User talk:Tepples/Archive 7


 * This page is an archive of old discussions from 2015. Do not modify this page. If you have anything to add to the discussion, start a new section on User talk:Tepples.

BootlegGames Wiki inclusion criteria
My understanding (as a non-member) is that the prohibition on creating new articles about "fan work" could be construed to exclude articles about recent commercial homebrew releases, though it may have been originally intended to exclude articles on PC fangames and non-commercial ROM hacks.

To the extent that recent commercial homebrew would be expected to meet stronger (that is, Wikipedia-like) notability criteria than other types of releases, your question about print run size is relevant. However, the fact remains that Sunday Funday is a reprint of an older unlicensed game. Anything I am misunderstanding here? --Eighty5cacao (talk) 02:58, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * About "older" and "recent": If they want to make it about date of first publication, then let them say so. But there are a lot of post-1996 productions on that site too because, as I understand it, famiclones stayed popular in BRIC-tier economies even into the N64 era. And if they're going for Wikipedia-like notability, you're not going to find a lot of stories in the anglophone MSM about Russian- and Chinese-langauge bootleg games either. --Tepples (talk) 16:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm aware of the reply by KingPepe2010 at Help talk:Contents/Articles, which appears to hint at WP:CORP and/or Nintendo's hiring policies. However, upon rereading WP:CORP, I find that it would have the same problem as the general notability guideline when applied to pirate game companies. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 06:51, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It appears that KingPepe2010 is currently uninterested in continuing the discussion. I'm guessing xe may be applying a couple criteria that I previously thought were too obvious to mention:
 * A person or organization whose main public presence is on one or more non-notable websites (such as BootlegGames Wiki and Pin Eight themselves) is presumed to be a "fan"/"hobbyist" and therefore unsuitable for inclusion. (The idea is to avoid conflicts of interest by hobbyists who could document their own releases on their own website. For comparison, most well-known pirate companies have no active website nor any other public presence.)
 * If the development process of a commercial release involves public non-commercial prototype builds, that may also weigh against inclusion. (This is the case for Action 53, which IIRC hasn't even been completed under that exact name.)
 * Comments/questions? --Eighty5cacao (talk) 22:26, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Does Waixing really not have a website? See wikia:bootleggames:Fuzhou Waixing Computer Science & Technology Co.,LTD. If COI is the real issue, I'd appreciate if they put in place something analogous to Wikipedia's COI processes, including explicitly defining COI and instituting a "Requested articles" process. I might try back after several more weeks of silence. --Tepples (talk) 16:44, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * In all fairness, I did say "most." (As usual, I haven't bothered to verify the liveness of any links.) Also, if I had realized from the beginning that COI was the most relevant/analogous policy, I could have kept this section a lot briefer. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 17:54, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * &larr;

Full-time is the deciding factor now. --Tepples (talk) 23:58, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Discontinuing rulewip
I just want to make sure you are aware of User talk:Eighty5cacao/misc/HTTPS Everywhere/rulewip (as I will be performing the aforementioned "delayed RCC" of that page shortly).

I believe I am currently ready to proceed with deletion. Any decision on MW extensions and/or bot accounts? --Eighty5cacao (talk) 02:53, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * After seeing the edit summaries for the deletions performed so far, I feel that "Project may move to GitHub" needs clarification. If you meant my project, that wording is a bit misleading, as I have not yet registered on GitHub (theoretically Gitorious, BitBucket, or any sufficiently-public Git host could work); also, I am still somewhat too busy with education & personal life to give a timetable for such work. If you meant HTTPS Everywhere as a whole, its official presence on git(web).torproject.org and trac.torproject.org isn't going anywhere; the GitHub copy is provided merely for convenience. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 06:37, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * No objection to the current edit summaries. (What I meant above was that the wording in question should simply be removed, but it looks like you figured that out already.) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 02:43, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * While changing Talk:Eloi language to link to a free trope wiki, I discovered an alternative to RCC on its equivalent of Signpost. I might consider adding it come next time I upgrade MediaWiki, and no, I don't know exactly when that will be. --Tepples (talk) 20:18, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * That sounds useful for mass deletions like this one, but RCC would still be needed for project-scope issues with edits to existing pages, if I understand correctly. I know you have no intention to remove RCC; let's just hope there are no compatibility issues. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 21:53, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * To change the topic slightly, why did you undo (that is, re-show) my RCC of the deletion of the BuzzFeed subpage? Was this another mis-click? Do you legitimately need that action as a test case for RCLF or some other reason? Is it okay for me to RCC any other deletions in the meantime? --Eighty5cacao (talk) 22:09, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I reshowed it because of the punny edit summary. Go ahead and RCC anything that uses a boilerplate summary if you have the time. And yes, RCC is staying. --Tepples (talk) 22:24, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Well That About Wraps It Up for Bag
Is bag+SRS sustainable? Playing Forever V3.1 (5-bag loop) --Sisu (talk) 02:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That'll give me something to think about should Mr. Pajitnov stop hating free software. Should "The legend of BAG" by SuperRetardo9 be the new Tetris theme? --Tepples (talk) 19:29, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

TCRF HTTPS support
Announced on Twitter; my tests show enforcement via redirection and HSTS; just trivially change the scheme to https

(If I should post interwiki maintenance requests elsewhere in the future, please explain.) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 04:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

TVT vs. AtT category implementation
Regarding allthetropes:Thread:Talk:Enforced_Method_Acting/Long_term:

Since "category" is a "page type" on TV Tropes but a namespace in the MediaWiki software, AtT apparently chose to require the use of the Category namespace for all pages that were tagged as categories on TV Tropes, with the corresponding mainspace title as a redirect. (Were I starting AtT from scratch, I would have done this differently, having the trope description in mainspace and a separate category page containing only in its lede.) Whether an AtT page is in the category or main namespace does not necessarily mean anything as to whether it is a valid trope.

Am I understanding correctly? --Eighty5cacao (talk) 02:09, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * TV Tropes drew a distinction between supertropes, which contained examples that didn't fit into any subtropes, and indexes, which contained no direct examples. If it changed the terminology in the past year, I wasn't aware. The "index" page type also triggered special behavior similar to that of MediaWiki categories, putting the index title at the bottom of all pages in the index. I think that's why All The Tropes used Category: to reflect indexes. Technically it's the inverse, as TV Tropes indexes specify category members on the index page, while MediaWiki categories are specified on each category member's page, but they appear the same to readers. --Tepples (talk) 03:07, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Whoops. When I said "category" in my OP in reference to TVT, I obviously meant "index" - I had avoided visiting TVT for so long that I had forgotten the proper terminology, which is also why I forgot about supertropes. I know what a TVT index looks like; it's just the term that I had forgotten. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 18:04, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

PGCX864
I believe that this user may not be a native English speaker and that some other users may be confusing that with a different type of competence issue. It's probably best to start by giving him/her a proper welcome on the user talk page.

This person's native language may be Japanese, but I have no proof; although the same username is in use on YouTube and has some Japanese text in its avatar, there is no substantial Japanese text in the video titles or descriptions, and the user has not posted in the Japanese section of the NESdev forum.

(Not posting this directly on NESdev for various information-security reasons which I've mentioned before) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 23:05, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Extensions causing problems with user script and stylesheet pages?
When I try to view any of my user scripts or stylesheets, I get:

MediaWiki internal error.

Exception caught inside exception handler.

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

That is the entirety of the displayed text, and it is displayed in the generic serif font that the browser normally uses for HTML documents without stylesheets. Attempting to add  manually to the end of the URL does not change the message. and diffs are similarly broken for such pages.

My user scripts and stylesheets still exist and work correctly in the sense that they are loaded successfully on other pages. Could this be related to one of the Open Graph-related extensions you just installed?

(P.S. If you're wondering about this edit summary, I had misunderstood OG as something like "Original Google" because I hadn't read the site news yet.) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 01:23, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I have configured  not to load TwitterCards on pages whose title begins with   and ends with   or  . Thank you for reporting this issue. --Tepples (talk) 03:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I can confirm that the problem is fixed now. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 04:56, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

"Corrected the link to All The Tropes wiki"
Apparently Zzo38 was unfamiliar with protocol-relative links and/or the existence of HTTPS support on Orain.

(What sort of guidelines should be established about this?) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 18:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. --Tepples (talk) 20:52, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Protocol-relative extlinks make more sense on Pin Eight itself, where HTTPS is optional, than on a site like NESdev where only one protocol is provided. In the latter case, I would prefer just to hardcode https as long as there are no major problems. (This is just a note for future reference; I am not expecting any prompt action or reply.) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 04:05, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

The link in nesdev:User:Tepples that we were discussing here appears to need updating for the move to Miraheze. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 15:02, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

forum.gbadev.org
"Is forum.gbadev.org still running?" No.

still seems to work, but that isn't relevant to the question. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 01:11, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The forum is back up as of this edit. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 06:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Drakon
On another forum, Drakon has made some claims of having reformed his ways, but there is still much controversy. nesdev:User:Tepples/Drakon Shut Up and Glue was mentioned there.

This is not a request to modify or discontinue the project; I am neutral. Just letting you know. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 01:34, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Status of AtT
Apparently there was some hacking involved in Orain's current downtime, and All The Tropes has decided to move to a new host. See this forum thread (found via Twitter and Reddit).

The  interwiki prefix eventually needs to be updated to  ; I'd be fine with it being pointed to Wikia in the meantime. (Pages on  currently return 404; this is intentional, as the site has been closed to the public until the admins are done importing the backed-up data.) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 23:53, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * From the SiteNotice on https://allthetropes.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page: "The text import of All The Tropes wiki is done. The import itself is not done yet (e.g. images and some extensions need still need my attention). The wiki won't be deleted again now, so you are free to read and edit pages. Sorry for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience. -- Southparkfan, Miraheze system administrator" A quick look reveals that at least the extension responsible for  and   is still broken.
 * Miraheze appears to use HSTS, and it does not appear to use any CDN that would require SNI, so the interwiki prefix should probably be hardcoded to https.
 * As a reminder, no account information was transferred from Orain, so you will need to re-register manually. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 04:42, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiWikiWeb
I'm aware of what's going on with WikiWikiWeb and the AHBL shutdown affecting it. Yes, if it is no longer open to editing, then it has ceased to be a "wiki" in the strict sense of the word. However, describing it as "dead" or " [no longer in operation"] implies to the average reader that it is closed to reading as well. Would you wish to consider a more descriptive wording?

Has Cunningham &amp; Cunningham publicly stated a plan to shut down the server? Or are the pages already not loading for you? (I cannot reproduce any such problem.) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 20:41, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The article on ATT is about markup, and markup of a UGC site is irrelevant to a site that has ceased to accept UGC. I wonder what wording would be better. --Tepples (talk) 14:42, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I was aware of the context but didn't think it would overcome my fundamental objection. I regret that I don't have a specific suggestion. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 14:53, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Custom domain
From the sitenotice: "All The Tropes is moving to its own domain on Christmas Day or Boxing Day (Dec 25 - 26), depending on your location (and when we actually do it). You'll be able to access us at https://allthetropes.org/ instead of https://allthetropes.miraheze.org/ after that time. Old links should automatically redirect to the new site, so you won't have to worry about link breakage." --Eighty5cacao (talk) 05:14, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I can confirm that the redirection in question is now active. (They are still hosted on Miraheze; all they did was set up a custom domain.) It is now appropriate to reconfigure the interwiki link. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 19:20, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

I know it's about to expire
WebFaction is running a clone of a very old version of Stack Exchange, from before upvoting and commenting required reputation. It has two questions about Let's Encrypt: Using Let's Encrypt to get SSL certificates and Planned support for Lets Encrypt. But there's "no ETA" and no mention in the official blog. So I'm going to have to go with StartSSL yet again. --Tepples (talk) 21:34, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ...and done. --Tepples (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Edits by APK
I blanket-reverted some non-conforming edits on Talk:Hosts.

I don't see how APK (or meatpuppet thereof) is arguing effectively about the kernel-mode stuff (NB: I haven't bothered to read any of the linked Slashdot posts). However, the edit mentioning that APK Hosts File Engine sorts entries on disk seems to be in good faith, so perhaps it should be un-reverted and appropriate clarification provided in the article. --Eighty5cacao (talk) 21:20, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I ended up responding to the second round with this instead of reverting. A little help please...? (I mentioned an "editnotice" in that edit summary; if further measures are warranted, my complete list of suggestions includes an editnotice, ABUSE filter, or protection with interstitial page à la Talk:Main Page, in roughly decreasing order of preference.) --Eighty5cacao (talk) 20:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC) (+ 17:33, 16 December 2015 (UTC))