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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Roller coasters that closed in 2002

A tag has been placed on Category:Roller coasters that closed in 2002 indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 12:07, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Loads of script errors

after this change, for example at the top of Pat Hartigan. Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Frietjes Oops, that was supposed to go in the sandbox. --Ahecht (TALK
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no problem, seems to be fixed now. Frietjes (talk) 15:47, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Re: ircredirect

Why do you need 'redis' here and what does it do? Gryllida (talk, e-mail) 23:59, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gryllida Redis is a very simple database that can be used to store and retrieve small amounts of persistent data. The script generates nicknames by incrementing through a list of adjectives and two-digit numbers and adding a randomly-chosen noun in the middle. Redis is used to keep track of the last-used position in the list. This is done, rather than just choosing everything randomly, to avoid the chances of having similar names in the IRC channel at the same time. --Ahecht (TALK
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Circles of latitude experiment.

I have boldly merged the northernmost five freestanding circles of latitude into Circles of latitude between the 80th parallel north and the 85th parallel north. It could be refined further, but I think this works as a model. BD2412 T 03:14, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@BD2412 👍 --Ahecht (TALK
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I went with a much bigger swath for Circles of latitude between the 55th parallel south and the 80th parallel south because the entire band is pretty much nothing but ocean and Antarctica. I don't think there is any other set of circles of latitude for which this would be justified. BD2412 T 03:38, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki internal errors

Hi, don't know how closely you watch the Village Pump, but did you see this thread? It's happening to me again this morning, so I just checked in on T389734 to check on their progress in tracking it down. Looks like a bug in the GNU C Library glibc was found and reported. But, a couple days ago, the comment A likely cause for the increase in exception rate in February is this edit. I just thought you would like to know. I recall how, nearly 30 years ago now, I ran code that crashed my company's mainframes. Applications guys aren't supposed to ever be able to do that! I'm in awe of the systems guys' debugging work in that thread. wbm1058 (talk) 13:25, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Wbm1058 Wow, I never wouldn't imagined that the full descriptions for each tag would be loaded every time the drop-down of tag names was populated, never mind being parsed. --Ahecht (TALK
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