User:octal has a suggestion:
It looks like some of the "too many files open" problems are being caused by the large numbers of session files being used by PHP. Is the site maintaining a session for every anonymous visitor? This might cause the problem. (See www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php for info on custom session handlers, if you need to store so many sessions but the filesystem is not robust enough, you can move session handling into a database).
Either that, or something in the site is dependant on having a lot of concurrent files open. Good luck with wikipedia. -- octal
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target...
this guy keeps making stupid comments on the OsmosisTwo page (which, as far as Mav & I can tell was created in error in the first place) i've checked his edits: his most contentious seems to be on [[gun politics]] , butI'm not entirely sure about, being a Brit.
it's close to 2 in the morning here so i'm not entirely sure if he's harmlessly pratting about, or winding us up on purpose, or practising for some real hardcore vandalism.
i'm tempted to ban this person, but I could be prejudiced by the silly little edit war on OsmosisTwo. this is one to keep a watch on, at least
tarquin
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target...
this guy keeps making stupid comments on the OsmosisTwo page (which, as far as Mav & I can tell was created in error in the first place) i've checked his edits: his most contentious seems to be on [[gun politics]] , butI'm not entirely sure about, being a Brit.
Checking his changes, I find that there are indeed some very doubtful ones - getting into an edit war on [[gun politics]], putting in POV under the claim of NPOV in [[Bicycling]], and vandalizing other people's comments on [[Talk:History of the Soviet Union]].
it's close to 2 in the morning here so i'm not entirely sure if he's harmlessly pratting about, or winding us up on purpose, or practising for some real hardcore vandalism.
I do get the impression that it's meant quite serious - I think that it's someone who actually wants to help Wikipedia, but just needs to be taught the way NPOV is practised around here. That if there is something one does not agree with, one does not replace it with one's own opinion, but tries to find a middle road.
i'm tempted to ban this person, but I could be prejudiced by the silly little edit war on OsmosisTwo. this is one to keep a watch on, at least
That's for sure. However, banning does not help - the IP is dynamic. The same person also appears as 128.193.88.28 and 128.193.88.60. Would it be possible to change the search function for user contributions so that it is possible to get all user contributions from 128.193.88.anything?
Andre Engels
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... 3.88.12
this guy keeps making stupid comments on the OsmosisTwo page (which, as far as Mav & I can tell was created in error in the first place) i've checked his edits: his most contentious seems to be on [[gun politics]] , butI'm not entirely sure about, being a Brit.
it's close to 2 in the morning here so i'm not entirely sure if he's harmlessly pratting about, or winding us up on purpose, or practising for some real hardcore vandalism.
i'm tempted to ban this person, but I could be prejudiced by the silly little edit war on OsmosisTwo. this is one to keep a watch on, at least
tarquin
It seems personal to you, starting with [[gun politics]]. He was apparently there trying to create a simpler restatement of the issues that read a bit easier, at the cost of leaving out some information. A worthy goal, but rather annoying. Your response, to leave both the wordy list and his new elegant list in, and the remark, "are you happy now?", seem a bit snappy as applied to someone who had never edited an article before. I would say this contributor got off on the wrong foot and things have progressed downhill from there. Perhaps not focusing on him would do more good than "watching" him.
Fred
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:51:37AM -0700, Fred Bauder wrote:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... 3.88.12
It seems personal to you, starting with [[gun politics]]. He was apparently there trying to create a simpler restatement of the issues that read a bit easier, at the cost of leaving out some information. A worthy goal, but rather annoying. Your response, to leave both the wordy list and his new elegant list in, and the remark, "are you happy now?", seem a bit snappy as applied to someone who had never edited an article before. I would say this contributor got off on the wrong foot and things have progressed downhill from there. Perhaps not focusing on him would do more good than "watching" him.
Contributions like:
It is duplicitious to claim neutrality on this issue, for to even consider competing viewpoints is to grant them a credibility that they do not deserve.
don't constitute "worthy but misguided" to my mind...
Fred Bauder wrote:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... 3.88.12
this guy keeps making stupid comments on the OsmosisTwo page (which, as far as Mav & I can tell was created in error in the first place) i've checked his edits: his most contentious seems to be on [[gun politics]] , butI'm not entirely sure about, being a Brit.
It seems personal to you, starting with [[gun politics]]. He was apparently there trying to create a simpler restatement of the issues that read a bit easier, at the cost of leaving out some information. A worthy goal, but rather annoying. Your response, to leave both the wordy list and his new elegant list in, and the remark, "are you happy now?", seem a bit snappy as applied to someone who had never edited an article before. I would say this contributor got off on the wrong foot and things have progressed downhill from there. Perhaps not focusing on him would do more good than "watching" him.
I'm inclined to agree in the light of day. You should have seen his comments on OsmosisTwo, he kept editing that page to say "tarquin is part of the cabal and wants to delete OsmosisTwo". Annoying.
Fred Bauder wrote:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target.... 19 3.88.12
this guy keeps making stupid comments on the OsmosisTwo page (which, as far as Mav & I can tell was created in error in the first place) i've checked his edits: his most contentious seems to be on [[gun politics]] , butI'm not entirely sure about, being a Brit.
It seems personal to you, starting with [[gun politics]]. He was apparently there trying to create a simpler restatement of the issues that read a bit easier, at the cost of leaving out some information. A worthy goal, but rather annoying. Your response, to leave both the wordy list and his new elegant list in, and the remark, "are you happy now?", seem a bit snappy as applied to someone who had never edited an article before. I would say this contributor got off on the wrong foot and things have progressed downhill from there. Perhaps not focusing on him would do more good than "watching" him.
I'm inclined to agree in the light of day. You should have seen his comments on OsmosisTwo, he kept editing that page to say "tarquin is part of the cabal and wants to delete OsmosisTwo". Annoying.
And wrong-headed besides...
It's probably not good to characterize him as vermin, however (pest).
Fred
Fred Bauder wrote:
I'm inclined to agree in the light of day. You should have seen his comments on OsmosisTwo, he kept editing that page to say "tarquin is part of the cabal and wants to delete OsmosisTwo". Annoying.
And wrong-headed besides...
It's probably not good to characterize him as vermin, however (pest).
Fred
That could be a language difference. over here, calling someone a "pest" is not very strong. It implies someone who is mildly irritating, not damaging or harmful. His repeated edits of OsmosisTwo, despite my invitation to discuss the matter on the talk page qualifies him / her. in the end I left a subject messgae on the subject page itself, explaining that I didn't find his actions funny, but that s/he would be welcome as a contributor, providing s/he kept in mind that the 'pedia is a serious project. :-)
The person who has been repeatedly creating the pages "wikipedic" & "antiwikipedic" is this same OsmosisTwo person. Take a look at the deletion log: he keeps creating it again & again. According to the Vandalism in Progress page, LDC has banned him, but he's back with another IP.
come back 24, all is forgiven!!!
tarquin wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
I'm inclined to agree in the light of day. You should have seen his comments on OsmosisTwo, he kept editing that page to say "tarquin is part of the cabal and wants to delete OsmosisTwo". Annoying.
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