User talk:Admin

FOR OUTSTANDING INITIATIVE IN CREATING THIS WIKI

[edit] Thank you!!

Happy Holidays to Everyone! and Thanks for helping to get this project off the ground!

sean --Admin 01:29, 22 Dec 2005 (EST)

[edit] Synchonization Errors

In working on the year pages, I have discovered a number of anomolies resulting from different franchises with the same name or nickname. The database of Baseball-Reference points users to appropriate Bullpen pages, in this case, erroneously. These errors I've discovered involve the names Reds, Athletics, Grays, and Giants (so far).

For instance the pages Boston Reds 1890 and Cincinnati Reds 1890 both point to the same page 1890 Reds

I've created the missing pages, they need to be connected to properly from the appropriate pages. Here are the corrections that should be made.

Boston Reds 1890 should point to 1890_Reds_(PL)

Boston Reds 1891 should point to 1891_Reds_(AA)

Players League New York Giants 1890 should point to 1890 Giants (PL)

Players League Philadelphia Athletics of 1890 should point to 1890 Athletics (PL)

Milwaukee Grays 1878 should point to 1878 Grays (Milwaukee)

Brooklyn Grays 1885 should point to 1885 Grays (Brooklyn)

Thanks --Shawn 17:47, 7 Jan 2006 (EST)

[edit] Spam Blacklist

Would the creation of a spam blacklist be possible? I tried editing the localsettings.php, using the in-built Media-Wiki feature, but it didn't work. --MichaelEng 20:13, 22 Mar 2006 (EST)

[edit] Update to Media-Wiki Software and Extensions Requests

Could the Media-Wiki software be updated to the latest build (1.6.7) and could the following extensions be added; spam blacklist, Cite.php, ParserFunctions, and EasyTimeline? --MichaelEng 16:14, 12 Jun 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Upgrading

Michael,

I'll look at doing an upgrade. Do you have any experience with doing upgrades. My main concern is not to break anything.

Unfortunately no, sorry. Also, is there any chance that the MTurks could copy over information from Dates in Baseball to the appropriate dates. --MichaelEng 11:05, 13 Jun 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Missing heights

It would appear that anywhere there is a ½" in the height that the entire height is missing from the Bullpen biography (and perhaps bbref as well). I have fixed this in the Bullpen wherever I have run across it (e.g., Phil Voyles, but that is only a few cases. --Ron 01:19, 14 Jun 2006 (EDT)

I believe that that was a design descision. See here (BDB Design Group) for some discussion on it. --MichaelEng 06:47, 14 Jun 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Database Download and Special Page Import

I don't know if I am missing something but is there a place to download the entire database; I was going to try and use the LinkBot. Also, is the Import ([1]) function enabled, I was going to export some pages (dates, player pages, team pages, etc.) from Wikipedia and Import them here. --MichaelEng 16:10, 15 Jun 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Working Extensions

Easytimeline and Cite.php seem to be working as does ParserFunctions; see Sandbox. --MichaelEng 08:25, 19 June 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Image Tags

Greetings.

As part of the BR Bullpen's proposed Image use policy the following images that you have uploaded should be tagged with appropriate image tags.

Images

Image:McGraw.gif
Image:Munciereds1948.jpg
Image:HarryShumanFinal.jpg

Your files uploaded

--MichaelEng 00:42, 22 July 2006 (EDT)

[edit] CWS, charinsert, and Job Queue

My main sources for the College World Series data were the 2006 Baseball Records Book and 2006 College World Series Records Book (both available here) from which I hand-copied the game info, pre-tournament standings and coaches. I also used the NCAA Championship Archives to get the dates of games. The [www.cwsomaha.com CWS Omaha Site] was used for award winners. Boyd Nation's site was also used for standings and conferences. I used the backtoomaha site for the scores, with spot checks versus the books; I also used the same text (SCHOOL eliminated or SCHOOL wins CWS because I couldn't think of another way to describe it) as the mentioned site.

Also could the charinsert extension be added so Edittools could be added. Lastly do you how to use the Job Queue. Null edits are needed on all the pages using the calender template? --MichaelEng 00:17, 31 July 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Most wanted update

The update of the "most wanted" list turned out weird. A lot of the names on the new list don't belong. For instance, look at Happy Felsch, who has a long biography, whereas he is listed as having virtually nothing. This is the case for at least a couple dozen of the names on the new list that came from the old list. - Randy 16:31 25 August 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Extensions Update

Could some extensions be fixed or added?

• ParserFunctions #if function fix: in the ParserFunctions.php, replace line 57

 function ifHook( &$parser, $test = '', $then = '', $else = '' ) {
  if ($test !== '') {

on line 57 with:

 function ifHook( &$parser, $test = '', $then = '', $else = '' ) {
   if ($test) {

• Enabling Image Scaling: an installation ImageMagick
• Enable SVG Uploading: change upload whitelist

Thanks. -- MichaelEng 07:19, 9 October 2006 (EDT)

Bump? --MichaelEng (talk) 10:16, 8 November 2006 (EST)

[edit] Image Tags (February 2007)

Greetings Admin.

Thank you for uploading following images to the BR Bullpen. However, these images are missing source and/or copyright information as required by the image use policy. For ease of identification, image tags are often used to indicate sourcing, license status, or both. If the required information for images is not added within 7 days it will be deleted.

• HarryShumanFinal.jpg Edit/Add Image Tag
• Munciereds1948.jpg Edit/Add Image Tag

This is a semi-automated message from MichaelEng (talk) at 14:09, 18 February 2007 (EST).

[edit] Remember me?...

Hi there Sean! I'm Soxrock, and I am willing to help you out here as well as at Wikipedia. It's a way to contribute more and repay you for even allowing your stats to be used over there. I hope to improve numerous articles and hope to bring a few Wikipedia elements over here, make this place better. Thank you for creating this and I'll make sure to help you out very soon! Soxrock 12:11, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Stats

Whatever. It was just merely preferential. I likely won't be ripping them from articles, but I won't fill them up. When I return to those articles, I'll "replace" them with roster templates. Soxrock 09:11, 25 October 2007 (EDT) (yeah, not using the fancy sig here)

[edit] Pictures

Hi there. I just wanted to say thanks for whatever you did to get the images back again. :) I have been waiting for that. Oh, and this is a great sire you've created. A great place where we can contribute. -- RyanCross (talk) 14:20, 11 August 2008 (EDT) specal thanks to mr. kumar abhishek from rkdf.

[edit] Links to updated site

I went through all the season pages for the Kinston Indians and Myrtle Beach Pelicans and none of those redirected to the new pages so I changed all of those.

Charlie Scott's old link: [2] leads here: [3] instead of where it should go: [4]. Interestingly, Charlie also does not appear where he should on the list of Scotts: [5]. There is a Charles Scott, but that's a different guy. I'm not sure if that glitch is related to the other glitch or not. This is just one guy, but I've come across a few others so far. Most links are redirecting to the new pages as they should. Kinston eagle 21:18, 3 April 2009 (EDT)

Another one. Pete Kuld's old link: [6] does not redirect to his new page: [7]. Kinston eagle 10:33, 4 April 2009 (EDT)

Another odd occurence. When I punched Harwell into the BR search box to look for David Harwell, it took me straight to the Ernie Harwell Bullpen page without giving me a list of names to choose from. You have a David Harwell minors page here: [8]. Kinston eagle 12:08, 4 April 2009 (EDT)

I see that the Harwell glitch was fixed - thanks. I noticed another. I tried to look up the minor league stats of Scott Boras. When I punched "Boras" into the search box, it took me to his bullpen page instead of his stat page or a list of Boras players (I think his son was drafted, but I'm not sure if he has played yet). 69.68.238.142 16:30, 28 April 2009 (EDT)

Working much better. Thanks! - --Mischa 11:51, 16 April 2010 (EDT)

[edit] APRIL 16, 2013

Clicking on categories doesn't work since the update. Ex. Category:CPBL_Players or Category:Minor League Players - --Mischa (talk) 20:09, 16 April 2013 (EDT)

Can't seem to import from flickr using the "import free files" page. (This has been down for a while, but it was supposed to get fixed after the upgrade).

I get this output: nternal error Jump to: navigation, search

phpFlickr can not be found at phpFlickr-2.2.0/phpFlickr.php

Backtrace:

1. 0 /home/br/www/bpv/extensions/ImportFreeImages/ImportFreeImages.body.php(34): ImportFreeImages->load()
2. 1 /home/br/www/bpv/extensions/ImportFreeImages/SpecialImportFreeImages.php(103): ImportFreeImages->__construct()
3. 2 /home/br/www/bpv/extensions/ImportFreeImages/SpecialImportFreeImages.php(58): SpecialImportFreeImages->showResult()
4. 3 /home/br/www/bpv/includes/SpecialPage.php(611): SpecialImportFreeImages->execute(NULL)
5. 4 /home/br/www/bpv/includes/SpecialPageFactory.php(494): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
6. 5 /home/br/www/bpv/includes/Wiki.php(290): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Object(Title), Object(RequestContext))
7. 6 /home/br/www/bpv/includes/Wiki.php(536): MediaWiki->performRequest()
8. 7 /home/br/www/bpv/includes/Wiki.php(446): MediaWiki->main()
9. 8 /home/br/www/bpv/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run()
10. 9 {main}

Oaktree_b (talk) 21:23, 19 April 2013 (EDT)

I've been having issues uploading files. I have to upload a second time to make it work. I get this error:

• Could not read or write file "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/3/35/xx.jpg" due to insufficient permissions or missing directories/containers.
• Could not store file "/tmp/phpVClsM5" at "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/3/35/xx.jpg".

--Jeff (talk) 21:52, 19 April 2013 (EDT)

This is still an issue when uploading a new version of an existing file. --Jeff (talk) 11:48, 10 May 2013 (EDT)

I can use it search for files on flickr, but when you go to upload it, I get this error.

Upload warning

Invalid URL: $1 Oaktree_b (talk) 21:38, 12 May 2013 (EDT)