User talk:JoeyDay

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Contents 1 Advise for a new wiki! 2 GrapeNuts project 3 Signature 4 Shipping Time 5 I found a troll! 6 Bannination 7 GrapeNuts source code 8 Unbanned please 9 Wiki Day! 10 IRC Topic 11 Wikipedia article about HRWiki

Advise for a new wiki!

Hey there! Me and a couple of my friends started a wiki for our club. I'm the new admin there and would like to ask you if you have any advise to give about starting to make a wiki. What to post on the main page, who should I appoint to dmin with me? Are there any "insiders tips" for running a wiki more smothly? (i.e.: reducing file size ect.) We run on MediaWiki, on Hebrew language, but all the coding is the same. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 09:21, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

E.L., sure, I'd love to help you with a new wiki. Can you contact me over instant messenger sometime? My contact information is available from my forum profile. Thanks. — Joey (talk·edits) 18:53, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Add'D! (dead..) — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 19:04, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

GrapeNuts project

I have a new GrapeNuts project. The punctuation should be bold in the following text:

'''Debut''': → '''Debut:'''

Another question: Should we post new projects here, or on User_talk:GrapeNuts, or where? — It's dot com 22:50, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I can't think of any context in which the colon should be outside the triple single quotes (or are you just picking an example?) --Jay (Gobble) 23:03, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

There was a gnome who came through and replaced "whatever toon (debut)" with "Debut: whatever toon". Unfortunately, as shown there, he put the colon outside the bold. I fixed the first one I saw, but then I found another... and another. I did a search, and realized that there are a whole bunch. As for whether we should never have the colon unbolded, I think it looks okay on Glossary, especially because some of the entries have punctuation as part of the word (see FLOOR TOMMED!), but in general you're right; they should be bold. — It's dot com 00:03, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Sorry this has taken me so long to respond to. I'm usually not online much during the weekend. I'll sic GrapeNuts on this right away. — Joey (talk·edits) 18:53, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Hm, GrapeNuts seems unable to process that request. The problem is I have no good way of telling him the subset of pages he should work on. If I try to tell him to work on the whole wiki he gives me the following error: "AttributeError: MediaWikiXmlHandler instance has no attribute 'id'." Whatever that means. Apparently in version 1.5 I'll be able to pull an XML file of the database that should improve GrapeNuts' ability to handle tasks like this, but for now we may have to do this by hand. — Joey (talk·edits) 19:05, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

When GrapeNuts is up and running again, so to speak, could you have it fix my sig? — User:ACupOfCoffee@

Signature

Hi JoeyDay. Is it alright if I could put your signature on my userpage to link to yours? Homestramy20|^Talk 23:58, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, that's fine with me, Homestramy20, but could you remove the part about me being God? I feel the same way about you calling me "God" as you do about Bobo the King using the "D" word. Thanks. — Joey (talk·edits) 18:53, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Okay, complete apology. I didn't know you felt that way. Anyways, thanks. Homestramy20|^Talk 22:04, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Shipping Time

Hey, Joey. I just ordered some stuff from the Homestar site. I just wanted to know how fast your stuff took to come. I am very exited about getting Strongbad_email.exe, but I don't want it to take 6-8 weeks. I mean, is Canada really that far away? But i'm rambling. Thanks, TotalSpaceshipGirl3

I don't remember, but I know it wasn't 6–8 weeks. I'd guess about a week. Congratulations on your purchase. I've been drooling over the DVDs for a while now. — Joey (talk·edits) 15:53, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. Are you from Canada? TotalSpaceshipGirl3

Nope, I'm from Salt Lake City, Utah. — Joey (talk·edits) 17:53, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I am from Canada. So I guess it'll take longer than yours did. Oh well. TotalSpaceshipGirl3

I found a troll!

66.82.9.39 is the IP address. It was a troll in the fanstuff wiki. Battle of Homestar High. DonZabu

Bannination

I really need to be unbanned from #hrwiki. I don't even know what I did to get banned...did I annoy Tom? --Homsar

GrapeNuts source code

Hi Joey, would you be interested in releasing the GrapeNuts source code? I've been coding in Java far too much lately, I might be interested in a Python-type-diversion. :) Homestar Coder 19:20, 5 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Homestar Coder: As is already noted on GrapeNuts' user page, GrapeNuts is an instance of the Python Wikipediabot Framework. I haven't made any modifications, and there are instructions on that page for downloading and using your own instance of the framework. Have fun! — Joey (talk·edits) 19:23, 5 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I thought maybe you had attempted modifications. It sounds like the code itself might need some tweaking to work on HRWiki, so I could look into it... Homestar Coder 20:29, 5 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Me too! --Stux 19:14, 7 Oct 2005 (UTC) (I have an instance of HRWiki running in my computer, and I am interested in it. If I can help solve the problems you guys are encountering, that would be awesome! Is there a page that specifically delineates the problems you are having?)

The biggest problem we're having is the Pywikipedia bot can't read any of our pages that start with lower case letters. We're kindof a special wiki in that we have the $wgCapitalLinks variable set to 'false' in our LocalSettings.php file. Other than that, it also seems to be having trouble getting lists of pages by category or by namespace. MediaWiki 1.5 has xml dumps, which should give Pywikipediabot much more useful information about our wiki and help it find pages better. — Joey (talk·edits) 22:29, 7 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Unbanned please

Can I please be unbanned from the Chat Channle? H * R 7 0 0

What's your IRC username, please? — Joey (talk·edits) 22:25, 7 Oct 2005 (UTC)

H. H * R 7 0 0

Just the letter "H"? What did you do to get banned from the channel? Are you sure you're banned, or are you just getting errors when you try to connect? — Joey (talk·edits) 23:08, 7 Oct 2005 (UTC)

It says "Blocked by Zone Labs Security". I don't know what I did. I just left, and I was blocked! H * R 7 0 0

We didn't block you; Zone Labs is simply your firewall, my friend. You should be able to find a little Z down in the bottom right corner of your screen, right-click it, and choose "Disable". You probably shouldn't leave it disabled all the time. Maybe there's a setting in there where you can add us to some kind of allow list. Have your mom or dad look at it for you; they might be able to figure it out. Or contact me over instant messenger (my contact info is on my forum profile). I work in tech support and might be able to help you fix it. — Joey (talk·edits) 23:18, 7 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Aw, man. I didn't realize my fire wall was ZL. I see it. Thank, for the info. H * R 7 0 0

No problem. Let me know if you still can't get in after disabling Zone Alarm. — Joey (talk·edits) 00:01, 8 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Day!

Happy Happy wiki day!! Wow, your wiki is two years old. Awsome! — _talk Bubsty _edits 01:32, 8 Oct 2005 (UTC)

IRC Topic

Joey, how do you make ChanServ change the topic of a chat without having to OP to do it? — Lapper (talk) 20:27, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

You'd want to use the /msg ChanServ SET <channel> TOPICLOCK OFF command, which would then allow non-ops to change to topic. For more help with ChanServ, try /msg ChanServ HELP. -- Tom 20:53, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I talked with Lapper in the chat room today. His problem had more to do with his channel being +t. He wanted to keep TOPICLOCK on, but didn't want to op himself every time he needed to change the topic. +t keeps non-ops from changing the topic, TOPICLOCK keeps those without a certain access level from changing the topic, regardless of whether they are opped or not. — Joey (talk·edits) 22:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia article about HRWiki

Me and a few other users are setting up a Wikipedia article about the HRWiki. (Here's the talk page for it.) Just thought I'd let you know. - Kookykman(t)(c)(r)