Wikipedia talk:Village pump/Archive 3

message: Are the moved discussions no longer being archived or have they just gone somewhere I don't know about? The archive doesn't have any new links since the end of January. I don't mean the archive of the content, just of the links to where things have been moved to. Angela. 06:25, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
: The moved link stuff now says "This list gets deleted occasionally to make room for newer entries.", so I guess that's what people have been doing... Martin 14:39, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Where's the archive gone?

message: Shouldn't it be
Shorthand:
WP:VP
-or-
WP:PUMP
-or-
WP:Pump
? If there are multiple shorthands, we should include them all. - Woodrow XXIIIII, Emperor of the United States, Minister of Ministry 01:38, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative shorthands

message: The pump keeps getting vandalized by a persistent vandal.  Should we protect if for an hour or two? Gentgeen 10:57, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Wik. I don't think protection is appropriate for such a widely used page. We need to revert and block then repeat with the new IP until the vandalism stops. There are a lot more of us than there are of him so hopefully he'll get tired and stop. theresa knott 12:27, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Protection?

message: I keep getting a database error:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This could be because of an illegal search query (see Searching Wikipedia), or it may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: 
UPDATE cur SET cur_text=' 
:Followed by a copy of everything in the Pump
Followed by cur_user=13800,cur_timestamp='20040629053637',cur_user_text='RickK',cur_is_redirect=0, cur_is_new=0, cur_touched='20040629053637', inverse_timestamp='79959370946362' WHERE cur_id=731397 AND cur_timestamp='20040629053338'
from within function "Article::updateArticle". MySQL returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; Try restarting transaction". 
Anyway, can somebody explain to my how to rename Categories without having to delete the Category, recreate it with the new name, and go back to every article linked to it and changing them?  RickK 05:40, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
:There isn't one.  Submit a request on source forge. --ssd 00:35, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: I can't post to Village Pump

message: I tried to update an image by uploading one with the same name:
:Image:Crude-EU9.png
But the new image isn't showing -- the one on display is the *old* one. And if you look at the Image History, even though the details of my image are correct (4706 bytes) when you click at it it takes you to the old image with the old size - 3603 bytes.
Has anyone else been able to update images recently? And if yes, how have they accomplished it?
Any ideas what's the problem? Is it something I could have done wrong?
Aris Katsaris 14:39, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I get that.  I find it sorts itself out if I refresh the page.   — Chameleon My page/My talk 16:23, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I'd been updating with F5 and that hadn't been working, but Ctrl+F5 did work. My bad. Aris Katsaris 17:48, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't know if this is a bug or a problem with me... 

message: Somewhere between these 2 revisions: [] and
[]. I am too tired to try to sort it out. Probably want to lock the page briefly to fix it?  Elf | Talk 04:33, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been using emacs compare-window (via either w3m or mozex) and fixing is both trivial and quick. --ssd 05:57, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Warning, this page's content has been duplicated again