All posts by Capefeather

Maybe even non-admins.

I didn't think I'd ever consider resorting to such drastic measures, but the couple days since the announcement of the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection have been hell. People are using scripts to wreak havoc on hundreds of pages at a time, including really important ones unrelated to the collection. People are wiping pages and creating new ones because they didn't figure out that you can move pages. And that's just the well-intentioned ones. There's also a targeted attack by trolls spreading misinformation all over the site. I've been trying to catch up to all the fixes that have to be made, but the crap is proliferating at triple the rate that I'm able to address things. If any one of these factors were absent, I'd feel somewhat confident that things will blow over after about a week. Now I'm not so sure.

The only other big collection containing previously Japan-only material was The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. I was able to get basically everything I needed to done on the day of the announcement. AAIC has been a whole different animal. I've done basically nothing I intended to do. Putting out the fires has taken up all my time.

The collection releases in September. Now, maybe it sounds unreasonable to lock the wiki for that long. Hell, I almost think it should persist a couple of months past September. I'm so tired. This is actively disrupting my life.

Grumpy Ace Attorney Wiki admin here today with another complaint that may be too complex for this forum, I dunno. Or maybe things will be different this time because my topic here isn't about technical sauce but about the forums. Put simply, I don't know what to do with it. It's simply filled with people who mainly annoy each other and then report each other to moderation, except most reported posts don't do anything particularly bad, other than annoying seemingly everybody else who bothers to use the forums. Then, because most reported posts aren't acted on, they act like the forum is a free-for-all, but mostly it just means they get more annoying.

I guess I'd have an idea of how I'd moderate a general forum under different circumstances. However, the forums on Fandom just feel like they serve no purpose, and have been essentially foisted upon every wiki regardless of whether the regulars have the desire or capacity to develop a forum community.

Ever since a recent database freeze, I can edit other pages just fine, but when I try to edit my own profile page, I get a division by 0 error...

[2afa5473c17f1b9d] Caught exception of type DivisionByZeroError

I've been researching for any way to be able to produce wikitext whose content would depend on the page's membership in certain categories. I know that the API and the mw object on the JavaScript side can access categories, but I don't know how doable it would be to base a solution on those objects, especially as I'm personally extremely rusty at JavaScript at best.

More specifically, I'm thinking of a solution that would allow me to put in wikitext something like:

{{#ifincategory:Foo|stuff if true|stuff if false}}

I know the go-to suggestion here will be to block them, but this person doesn't do edit wars in the typical way, as described on Wikipedia:

There is a bright line known as the three-revert rule (3RR). To revert is to undo the action of another editor. The three-revert rule states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material, on a single page within a 24-hour period.

What this person does instead is sit on a few pages that they then obsessively insert bad content into. When this content is inevitably reverted or even just marked as needing cleanup, they reinsert the bad content / remove maintenance tags a while afterward: days, sometimes weeks. I don't know what this person thinks they're accomplishing by doing this. I have a sneaking suspicion that they were blocked from another wiki for edit warring in a more conventional sense that's easier to justify blocking.

Either way, the wiki I mainly contribute to has a long history of bad editors, which is usually "fine" (well, not really, but I don't want to go off on a tangent here). I rarely feel the need to block anybody, even vandals unless they really push it. This editor is pushing it, but in a strange way that I don't know how to deal with. They seem utterly convinced that their contributions are good, maybe even superior to everyone else's. They keep engaging in this behaviour even when revert reasons are explained to them. They don't seem interested in collaborative editing - you know, the actual point of wikis. Even the worst vandals didn't get me to experience burnout from just trying to maintain the same level of quality.

I don't know if a temporary block will even accomplish anything. Most likely they'll just come back as soon as the block is over.

I've seen a lot of common wiki templates not work at all on the mobile skin (navboxes being a big one), so I was wondering if there's a way to have a template detect which skin the browser is using and define its behaviour accordingly.