[00:55:02] <GEOFBOT>	 ibjoe: #ifeq is from parserfunctions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
[00:55:50] <GEOFBOT>	 oh wait, that's already been said above
[00:55:55] <GEOFBOT>	 facepalm
[01:29:25] <dragon_master_7>	 Does anyone know of there is a way to get user rights on an abandoned wiki?
[01:29:42] <dragon_master_7>	 *if
[01:30:19] <andre__>	 what is "abandoned"?
[01:30:48] <dragon_master_7>	 No active admins for a few years
[01:33:28] <Betacommand>	 dragon_master_7: are there any active bureaucrats ?
[01:33:40] <dragon_master_7>	 No
[01:34:19] <dragon_master_7>	 Just vandals
[01:34:23] <MaxSem>	 wikimedia wiki or...?
[01:34:55] <dragon_master_7>	 This one
[01:34:59] <dragon_master_7>	 http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Main_Page
[01:35:40] <Betacommand>	 dragon_master_7: let me take a look
[01:36:36] <MaxSem>	 Nemo_bis, QueenOfFrance ^^^
[01:46:47] <QueenOfFrance>	 dragon_master_7: it's not that abandoned
[01:46:56] <QueenOfFrance>	 But I can give out rights as needed, sure
[01:47:45] <dragon_master_7>	 No admins have edited in a while, and how can you give out rights?
[01:48:19] <QueenOfFrance>	 {{done}}
[01:48:26] <dragon_master_7>	 ?
[01:48:47] <dragon_master_7>	 What am I missing?
[01:48:59] <QueenOfFrance>	 dragon_master_7: http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3ARider+ranger47&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=
[01:49:22] <dragon_master_7>	 I see, thank you
[01:49:33] <QueenOfFrance>	 I'm the "owner" of the wiki, but it was never my project, I merely provided hosting
[01:49:46] <QueenOfFrance>	 We tried updating it a couple of years ago, run into a lot of issues
[01:50:02] <QueenOfFrance>	 Needs to be moved to my main hosting server anyway, but it's am ess
[01:50:15] <dragon_master_7>	 Am ess?
[01:50:34] <dragon_master_7>	 What does that mean?
[01:51:19] <QueenOfFrance>	 *a mess
[01:51:21] <QueenOfFrance>	 Sorry
[01:51:28] <dragon_master_7>	 I see
[01:51:44] <dragon_master_7>	 How could I help clean it up?
[01:53:17] <legoktm>	 I think it would be a better use of time to move any remaining Pywikibot content onto mw.o
[01:53:23] <QueenOfFrance>	 ^
[01:53:43] <dragon_master_7>	 What is mw.o?
[01:53:53] <QueenOfFrance>	 mediawiki.org
[01:53:55] <legoktm>	 mediawiki.org
[01:54:02] <dragon_master_7>	 I see
[01:54:40] <QueenOfFrance>	 imo the wiki's content should be imported into mediawiki.org or metawiki, if there's any content suitable for there
[01:54:58] <dragon_master_7>	 I will look into it
[01:56:18] <legoktm>	 and the scripts should go into git
[01:56:38] <dragon_master_7>	 Not sure how to do that
[02:02:50] <dragon_master_7>	 Can you look through special: all pages and see of there is anything good in there
[02:03:04] <dragon_master_7>	 *if
[02:16:47] <QueenOfFrance>	 dragon_master_7: iirc, there's a few spam pages but most of is scripts
[02:16:51] <QueenOfFrance>	 but across many namespaces
[02:17:07] <dragon_master_7>	 I noticed
[02:17:53] <dragon_master_7>	 The hard part is sorting out the pre existing ones and broken ones
[02:22:17] <dragon_master_7>	 Do you think it would be a good idea if I messaged the py bot devoplers email loop and asked them of they would want to go thought the list?
[03:54:32] <WP_>	 I'd like to file a complaint about the RandomInCategory function, it's incredibly non-random :P
[03:54:44] <WP_>	 e.g. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/English_plurals pulls from a selection of 60 entries about 80% of the time, when it should be sampling from ~130k entries
[07:57:56] <Nemo_bis>	 Oh. I'm admin, who knew. http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Special:ListUsers/sysop
[08:05:15] <Nemo_bis>	 Ok, some abuse done
[12:52:04] <Gravis>	 how does wikipedia filter out spammers?  i've get a mediawiki that is just get popular enough to be found by spambots.
[12:52:11] <Gravis>	 getting*
[13:03:32] <Reedy>	 !spam | Gravis
[13:03:32] <wm-bot>	 Gravis: For information about combating and handling spam in MediaWiki, see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam> and <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features>.
[13:13:20] <Gravis>	 Reedy: you misunderstand, i'm wondering about wikipedia specifically because i know they dont have everything listed there.
[13:13:29] <Reedy>	 We do
[13:13:46] <Reedy>	 The "secret" spam protection stuff we had isn't there anymore
[13:14:31] <Reedy>	 And even then, they were for very specific spam types
[13:14:32] <Gravis>	 wait... wikipedia has CAPTCHA?
[13:14:37] <Reedy>	 in some cases
[13:15:06] <Gravis>	 huh... whoda thunk it.
[14:16:11] <irssii>	 hello, I try to create a template with an infinite number of parameters and be able to test on the number of parameter, is this possible?
[17:44:57] <Nemo_bis>	 GEOFBOT: did you think of doing https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5880895395332096 ?
[18:07:33] <GEOFBOT>	 Nemo_bis: idk, i'm not very good at writing :P
[18:07:44] <shmias>	 hallo
[18:12:41] <Nemo_bis>	 GEOFBOT: ok :) but it doesn't need to be a poem. ;-) For instance, if you happened to know a place which students of your school/city/whatever tend to visit, you could write something in whatever style and language they use there
[18:13:39] <GEOFBOT>	 Nemo_bis: the other day the librarian at my school sent an email to the tech club about GCI
[18:13:39] <Nemo_bis>	 Just saying, in case you had in mind a "traditional" blog post, because we rather need the opposite ;)
[18:13:48] <GEOFBOT>	 but they left me out of the club :'( *cries in corner* :P
[18:13:49] <Nemo_bis>	 That's interesting
[18:13:55] <GEOFBOT>	 i dont think anyone did it
[18:13:55] <Nemo_bis>	 Ugh
[18:14:13] <Nemo_bis>	 What sort of club is this?
[18:14:28] <GEOFBOT>	 like they help the teachers fix their computers and stuff
[18:14:33] <GEOFBOT>	 and set up the software
[18:14:42] <GEOFBOT>	 they went to some kind of coding convention the other day 
[18:14:56] <GEOFBOT>	 but i don't think they're really into coding :P
[18:16:31] <Nemo_bis>	 GEOFBOT: helping teachers like that sounds more like a training in patience
[18:17:10] <GEOFBOT>	 :P
[18:17:31] <Nemo_bis>	 Ok... so your audience might be all the students in your city who were left out of the tech club of their school
[18:17:51] <GEOFBOT>	 lol
[18:17:54] <Nemo_bis>	 Title: RETRIBUTION
[18:18:14] <GEOFBOT>	 i'll think about it
[18:20:29] <GEOFBOT>	 Nemo_bis: I don't think the club overall left me out on purpose
[18:20:34] <GEOFBOT>	 but there is a certain high ranking member
[18:20:43] <GEOFBOT>	 who i think purposely did not inform me lol
[19:27:41] <dev_>	 How can I contribute to MediaWiki..??
[19:29:10] <dev_>	 Can anyone read this..??
[19:29:19] <Reedy>	 No
[19:33:08] <ibjoe>	 Can I limit my Table of Contents to only a limited set of "expected" headings ?
[19:49:39] <ibjoe>	 Can I limit my Table of Contents to only a limited set of "expected" headings ?
[19:52:29] <MaxSem>	 for example?
[19:54:42] <ibjoe>	 We have a set of headings "Get in, Get around, See, Do, Buy, Eat, Drink"  and we want to limit our content people to those items in the TOC ? Is that possible ?
[19:55:25] <ibjoe>	 They can enter other information, but it should not show in the TOC ?
[20:05:47] <CoreyChambers>	 So I'm getting an error when setting up CentralAuth and running "php migratePass1", anyone know what the problem is? Here's the error: http://pastebin.com/6Wy5wjqw
[20:16:15] <legoktm>	 you seem to be missing your user table.
[20:16:32] <legoktm>	 CoreyChambers: I'd recommend not using CentralAuth if you can avoid it.
[20:17:23] <CoreyChambers>	 My users table is there though. migratePass0 had no problems looking at it.
[20:17:34] <CoreyChambers>	 What would you suggest using instead?
[20:18:13] <CoreyChambers>	 I've considered sharing the user tables between the wikis, but the problem with that is I can't set global user rights.
[20:18:45] <legoktm>	 Have you tried using the g lobal user rights extension?
[20:18:55] <CoreyChambers>	 Which one? There's two IIRC
[20:18:59] <legoktm>	 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalUserrights
[20:19:47] <CoreyChambers>	 I've tried it but it kept messing up.
[20:20:16] <CoreyChambers>	 I'll try installing it again.
[20:26:43] <ibjoe>	 Can I examine the sections on a page and create my own __JTOC__ variable ? Different than the standard __TOC__ ?
[21:05:12] <poxip>	 m4tx:
[21:05:18] <poxip>	 howdy
[21:09:55] <m4tx>	 hi poxip
[21:09:56] <m4tx>	 good
[21:09:57] <m4tx>	 you?
[21:11:29] <poxip>	 me2
[21:11:34] <poxip>	 jk
[21:11:47] <ibjoe>	 Can I examine the sections on a page and create my own __JTOC__ variable ? Different than the standard __TOC__ ?
[21:15:47] <Krenair>	 ibjoe, well you can set up those sorts of variables
[21:16:03] <Krenair>	 not sure how well you could recreate __TOC__ as it's part of core
[21:16:10] <Krenair>	 this is parser stuff. maybe MatmaRex will know more?
[21:16:44] <MatmaRex>	 toc is like sausage, you don't want to know how it's made
[21:16:57] <MatmaRex>	 (i'm entirely serious)
[21:17:11] <poxip>	 lol ;D
[21:18:17] <MatmaRex>	 ibjoe: if you know the section names beforehand, you can just generate a box that looks like the built-in toc with a simple template - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Compact_ToC for example
[21:18:48] <MatmaRex>	 (and disable the default using __NOTOC__)