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I'm somewhat busy in real life, and as a result, it may take me until the weekend to respond. Bawolff ☺☻ 16:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

note to self

Do something about the sight button for new articles.

write rss toolserver thingy and/or yell at wikinewsies who let their ts account expire.

note to self for adding to todo list.

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toolserver src

Hi! Are your toolserver tools in source control somewhere? Do you use any bug tracker for them? If so, I suggest adding links from the footer of your tools. Now for what I initially wanted to talk about: Your gerrit stats tool is cool, but could you split the first table into two: core + extensions? I think that could be useful. Also, formatting the date to return the age rather than a timestamp may make that column more readable. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 15:11, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Oh cool, I didn't even realize anyone actually looked at any of them :D. At the moment they're not in source control, and best place to report bugs is on my talk page (realistically the tools I have on toolserver are all quick hacks). I've been meaning to add a link to a source code tarball for the gerrit stats one for a while, but haven't got around to it yet (atm that's actually running on my local computer, and an html file is scp'd to the toolserver at regular intervals) [Note: if you want the source before I get around putting in some link, let me know and I can email it to you]. I'll try to make the changes you suggested next time I get around to working on that script. Bawolff ☺☻ 16:12, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Request for reviewing and other assistance

Hi. Next week is the start of the IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and two Wikinewies will be attending to cover the para-alpine skiing ahead of the 2014 Winter Paralympics . This is part of an effort outlined at Wikinews:IPC Alpine Ski World Championships. Immediately following this event, there will be a Meetup in Barcelona where Wikinews, the Paralympics and efforts to similar sport coverage will be discussed. At the moment, there are only two active reviewers on a daily basis. Demonstrating an ability to get reviews for these types of events done quickly is important for Wikinews credibility and gaining access to these types of events. I would really appreciate it if you could sign up on the IPC World Championship page to review, promote articles published during this period, assist in translating these articles into another language or attend the meetup in Barcelona. Thanks. --LauraHale (talk) 09:26, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

im sorry but I don't have much free time currently. --Bawolff ☺☻ 12:41, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Question about welcome script at Wiktionary

Hey there, Bawolff, I hope you're doing well.

I've got a question about using the welcome script over at Wiktionary.

Their "welcome" template for "welcomeip" is in lowercase for the first letter, and so when I try to welcome an IP with the script, it shows up with {{subst:Welcomeip}} on the page, instead of the substed template itself.

I tried modifying it here, but that didn't fix anything yet.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time,

-- Cirt (talk) 15:20, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, what you did should of worked. Did you clear your cache and that sort of thing? Bawolff ☺☻ 18:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Seemed to work for me - http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABawolff&diff=19696129&oldid=19696126 Bawolff ☺☻ 18:27, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much, most likely was a caching issue, thank you ! -- Cirt (talk) 22:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

"simple" question about on-wiki javascript

If I use importScript on page A to import page B, declarations on page B are not there when I look for them on page A. What am I missing? --Pi zero (talk) 18:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

importScript is asynchronous. So js doesnt wait for it to load before continuing on, even though the Imported file isnt loaded yet. The new (well not so new now) resource loader has things that deal with this better using callbacks (mw.loader.load or something like that). Bawolff ☺☻ 01:23, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Aha. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks; I should be able to chase it down with that much of a hint.

I'm underwhelmed by the documentation on this stuff, but one thing I found especially nasty was that the documentation notes importScript is going to be deprecated, but isn't deprecated yet because there isn't a really good substitute for it. How useless is that? You should avoid this, except that there isn't anything else you can use instead? Good grief. --Pi zero (talk) 01:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

people have been saying legacy js will be "deprecated" real soon now since roughly mw 1.17. I doubt it will happen due to how much that will break things. It looks like the method I was thinking of was mw.loader.using, but that only supports core modules. Guess you will have to implement your oen callback system to trigger when files are fully loaded. There is some limitted docs at mw:ResourceLoader/Default modules. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:10, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

bugzilla:25845. --Pi zero (talk) 04:45, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I must admit, I loathe ResourceLoader. For big stuff it's probably worth all the misery of untangling it, but I aspire to keep what I'm doing relatively small. Now that I'm better attuned to the issues, I'm thinking jQuery.getScript(). --Pi zero (talk) 05:09, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikinews Writing contest 2013 is here. :) Please sign up to participate?

We've created the Wikinews:Writing contest 2013, which will start on April 1 and end on June 1. It is modeled on the successful 2010 contest. Unlike the previous version, points are available for people who conduct reviews. (With a University of Wollongong class currently contributing articles, extra assistance is appreciated at this time.) It presents a great incentive for you to renew your reviewing chops, contribute some original reporting not being done by the main stream media, and write some synthesis articles on topics that could use more attention. People should be around to review to prevent a backlog if you just want to write, and several reviewers have access to scoop to make it easier to review any original reporting you do. If you are interested in signing up, please do so on Wikinews:Writing contest 2013/entrants. There is at least one prize on offer for the winner along with the opportunity to earn some barn stars as a way of thanking you for your participation. :D --LauraHale (talk) 10:35, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi,Bawolff

Moved from userpage to talkpage by 213.154.239.2 (talk) 13:54, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

If you know how, can you help me made this template for Hebrew wikinews? Vipetthegreat (talk) 18:10, 29 January 2013 (UTC)