[00:21:32] Ivy: that creates problems with storage of shadow banned users' edits and how to best process them. [00:21:47] Ivy: Perhaps keep them at bay (like deleted user's contributions, except they do not show error messages). [00:21:56] Ivy: But there will be many. [00:28:00] Many where? [01:04:25] Ivy, many at english wikipedia or any large wiki, and shadowbanned users may keep adding them on and on (unless a shadow ban is programmed to convert itself to a block after a week of their regular disruptive efforts). [01:05:25] Could have a page which lists shadowbanned users who are continuing to insert edits for N days, an admin reviews them and decides whether to keep the shadow ban or remove it or convert it to a block. [01:17:29] Sveta: Sounds like a lot of unnecessary complexity. [01:17:43] Either people should be editing or not. Making half-edits is silly. [01:17:52] Yes, I'm kind of wondering how that's implemented on other sites. :/ [01:53:23] shadow-banning is much easier on sites where each contribution is standalone. eg, on a forum you can say "if this author is a banned user, don't show this post (unless the current user is the author)" [01:54:13] it'd get silly quickly on a wiki (eg, if a shadow-banned user sees a revision he made, but no-one else does - what happens next time someone else edits that page?) [02:41:34] they probably do not bother to check [02:41:57] but yeah it is complex to shadowban one edit in isolation [07:08:51] When I write "wiki.org/wiki/hello?name=bob, I'd like the page to pick up the name param and say 'hello bob' (or whatever the template defined). [07:08:54] is that possible? [07:09:52] Theres probably extensions that do that [07:10:53] Depending on how implemented will probably break parser cache which would be a no-no from a wikimedia perspective [07:11:37] ok [09:21:26] Sveta: if you have access to GET params in templates, then it should be easy [09:22:00] or the request uri [09:44:43] harmaahylje: yes i would like to have access to get params or request url in a template [10:03:35] yeah, I guess the question is, are they available! [10:03:37] :P [10:04:23] Sveta: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlGetParameters [10:09:13] ooh ok [10:26:29] Anyone know in which table the following is stored in the db: Mediawiki:Helppage [14:00:54] Technical Advice IRC meeting starting in 2 hours in channel #wikimedia-tech, hosts: @addshore & @Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE) - all questions welcome, more infos: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting [15:10:20] Good morning my mediawikians!!!! [15:10:29] evening [15:11:07] technical advice meeting, just don't happen to have any questiosn right now [15:11:13] hard to time them like that!