User talk:Onizuka-gto

Hi Onizuka-gto.

I've been trying to raise a suggestion regarding the English translation of Volume 4 but since the "system" never recognised any change log if all I simply edited was the comment in the summary box at the bottom, my suggestion never went through.

Anyhow, the title of volume 4 currently stands as the The Vanishing of Suzumiya Haruhi and the first thing that has always come to my mind in the past is that it just doesn't read well. To check out the translation of the Japanese word, I looked up 消失 (which is pronounced something along the lines of "shiyoushitsu" I think) and what it accurately translates to is 'disappearance". This translation of the kanji is ideal as not only it is accurate (disappear is synonymous with vanish) and the substitution of "vanishing" with "disappearance" is grammatically correct.

Hence I would suggest the title of Volume 4 be changed to: The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi.

Regards,

--Da~Mike 22:32, 6 May 2006 (GMT)

Hi again.

I've read your message. Oh and thanks for the advice. So yes, I shall proceed to raise this point in the format/style guideline tomorrow.

Cheers.

--Da~Mike 05:15, 7 May 2006 (GMT) [why the heck am I still awake?...]

New Images

Yeah, these images are definitely from the novels. Personally, I'd like to see someone come up with a better scan of volume 8.

-- velocity7, 8 May 2006, 12:13 EDT

New editor?

I just sent you a reply in a PM on the forums. Sorry about the surpise! Anyway, time for me to watch Ep 9 (and actually understand the dialogue)!

--BlckKnght 15:45, 30 May 2006 (PDT)

Regarding recent IP

The original Japanese word is "バッタ(batta)", so "grasshopper" or "locust" is correct. Because "locust" is confused with "cicada" in USA, I think "grasshopper" is appropriate.

So was his comment. I also think the erasure was a mistake?

velocity7, Jul 17 2006 18:52 EDT

Should you take back the Yellow then?

velocity7, Jul 18 2006 12:37 EDT

I just realized... there is a good possibility that they intended the edit but something screwed up their connection and they lost it for 18 seconds, and the wiki database might have accidentally picked up the incomplete send or something? During that time, the person might have changed IPs (dynamic IP).

velocity7, Jul 19 2006 19:07 EDT

Yellow?

You forgot about 64.93.73.62. Anyways, if you're not around am I able to issue Yellows?

velocity7, Jul 20 2006 13:33 EDT

IP spamming : a solution

Hello there

well, sorry to read you hate cats :)

Down to the point, I've seen quite more and more spam by bots theses last few weeks, so I think you'll be interested in this ; Well, I'm not too sure you're the one having server access, so if I'm wrong please forward to the right person.

The mediawiki spamBlackList extension prevents any save containing known spam adresses. All explanations about installing it should be on there.

I also suggest using the current wikimedia spam list here for starting, since that should cover most spams.

DarkoNeko talk 11:08, 24 July 2006 (PDT)

meow =_=

seeing that the extension has been installed, I did some minor edits to simplify it (a few more badwords, less url) some hours ago, but it seems to has gone mad -- filter blocking edit on the spamlist page itself, and blocking badwords even outside url on the wiki... (althought, I'm not sure whereas it was already doing that before my edit or not)

I tried to blank the page so I could restore the original list afterward, but... it's still bocking at saving : internal list seems not to have been refreshed with the page content, althought in should do so 10/15 minutes, and it's been almost hald an hour now.

So, well, sorry for the mess ; I don't know exactly what kind of bug is currently happening

Could you please try to restore the old version ([1]) to see if it correct the problem ? If that don't work, someone on IRC/#wikimedia-tech also suggested to delete completly the page and restore it a few moment later with the right version.

I'll continue asking on the mediawiki tech chan for now, hopefully someone will wake up andknow exactly what the problem is :)

DarkoNeko talk 04:21, 30 July 2006 (PDT)

I somehow managed to restore it ^^, I just had to remove a few word so it accept saving the pageagain (s.tikipad, p.hentermine, a.dipex -- still active so I can't type them directly right now)

I'll do some more tests to try to re-add them again (when the setting are auto-refreshed from the page) and not break anything ^^;

DarkoNeko talk 06:05, 30 July 2006 (PDT)

Hmmm, it seems that the changes made in the page are never refreshed to the actual script list (at least, even after 5 days)... I wonder why ^^;

DarkoNeko talk 04:07, 4 August 2006 (PDT)

You can ban User:Testuser's IP as well. Browse through his edits, compare them to the spam added afterwards, make your decision. Though that is not going to be a great help most likely. Earwin(talk)

wiki, ZnT

Meow :)

about the ZnT editorial team, it's unlikely : english is not my native language (I'm french), so apart from a few typo I can't correct anything :/ But once it's moved on wiki, I think I can do most maintenance related things (navigation bar, etc.)

I'm not sure it's possible to read-protect mediaWiki pages (more if it's only some pages and not all pages), but I'll search about it and come back to you in a few moments/hours, hopefully with an answer :)

DarkoNeko talk 09:08, 12 August 2006 (PDT)

Well actually, when I say I'm experimented of wikis, it's from an "user" point of view : I'm sysop/bureaucrat on the french wikipedia, but I've never installed a wiki myself :)

I'm not sure what the last guardian tried, but I found that :

Well, preventing access for every page of wiki is not the goal so the "simple" access right by group won't do... but if you create Custom namespaces (the namespace is what's before the ":", like in "User talk:Onizuka-gto"), you can affect special permissions to each namespace independantly.

In our case, the namespace Zero_no_tsukaima: (and Zero_no_tsukaima talk:) could be created for this project, with "no permission for anything" by default , the people participing in it would be added to the special project group, and only that group would have access to the page.

I've no local wiki to test it myself, but apart from the installation, the settings should be something like :

//creation of the 2 custom namespaces
//the first custom namespace start at 100 on every wikipedia, there must be a good reason so please do the same :)
$wgExtraNamespaces = array( 100 => "Zero_no_tsukaima:", 101 => "Zero_no_tsukaima_talk:");

//if the permissions are "false" by default, don't mind theses following lines
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['ns100_read'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['ns100_edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['ns100_create'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['ns100_move'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['ns100_read'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['ns100_edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['ns100_create'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['ns100_move'] = false;

At least, according to the help pages

and the ZeroProject user should be added to the "NamespacePermissions Extension"-created "nsZero_no_tsukaimaRW" and "nsZero_no_tsukaima_talkRW" groups

Voila, hope I helped :)

DarkoNeko talk 10:52, 12 August 2006 (PDT)

hmmm²

after further search, I found http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#Setting_permissions_for_a_Group_on_a_whole_new_Namespace that should explain things better than I did ^^;

DarkoNeko talk 11:01, 12 August 2006 (PDT)

I guess it won't hurt to warn about this : don't create zero_no_tsukaima:smth (or other futures custom namespaces) page before the namespace is software-ly created, or it may cause problems

For that extension, the pages indicated "1.5 or higher" so there should be no problems... I hope ^^;

About the communist thing, I don't really agree : it IS implemented that you can prevent non-identified people from reading a wiki... the problem that is, basically, it's either for all pages or none. But well, maybe the "access-by-namespace" feature we're needing will be fully integrated in the 1.8 version, we can hope :).

DarkoNeko talk 15:55, 12 August 2006 (PDT)

Er..."Software-ly" created? : about this, I meant creating it forehand with the administration thing (I read it can be added directly here with the 1.7 version), so it appears in the namespace list here. The main problem to add pages with a "fake namespace" before the creation, is it'll be counted as being in the "main" namespace instead of the real one (like Zero no Tsukaima:teaser is currently) -- well maybe there are other problemes, but I never heard about them :)

I don't really like the idea of putting an email on a public wiki (spam bot collecting adresses and all), mail send doesn't work on this wiki >_<

DarkoNeko talk 04:14, 13 August 2006 (PDT)

Navigation template

Meow :)

First, I had some problem with my mails, you could you please confirm wether you received the one I sent you a few days ago ?

to the main topic, I'm working on a template to replace the current "navigation bar" code at the bottom of each chapter.

(here was some code)

There is one little flaw : the parameter is the same for the adress and for the display (that's explains why "Chapter1" is displayed instead of "Chapter 1")

We can either rename the pages so there is a space, or add 2 separate parameters for the display (which IMO, complicate it quite a bit compared to the simplicity the template is supposed to offer)

Which one would you (or big boss) prefer ?

DarkoNeko talk 13:50, 15 August 2006 (PDT)

NB: please note that I won't have access to internet starting friday evening until the end of august

Nav-same

Meow :)

About the template, this diff comment gave me the idea, and also, I saw an (aborted) attempt of doing so in the templates pages

The 2 box are the same, it's on purpose :) The advantage of having a template, well, it's just taht the day you wants to change the navigation appareance, you just change the template and not all the page... but appart from that, you're right about the fact it doesn't hold much interest (plus there is not that many pages to change)

About the search bar, the one currently appearing is broken : I suppose theLastGuardian changed the link directly in the code or something (but Special:Search is still available if typed directly).

Also, I wondered for some times why the spamlist didn't update, but I surprisedly had an edit blocked yesterday because the page contained "display:none;".. I didn't quite understand ^^; could you please ask him about this ? (you'll need that code to make the search bar disappear anyway)

DarkoNeko talk 16:05, 16 August 2006 (PDT)

Fixed

You have to add your account to the nszeroNTRW group.

Anyway I added you for you now. It should work now.

--Thelastguardian 21:57, 16 August 2006 (PDT)

Zero no tsukaima

I happend to have the 8 volumes of the novel scanned (found hazardously on the net, I thought it was the manga <_<), including the illustrations.

May that be of any use ?

DarkoNeko talk 08:25, 2 September 2006 (PDT)

editor

Thanks for your trust ^^ I'll put these new "tools" at good use.

DarkoNeko talk 18:00, 19 November 2006 (PST)

Hello

Since we're beginning to have vandalism issue, I was wondering if I could be given the block and protect rights too, in order to counter it... no later than yesterday, I was reverting on Suzumiya Haruhi:Timeline‎ but could not do anything to stop the vandal, that's very frustrating :/ and nobody on the IRC chan that was awake at that late hour could help me on that either (well actuelly, only bakafish was awake ^^;)

DarkoNeko talk 20:25, 11 December 2006 (PST)

Bracket Comments

Er Oni, just read your message, but isn't it supposed to be for BaKaFiSh? I've never used brackets before O.o And I didn't do chapter 2 @.@

--HolyCow 02:17, 12 January 2007 (PST)

Clannad CSS

Hey Onizuka-GTO,

Darkoneko's given the okay for the CSS, looks good. Could you load it into the Monobook.css? Thanks.

P.S. The amount of definitions made has substantially reduced.

--velocity7, 29 January 2007 12:06 PM EST

Kara no Kyoukai

Can Kara no kyoukai be included in the list of current projects? Its currently not linked from the main page or anywhere, making it impossible to get to the project page unless one is given a direct link or knows what to search for. -- Question