WikiApiary talk:Operations/2013/July

Defunct soon to be deprecated
I've started to work on a 2.0 of User:Audit Bee (audit-refactor branch). In it, I'm planning on using a progressive backoff for websites that for whatever reason don't respond (slow, down, API denied, etc). This will replace the current +defunct status, with the intent being that a website may go offline for 6 months, during that time Audit Bee will remove collection flags, and recheck periodically, then re-enable when it comes back online. So, don't spend a lot of time marking things +defunct for now. 🐝 thingles (talk) 12:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Can't believe I missed the opportunity to use the subject "Defunct to be defunct". :-) 🐝 thingles (talk) 12:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Fixed HTML Entities in Extension names
Just an FYI in case you don't see Issue:Remove HTML encoding in Extension names, I just fixed this. Notably SMW fails if you tell it the a property name has HTML entities embedded in it. The net of this is that I expect some extensions that had never registered right to start showing up. Notably, older versions of Extension:Semantic MediaWiki liked to embed a  in their name (including invalid HTML entities   -- no pound sign), so more sites that use those old versions will start to appear now. See diff and diff. 🐝 thingles (talk) 02:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)