[13:36:52] <anomie>	 bpirkle: Would https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/480121 be something you'd be comfortable reviewing?
[15:15:45] <bpirkle>	 anomie: sure, looking now
[18:26:45] <James_F>	 anomie: addshore and I would very much appreciate your thoughts on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213453#4870498 if you have the time.
[18:43:36] <addshore>	 If noone thinks it looks too evil then I'll clean up the patches after I eat and we can backport James_F 
[18:44:43] <Reedy>	 Why are we backporting James_F?
[18:45:07] <James_F>	 Reedy: To unbreak AbuseFilter on Commons.
[18:45:16] <Reedy>	 How do you backport a James_F?
[18:45:22] <James_F>	 Carefully.
[19:43:50] <musikanimal>	 hi! does anyone know the origin of the ~~~~ syntax? could it be because some people's hand-written signatures resemble tilde-like scribbles?
[19:59:43] <Reedy>	 Not tried to find the commit that introduced them? :D
[20:02:20] <legoktm>	 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2002-March/000144.html
[20:03:22] <legoktm>	 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/228
[20:03:27] <legoktm>	 looks like ~~~ existed beforehand
[20:04:44] <Reedy>	 looks like linking to svn on phab is broken
[20:07:04] <Reedy>	 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/28
[20:07:11] <Reedy>	 Comment:	
[20:07:11] <Reedy>	 *** empty log message ***
[20:07:12] <Reedy>	 Thanks Magnus
[20:07:37] <Reedy>	 musikanimal: Guess you might need to look at stuff before phase3 :)
[20:09:34] <legoktm>	 usemod feature?
[20:10:10] <Reedy>	 It's possible
[20:11:24] <Reedy>	 The [[ came from there...
[20:12:10] <eprodromou>	 ha ha
[20:12:59] <Reedy>	 eprodromou: Or can we blame you for this feature? :P
[20:13:15] <eprodromou>	 Nope!
[20:13:31] <eprodromou>	 I think it's interesting though
[20:14:53] <eprodromou>	 I can't remember if UseMod had the four-tilde syntax or not
[20:14:59] <musikanimal>	 I went through http://www.usemod.com and couldn't find anything about how to add signatures
[20:17:49] <musikanimal>	 anyway I thought the hand-written signature scribbles was a fun theory
[20:18:32] <Reedy>	 Maybe poke Magnus to ask? :)
[20:18:46] <Reedy>	 https://twitter.com/MagnusManske
[20:18:54] <musikanimal>	 he's hard to get a hold of, but I think I might try
[20:19:25] <Reedy>	 Hence linking twitter... He's active on there
[20:19:34] <legoktm>	 or Wikidata.
[20:19:42] <eprodromou>	 UseMod.com doesn't document it and keeps timing out when I try to save a page
[20:19:51] <Reedy>	 it's not a bug it's a feature
[20:20:06] <Reedy>	 I was trying to find a vcs for the code, but only really found tarballs
[20:21:41] <eprodromou>	 https://github.com/mlude/usemod
[20:21:55] <eprodromou>	 It doesn't seem to support four-tilde signatures
[20:24:15] <eprodromou>	 Or 3-tilde signatures
[23:38:09] <musikanimal>	 confirmed! Magnus Manske said he introduced ~~~ and that it resembled his father's signature :D https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1083507467802365952