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)


 * Nice fix. Apart from this SMW has other problems (somewhere on bugzilla) with URLs too which should be resolved at one point or the other. --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 07:02, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Spammers
Seems like they've breached my clever questy config. Damn. Will look at morphing it shortly. 🐝 thingles (talk) 21:47, 25 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I am a bit puzzled as well as shocked about it, too. However, I does not seem to be a general breach. --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 07:27, 26 July 2013 (UTC)


 * They are using @hotmail.com and @outlook.com email addresses, and they are confirming them. I'm going to remove the hour and day GMT questy tests and see if those are the weakpoints. 🐝 thingles (talk) 13:17, 26 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Okay, I'm now only using the nth character in string questy test. I also injected some HTML comments in the directive for the nth. We'll see what happens. :-\ 🐝 thingles (talk) 13:20, 26 July 2013 (UTC)