User talk:The Duke of Rockford/Logs

1 December 2011
I originally intended to use an automated process (bot) to maintain the "Items Crafted With" categories. A snag in that idea was the revelation that it has been taking the people working on the MediaWiki API over 2 years to implement the ability to query the Wanted * pages..... It was marked as a "Low Priority" and went through about 10 developers (ok slight exageration... 5-8...), but this supposedly useless addition to the API is thankfully scheduled for MediaWiki 1.18. I'm not sure how enthused Bumble will be to update to 1.18 after the issues with 1.17's update... I mean did they REALLY need to swith the  and   in the vector tabs? They just wanted to break every's custom skins... lol

What bothers me with the whole API update taking 2 years is that THE DATABASE QUERY ALREADY EXITS! Wikipedia runs this query every time someone accesses those pages (ok it might cache them but still...). Why does it take 2 years and several developers to copy something from index.pnp to api.php and adjust the output formatting to something SIMPLER? /rant -- Sigil Baram talk 03:23, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh wow. Well, I have pretty ample time to categorize lot of them so I didn't really mind it. Categorizing is sort of my specialty. :P But yeah an automated process/bot would be nice in that. So MediaWiki development went through like 5 to 8 developers in 2 years? Sounds like MediaWiki development has been getting bumpy alot lately, despite those latest updates. I can imagine why they screwed up with span and  tags in last update. I think it's about time they retain a couple of developers on long-term basis. :P --The Duke of Rockford 03:38, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Well it's an open source project. Retaining developers isn't really the issue. That developer count was specific to the block of code in question, not the whole project. If it was the whole project 5-10 people coming and going isn't anything spectacular. It was literally the one bug report/feature request was picked up and dropped multiple times... There are also other Special pages that are missing which would be equally useful in this situation: Uncategorized * was the one I was originally looking for. The captchas thing I mentioned was a wiki where I was trying to categorize their ~2k uncategorized images. Gave up when they ignored my request to have a bot account. There were even other users requesting someone make a bot to help work on various things. lol - Sigil Baram talk 04:00, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

2 December 2011
Argh there are german pages too?! For a while someone was adding Chinese pages... Some of those were really awkward/buggy to clean up. I think our software is using one of the database engine options that doesn't support the full asian character space of Unicode or something. I'd be happy to look at the german pages and any other non-english pages once I get past this mess of stuff for school. haha -- Sigil Baram talk 04:45, 3 December 2011 (UTC)