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1 Spam users
2 To-do list
3 Embedded maps
4 More admins?
5 Edit page clarification
6 File:Drag-along2.png
7 Problems registering
8 Is it possible to change username?
9 Delete Photos and Pages
10 Names of Participants (if not users)
11 SiteNotice obsolete
12 Next deleting sessions
13 Thumbnail creation has stopped
14 HTTPS

Spam users

Please put all spam usernames/IPs here. Please do not create their userpage with the spam tag if it doesn't already exist. And please only add them if they have multiple edits -- most spam accounts are single use and never get touched again. --joannac 19:38, 21 November 2011 (EST)

Hodjiatchtuabbit has created spammy pages several times. --Fippe (talk) 04:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Spencxioneyles has created spammy pages several times. --Fippe (talk) 14:29, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

To-do list

~~update All Graticules with any stray pages~~ reletbot did this I assume?
~~Map NSW and Victoria~~
Tag images -- benjw's job!
~~Fix retro hashes~~ done
~~Clear out Category:Tagged_for_deletion~~ YAY!
~~Fix inconsistent Swedish grats (mainly around Stockholm)~~ -- ekorren's job! and he did it months ago.
Tag expedition pages properly (Coords reached, Coords not reached, meetup on ..., meetup in ..., retro, failed, etc)
Check all the day pages are well-formed
Does File:Boatless.PNG have the error message we were seeing on the history page? Jiml 00:57, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
~~as per irc discussion: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit --Crox 01:50, 13 October 2011 (EDT)~~

Embedded maps

I don't have IRC right now, but it seems the maps are broken again - eg. Berlin,_Germany does not show the Berlin graticule, and since it is >30W, it should always show some kind of geohash. The <30W templates also still show a blue square whenever the geohashes are not published yet. I know it's a code and a wiki thing, but maybe you can trigger whoever helped with the templates in the past. -- relet 08:21, 17 April 2012 (EDT) --

For the record, that was apparently caused by the template "dow" returning an empty string for 2012|04|16, as seen on User:Crox/Test. It was solved when Zigdon fixed the value returned for that day. --Crox 14:20, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

More admins?

Could I gently suggest asking if any of the well-regarded, trusted users would mind taking on admin privileges -- we've got over 50 items in the deletion category; it'd be nice to get that cleared out... I'm willing to volunteer, and have considerable experience being an admin at WP some years ago, but I don't know if I'm well known enough around here yet. JesseW 00:00, 17 May 2012 (EDT)

Edit page clarification

< Hijackal> joannac, please add the info that "by submitting, you agree that everything you post is GDFL" to the editing form <&joannac> Uh <&joannac> What's GDFL? < Hijackal> I think that does not become sufficiently clear by looking at the page right noe < Hijackal> Geohashing:Copyrights < Hijackal> Says some things. Which should be _absolutely_ made clear to _anyone_ clicking save ;)

File:Drag-along2.png

Thanks Joanna, I don't know how I ended up uploading a duplicate. Anyway, I've cleaned up the remaining links to the duplicate. --Jevanyn 11:00, 29 August 2012 (EDT)

Problems registering

Hi! Sorry, I'm new here so I'm not sure this is the right way to do this kind of thing. Someone at the IRC said you were the one to contact :-) The problem: My brother is trying to sign up for geohashing but gets the error

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

when he requests the confirmation code. It seems it's some kind of internal error with the wiki?? Hope you can help! Thanks very much!! User:lizwiz 25 March 2012

Working on it. --joannac 18:27, 25 March 2012 (EDT)

Fixed. --joannac 08:17, 26 March 2012 (EDT)

Is it possible to change username?

I am currently changing my username across internet - is it possible to do it also here? Bulwersator (talk) 15:30, 21 July 2014 (EDT)

Sure, let me know what you want it to change to, and I can do it. I'll be using the Renameuser extension; just check its effects are okay with you. --joannac (talk) 18:37, 21 July 2014 (EDT)

I would like to change it to mkoniecz. Bulwersator (talk) 17:33, 22 July 2014 (EDT)

Done. Sorry for the delay, I didn't get a notification that you answered :( --joannac (talk) 02:11, 5 August 2014 (EDT)

Delete Photos and Pages

Hello Joannac, you seem to know how to delete an own uploades photo or may be a wrong created page. Could you please write a short easy-to-understand instruction for me or send me a link to an instruction?
Thanks very much!! --Q-Owl (talk) 06:27, 16 October 2014 (EDT)

Mark it for deletion with {{delete}} and I'll eventually get to deleting it --joannac (talk) 06:59, 16 October 2014 (EDT)

Marking pages in the first line of the edited text?
Hmmm, but where could I mark a Photo?
--Q-Owl (talk) 09:42, 16 October 2014 (EDT)

You can mark pages anywhere; first line of text is possibly easiest. You can edit photos; that's where the caption is stored. See Category:Tagged_for_deletion for examples. --joannac (talk) 17:01, 16 October 2014 (EDT)

Thank you very much!!--Q-Owl (talk) 05:44, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

Names of Participants (if not users)

There exists a problem with participants' names, if the names contain special characters or spaces and the participants are not registered users.
Examples:
a) 2014-10-22_63_28 and 2014-10-22:
"Pastori's daughter" becomes "Pastori's"
b) 2014-10-05_48_7 and 2014-10-05:
"Q-Owla" becomes "q"
May be, you know someone at xkcd who could fix this bug?

Names are shown in full length, if one uses [[User:Pastori's|Pastori's]] or [[User:Q-Owla|Q-Owla]]. But this looks strange (and red).

Hey, I didn't see anything in the actual expedition pages (all the names show collrectly), but I saw it on the date pages e.g. 2014-10-22. Is that the same thing you saw? If so, I think it's an aperfectbot parsing problem (since that's the thing that generates those pages). --joannac (talk) 18:09, 22 October 2014 (EDT)

Greetings, I am the friendly bot maintainer! I am the guy responsible for the robot that maintains the expedition list pages, and will happily answer your question. I have looked into the issue, and it is one I've run into a whole lot in the past. It is very easy to programmatically parse out a user name from a user link, but much less so from a normal list of users. Because of this, I had restricted non user-link participants to a single word. The '-' character was not considered to be a part of a word, which is why that name was truncated after the Q.

So there's some good news here. After looking through the parser, I've figured out a way for the bot to handle multiple word participants. However, I still will be truncating after the '-' character. In the past (and maybe even still today) people would list themselves as a participant, and after that use a dash and write some comments. e.g.

APR - Met up after lunch
APR's friend - Came with APR

I will continue looking for a way to address that, but for now, unfortunately, that is going to remain. If you have any further questions or issues, please feel free to contact me directly on my user talk page. --aperfectring (talk) 21:18, 22 October 2014 (EDT)

SiteNotice obsolete

Thanks for putting up the Sitenotice! Since Zigdon's DJIA source works again, it can be removed now. --Calamus 13:53, 7 March 2015 (EST)

Cheers, I've removed it now. --joannac (talk) 21:05, 7 March 2015 (EST)

Next deleting sessions

There are a lot of items in Category:Tagged_for_deletion. When will someone really delete all these things? Does this happen eg. monthly?--Q-Owl (talk) 04:32, 4 November 2015 (EST)

I used to do it manually, but got lax about it. Will do a batch now. --joannac (talk) 21:47, 7 November 2015 (EST)

Thank you!--Q-Owl (talk) 10:18, 9 November 2015 (EST)

Thumbnail creation has stopped

Since May 9th 2016 thumbnail creation has stopped. Special:NewFiles demonstrates the problem nicely. Any chance or working some of your magic? Thanks. --Sourcerer (talk) 09:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Yea - working again. Was that you? Thanks anyway. --Sourcerer (talk) 00:26, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, that was me. I left you some messages in irc. It was a security issue http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/250519, and it took this long for the patch to be available in the stable packages. --joannac (talk) 00:47, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

HTTPS

Hi Joanna! There currently is a discussion about that this website should have an HTTPS certificate. It would be nice if you could install one, if you have the necessary rights. --Fippe (talk) 19:11, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Agreed!. Any site with a login should be on https these days. --Sourcerer (talk) 18:37, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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-==Admin function to Rename/Move a Category?==
+== Spam users ==
-Do you as an admin have the ability to change the name of a category without having to change it on every page?
+Please put all spam usernames/IPs here. Please '''do not''' create their userpage with the spam tag if it doesn't already exist. And please only add them if '''they have multiple edits''' -- most spam accounts are single use and never get touched again. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 19:38, 21 November 2011 (EST)
-See the discussion at [[Category_talk:Expedition_outcomes#"Failed" Should Be "Thwarted"]].
-==User to Block==
+*[[Special:Contributions/Hodjiatchtuabbit|Hodjiatchtuabbit]] has created spammy pages several times. --[[User:Fippe|Fippe]] ([[User talk:Fippe|talk]]) 04:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
-All requests up to date :) --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 20:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
+*[[Special:Contributions/Spencxioneyles|Spencxioneyles]] has created spammy pages several times. --[[User:Fippe|Fippe]] ([[User talk:Fippe|talk]]) 14:29, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
-:Please don't send me spammers to block unless they've hit >1 page. There are a few spam networks that keep changing IP addresses, and there's no need to ban an IP if it's never getting used for spam again. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 22:39, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
-.8.74.130 has hit [[Talk:T-shirts]] numerous times over the past couple of days. Thanks! --[[User:Meghan|Meghan]] 19:12, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 == To-do list ==
@@ Line 16: / Line 12: @@
 * Tag images -- [[User:benjw|benjw]]'s job!
 * <del>Fix retro hashes</del> done
-* Clear out Category:Tagged_for_deletion
+* <del>Clear out Category:Tagged_for_deletion</del> YAY!
 * <del>Fix inconsistent Swedish grats (mainly around Stockholm)</del> -- [[User:Ekorren|ekorren]]'s job! and he did it months ago.
 * Tag expedition pages properly (Coords reached, Coords not reached, meetup on ..., meetup in ..., retro, failed, etc)
 * Check all the day pages are well-formed
+* Does [[:File:Boatless.PNG]] have the error message we were seeing on the history page? [[User:Jiml|Jiml]] 00:57, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
+* <del>as per irc discussion: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit] --[[User:Crox|Crox]] 01:50, 13 October 2011 (EDT)</del>
-== [[User:ReletBot]] ==
+== Embedded maps ==
-works. ty! [http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&hidebots=0]
-==Two Ideas==
-. Thanks for the Achievements link change.
-. I've created a "What's New?" box and put it on the Main Page. It's been suggested that I put it on the Recent Changes page, but of course I can't do that. Koepfel says you can. What do you think?
-{{New on the wiki}}
-:Maybe right at the top of the page? It looks a bit funny, IMO. And I'm not good at aesthetics  --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 23:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
-I see what you mean, and I'm not sure why. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]]
-I want it under all the settings, and before the actual list of changes. But I can't get in there, I don't think. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 23:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
-Uh you put it in MediaWiki ... now I can't edit it to update the messages ... -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]]
-No, she just embedded the template into [[MediaWiki:Recentchangestext]]. It can still be edited. About the location, we were just discussing it in IRC: She want it to be below the settings, above the actual recent changes, but I prefer it as it is right now. [[User:Koepfel|Koepfel]] <sub><small><small>[[User_talk:Koepfel|talk]]</small></small></sub> 00:00, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
-== protect a page forever ==
-Regarding you inquiry in the recent changes: It's "infinite". (at least it used to be in older mediawiki versions) [[User:Koepfel|Koepfel]] <sub><small><small>[[User_talk:Koepfel|talk]]</small></small></sub> 11:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
-:The keyword I want is "indefinite". Not "never", "permanent", "permanently", "infinite", or "forever" (although I am impressed with my vocabulary. maybe the crosswording helped). --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 08:40, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
-==Weird Quasi-Spam==
-I put a delete tag on a page called Developer.  It was the third biggest page on the wiki, and appeared to be full of spam.  There was a notice at the top of it that it was a research project, and gave a link to click on for more info.  It was a Brown University link, so I followed it.  It came up with a page saying "WARNING" and my IP address.  So I ditched that IP address.  I then chopped the back part of the link and went to graffiti.cs.brown.edu .  It looks like it's real, but it also looks like there's people not happy about it, and I think understandably so.  They say they won't delete it, but if we want to and scrub our logs, we can.  But part of their thing is that they want the spam to persist as long as possible.  I looks fishy.  I figure you know more about wiki'ing in general than I do, and you're a sysop, so enjoy.  :-)  --[[User:Excellentdude|excellentdude]] 05:00, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-:According to their FAQ, it's a '''file sharing''' "network" - we're effectively hosting a chunk of a file for them (they say it's a Linux ISO, but it could also be illegal content for all we know). Maybe not spam in the traditional "advertising" sense, but definitely abuse. Page should be deleted - otherwise the content remains accessible through the history tab. (If that is indeed a research project, they don't want their content to remain there as long as possible, but just want to see how long it does - and thus, if file sharing through wiki spamming is viable long-term. ''Interesting'' approach, but still wrong.) --[[User:Dawidi|dawidi]] 05:23, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-::It leaves me wondering how useful having the wiki unprotected is.  Do we know what proportion of page edits are done by users who are not logged in?  And once we ignore the few who would have signed in if they'd remembered to do so, what proportion of edits would be lost by making the wiki log-in-only?  I'd estimate it's quite small.  And it would certainly make spam-removal a lot easier.  -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 12:18, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-:::I've removed the page in question. They seem to have created at least 2 pages (Developers, and Singletons), when their FAQ says they'd only do one per site. Maybe someone should yell at them (I will, if no one else does, in the morning).
-:::RE:making people log in, I'm happy to keep fighting the spam if it means we get more expedition reports from people who would otherwise not report because they don't want to create a login (or don't want to login from a public computer if they're geohashing while on holidays or something). --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 12:34, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-::::Oh yes, so am I.  But it would be interesting to know if we ''are'' getting any reports from people who don't have a login.  -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 12:36, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-:::::[[2009-04-09_33_-84]] (the one that isn't NWoodruff) --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 12:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-::::::Those are ''both'' NWoodruff, as far as I can tell from their edits!  -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 13:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-::::::Oh, I found that on the Recent Changes page you can click a link to see only anonymous edits.  And yes, there are a few contributions by people who don't seem to have user accounts.  Whether they would stop contributing if they had to log in is a separate question, but for now at least, I agree, it's probably easier to keep dealing with the spam.  Thanks for the replies.  -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 13:24, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
-== after the move... ==
-Joanna: I'm sure you'll FIND someone to search for...
-(or: come visit =) --[[User:Nemo|Nemo]] 14:32, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
-== [[:Category:Tagged for deletion]] ==
-When the spammers let you, could you have a look at the pages marked for deletion? There is a lot of duplicate categories and various clutter around. -- [[User:relet|relet]] 12:54, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
-:Wow, someone's been busy!  Thanks for going through all of those.  -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 05:14, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
-:Thanks for all the cleanup.  And it looks like you get to google for shoes in Alberta as well?? [[User:Jiml|Jiml]] 07:02, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
-::No worries. Being a wiki admin isn't all about glamour you know... occasionally I have to do stuff too ;)
-::And huh? Shoes in Alberta? What? *so confused* --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 07:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
-:::OH! Google *shows* a little slice of Alberta (in that grat) --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 07:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
-== White-tiger-swimming.jpg  ==
-Yes, this can be deleted. I was going to use it as a ribbon icon, but I got a lot of pushback b/c it's copyrighted. -- [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]]
-== What joannac should sing next ==
-Alice's Restaurant. --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 08:13, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
-:Okay, Bohemian Rhapsody is even better. We need a betting pool on how long it will take you to get through the whole song. --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 09:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
-:: hey, i'd queue alices restaurant up for after that though. --[[User:MykaDragonBlue|mykaDragonBlue &#91;- i have no sig -&#93;]] 11:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
-Hey Jude :-) --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 19:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
-The Highwayman by Loreena McKennett, or TV Tan by the Wildhearts.  -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 15:32, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
-American Pie is good, too, if you haven't done it. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 04:48, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
-==Not Joannac's Job==
-I'm quite surprised to see tagging, expedition formatting and the like on your to-do list. Leave the stuff that can be done without admin bits to the people without admin bits and you do the stuff only you can do. Or is it not getting done? -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 04:48, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
-:Benjw was tagging images; he's busy for a bit though. Expedition formatting is not being done by anyone, afaik. Obviously clearing out tagged for deletion will be done first. Other than that, there's nothing else that requires my admin powers, is there? --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 04:52, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
-::I think everyone who reads expedition reports and knows about categories adds them when they see them missing. Here's something you can do: User:Mom just changed her page to User:Sara and needs a moveuser to keep things tidy. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 05:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
-:::Robyn, nothing's changed since JimL. There is still no MoveUser function installed. All she needs to do is register the username. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 05:52, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
-::::Well there should be, damnit. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 06:03, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
-:::::It's still not common enough to warrant it. Also, if you can think of a genuine reason why someone needs a nick change, I'll go talk to the wiki superadmin person. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 06:11, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
-==Thanks==
-Thank-you for correcting the categories on [[2009-06-24 43 -79]] for me. When you go out with your GPS set and you hit 0m you forget that it's not a win because you're going for a different hash. You quite possibly saved me from people with virtual pitchforks and torches. I'll be more careful in the future. [[User:Splitdipless|Splitdipless]] 03:51, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
-== Restricting all edits to registered users? ==
-Hi Joanna, I notice how much spam undo'ing you do, and I'm wondering if we should simply considering restricting all edits to registered users.  It certainly seems like it would curb spam.  I suppose that's also my SCM (software configuration management) background coming through, where all changes should be attributable (i.e.: an IP address doesn't cut it).  Thoughts? --[[User:Wenslayer|Wenslayer]] 00:08, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
-:This has come up many many times in the past, and various arguments have been brought up about it.  However, this has come up a couple times recently, so I think it would be good to make a community proposal, and let people '''oppose''', '''do not oppose''', or '''support''' it.  --[[User:Aperfectring|aperfectring]] 00:19, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
-:Heh. First, I think it's funny you didn't put your name on the end of your comment ;)
-:See above, in "Weird Quasi-Spam". The main point is updating while on holidays, in a internet cafe where you might not want to enter your password.
-:Also, I don't think I can protect the whole wiki anyway, it's up to the sysad. And geohashing probably isn't big enough to warrant it (at least, the good edits to spam edits ratio isn't small enough to warrant it)--[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 00:20, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
-:: [Doh! Sig back-dated] Ah, okay, I can see not wanting to enter a password at a WiFi hotspot; hmmm, that's a use case I hadn't considered.  Typically, I would just VPN into one of my computers, and then bounce through there, but most folks aren't likely to have this kind of setup. --[[User:Wenslayer|Wenslayer]] 00:25, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
-::: From what I've seen, the bots (for now) are targetting specific pages. User:Cid and Talk:T-Shirts today, for example. So I think it should be a trivial decision: any spam on a page, immediately semi-protect that page. --[[User:Davidc|Davidc]] 00:56, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
-:::: That's normally the case as i understand it. Joanna just happens to be away for a couple of days. --[[User:MykaDragonBlue|mykaDragonBlue &#91;- i have no sig -&#93;]] 01:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
-== Registered User Spam ==
-Lately we seem to be getting a lot of spam from registered users (obviously bot created), as you've undoubtedly noticed.  They all seem to follow the format "%d buy %s".  I don't have much wiki experience, but is there a way to add a script to check the account name before allowing it to be made?  I have no idea what the interface is, but it should be easy to write a script that checks the account name before creation.  If it can be written in C/C++/Java/Python I'd gladly write it.
-Again, I don't know what the wiki interface is, but I was thinking a simple method with an input parameter of a string (the account name) and a return value of a boolean/integer stating whether it's suspected spam or not.  The method itself could be some simple regular expressions and could be easily modified in the future if the "%d buy %s" scheme is changed.  Hopefully such is possible in a wiki interface?  It should be a simple enough script.
-Just thoughts of course, but I thought I'd put the idea out there.  You can always tell the user that the account couldn't be made and the reason so that any person who actually tried to make an account like that could contact an admin or just use a different name. -[[User:Srs0|Srs0]] 08:24, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
-:What about a bot-illegible captcha for creating accounts (or pages)? Afaik that possibility exists for wikis, though I don't know if it is included in this one here. - [[User:Danatar|Danatar]] 17:12, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
-::CAPTCHAs [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit are] [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA definitely] possible. One would need root access to the wiki's server to install it, though. [[User:Koepfel|Koepfel]] <sub><small><small>[[User_talk:Koepfel|talk]]</small></small></sub> 17:40, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
-:::I run [http://mpedia.dan.info/ Mpedia], a wiki about Mensa, and I'm getting the same spammers myself; and I ''do'' have a CAPTCHA in the account-registration procedure (something I did very grudgingly; I ''hate'' CAPTCHAs!).  This spammer seems to have a way around those. [[User:Dtobias|Dtobias]] 14:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
-::This sort of spam is getting very annoying. It's definitely time to impose whatever measures are necessary to stop them. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 16:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
-:::See [[Talk:Main_Page#Juventas.27_Server_Configuration_Wishlist|here]]. Might ask him how it's going sometime today, but it's a decently big decision and I'm not sure he will have decided yet. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 21:32, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
-== Hi there! ==
-Joanna - got your message, thanks!  I actually built that bike pretty much from parts, so I take a lot of pride in it.  I'm slowly but surely figuring out how to edit the wiki.  I did have some issues with uploading pics, so there may be multiples of some pictures, sorry about that.  I think I have it now, and I'll try and get it on the first try next time.
-== I think I broke something ==
-I was working on updating old date pages with expedition summaries, and I think I may have broken something.  I cannot write to [[2009-06-01]] or [[2009-06-04]].  I keep getting a database error page when I try to do so.  Please don't hurt me.  --[[User:Aperfectring|aperfectring]] 23:52, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
+I don't have IRC right now, but it seems the maps are broken again - eg. [[Berlin,_Germany]] does not show the Berlin graticule, and since it is >30W, it should always show some kind of geohash. The <30W templates also still show a blue square whenever the geohashes are not published yet. I know it's a code and a wiki thing, but maybe you can trigger whoever helped with the templates in the past. -- [[User:relet|relet]] 08:21, 17 April 2012 (EDT) --
-:I think it was just a transient error, and I happened to be trying to do something there at the same time.  It just really freaked me out that I may have really broken something --[[User:Aperfectring|aperfectring]] 00:28, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
+:For the record, that was apparently caused by the template "dow" returning an empty string for 2012|04|16, as seen on [[User:Crox/Test]]. It was solved when Zigdon fixed the value returned for that day. --[[User:Crox|Crox]] 14:20, 17 April 2012 (EDT)
-==Server Side Requests==
+== More admins? ==
-Juventas is [[Talk:Main_Page#Juventas.27_Server_Configuration_Wishlist|absolutely right]]. Is any of this configurable by you? -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 06:22, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
-==Thanks!==
+Could I gently suggest asking if any of the well-regarded, trusted users would mind taking on admin privileges -- we've got over 50 items in the deletion category; it'd be nice to get that cleared out... I'm willing to volunteer, and have considerable experience being an admin at WP some years ago, but I don't know if I'm well known enough around here yet. [[User:JesseW|JesseW]] 00:00, 17 May 2012 (EDT)
-Hi Joanna, thanks for re-formatting my Origin Geohash page.  I didn't know about the retro flag :) --[[User:Macronencer|macronencer]] 07:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
-== while you were being unappreciated-ed ==
+==Edit page clarification==
+< Hijackal> joannac, please add the info that "by submitting, you agree that everything you post is GDFL" to the editing form
+<&joannac> Uh
+<&joannac> What's GDFL?
+< Hijackal> I think that does not become sufficiently clear by looking at the page right noe
+< Hijackal> [[Geohashing:Copyrights]]
+< Hijackal> Says some things. Which should be _absolutely_ made clear to _anyone_ clicking save ;)
-just some notes so you don't have to go searching for everything that came up:
+== File:Drag-along2.png ==
-'''spammy IP's:'''
+Thanks Joanna, I don't know how I ended up uploading a duplicate. Anyway, I've cleaned up the remaining links to the duplicate.  --[[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] 11:00, 29 August 2012 (EDT)
-* 201.218.202.244
-== Spam user ==
+== Problems registering ==
+Hi! Sorry, I'm new here so I'm not sure this is the right way to do this kind of thing. Someone at the IRC said you were the one to contact :-)
+The problem: My brother is trying to sign up for geohashing but gets the error
-Hi, a spam user and page to delete! [[User:902_buy_medrol]]
+Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.
---[[User:Davidc|Davidc]] 17:13, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
+when he requests the confirmation code. It seems it's some kind of internal error with the wiki??
+Hope you can help! Thanks very much!!  [[User:lizwiz]] 25 March 2012
-== Spammer ==
+:Working on it. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 18:27, 25 March 2012 (EDT)
+::Fixed. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 08:17, 26 March 2012 (EDT)
-.8.74.130 needs blocking, and possibly Talk:T-shirts needs semi-protecting:
+== Is it possible to change username? ==
-http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Talk:T-shirts&curid=30257&action=history
-== Hosting ==
+I am currently changing my username across internet - is it possible to do it also here? [[User:Bulwersator|Bulwersator]] ([[User talk:Bulwersator|talk]]) 15:30, 21 July 2014 (EDT)
+:Sure, let me know what you want it to change to, and I can do it. I'll be using [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser the Renameuser extension]; just check its effects are okay with you. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 18:37, 21 July 2014 (EDT)
+::I would like to change it to mkoniecz. [[User:Bulwersator|Bulwersator]] ([[User talk:Bulwersator|talk]]) 17:33, 22 July 2014 (EDT)
+:::Done. Sorry for the delay, I didn't get a notification that you answered :( --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 02:11, 5 August 2014 (EDT)
-I was advised to bring this to your attention directly: [[Talk:Main_Page#Offer_of_hosting]] --[[User:Davidc|Davidc]] 22:34, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
+== Delete Photos and Pages ==
-== User:Cid ==
+Hello Joannac,
+you seem to know how to delete an own uploades photo or may be a wrong created page. Could you please write a short easy-to-understand instruction for me or send me a link to an instruction?
+<br />
+Thanks very much!! --[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 06:27, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
+:Mark it for deletion with <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> and I'll eventually get to deleting it --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 06:59, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
+::Marking pages in the first line of the edited text? <br />Hmmm, but where could I mark a Photo?<br />--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 09:42, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
+:::You can mark pages anywhere; first line of text is possibly easiest. You can edit photos; that's where the caption is stored. See [[:Category:Tagged_for_deletion]] for examples. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 17:01, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
+:::Thank you very much!!--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 05:44, 17 October 2014 (EDT)
-User:Cid needs protecting again, sigh. --[[User:Davidc|Davidc]] 00:41, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
+== Names of Participants (if not users) ==
-== Thanks for the help. ==
+There exists a problem with participants' names,
+if the names contain special characters or spaces and the participants are not registered users.
+<br />Examples:
+<br />a) [[2014-10-22]]_63_28 and [[2014-10-22]]:
+<br />"Pastori's daughter" becomes "Pastori's"
+<br />b) [[2014-10-05]]_48_7 and [[2014-10-05]]:
+<br />"Q-Owla" becomes "q"
+<br />May be, you know someone at xkcd who could fix this bug?
-I made the mistake of showing my user page to a less-than-enthusiastic acquaintance. - [[User:GenericGabriel|GenericGabriel]] 20:57, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
+Names are shown in full length, if one uses <nowiki>[[User:Pastori's|Pastori's]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[User:Q-Owla|Q-Owla]]</nowiki>. But this looks strange (and red).
-== Those Pictures ==
+:Hey, I didn't see anything in the actual expedition pages (all the names show collrectly), but I saw it on the date pages e.g. [[2014-10-22]]. Is that the same thing you saw? If so, I think it's an aperfectbot parsing problem (since that's the thing that generates those pages). --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 18:09, 22 October 2014 (EDT)
-I have re-uploaded the pictures of the [[2009-08-30_34_-118|8/30/2009]] hash, so you can take down the previous ones.  Thanks a lot for all of your help in setting up that page, and now, I'm doing it again today, thanks in part to your help on the first one.--[[User:Ryanb|Ryanb]] 15:20, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
+::Greetings, I am the friendly bot maintainer!  I am the guy responsible for the robot that maintains the expedition list pages, and will happily answer your question.  I have looked into the issue, and it is one I've run into a whole lot in the past.  It is very easy to programmatically parse out a user name from a user link, but much less so from a normal list of users.  Because of this, I had restricted non user-link participants to a single word.  The '-' character was not considered to be a part of a word, which is why that name was truncated after the Q.
+::So there's some good news here.  After looking through the parser, I've figured out a way for the bot to handle multiple word participants.  However, I still will be truncating after the '-' character.  In the past (and maybe even still today) people would list themselves as a participant, and after that use a dash and write some comments.  e.g.
+* [[User:Aperfectring|APR]] - Met up after lunch
+* APR's friend - Came with APR
+::I will continue looking for a way to address that, but for now, unfortunately, that is going to remain.  If you have any further questions or issues, please feel free to contact me directly on my user talk page.  --[[User:Aperfectring|aperfectring]] ([[User talk:Aperfectring|talk]]) 21:18, 22 October 2014 (EDT)
-== Upload filetypes ==
+== SiteNotice obsolete ==
-Is it possible to allow upload of document files (specifically, .odt so we can share our posters), or does that require server admin intervention? --[[User:Davidc|davidc]] 23:30, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
+Thanks for putting up the [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice|Sitenotice]]! Since [[User:Zigdon|Zigdon]]'s DJIA source works again, it can be removed now. --[[User:Calamus|Calamus]] 13:53, 7 March 2015 (EST)
-:Server admin intervention. You know who to ask :) --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 22:15, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
+:Cheers, I've removed it now. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 21:05, 7 March 2015 (EST)
-== Data base error.... It no longer catagorizes expeditions. ==
+== Next deleting sessions ==
-click on this page. [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Category:Meetup_on_2009-10-24] --[[User:NWoodruff|NWoodruff]] 11:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
+There are a lot of items in Category:Tagged_for_deletion. When will someone really delete all these things? Does this happen eg. monthly?--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 04:32, 4 November 2015 (EST)
-:Does nobody see this a an error/problem? --[[User:NWoodruff|NWoodruff]] 15:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
+:I used to do it manually, but got lax about it. Will do a batch now. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 21:47, 7 November 2015 (EST)
-::Working on it. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 05:59, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
+::Thank you!--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 10:18, 9 November 2015 (EST)
-== Thanks for the protection ==
+== Thumbnail creation has stopped ==
-Dear Joannac, thank you for protecting our [[Swindon, United Kingdom]] page from the spamz. I was wondering, could i have done that? Or do you need special privileges to do it? If there is a way i can do it, i would like to know how for future reference.
+Since May 9th 2016 thumbnail creation has stopped. [[Special:NewFiles]] demonstrates the problem nicely. Any chance or working some of your magic? Thanks. --[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) 09:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
+: Yea - working again. Was that you? Thanks anyway. --[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) 00:26, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
+:: Yeah, that was me. I left you some messages in irc. It was a security issue http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/250519, and it took this long for the patch to be available in the stable packages. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 00:47, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
-:No worries. No, it's an admin only function. I'm almost always online so if you need something protected, leave me a note in the irc channel or on here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Happy geohashing :) --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 09:17, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
+==HTTPS==
+Hi Joanna! [[Talk:Main Page#HTTPS|There currently is a discussion]] about that this website should have an HTTPS certificate. It would be nice if you could install one, if you have the necessary rights. --[[User:Fippe|Fippe]] ([[User talk:Fippe|talk]]) 19:11, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
+:Agreed!. Any site with a login should be on https these days. --[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) 18:37, 3 September 2018 (UTC)