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, 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)