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== Current Tasks ==
Feel free to pitch in any work we need done. We mainly need maintenance on XOTNs and the new portals, along with detailing any current shitstorms going on.

#As always, staff, please set XOTNs. Always ensure the next 3 days are set.
#Build up the Politics portal
#We need to have miniflag icons uploaded for every country possible, mainly for [[High Score]].







=="Copyright troll"==

What's all this about then? Obviously you don't want to play your hand here, but some details about the alleged infringement could be helpful. [[User:Sidecar|Sidecar]] 13:21, 21 May 2017 (EDT)

If you want to do this on the cheap, you could always ask [http://www.shonhopwood.com/contact-us/ this guy] if he knows of any paralegals who can look at your case and prepare some documents for you to file pro se. They wouldn't be your lawyers and therefore wouldn't be able to represent you in the courtroom, but that wouldn't matter, if filing those pleadings would get your case thrown out before it even got to that stage. Hopwood used to run such an outfit himself (not sure if he still does). [[User:Da bulls|Da bulls]] 19:44, 21 May 2017 (EDT)

:Here's more infos on [https://kiwifarms.net/threads/jon-monsarrat-jonathan-graves-monsarrat-jonmon-mitcarpediem.31036/ Kiwifarms] about [https://forum.encyclopediadramatica.rs/threads/ed-is-being-sued-we-need-your-help.28864/page-3 the guy in question]. --[[User:Sd-100|Sd-100]] 16:03, 24 May 2017 (EDT)

:: this guy got all the money in the world, if I were him I would live in a remote mansion with 4 wives smoking weed all day long making love. Instead of this drama lol.--[[User:LIOD|<font style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="#0000A0" face="Kristen ITC"><b>LIOD</b></font></font>]][[File:Phoenix_Emblem.png|26px|link=Special:Contributions/LIOD]] 23:23, 24 May 2017 (EDT)

Here is some info from our forum: https://forum.encyclopediadramatica.rs/threads/ed-is-being-sued-we-need-your-help.28864/ --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 08:45, 25 May 2017 (EDT)

:Smh I doubt this [[lolsuit|"lawsuit"]] will go anywhere. And as far as copyright laws go, isn't ED hosted in Sweden, or somewhere, that doesn't recognize U.S. copyright law? This just seems like another petty effort to [[take down ED]]. Pretty soon, Jonathan will get so desperate, [[NYPA|he'll try to get his fellow Kiwis to DDOS us]]. [[User:Heatsink|Heat Sink]] [[File:HeatsinkSignature.png|link=User:Heatsink]] 15:36, 26 May 2017 (EDT)

*Yeah it'll probably be thrown out of the courtroom but ED still needs the money to get a lawyer or we lose by default (I think, I'm not too sure). [[User:Schnitzel|<font style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="#993300" face="Kristen ITC"><b>SCHNITZEL</b></font></font>]][[User Talk:Schnitzel|<font color="#FF6600" face="Agency FB"><b> RADDA RADDA</b></font>]][[File:Schnitzel2.jpg|26px|link=Special:Contributions/Schnitzel]] 17:36, 26 May 2017 (EDT)

:: I'm not going to comment on the legalities of the issue, mainly because I'm not a lawyer {{jew}}. I'll observe that international copyright laws were harmonised by the Berne Convention, which is worth looking up. Anyways, I have given you some gold, even though you break my poor mother's heart. Will chip in more if and when I am able, even though - $50k? Where did you get that quote?? [[User:Sidecar|Sidecar]] 15:27, 30 May 2017 (EDT)

:::This guy isn't a copyright attorney. Doesn't fuckin' matter. Google the fucker. [https://www.legaldirectories.com/Hardway-Dan-L-773084-Atty.aspx ]'''&mdash;&nbsp;<span style="background:#000; font-size:1.25em; padding:2px;">&nbsp;[[User:VX|<span style="color:#DD0000;">V</span>]][[User talk:VX|<span style="color:#DD0000;">X</span>]]&nbsp;'''</span> 20:14, 30 May 2017 (EDT)
:::Got the quote from our lawyer. He is a thousand dollar an hour attorney and he thinks it will take about 80 hours since the other guy has a very expensive lawyer as well, that is a discount. --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 05:48, 1 June 2017 (EDT)

::::It's not really a question of "the lawyer makes this much" or "the lawyer is paid this much".  The point is when you're counter suing you want as much money as possible and, obviously, so does the lawyer.  So if the lawyer says they get paid $1,000 an hour and it's going to take at least 80 hours of work, that basically translates to: "We're counter-suing for $80,000 in legal expenses."

::::If the lawyer said they were doing it for free or that they got paid minimum wage, then there would be no justifiable reason to counter-sue for lots of money in legal expenses.

::::That said, you didn't technically need a lawyer.  This guy has done this before and lost.  So all you had to do was look up the old cases where he lost and just copy and paste their shit nearly verbatim and you would have won.  The point of having a lawyer though, in this case, is to try and inflict as much potential and possible legal damage to ensure the fuckstick doesn't ever do it again.  Because that's just the way certain mallet heads are, they just don't learn unless they're financially crippled in the process.  --[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] 06:59, 1 June 2017 (EDT)

There's [https://kiwifarms.net/threads/jon-monsarrat-jonathan-graves-monsarrat-jonmon-mitcarpediem.31036/page-3#post-2326280 a bit more on the table]. https://www.bizapedia.com/ma/monsarrat-inc.html --[[User:Sd-100|Sd-100]] ([[User talk:Sd-100|talk]]) 10:49, 12 June 2017 (EDT)

== UPGRADE ==

{{achtung|WIKI HAS BEEN UPGRADED. LOTS OF SHIT NEEDS FIXING ASAP!!}}

It's sure nice to have a fresh, new install of MediaWiki! [[User:Heatsink|Heat Sink]] [[File:HeatsinkSignature.png|link=User:Heatsink]] 20:22, 1 June 2017 (EDT)

*I'm guessing the bots are down. Also aren't we a few years late on an update? [[User:Schnitzel|<font style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="#993300" face="Kristen ITC"><b>SCHNITZEL</b></font></font>]][[User Talk:Schnitzel|<font color="#FF6600" face="Agency FB"><b> RADDA RADDA</b></font>]][[File:Schnitzel2.jpg|26px|link=Special:Contributions/Schnitzel]] 20:54, 1 June 2017 (EDT)

Lots of broken thumbnails and youtube tags not working on older pages. [[User:Uberfukken|Uberfukken]] ([[User talk:Uberfukken|talk]]) 20:57, 1 June 2017 (EDT)
[[File:Upgrade errors.png|thumb|left]]

And the site layout is different... i.e. "blocked" instead of "raeped" in the block log in [[rc]]. [[User:Heatsink|<font color="#2C9E60">Heat Sink</font>]] [[File:HeatsinkSignature.png|link=User:Heatsink]] 21:07, 1 June 2017 (EDT)

:Feels different. Yet nothing of value was lost {{user:NKO/sig}} 21:19, 1 June 2017 (EDT)
::Earnestly agree. It's 2017, and only now are we using the latest, far superior version of mediawiki. [[User:Heatsink|<font color="#2C9E60">Heat Sink</font>]] [[File:HeatsinkSignature.png|link=User:Heatsink]] 21:42, 1 June 2017 (EDT)

A lot of the templates are broken, the gallery expansion being the most important.  The Photoframe one is broken too.  No signature button when editing it seems... guess you have to put it in manually?  Or does it do it automatically? --[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] ([[User talk:Mimkrys|talk]]) 21:42, 1 June 2017 (EDT)

The YouTube tag does not work with a center tag, but it works without. [[File:Cobalt Cat.jpg|25px]] [[user:Cobaltcat|<font color="green">CobaltCat</font>]] 03:46, 2 June 2017 (EDT) 
: Am so impressed, am preparing lots of powerhorse to re-edit those pages I added </center/> syntax to em videos. Honestly the site is now super-epic slow, sometimes is giving me cloud at host is down & seriously whose idea was it to upgrade? I can't even go to Preferences without waiting for 5 minutes followed by nothing happening when I click Appearance or Recent Changes... geez even this text am writing right now is out of context -[[User:LIOD|<font style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="#0000A0" face="Kristen ITC"><b>LIOD</b></font></font>]][[File:Phoenix_Emblem.png|26px|link=Special:Contributions/LIOD]] 06:37, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
::That is because we are working on the server. --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 06:47, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
Thumbnails fixed and youtube resolved, the only issue I see now is the hide/collapse on various templates (series, galleries) getting borked.  I'm not sure if that's an extension or just really crafty wiki markup. [[User:Uberfukken|Uberfukken]] ([[User talk:Uberfukken|talk]]) 09:59, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
::: MediaWiki updated these items. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Collapsible_elements] At the moment I don't know what the best solution is. [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 10:14, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
:::: Well that's not too bad, looks like they just changed the syntax. Probably an easy fix after it's been done once. I'll have some time this weekend so if nobody figures it out by tomorrow I'll take a crack at it. [[User:Uberfukken|Uberfukken]] ([[User talk:Uberfukken|talk]]) 10:21, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
:::::[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Template:Advice&diff=1014018&oldid=854065 It can be done]. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 11:48, 2 June 2017 (EDT)

:videoframe, photoframe etc aren't working. Photoframe has gotten an upgrade in the form of gallery mode slideshow. which is better than photoframe. But if we fix photoframe, textframe and videoframe will be easy to fix as well. Wat do? [[File:Cobalt Cat.jpg|25px]] [[user:Cobaltcat|<font color="green">CobaltCat</font>]] 07:20, 3 June 2017 (EDT) 
:: even thumbs are bigger in size, way bigger. don't have the old thumbs side but someone could look em up. [[User:LIOD|<font style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="#0000A0" face="Kristen ITC"><b>LIOD</b></font></font>]][[File:Phoenix_Emblem.png|26px|link=Special:Contributions/LIOD]] 20:14, 4 June 2017 (EDT)

*The [[Encyclopedia Dramatica/Bookmarklet|ED Bookmarklet]] isn't working anymore either. [[User:Schnitzel|<font style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="#993300" face="Kristen ITC"><b>SCHNITZEL</b></font></font>]][[User Talk:Schnitzel|<font color="#FF6600" face="Agency FB"><b> RADDA RADDA</b></font>]][[File:Schnitzel2.jpg|26px|link=Special:Contributions/Schnitzel]] 08:21, 3 June 2017 (EDT)
**[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_Dramatica/Bookmarklet&diff=1014287 Fixed]. However, I'm a bit concerned about security: Contrary to what [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Widgets]] says, on ED, a person can turn any page in ''any namespace'' into a widget. Did we configure the extension correctly? --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 08:57, 3 June 2017 (EDT)
:::@[[User:JuniusThaddeus]] I just put <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Crystal_Clear_action_run.png/40px-Crystal_Clear_action_run.png"> into [[User:Wnt/sandbox2]], and it displays there without processing the img tag.  But {{#widget:User:Wnt/sandbox2}} displays the graphic fine.  Now, for most of the really fun stuff I'd like to try, I'd have to enable scripts to test it, and you know I don't enable scripts for this site, I mean, it's too pretty ''not'' to use a condom.  But I'm thinking there's much fun to be had, if you don't mind taking a little AZT afterwards. [[User:Wnt|Wnt]] ([[User talk:Wnt|talk]]) 22:06, 10 June 2017 (EDT)

=== Tasks ===

Good work on upgrading the MediaWiki software. As is obvious, there are a lot of bugs and broken scripts we need to fix. Please add in suggestions below.

====Main Page====
I rewrote that Main Page so that users with small screens don't have to scroll horizontally. Please report any problem so that we can look into them. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 14:03, 3 June 2017 (EDT)

====Search suggestions (resolved) ====
Problem: auto-search isn't working (as in when you search something on the site and it brings up pages)
:autosuggest works fine for me. -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 17:48, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
::Its working for me now. Its just within a day of the upgrade that it seemed bugged. -[[File:Swasikasig.jpg|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 06:11, 3 June 2017 (EDT)

====Half-screen==== 
Problem: the sites format looks bad when not viewed in full-screen

:Hide the sidebar in mobile.  Takes up half the screen. [[User:Uberfukken|Uberfukken]] ([[User talk:Uberfukken|talk]]) 10:04, 2 June 2017 (EDT)

==== YouTube / Video Galleries ====
Problem: youtube autoplays, galleries, etc are all fucked up
:[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Template:Videoframe&diff=1016679 I rewrote the "videoframe" template]. It should work now. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 23:54, 12 June 2017 (EDT)

==== Photo Galleries ====
[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Template:Collapsegallery&diff=1014079&oldid=827808 Fixed]. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 23:23, 2 June 2017 (EDT)

:Some galleries have two expand buttons where one doesn't work. --[[User:Killerratte|Killerratte]] ([[User talk:Killerratte|talk]]) 10:06, 5 June 2017 (EDT)

:: If possible please provide a link when reporting an issue. Thanks! [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 17:53, 6 June 2017 (EDT)

::: https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Whore Here, second gallery. --[[User:Killerratte|Killerratte]] ([[User talk:Killerratte|talk]]) 18:46, 11 June 2017 (EDT)
::::[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Whore&diff=1016220 Fixed]. id's can't contain spaces. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 19:31, 11 June 2017 (EDT)

==== Page views (won't fix) ====
{{Notice|RIP 35,000,000 main page views}}
Problem: not showing
* Page views and related features such as '''Most Viewed Pages''' were removed in MediaWiki 1.25 [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25#Hit_counters_removed]. Page views were removed because they aren't reliable but some information is better than nothing. There is an extension but I'm really iffy about it. Marking as won't fix for now. [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 09:28, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
:*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters this extension] will restore the counts (unless we are upgraded to MW 1.26 or soemthing) -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 17:38, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
:ps: [[Special:PopularPages]] no longer works. -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 18:23, 2 June 2017 (EDT)
{{quote|Currently it is only possible to migrate wikis using MW 1.25 to use this extension. A fresh install in MW 1.26 and higher is not possible! Attention: If you do not act according to the following instructions, an update to MediaWiki 1.26 or newer can permanently delete your hitcounter numbers! See task T120216.}}
: I don't trust this extension, the warning above is a red flag, this issue should have been resolved long ago. This extension was last updated 2015-11-24. PopularPages was also removed by MediaWiki. [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 16:04, 6 June 2017 (EDT)
::thats gay -[[File:Swasikasig.jpg|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 00:46, 7 June 2017 (EDT)

====Morphquote is broken====
*The [[Template:Morphquote|Morphquote]] needs fixing, you can see what I mean in the [[Jewnited_States_of_Americunts|Jewnited States of Americunts]] article. [[File:GWCLPcustomsig.jpg|25px|link=User:GuyWithCreepyLuigiPic]] ([[User talk:GuyWithCreepyLuigiPic|talk]]) 17:17, 3 June 2017 (EDT)
**[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Template:Morphquote&diff=1015876 I've implemented a stop-gap solution]. Sorry for the wait; I was overseas for the past week. I'll try to implement a better solution once I have the time, but I've a novice at JavaScript. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 01:11, 11 June 2017 (EDT)
***[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=1016656&oldid=1013999 I've wrote a new morphquote script]. The Morphquote template should work again. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 20:41, 12 June 2017 (EDT)
****I found the new template worked but with examples of very long quotes the template needs a height adjustment. For example on the Tony Abbott page the template worked fine in the past but after the changes some lines of texts were placed over the top of each other [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Tony_Abbott&curid=259027&diff=1016702&oldid=1016292 a height change] fixed it. I don't know if there are other uses of the template with this issue, but I imagine its a case of people fixing it as they find it, so no biggy. —'''''[[User:Oblique|Oblique]]''''' <small>([[User talk:Oblique|chats]])</small> 01:52, 13 June 2017 (EDT)
*****The overlapping is from people setting a strict "height" instead of using the more forgiving "min-height": [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Gay_Nigger_Association_of_America/Victories&diff=1016736], [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Men%27s_Rights_Activist&diff=1016737]. I've [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Template:Morphquote&diff=1016739 changed the examples] used on the template page so that people copying the examples found there use "min-height" instead of "height".  --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 09:59, 13 June 2017 (EDT)
******Awesome —'''''[[User:Oblique|Oblique]]''''' <small>([[User talk:Oblique|chats]])</small> 23:54, 13 June 2017 (EDT)

====Show/hide revisions====
i no longer see the option to show/hide upload logs, deletion logs, etc. i looked around on mediawiki.org but i don't see any way to do it. -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 17:17, 3 June 2017 (EDT)
:RevDel'ling isn't enabled by default. In order to enable the feature, follow the instructions located at [[mediawikiwiki:Manual:RevisionDelete#Enabling]]. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 17:31, 3 June 2017 (EDT)
You realize the release of 1.29 is imminent, right? [[User:Da bulls|Da bulls]] ([[User talk:Da bulls|talk]]) 19:52, 3 June 2017 (EDT)
::Barth/Seebeen please [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RevisionDelete enable this]. --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 11:10, 4 June 2017 (EDT)

Should be fixed now. [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 17:55, 6 June 2017 (EDT)
:i don't see the option in the move log nor in the user rename log so i removed 'resolved' from the header. -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 14:48, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

==== twittercards  ====

do twittercards work anymore? the one for pepe was only showing the markup so i removed it for now -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 16:52, 4 June 2017 (EDT)

: doesn't work in many pages, [[sjw|this exmaple]]. or search {{#shtml: and have a look at how many pages are affected [[User:LIOD|<font style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="#0000A0" face="Kristen ITC"><b>LIOD</b></font></font>]][[File:Phoenix_Emblem.png|26px|link=Special:Contributions/LIOD]] 22:27, 17 June 2017 (EDT)

==== Uploaded video (won't fix) ====

Uploaded video isn't working and the upload limit isn't 32 it's about 10, which kind of sucks because I have a video to upload that's like 9.97 MB but it won't go through.  --[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] ([[User talk:Mimkrys|talk]]) 19:05, 4 June 2017 (EDT)
:I can upload it directly to the wiki, format it in webm and email me contact@encyclopediadramatica.se --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 07:55, 7 June 2017 (EDT)

::Even the stuff I can upload that's under 10 MB won't work...
::[[File:South_Park_Abortion.mp4]]
::[[File:South_Park_Abortion.mkv]]
::[[File:South_Park_Abortion.mov]]

::For some reason it doesn't even seem to recognize that mp4 files have been uploaded as they show up as a red link.  And mkv/mov turns up busted.
::--[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] ([[User talk:Mimkrys|talk]]) 03:55, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

==== USER GROUP RIGHTS (resolved) ====

I have reviewed [[Special:ListGroupRights|User Group Rights]]. If anything needs fine tuning then please let me know. [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 17:47, 6 June 2017 (EDT)
:see IRC '''&mdash;&nbsp;<span style="background:#000; font-size:1.25em; padding:2px;">&nbsp;[[User:VX|<span style="color:#DD0000;">V</span>]][[User talk:VX|<span style="color:#DD0000;">X</span>]]&nbsp;'''</span> 13:01, 7 June 2017 (EDT)

====Section editing link (resolved)====
the section edit links are no longer right-justified. wikipedia has a way to change this in preferences but i don't see this option in my preferences. is there any way to make an option to move those edit links to the right? if not nbd but worth asking about. :) -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 21:49, 10 June 2017 (EDT)

: Fixed for MonoBook. [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AMonobook.css&type=revision&diff=1016216&oldid=1016215] If there is an issue you can undo this change or update the other skins. [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 19:25, 11 June 2017 (EDT)

====syntax error (resolved) ====
this popped up when poking around in preferences:
<blockquote>Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/wiki/public_html/skins/adspace_desktop_sidebar.php on line 167</blockquote>

idk whether this is worth mentioning or not. -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 21:49, 10 June 2017 (EDT)

: I am gay, should be fixed. [[User:Barth|Barth]] ([[User talk:Barth|talk]]) 19:25, 11 June 2017 (EDT)

a weird error popped up, this time on the top, over the sitenotice:
<pre>
Notice: Undefined index: start in /home/wiki/public_html/extensions/EmbedVideo/classes/media/VideoTransformOutput.php on line 78

Notice: Undefined index: end in /home/wiki/public_html/extensions/EmbedVideo/classes/media/VideoTransformOutput.php on line 78

Notice: Undefined index: start in /home/wiki/public_html/extensions/EmbedVideo/classes/media/VideoTransformOutput.php on line 78

Notice: Undefined index: end in /home/wiki/public_html/extensions/EmbedVideo/classes/media/VideoTransformOutput.php on line 78
</pre>
*that said, i see the South Park vid above works now. :D -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 14:51, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

====Navigation popups revisited====
now that mediawiki is upgraded, could we have a look at adding [[wikipedia:WP:NAVPOP|navigation popups]] capability? it was discussed [[Encyclopedia_Dramatica:Thizzlehat_Junction_Center/Archive/12#MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js|here]] way back in April 2012. :o -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 22:00, 10 June 2017 (EDT)
:I've imported [[MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js]] and [[MediaWiki:Gadget-navpop.css]], but [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=User:JuniusThaddeus/common.js&diff=1017985 I couldn't get them to function as intended]. Someone with more knowledge of JavaScript might have better luck. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 20:01, 18 June 2017 (EDT)
::thx for trying JT. :) -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 14:51, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

===Awesome shit from the upgrade===
#diffs can be linked via a special page: [[special:diff/21234]]
#oldids can be similarly linked: [[special:PermanentLink/1015693]]
#Super-fast uploads
#the 'side-by-side' wikitext/preview/changes option (like Free Uncyc has/had).

===[[Template:Scrollpic]] broken===
As you can see it gives an error saying the revision does not exist, contrary to what the page history shows. Also attempts to view source are blank. Got me reading into this occurance on mediawiki which lead me to [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_inconsistencies this], maybe this happened? Somebody with access plz look into it. Thankiez <3 <3 —'''''[[User:Oblique|Oblique]]''''' <small>([[User talk:Oblique|chats]])</small> 08:32, 21 June 2017 (EDT)
:[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=Template%3AScrollpic Deleting and then restoring the template] fixed the issue. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 10:07, 21 June 2017 (EDT)
::'''Update:''' [http://archive.is/tc1oN Multiple pages are affected by this issue]. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 10:14, 21 June 2017 (EDT)
:::I've going to have to restore some pages using archive.org, since the page history of certain pages are completely gone. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 10:24, 21 June 2017 (EDT)
::::I fixed it by making scrollpic2. [[File:Cobalt Cat.jpg|25px]] [[user:Cobaltcat|<font color="green">CobaltCat</font>]] 10:42, 21 June 2017 (EDT)
:::::That wasn't necessary. [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_Dramatica:Thizzlehat_Junction_Center&diff=1018682 I already said that the problem was fixed]. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 11:50, 21 June 2017 (EDT)

::All affected pages (or at least all those currently indexed by Google) [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=20170621150000&limit=47&type=delete have been fixed]. --[[User:JuniusThaddeus|JuniusThaddeus]] ([[User talk:JuniusThaddeus|talk]]) 11:54, 21 June 2017 (EDT)

== Please! plaster CC-BY notices on EVERYTHING ==

If some copyright troll manages to win out by virtue of US law being designed to screw the poor, he's going to try to get copyright over the entire contents of ED, or whatever he can.  Now to be sure, the site's current approach is, at least in part, to say that it's hosted in Ukraine which "doesn't recognize copyright law on the internet", and that's great, but the problem is, I'm not sure it's true, since I'm reading that the ED servers are really in the U.S., probably in the shadow of some FBI building like every other goddamned server on the entire "free, distributed Internet", I mean, you could drop one small North Korean nuke on Reston, VA and there would ''literally be nothing left'' on the Interwebs except a couple of old goatse pictures and Make.Money.Fast letters on some Windows 95 systems nobody remembered to update.  But I digress, point is:

PLEASE, put CC-BY notices on EVERY SINGLE PAGE NOW.  Then if (when) some court decides to hand over your rights to some fuckhead or other, the resurrectors can at least try to claim they have a right to copy the content.  Not that that really works because they're poor and whoever doing the stealing will be rich, but it might faze the bastards a minute.  I don't want them claiming that this page or that page wasn't public, hence is now their private fucking property; if something doesn't turn out to be fully released anyway, at least that stays with its "owner" and not with THEM.  We didn't make all our glorious edits to have them be some dipshits' hood ornament.  Remember -- this is an age of lords and serfs, so nobody worth speaking of owns anything that isn't free for everyone. [[User:Wnt|Wnt]] ([[User talk:Wnt|talk]]) 21:43, 10 June 2017 (EDT)
:I can personally assure you that ED is not hosted in the US and its servers are not subject to Anglo style copyright law. In fact, the law of the land does not and cannot provide for the scenario you put forward. '''&mdash;&nbsp;<span style="background:#000; font-size:1.25em; padding:2px;">&nbsp;[[User:VX|<span style="color:#DD0000;">V</span>]][[User talk:VX|<span style="color:#DD0000;">X</span>]]&nbsp;'''</span> 22:05, 10 June 2017 (EDT)
::i vote we put pictures of mike the great's dick on every page instead. —'''''[[User:Oblique|Oblique]]''''' <small>([[User talk:Oblique|chats]])</small> 00:14, 11 June 2017 (EDT)

:::What needs to be done and such. {{User:Mike the Great/Sig}} {{User:Mike/Gay time}}04:20, 11 June 2017 (EDT){{User:Mike/Not gay time}}
:::[[file:second.jpg]] -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 02:59, 11 June 2017 (EDT)

::[[User:VX]] Here's a recent case: [https://www.prnewschannel.com/2015/10/23/another-big-win-for-ripoffreport-website-prevails-against-massachusetts-attorney-richard-goren-over-bad-review/]  Someone filed a nasty review in Ripoff Report about a company.  So the company sued the poster and got a judgment against him that found the post "false and defamatory" and assigned copyright to the company.  They then tried to make Ripoff Report take it down, but that site refused; they claimed they had the copyright, but the court said the CC-license was irrevocable.  I remember reading about a case where the suer didn't even find the original poster and got a default judgment without speaking to him at all - I don't remember if this was the one though.  But it ''could'' have happened that way.  I mean, when courts do default judgments, it's all a bunch of lawyers who know each other standing around talking and laughing and making plans for liquid lunch afterward, the only thing missing is anyone who gives a shit about the defendant. [[User:Wnt|Wnt]] ([[User talk:Wnt|talk]]) 09:53, 11 June 2017 (EDT)

:::Speak for yourself, Wnt, you TOW free-licensing whore. Everyone i know modifies any pic they post so they aren't exact copies and claims fair use. Go back to [[Commons]] and suck Russavia's cock. [[User:Vigilant&#39;s Vagoo|Vigilant&#39;s Vagoo]] ([[User talk:Vigilant&#39;s Vagoo|talk]]) 22:11, 11 June 2017 (EDT)


Some of you don't seem to understand how copyright registration works.  The copyright office... the whole thing... it only exists because the constitution specifically says that it should exist.  Meaning it does not actually serve any viable point or purpose and is in fact, largely, a joke.  If you actually e-mail the US copyright office they will actually explain to you, at length, exactly how pointless and stupid they really are.  Here's a couple fun excerpts...

[[Image:Copyright_Registration_Is_Literally_Pointless.png|left]]{{clear}}

The gist of it being that ANYONE can file a copyright claim with the US Copyright Office, even if you don't specifically own the copyright in question, you can register for anyone else, including yourself, even if you have no right to it and they will:

A. Not actually bother to check, at all, to see if you really are the owner or are even authorized by the owner to make the claim.

B. Not actually bother to check and see if an IDENTICAL copyright claim has already been made.

C. Will not do ANY fact checking, research or otherwise to even remotely determine the potential validity of any such claim entered into their database.

They openly and admittedly serve no quantifiable purpose whatsoever.  They are literally keeping an arbitrary database of completely unsubstantiated, completely unverified claims/data which are constantly and continually abused in courts.  The US copyright office is effectively a small child scribbling incoherently all over the walls expecting mommy Justice Department to continually clean up their messes.  At best they're a waste of tax payer dollars, at worst they're a complex government level form of money laundering being rampantly abused at the expense of the American public.  In short... they should not exist, they have no reasonable purpose or function whatsoever and, worst of all, they openly admit to this fact and operate under the delusion that it's somehow "normal" or "acceptable" simply because there's some random, most likely misinterpreted text in the Constitution.

You scribbling shit all over that idiot wall isn't going to serve any point because every single person on the face of the planet could all register THE EXACT SAME CONTENT and that idiot department won't even blink in the face of it.  As far as they're concerned every piece of material ever produced, ever, could all be claimed by every person on the planet and they would not even give one fuck all in any direction.

TL;DR - Copyright registration serves no purpose other than to be used as a arbitrary, unsubstantiated, numerical point of reference when you're filing a lolsuit.  It does not, in any way, hold ANY legal weight on its own.  Period.  --[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] ([[User talk:Mimkrys|talk]]) 00:29, 12 June 2017 (EDT)

: I am not a lawyer, but the above makes the US Copyright Office sound like a freeman-on-the-land type of scam. A crash-course at the University of Google has provided me with a totally-valid Diploma of Learnings, which informs me that although the copyright office will usually just rubber-stamp any old crap that lands on their desks, the certificate is proof that a registration was made. It is not proof that the registration was obtained honestly and fairly. The key phrase is there there is a [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/410 "rebuttable presumption of 410"] - i.e., it's up to the plaintiff to prove to the court that the certificate was obtained falsely. Once you have proved that to the court's satisfaction, the IP thief's certificate instantly becomes worthless, and you've won your case. Obviously, this information is fuck all interest or indeed use to anyone reading it, but I had 10 minutes to kill while my dinner was cooking. [[User:Sidecar|Sidecar]] ([[User talk:Sidecar|talk]]) 18:57, 20 June 2017 (EDT)

==Meta Settings==
How do I edit meta settings on a page with the new mediawiki software? I want to rig google to put the [[Randy Robert Stair]] article at the top of the searches again to bring in some more views for ED. -[[File:Swasikasig.jpg|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 19:09, 12 June 2017 (EDT)

:If I recall, the extension we used was deprecated, buggy, not maintained, and more almost certainly removed entirely from this install, as it wasn't compatible with anything resembling a modern MW version. Pretty sure it was [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Advanced_Meta this one] {{User:Mike the Great/Sig}} {{User:Mike/Gay time}}23:30, 12 June 2017 (EDT){{User:Mike/Not gay time}}
::That sucks. I was able to get a lot of projects to the top of google search through utilizing the meta settings properly. If anyone finds a decent meta addon that works or whatever the fuck pls get it installed ty -[[File:Swasikasig.jpg|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 20:50, 12 June 2017 (EDT)
::I will check it out. --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 05:39, 13 June 2017 (EDT)
:::what about [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_HTML_Meta_and_Title this one]? --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 05:44, 13 June 2017 (EDT)

::::That could work out. A lot of people think meta editing can be useless but it seemed to help me rig the fuck out of google to bring lots of our articles to the top. But I'm surprised those kikes haven't banned us from the search engine yet. It's not of the utmost priority but if one of you wanna go for that plugin go for it. -[[File:Swasikasig.jpg|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 09:18, 13 June 2017 (EDT)

:::::The Kraut kikes have banned ED, if I recall correctly. [[File:Cobalt Cat.jpg|25px]] [[user:Cobaltcat|<font color="green">CobaltCat</font>]] 09:26, 13 June 2017 (EDT)

::::::They banned entire access to my YT channel from their country as well. Most germans I know have to use proxies to do anything online these days. -[[File:Swasikasig.jpg|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 09:34, 13 June 2017 (EDT)

::::"Extension:WikiSEO is based on this extension, but rewritten to modern MediaWiki standards and under active development." [[MW:Extension:WikiSEO]] {{User:Mike the Great/Sig}} {{User:Mike/Gay time}}17:44, 13 June 2017 (EDT){{User:Mike/Not gay time}}
:::::^this plz. the meta settings, broken and all, were awesome for helping a page reach the top of google results especially alt-title. -''[[user talk:hipcrime|hipcrime]]'' [[File:Emote Pop tart cat.gif|link=user:hipcrime]] 14:56, 19 June 2017 (EDT)
::::::Ok will do, give me some time to figure out how to install it. EDIT: Oh ok looks easy enough. --[[User:Mantequilla|Mantequilla]] [[User_talk:Mantequilla|(talk)]] [[File:Mantequilla.png|25px|link=Special:Contributions/Mantequilla]] 19:28, 20 June 2017 (EDT)

==Breaking Tranny News==
Oregon has gone full retard...
[[Image:Insane_In_Oregon.jpg|thumb|left]]{{clear}}

I'm sure glad millions in tax payer dollars are going to solve an imaginary problem affecting about .3% of the population... cause, ya know, that's exactly how a society should work! :D

Er, crumble, I mean... crumble, yes.

Next up let's put our ENTIRE national budget into restructuring the whole of society to better accommodate the specific and individual needs of some random dude name Trevor living in South Dakota... this will be a GOOD IDEA!  --[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] ([[User talk:Mimkrys|talk]]) 22:21, 16 June 2017 (EDT)

==The Ride Never Ends==
[[Image:Well_Who_Saw_THAT_Coming.png|left]]{{clear}}

&#42;makes popcorn&#42;

I need to make my hands all greasy for when I masturbate over this...

<youtube>Vbe4vX76UWU</youtube>

I'm lovin it!  :D

--[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] ([[User talk:Mimkrys|talk]]) 22:14, 18 June 2017 (EDT)
:[http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/finsbury-park-london-england-terrorist-attack-car-van-drives-over-muslims-people-youtube-video/ Heavy has some good shit.] [[File:Cobalt Cat.jpg|25px]] [[user:Cobaltcat|<font color="green">CobaltCat</font>]] 02:31, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

::When will [[Hitler]] come back? We need that dude back in power. -[[File:Rapeface.png|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 03:24, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

==SEO Is Slow==
Used to be Google would pick up newly created ED articles in 1 to 3 days at most, even really obscure shit, now it's taking around a week for most of them to pop in (since the upgrade).  Not sure if there's some way to speed that up.  Might be different for featured articles (faster), I've only been keeping track of non-featured ones.  --[[User:Mimkrys|Mimkrys]] ([[User talk:Mimkrys|talk]]) 15:38, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

:When someone finds a good addon for that n installs that shit -[[File:Rapeface.png|25px|link=User:AlGore]] ([[User talk:AlGore|Al Gore]]) 17:11, 19 June 2017 (EDT)