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API

Search Functionality Suggestion

The search functionality of the API seems not to be all that functional. This is kind of a deal breaker for a lot of applications since capitalization/spelling for user submitted requests are not usually the exact form as in Lyricwiki. One recommendation would be to switch the search backend to sphinx. This is super fast and easy to use. There is even a mediawiki extension to integrate sphinx better (probably won't work with the old mediawiki version you are running), but the google search you have for regular requests seems to be working well.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion on Sphinx. I'll look into that. As for capitalization, etc. the API should be fairly resilient to that sort of thing. It can handle aliases, weird capitalization, parentheses with "featuring so-and-so", and a bunch of other little tricks fairly well. Just pass in the artist and songname that you do have and see how it goes :) One notable exception is that if you pass in all-caps and the artist isn't all caps, then it doesn't match up very often. Overall the hit-rate was pretty good the last time I checked (I should check again).

Let me know if you find any really bad examples of the API missing common songs.

Thanks for the input,

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 12:04, 26 July 2008 (EDT)

JSON Support

It seems like API doesn't support JSON yet. Will it be implemented in the future?

In fact, I want to fetch API in Googlepage using pure HTML and JavaScript, which is known as AJAX. But we know JavaScript has cross domain limit, because of security of web browsers. I try a proxy solution to overcome this, but fail in the end. :( Below is what I do following AJAX Cross Domain's suggestion.

This doesn't work:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ajax-cross-domain.com/cgi-bin/ACD/ACD.js?uri=(http://lyricwiki.org/api.php?artist=U2)"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">  alert(ACD.responseText); </script>

But this work:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ajax-cross-domain.com/cgi-bin/ACD/ACD.js?uri=(http://www.google.com)"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">  alert(ACD.responseText); </script>

Looks like the proxy is denied by API. --Tomin 05:04, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

@Tomin: ajax-cross-domain.com does not offer the service to access any URL with their proxy. They only offer a simple perl script to place on YOUR server: download perl script. But still, see my request for a simple JavaScript file served from the lyricwiki.org servers below. This would help to overcome the cross site limitations of JS. (Fuzy 04:10, 21 May 2008 (EDT))

Fuzy, thanks for your explaining. I don't know how to use Perl. But I solve this simple need with Flash here in Googlepage. If there's a way to overcome JS Cross-Domain, I'll be glad to know since I've tried many.

Sean, could you imagine placing a JavaScript file on lyricwiki.org that would help to overcome JavaScript's cross-domain limitation? (Fuzy 17:35, 20 May 2008 (EDT))

NOTE: JS and JSON were added to the REST API.

I'm not sure if there is still a cross-domain problem, but haven't heard anything in a while.

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)

REST API functionality request

Hey Sean, can you please add something like a 404 reply on a non-existing song (so one can check simply by result status), or even better, a checkSong 'method' to the REST API?

It's not really an exact check to check against the string "Not found" to see whether lyrics have been found (alternatively, for fmt=xml, the element <lyrics/> could just be empty, it'd be just as good i guess, and would go with similar things that other websites do, like last.fm, which just keeps elements empty if there simply is no data).

UPDATE: BTW if you're looking for someone to maintain the frontend stuff (SOAP API, REST API, etc), i'd volunteer for this; i can't work on it 24/7 but i can do substantial work on it, so if you're interested please drop a line to internalerror AT_NOSPAM gmail DOT_NOSPAM com

Milosz

I've been thinking about it, and since a bunch of plugins/apps/sites already depend on the current (and admittedly lame) method, I think the best thing to do would be to change it for a version 2.0 (which would have a different URL).

Here are my thoughts on version 2.0... everyone, please feel free to comment and add suggestions:

1. There should be a more correct failure method.
2. It will be at a different URL, so it doesn't need to be backward compatible (but it should be close to make it easy for people to convert).
3. It should be more easy to upgrade versions than to change the URL.
4. I have to finish this list later... gg

-Sean Colombo 18:51, 26 May 2007 (EDT)

You don't need a different request URL, just another request argument containing a version number, like &version=2, which will then make it return like discussed an empty element if no lyrics were found (but implementing searchSong like also being discussed above, would already help)

-Milosz 16:25, 08 Jun 2007 (CEST)

Could someone please set up REST for full functionality? 196.203.18.57 10:51, 14 September 2007 (EDT)

This Opera widget: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/7046 needs full REST functionality, because it uses Javascript. Could some-one please work on a searching function? Thanks 196.203.20.67 10:15, 4 October 2007 (EDT)

FLASH API getSongResult

(Basti 15:17, 22 January 2008 (EST)) hi, i'm developing an Air Application using Flex Builder 3 Beta. I included your Webservice. When i call your function getSongResult with an non existing track - i get an xml file with the lyric tag: not found When i call this function with an existing track (air:all i need) i recived an error like this:

this is the message body in the baselyricwiki.as call method:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
    <ns7:getSongResult xmlns:ns7="urn:LyricWiki">
      <song xsi:type=":string">All I Need</song>
      <artist xsi:type=":string">Air</artist>
    </ns7:getSongResult>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

this is what i get in the processResult method: result.message.body: å?�?í�Šn�Ç�´—¡�?��œ?KÀ¡¦?å?�?í�Šn�Ç�´—¡�?��œ and this is the output of Flex:

Error: SOAP Response cannot be decoded. Raw response: x?í?Mo?@�?ïü?�?*9�ìöRQLäV©d)M«ÚMr?60?U?]´»??ï;°?¸N? ?ËÁ?ç	
	at mx.rpc.soap::SOAPDecoder/decodeEnvelope()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta3\sdk\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\soap\SOAPDecoder.as:249]
	at mx.rpc.soap::SOAPDecoder/decodeResponse()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta3\sdk\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\soap\SOAPDecoder.as:223]
	at org.lyricwiki::BaseLyricWiki/processResult()[/Users/sebastian_takomat/Documents/Flex Builder 3/PaperCloud/src/org/lyricwiki/BaseLyricWiki.as:678]
	at mx.rpc::AsyncResponder/result()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta3\sdk\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AsyncResponder.as:73]
	at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/acknowledge()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta3\sdk\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AsyncRequest.as:81]
	at DirectHTTPMessageResponder/completeHandler()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta3\sdk\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\messaging\channels\DirectHTTPChannel.as:387]
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
	at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

NOTE: This was most likely fixed when the remaining UTF-8 issues were fixed for the API about 2 weeks ago. -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 08:39, 1 August 2008 (EDT)

Semantic MediaWiki

Please comment on LyricWiki_talk:Esperanza#Semantic_MediaWiki as you would have to be the one to do anything we might decide on! :-) --Åqúàŧĩkī - É - Ŧ 03:01, 1 March 2008 (EST)

OK, dude, I'm totally stoked because I just got SMW to work right. I wrote about it some more at LW_t:Es (see above link), or you can just go to Sb.S-MW.org and check it out! Let's be the first lyric Web 3.0 website!!! ;-P --Åqúàŧĩkī - É - Ŧ 06:59, 23 May 2008 (EDT)

Not Categorized

Auto-generator

Okay, I officially hate the auto-generator. I've spent the past hour reverting pages due to essentially losing SOTD templates, SongFooter info, etc., while gaining misspelled words, minor changes in formatting, and updated album information that is incorrect. I don't mind the redirects to correctly-spelled pages, that's fine, but I'm a little perturbed that 90% of the auto-generator submissions scrap good, existing pages, for bad. Is there some way to stop the auto-generator from submitting for existing pages? Seriously harshing my calm, here.    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   00:37, 30 June 2008 (EDT)

Attendant has given us a measure of control over WikiLyrics, at LyricWiki:Wiki-Lyrics, which I think has been a long time coming. We can block old versions, as well as particular users from submitting with WL, without having to notify/request anything from Attendant. Cool.

Kiefer, would I be correct in saying that it was one user making the problems, or many? Right now, as a first measure, I have blocked the older versions of WL, which will force anyone using a buggy version to update to 0.12.12. Also: WL is Attendant's show, if we want any changes made to his extension, we need to let him know (good thing he is super proactive about it).

King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 01:26, 30 June 2008 (EDT)

The auto-generator has always been a bit of a problem. Any time I see a user's summary include that (autogen. song page (WLv0.12.10)) notice, I begin to twitch a little, because I know bad stuff is happening. It's great and fine when it's a brand new page, but basically any time it's pasting over an existing page, it requires reverting, or at the very least re-adding info to the SongFooter template. This particular rant was due to a very robust contributor yesterday, yes, but the problem is constant. I'll leave a note for Attendant, I guess.    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   08:38, 30 June 2008 (EDT)

Weird... why does it blow over existing pages? Are users hitting "update" on the plugin or is there an "add" that for some reason doesn't realize that the pages already exist (possibly a bug in the API?)?

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 08:41, 30 June 2008 (EDT)

Owl City

Sean,

I'm trying to post lyrics for Owl City but some blocker comes up. I don't know if you can fix the problem, but if you can that'd be great. Owl City is great music with even better lyrics and I've found that they aren't located on any other site, so I wanted to use this one to help spread the word about this amazing artist.

Thanks.

Hi,

What does the blocker say? Is there a specific part of the page which is getting stopped by the spam filter? (Usually it will say that it's a specific song-name or a line in the lyrics or something).

Thanks for your contributions,

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 15:37, 2 July 2008 (EDT)

Hi Sean, I'm trying to go through the list of categories and standardize things, but the spam filter is preventing me from updating the language on A Wilhelm Scream:The Horse due to its mention of Cele​brex. - DarthNemesis 12:51, 28 July 2008 (EDT)

It let me do it... --Aquatiki - T - E 19:05, 28 July 2008 (EDT)

Cannot add div and span tags to user page

Hello! I am PatPeter, administrator of a few Wikia wikis, bureaucrat on the dead Red Orchestra Wiki.

I have been meaning to make an account on this site for... months, just procrastinated to do it.

Anyway I am trying to add

<div style="XXX"> <div id="RealTitleBanner"> <span id="RealTitle">User:PatPeter - Lyrics from LyricWiki</span> </div> </div>

Where XXX is supposed to be display colon none semi-colon.

When I try to edit it it says due to this content, spam protection will not allow me to save.

I hope to contribute the best I can while here, cheers.

PatPeter 16:22, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

Hi PatPeter,

Welcome to the site! The reason that's filtered is that a lot of spam bots put hidden text in pages to try to get their links spidered but keep them invisible so that editors on the wiki don't notice it. We couldn't really think of a reason a real user would want to use that... what is that div supposed to do? It looks like it just wouldn't show up, but if that's the case, what purpose does it serve -is there a bot that looks for that div or an extension that uses it or something?

Thanks for the info,

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:41, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

No, let me put it this way, there are two titles on a wiki, the Browser Title and the Page Title. The code I gave you is the browser title, so instead of saying "User - PatPeter - lyrics from Lyric Wiki" it could say "User:PatPeter - lyrics from LyricWiki", since the colon is default in most Wikis. The Page Title does not interfere with the system, and only changes the display, so instead of "User talk:Sean Colonbo" it could say "Sean Colombo's talk page". PatPeter 11:47, 12 July 2008 (EDT)

Thanks for the clarification. I see the use, but at the same time we need to filter display-colon-none to keep the spam onslaught to a minimum... therefore, if you need to hide something, give it the CSS class "lw_dispNone" which I just added to MediaWiki:Monobook.css. That should do the trick :)

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 08:03, 15 July 2008 (EDT)

Danke! (thank you, German) -PatPeter 14:57, 24 July 2008 (EDT)

I will continue to try to find what System Message I have to edit to allow these tags to work (assuming MediaWiki:Common.css), I am talking to users now. -PatPeter 18:02, 24 July 2008 (EDT)

Page Ranking

As the big man, could I get your opinion on my page ranking proposal. I'll think you'll find I've made a lot of pretty templates! --Aquatiki - T - E 18:20, 26 July 2008 (EDT)

Pretty shweet :)

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 23:22, 26 July 2008 (EDT)

Thanks. --Aquatiki - T - E 23:53, 26 July 2008 (EDT)

P.S. Can I go ahead and change {{Song}} and {{Album}}? I've tested my changes at {{Song/Test}} and {{Album/Test}}. There aren't any visible changes that will occur (it's just adding a parameter star) but it'll still make the job queue go up around 600k to 1M. OK? --Aquatiki - T - E 00:03, 27 July 2008 (EDT)

Sounds good, thanks for letting me know :) I'll kick off runJobs.php in a few minutes

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 00:06, 27 July 2008 (EDT)

Job Queue

Just so you know it's up above 1.5 million. I think a few of us tweaked {{Artist}} and made a MediaWiki mess! --Aquatiki - T - E 00:21, 28 July 2008 (EDT)

Kicked off the runJobs script. Thanks for pointing that out!

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 01:22, 28 July 2008 (EDT)

Errors from SOTD update at 02:52, 3 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 2 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 02:52, 3 August 2008 (EDT)

Errors from SOTD update at 02:52, 4 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 1 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 02:52, 4 August 2008 (EDT)

Reloaded. -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 07:18, 4 August 2008 (EDT)

New Bot

Could you please change the account I created today for user Sandbot to a bot account? (Blame Aqua..he is mentoring me in this...lol) Thanks!!  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 04:35, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Botified -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 12:24, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Thank you :-)  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 23:43, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Errors from SOTD update at 02:55, 10 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 2 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 02:55, 10 August 2008 (EDT)

Errors from SOTD update at 02:51, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 1 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 02:51, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

Mischko grabbed this... thanks! :) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)

Can you please...

change this into a bot account. I wanted to change the name from Sandbot to SandBot. Although the other account can then be deleted, I'll have to move my user page to this account first. Thanks Sean! SandBot 10:46, 12 August 2008 (EDT) (aka Redxx)

Botted. :) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 10:48, 12 August 2008 (EDT)

Wow..that was quick!! Impressed. Thanks  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 11:20, 12 August 2008 (EDT)

Errors from SOTD update at 03:00, 14 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 2 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 03:00, 14 August 2008 (EDT)

Errors from SOTD update at 03:00, 17 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 2 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 03:00, 17 August 2008 (EDT)

Errors from SOTD update at 02:59, 19 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 2 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 02:59, 19 August 2008 (EDT)

Old account can be deleted now

Old account being Sandbot. Thanks again  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 11:40, 12 August 2008 (EDT)

Ended up doing a NOP on this one. Seems safer to leave it there and just redirect. -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)

Errors from SOTD update at 02:58, 24 August 2008 (EDT)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 2 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 02:58, 24 August 2008 (EDT)

Someone grabbed it for me :) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)

MediaWiki Version

Have you ever thought of upgrading LyricWiki.org? It is only on version 1.7.1 when MediaWiki can be upgraded to 1.12.0? PatPeter 10:44, 14 July 2008 (EDT)

Hiya,

Yup, we've thought about it and actually tried it once and it was a bit of a disaster (took about a week to recover from). If we're careful, we should probably take another crack at it though. We'll have to do something tricky because the databases aren't compatible (there is an upgrade-script) and we don't have enough spare hardware to test it fully... it could be done though & we should probably take another pass at it soon.

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 15:42, 14 July 2008 (EDT)

Watchlists

I don't know if it is just me, but when I went to my watchlist today, nothing was in bold, as if I had already visited all of the new pages. Also, when I try to hide both bots and my edits, it won't allow that. I can have either one, but when I click the other, the other part returns. (I can have neither one chosen, however.)    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   14:10, 27 July 2008 (EDT)

Oopsie. We uploaded a new Special:Watchlist that teknomunk wrote yesterday... thanks for the info!

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 15:00, 27 July 2008 (EDT)

The bot/own hiding should work now. Well, is has be committed to SVN anyways. I will be looking into why the bold doesn't work in a bit.

- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 21:11, 27 July 2008 (EDT)

Haven't been on in a few, but just as an update, nothing for me has changed.    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   22:16, 29 July 2008 (EDT)

It hasn't changed for me either, I don't think Sean has uploaded the version I committed to SVN yet, which should fix the bot/own hiding/showing stuff. As for the bold formatted links, I don't really know where to get started with fixing it, so it may be a while, unfortunatly.

- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 00:45, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Good catch guys. Hadn't uploaded it. It's up now though and it the bot/own edits hiding works. Even though uploading only takes a minute I tend to wait until I have at least half an hour in case I destroy something when I upload stuff. Anywho, thanks for reminding me!

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 08:13, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Ummm...still isn't working for me. Leaves a bit of mystery for me, though!    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   22:11, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

No, the bot/own hiding thing still not working properly for me either (nor bold).  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 10:00, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

Totally strange! It's definitely working for me (checked several times) so the new version is uploaded... seems like there must be a bug or something that is specific per-user? Does it work for you on the release server teknomunk?

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 13:08, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

It is not working for me.

- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 13:24, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

HA! I am the only one with working internets! I'm lucky :)

I'll take a look at it soon, but it's probably going to be exceedingly hard for me to test since it already works for me, so I'll head into IRC to see if anyone is around to help test when I get to that point. Maybe if I'm lucky teknomunk will beat me to it :)

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 14:40, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

I'm at work right now, but I should be home in 2:30, so I will catch you then if you are still hanging around.

- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 15:05, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

I'll probably be home sometime around 9 to 10pm EDT. -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:40, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

Still haven't fixed it.

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 08:39, 1 August 2008 (EDT)

Any new word on this situation? It's not a horrible problem, but it is a bit annoying. It started when the whole RSS thing started.    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   22:32, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Tonight we did a little more with it. The filtering should definitely be working now. If it's not, please let me know. The boldface issue is still hanging.

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 00:01, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

I can confirm that it does indeed work! Hooray!    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   20:58, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

Now please leave the poor guy alone now Kiefer! He's a very busy man. Besides, I don't like too much green on pages.. ;)  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 23:05, 9 August 2008 (EDT) *considering changing signature to a nice shade of purple*

fletter and "The"

Hi Sean. Just wanted to bring this discussion to your attention as a decision needs to be made on this and you're The Man for the job.. ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 19:26, 7 August 2008 (EDT)

I don't know how far this problem goes...

Sorry Sean I know you're busy but I can't see anyone else active to deal with this, only I've just discovered a problem that seems quite major to me, but I don't know how to deal with. I'm currently dealing with uncategorised songs, etc. KingNee showed me a shortcut being

{{SongFooter
 |fLetter  = {{SUBST:SONGFLETTER}}
 |album    = 
 |artist   = {{SUBST:ARTIST}}
 |song     = {{SUBST:SONG}}
 |video    = 
 |audio    = 
 |language = 
 |asin     = 
 |iTunes   = 
 }} 

However I tried this earlier and it don't seem to be working. By which I mean although the artist parameter seems ok, the |songparameter simply ends up as SONG and the |fLetter = SONGFLETTER Here’s an example: Cansei De Ser Sexy:Rat Is Dead (Rage)  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 08:04, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

I know why. Rat Is Dead (Rage) is (according to the magicword rules) an album. Anything with a title, a perens, four characters, and a close perens is an album. What that means is that any song with that particular configuration will need special attention. I checked Category:Songs SONGFLETTER, and it isn't a huge problem. Good catch, though. Yet more evidence that we need to pay attention when we are using anything automated.

King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 16:53, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

And can be quickly solved by changing the rule from "4 characters" to "4 digits or 4 question marks" (as in: ([0-9]{4}|\?{4}) ). But how do these codes work? They don't seem to be templates? --Mischko <img src="/images/3/31/Talkicon.png" alt="Talk to me" /> <img src="/images/1/1e/EsperanzaIcon.png" alt="Esperanza Member" /> 17:22, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

These codes are magic words, and are filled in by an extension. They operate the as {{PAGENAME}}.

- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 18:32, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks for the info KingNee. I've resumed work on the uncategorised (we are up to N now) and the aforementioned template seems to be working fine so it must be as you explained. I wasn't doing that category earlier, I was doing Category:Songs SONGFLETTER (it's totally empty now btw). However this isn't... Category:NofLetter :(
Anyway, in view of the time I spent doing this today, I updated the help page. Because whilst instructions were given on the completion of the fletter parameter in relation to album and artist pages, it was totally missing in relation to song pages.  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 19:24, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

Spam Filter Problem

I was trying to edit Abingdon Boys School:Lost Reason (Feat. Micro), updating the tag song with album and feature... but:

The following text is what triggered our spam filter: [Uh yeah! Now get ready y'all Pass the MIC let's carry on!! It's been a long time since the day I first met her And I thought she was the "one" forever But, break up she's gone now tokei no hari wa modose wa shinai Play back tomo ni sugoshita hibi ga ima Flash back tooku naru kimi no sono sugata I gotta let it go now She's been haunting me, so get it over You're the reason why I break down and cry No matter how I try

Dunno what to do now, you or anyone can help on this? [sorry for this bad bad english!] 189.72.110.235 07:55, 21 August 2008 (EDT)

I'm not too sure what triggered the spam filter, but the album and featured artist has now been updated by administrator Kiefer. Thanks for the info!  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 20:22, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

As an aside point, I also noticed that blanking pages has been disabled. So now, when a page just contains some spam, or a {{Split}} tag, I just delete the entire page. But of course, other users don't have that option. Is it possible to configure the software such that blanking pages is not allowed, except on talk pages? --Mischko <img src="/images/3/31/Talkicon.png" alt="Talk to me" /> <img src="/images/1/1e/EsperanzaIcon.png" alt="Esperanza Member" /> 05:00, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

woa, thanks all the administrators for me, for the quick update!!— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.14.135.222 (talk).

Thanks

Thank you for supporting something along the lines of open-source contribution. I am fed up with all this new world proprietary stuff, it just ruins the communities. I'm glad that my Amarok 1.4.10 can get the lyrics to almost EVERY song I have via the LyricWiki script coded in Ruby (again, open-source for the win)! You are truly a cornerstone to the future of open-source. The communities just need more people with the available time and dedication that you have shown in order to develop a significant presence in the interwebz.

Regards,

AlexRox Aka Alex AlexRox

Thanks for the compliment, also on behalf of Sean and the other administrators, I am sure. It's really nice to hear from our daily users directly, especially to let us know that they are satisfied with the site. As for the amount of people, we're just trying to do the best we can. Luckily we have some good proposals running, like Semantics, LyricWiki:Colons_to_Slashes. I hope you will keep using LyricWiki for a long time and look forward to any contributions or suggestions you may be able to make. --Mischko <img src="/images/3/31/Talkicon.png" alt="Talk to me" /> <img src="/images/1/1e/EsperanzaIcon.png" alt="Esperanza Member" /> 05:10, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

Adminship

I thought that I should keep you up to date on things. I've asked EchoSierra (talk • contribs) if he would like to be an admin. His name came up over at the admin portal, and I agree with the others on the matter. I'll go ahead and take care of this after I hear back from him.
- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 00:14, 26 August 2008 (EDT)

Sweet... sounds like a great idea. Thanks for the info & for taking care of this :)

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 06:36, 26 August 2008 (EDT)

Spamming of archive page

Hi Sean,

In the past several days several anonymous IP addresses have spammed User talk:Sean Colombo/Archive/2007 Mar 13 - May 12 with useless text and external links. I blocked them for a while (starting at 2 days, but increasingly more as more spam attacks occurred). Since they seem to aim explicitly at this page, I have protected it from unregistered editing. I hope that will do for now, and will let you handle it as you want. --Mischko <img src="/images/3/31/Talkicon.png" alt="Talk to me" /> <img src="/images/1/1e/EsperanzaIcon.png" alt="Esperanza Member" /> 08:55, 30 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks for the head's-up (and for fixing it)... I've added it to my watchlist & will keep an eye on it. -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 08:59, 30 August 2008 (EDT)

Job Queue

...increased by 8 million in the past 15 minutes! EchoSierra 06:56, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

 :( Yeah, there were some template changes this morning which upped it quite a bit. Interestingly though, I noticed it around 6MM after the changes and then it later went above 10MM. There must be something more to the way the job-queue is generated than I thought.

I've been babysitting the runJobs script for a few weeks now (we were SOOOO close this morning... I had seen it down as low as 34,000 jobs). Fortunately, the thing that made the last batch take so long was the number of 'htmlCacheUpdate' jobs (which take a long time) and none of the currently 9MM jobs remaining are htmlCacheUpdates. We should be able to fly through these in a few days.

Thanks for passing the word along!

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 19:36, 31 August 2008 (EDT)