58, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Nav
Why nav template sometimes works automaticly with a character / and sometimes not? See an example:
 * Nav Template should be used
 * no template needed in this case

--Juan 16:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't quite understand what you mean. Can you try explaining it again? sebmol ? 19:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well! I mean, that if in the first example I will not add in nav template. I will have no link from this subpage to the last page (a main page). --Juan 20:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think sub pages have not been enabled for the Topic namespace. Let me check on that. sebmol ? 21:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed. sebmol ? 21:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.--Juan 06:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Widespread vandalism
User:3rd sock of Molag bal is on a spree of vandalism. Request block. Blast 10.04.07 1257 (UTC)
 * It may be usefull to block his IP, if its not public.--Juan 16:55, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

This seems to be the same kid who has been doing this for a week under different names. Check all the roll backs for the last week. They should all be the same IP, etc. Robert Elliott 19:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Is this ok?
Is this ok, what someone placed on top: Spanish: An Introduction? An external link.--Juan 18:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I removed it. --JWSchmidt 19:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I wasnt sure, if it is correct or not. Thats why I asked. Its a reallly hard work to make a wikipedia content and people who want learn here something should be pissed off.--Juan 19:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Another vandalism spree
Zzuuzz has been on a string of vandalism, replacing pages with 'I like penis'. Blast 26.04.07 1243 (UTC)

(merging with above section after simultaneous posting of report)

Please see contribs of.

Note that he is the sole contributor to User:Zzuuzz and User:Reawhite; those pages can be safely deleted. TenOfAllTrades 12:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reverting the vandalism. --JWSchmidt 14:01, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Requesting deletion
I have two questions: one specific and one general.

The specific question–can someone delete Scarpine? It's just some nonsensical user test.

The general question–is there any way to tag a vandalism/user test page for speedy deletion, or is a request on this page the only (or preferred) method of dealing with these cases?

Cheers, TenOfAllTrades 19:06, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * This page Pages_for_deletion now exists. You can list them there. Please note that the Deletion_policy is only proposed...


 * However, if consensus is reached, I don't see why a page nominated for deletion could not be deleted. --Remi 19:52, 28 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Please see Requests for Deletion instead of the above link. Cormaggio talk 20:09, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. :) --Remi 20:24, 28 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, Delete was what I was looking for&mdash;I didn't know if Wikiversity had yet evolved a CAT:CSD and associated template to deal with clearcut nonsense/vandalism/attack pages. TenOfAllTrades 01:58, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Merge Revision History
15 PM Project Preparation/15 PM - Project Preparation

Or delete one of this pages.

-- MichaelFrey 06:45, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * As a note to the admin handling this, we are required to preserve the histories of pages through performing history merges in order to remain in compliance with the GFDL. We can't simply delete one of the pages, although that is clearly easier to do :). AmiDaniel (talk) 10:42, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Which page is the target?--SB_Johnny | talk 12:44, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 15 PM Project Preparation had no links to it. It now redirects to 15 PM - Project Preparation. --JWSchmidt 13:07, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ Histories merged, now at 15 PM - Project Preparation.--SB_Johnny | talk 10:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Similar for Wikiversity in the media/Wikiversity in the media. -- MichaelFrey 17:26, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Again, what is the target?--SB_Johnny | talk 10:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure how to merge these pages together...none of the edits look related at all - looks more like 2 independently developed pages. Suggestions? --HappyCamper 17:47, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Okey ....
 * That this community keep all "content" and all pages is interresting.
 * On de.wikibooks and de.wikiversity we use the deletion button in state of categories like Category:Stub pages and Category:Empty pages.
 * But anyway: Other wiki other culture.
 * -- MichaelFrey 09:59, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * HappyCamper: you do it by moving the page to be deleted to the target page (selecting "delete then move"), then restore all deleted versions, and finally restore whatever version was on the page before the deletion took place (I usually just open the edit window in another window first, then copy, paste, and save after the restoration). --SB_Johnny | talk 10:24, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * OK. But for unrelated pages? Then the page history would be confusing...would it not? --HappyCamper 14:08, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, it depends on what you mean by "unrelated". In both of these cases, there were various users working on the same thing on 2 different pages, so it's not a case of working cross purposes, just a case of being unaware of the duplication of efforts. The histories can be a bit confusing if you actually try to go through them, but the point is more to just make sure everyone gets "credit" for their work. Doing this sort of merge has the additional advantage of putting the target page on the watchlists of the contributors of both versions (assuming they were watching in the first place), and hence helps encourage further collaboration. --SB_Johnny | talk 17:43, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Missing image

 * As McCormack suggested, I tried the upload a second time and received a message saying the upload was successful. However, when I try to view the image, I see a square box with the x in the upper left corner.Calgea 22:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * How's this? [[Image:PEPnd.png|150px|thumb|Pendulum]] --HappyCamper 22:45, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Happy Camper
 * I see you found my image file. Do you see an image of a pendulum? All I see is a rectangle with an x in the upper left corner. Is there something wrong with my file? Calgea 00:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I can see the image, but I think there is something very peculiar about it. It doesn't want to be resized on Wikiversity. I don't know what the error is...I'll have to ask around. Is it possible that there are some settings in your browser which are preventing you from loading images on Wikiversity? --HappyCamper 02:16, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I think the file for Image:PEPnd.png was not a standard format PNG file. There is a working copy of the image in Image:PEPnd2.png (image to the left).

Hi Happy Camper

Thanks for your help. Please tell me how to delete my original image. I will refer to the second copy in my article. I will not post .png images in the future. I will use jpeg. Calgea 16:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, JWSchmidt should take the credit for fixing the problem! I'll delete the old one for you right now, so you should be all set. --HappyCamper 01:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)



MediaWiki:Geshi.css
This is a new stylesheet recently added that hooks before the style sheets loaded by the GeSHI syntax highlighting and should be used to help clean up the angry fruit-salad a bit. If someone would be so kind as to create it on enwikiversity, possibly using the current contents of w:MediaWiki:Geshi.css, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:54, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * So in a nutshell, this highlights code snippets on Wikiversity with pretty colours? --HappyCamper 05:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it makes those highlighted by less atrocious :). See 9951. AmiDaniel (talk) 00:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, agreed :) I created the page. Thanks for bringing this up. --HappyCamper 03:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:15, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Learning to learn a wiki way

 * Please Semi-protect; For it is a target of a persistent ip blanker.  Hillgentleman|Talk 23:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I put it to expire after a month. HTH. --HappyCamper 23:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Candidate endorsements
Per Board_elections/2007/Endorsements, board election candidate endorsements are no longer being accepted. If the call for endorsements could be removed from MediaWiki:Sitenotice, it would be much appreciated. Thank you. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:20, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, we're not accepting candidates anymore either :). If you could just blank the sitenotice for now, and update it again once voting begins. Thanks! AmiDaniel (talk) 02:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * JWSchmidt has made some changes: --HappyCamper 03:48, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

vandalism
Please see Special:Contributions/El_Hermanito who has vandalised a number of pages.--mikeu 11:46, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Unauthorized Redirect
Thought 5501.02 has been Redirected to Cognition. This Redirection was Unilateral and unauthorized by any Consensus. The Page was intended to be a Second Section of Thought 5501. Could the Redirection please be undone. Thank you in advance for your assistance. -- (s) Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-07-23 (July 23, 2007) Time: 1904 UTC

Request Remove One (1) Pernicious Request for Deletion
On August 9, 2007 a Deletion Request was placed against the Page "Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi". The Reason given for the Request was that the Article "may be outside the scope of Wikiversity, being an encyclopedia article and adding nothing of educational value to the equivalent article already on Wikipedia."

The Initiator of the Page indicated his willingness to make the Page a Wikiversity Resource and did so.

Accordingly, the Undersigned asked that the Deletion Request be Removed and those involved with the Page should be accorded the opportunity to develop the the Resource as they are able and that absent some New Objection, the Deletion Request should be Removed.

The Undersigned indicated that he would Remove the Request himself, except that as a General Rule those who place such Requests should be the ones to Remove them; and the Undersigned further indicated that should the Deletion Request not be Removed, "Perhaps Administration should become involved.", the Undersigned slowly but surely becoming convinced that Deletionism can be a problem and The Decoration of Pages with unwarranted Header Templates possibly being an obvious Distraction.

The Undersigned further expressed the view that those who place Deletion Requests should follow the Arguments and be quick to Remove their Requests if the Reasons for the Requests no longer Apply and, again, that absent some New Objection, this particular Deletion Request should be Removed.

That Message was placed on the Deletion Requests Page on August 17, 2007; but the Deletion Request still "Decorates" the "Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi" Page.

The Undersigned requests Custodian Action to Remove the Deletion Request. Although it is not possible for Consensus that this Page should be Deleted to be accomplished, the Offensive Request remains in spite of the Request that the Deletion Request be Removed.

(s) Dionysios  (talk), Date: 2007-08-20 (August 20, 2007) Time: 1454 UTC


 * Please see my comments on the colloquium, where you posted similar comments earlier. McCormack 15:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * As indicated above, there is Progress on this Matter at the Wikiversity Colloquium. Advocates of the Page will need to Engage with the Views of McCormack.  If the Custodians will keep a close watch on this, perhaps an early Removal of the Deletion Request will be accomplished.  --  Dionysios  (talk), Date: 2007-08-20 (August 20, 2007) Time: 1627 UTC

CU, sitenotice, weekend vandal activity
I hope there are no objections, but I've altered the sitenotice to announce the checkuser discussion currently happening on CfC. We're not really used to asking for this kind of input on Wikiversity due to the mentorship system, so I suspect most users don't pay much attention to CfC (which is generally a good thing IMO... RFA on other projects often resembles an ephisode of "Survivor"). In this case we need a minimum of 25 "votes", with at least 80% support for both candidates.

Not sure if it's a case of self-fulfilling prophecy, or just kids having fun upon their return to school, but we had a lot of vandalism over the weekend by someone who used multiple sockpuppets. That particular vandal (probably WoW) tends to use open proxies and then abandon them, so CU wouldn't help much, but it would definitely be a good idea if all custodians would remember to use the autoblock function when blocking serial-type vandals.

Keep in mind also that sockpuppet vandals tend to target sysops in the hopes of forcing us to spend time unproductively. It's entirely possible that we will see a spike in this activity during the discussion process, as well as for a while afterwards (presumably the latter is to test the mettle of the new CUs). On Wikibooks this spike was rather short-lived, once we learned not to discuss then on the administrator's noticeboard there (they really like the attention, it seems). --SB_Johnny | PA! 10:36, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with all of this. The timing of the activity following my comments about a drop in vandalism levels was conspicuous. As regards autoblock, I thought this was the default setting for blocking anyway? (Please confirm). McCormack 11:10, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * It is, but at least one of those accounts was not autoblocked. AB is only for 24 hours, and if it causes an issue within that time any affected user can use unblock to get any necessary attention. We can be a bit more accurate with CU, but for now we should really make sure to autoblock vandals of that ilk (doesn't always help, but it's better than nothing). --SB_Johnny | PA! 11:22, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, if I encounter such a v.nd.l.sm, will use it. BTW: how about substituting the bad V-word with something like: v.nd.l.sm (or any other?) Perhaps v.nd.ls then (in the future) will find less info about what we discuss about it, so they would not adapt about what we discuss. About announcement: German Wikiversity uses this option also very much.  Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!,  discussion ) 16:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)