Billinghurst

This user participated in Wikimania 2014 held in London

Editing and imports

Currently involved in some of the preparatory works at Wikimania website with existing global rights. That includes replicating numbers of components that were used in previous Wikimania wikis. If you require imports of specific template:, module: or mediawiki: namespace pages, please leave a request below. Typically imports would primarily be taken from wm2018:, though it is possible to also readily import from earlier wikimania wikis, meta and enWP.

For specific suggestions for the wiki itself, they should be made at phab:T214888 where coordination of the site is currently taking place. Billinghurst (talk) 05:36, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

To do list

• Protect imported modules (generally would freshly import, note talk pages for customisation)—awaiting admin rights prior to proceeding
• Protect priority templates
• Finish migrating language messages for gadgets  Done
• design templates to generate message tables for respective "mediawiki talk:" messages  Done at least v.1
• landing pages for Special:ListGroupRights, mostly think that they will be redirects.  Done
• MediaWiki:Recentchangestext— mw messages for Newbies • Anonymous • Deleteme (0)
• Categorisation of templates
• Review categorisation used at previous WMs, and look to implement categorisation system locally, noting that when other are WMs merged that their categorisation will follow with them.
• Structure Wikimania: ns pages and introductory pages; and links from main ns. See user:billinghurst/Wikimania ns
• Wikimanias page to current and past. (ns:0)
• to mw_talk: pages, create a template that sits at the top that describes the context of the page being translated: sidebar link, sidebar description, gadget description (current uses).

Start some new translations

Hi，dear bureaucrat. Could you please start some new translations of pages like Travel guide and Hackathon? As an autoconfirmed user, I have edited the page Hackathon, but failed to wake up the translate extention. Or you can consider to gave me the right of translate administrator? --游魂 (talk) 19:31, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@游魂: I've added the Hackathon page, but note that I had to remove the manually added marker <!--T:1--> before doing I did so -- the software has to add those markers; if humans do it then that can confuse the software. :-)

I'm not going to mark the Travel Guide yet, because it is still undergoing extensive editing, and it's best to not mark pages too early (because that can waste the time of translators, and it makes editing pages more complicated in the original language. Once it seems to have stabilized, we can do so (just leave a note on the page's talkpage, if someone doesn't get around to it reasonably quickly).

Thanks for all your work on the other translations! Quiddity (talk) 23:47, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Visibility

Hello Billinghurst. I sincerely think the current way is not clear enough and actually confusing. Best regards --Yug (talk) 07:58, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

@Yug: I don't necessarily disagree with you. However, what you did duplicated the detail on the page, and this is the main page, and a translated page. So this should be discussed through the talk page, not simply implemented based on one person's thoughts alone.  — billinghurst sDrewth 05:31, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Mbox rendering

Is there something different on Wikimania wiki that is preventing Mboxes from rendering properly. Check Module:Message box. --QEDK (talk) 07:18, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

@QEDK: The module was imported from WM2018, though if you are not seeing it working then there will be some difference. Without knowing where you were editing and what you were expecting, all I can suggest is that the underlying style has some difference.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:07, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

I updated the contents to be latest, by enwiki standards and furthermore, also updated the dependency modules, unfortunately some elements aren't rendering at all. Does {{Mbox}} have a border and a box with a dark gray background for you? If yes, then it is a system-specific issue or else, it is a site-issue. --QEDK (talk) 13:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

I've reduced it to a site configuration issue, if I could have temporary sysop rights for this wiki, I could make some basic MediaWiki changes that should get basic templates working. --QEDK (talk) 13:39, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Import Histlegend

Thanks for importing MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer!

Please could you also do m:MediaWiki:Histlegend and m:MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon? I almost did it, but then remembered that interface-admin is needed to localize the links within after it's here. Cheers :-) Quiddity (talk) 07:01, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

@Quiddity: Imported, and updated, though all not functionat the targets. Time for a target review, and look at the same at meta.

Re editing, as they are not javascript or css pages, they should not need interface-admin rights, just need "editinterface" which is in admin.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:19, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

@Quiddity: and how about we look to get you local admin-interface rights. I have a dim recollection that you have some knowledge of interface, a basic level of earnt trust, and maybe some sort of competence. <huge grin>  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:24, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Blocked accounts

Can you add a new topic on User talk:BlondellJ43 saying: {{subst:uw-block|no time set}}? Thanks! Mr Beoy 22:12, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

When you add the template, there will already be a signature, so don’t sign it. --Mr Beoy 22:13, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

@Mr Beoy: No. This is not the wikipedias. I cannot see any need to label spambot pages.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:09, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Further, if I am blocking someone they will get personal treatment, and will well know what is going on without some sort of customised template. This is not Wikipedia, with few admins, and next to no problems.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:13, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Translations

Hi Billinghurst!

I noticed these translations from an IP address. I do not speak any of the languages, but to me, it seems more like spam than actual translations. Is it possible to mass revert / delete translations if that's the case, or would we have to manually go through all of them? Eric Luth (WMSE) (talk) 14:08, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

I removed them before seeing your message here, but it was just blatant vandalism, or few possible machine translations. Stryn (talk) 16:38, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Uzbek (Cyrillic) translation of the Main Page

Hi Billinghurst,

You created this translation but didn't translate anything in it. Why did you create it? If anyone ever creates an actual Uzbek translation, they can create it here and the script converter would be supported, so there is no need for a separate uz-cyrl translation. DraconicDark (talk) 15:36, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

@DraconicDark: That is not how it occurred. You are seeing an artefact of manipulation of work in Wikimania. Someone created translations for a part, and those parts were deleted by me. The system did the re-creations following the deletions. Yes, it is that crazy at times. I have (re)removed them now.  — billinghurst sDrewth 16:06, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Sorry for the misunderstanding. DraconicDark (talk) 17:13, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

@DraconicDark: not an issue. Trying to make sense of it is a challenge for all of us. Thanks for bringing it to my attention as it is resolved. While I have your attention, can I point you to Wikimania:Mediawiki pages with translations/uz as I reckon you can help me out with system messages. :-)  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:53, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

2006 import

Hi. I spotted the import of Wikimania 2006/Boston and was wondering if that shouldn't rather live in the 2006: namespace? I also noticed that some of the pages e.g. Wikimania 2006/Planning has a duplicate copy over at 2006:Wikimania 2006/Planning. /André Costa (WMSE) (talk) 07:39, 3 July 2019 (UTC)