Infected RationalWiki - Whiny hugbox for spergs and a clusterfuck of neverending drama on a rapidly declining website.

I would not have too much sympathy for Sorte Slyngel...... a history of obssessive edit warring and spamming talk pages with walls of text looking for a reaction.
 
David Gerard has commented about the issues the site was having.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Technical_support#A_database_error_has_occurred

A database error has occurred
Are db errors common around here or was there some tuning going on earlier today when the front page exploded? Tekunojutsuka (talk) 16:35, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

A database error has occurred. Did you forget to run maintenance/update.php after upgrading? See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Run_the_update_script
Query: SELECT lc_value FROM `rw_l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'deps' LIMIT 1
Function: LCStore_DB::get
Error: 1286 Unknown table engine 'InnoDB' (localhost)
MySQL shat itself yesterday and today, and I can't find a good reason why. Probably the SJWs - David Gerard (talk) 22:39, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
And again today. Bah. Looks like I'll need to track down the damn problem ... - David Gerard (talk) 13:50, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
WTF MYSQL. It went just before 0900 again today. The actual problem is that MySQL suddenly decides InnoDB isn't a suitable database engine. Usual reason is a corrupted ib_logfile, but IT KEEPS HAPPENING and IT DIDN'T BEFORE. Gah - David Gerard (talk) 11:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
We are back. And you can't read this unless you just hit edit! Looking into this one ... - David Gerard (talk) 23:04, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Oh, maybe editing fixes it ... - David Gerard (talk) 23:05, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
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Adam Morland races straight to the Gamergate pages. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Technical_support#Glitches_still_affecting_stuff

Glitches still affecting stuff
Report here!

  • If a page is blank: - hit "edit" and "save". (presumably some MediaWiki cache, that this flushes.)
- David Gerard (talk) 23:21, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Fixed a few of the GG pages, the Milo Yiannopolus page, the Atheism Plus page, ongoing. For some reason, the Bible page was affected too, so it isn't just relatively recent text. - Kitsunelaine 「SJW Illuminati shill.」 23:22, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
yeah, I'm going through the cover articles and anything linked from the front page. I figure there's some MediaWiki internal cache that's gotten confused - David Gerard (talk) 23:25, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
I saw a couple of blank pages earlier when I was trying to edit, but am seeing everything fine now. WèàšèìòìďMethinks it is a Weasel 23:37, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
I see some blank pages still, including alternative medicine, LGBT rights, and ratfucking (wait, what?!). Until I edit-save them, of course. Athelwulf (talk) 23:57, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
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http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Saloon_bar#Today.27s_outage

 
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http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Saloon_bar#More_mod_power

Owlman and Mona want the RW mods to be able to CheckUser.

More mod power
so I am proposing we give our mods the ability to check a user's IP. I know we like to give our mods the least amount of power and our userbase the most most amount of privacy, but I think this is a reasonable proposal after the accusations that Kugelschreiber and Pizzameister were socks of banned/binned users. This should prevent witchhunts in the future.--Owlman (talk) (mail) 18:59, 6 March 2016 (UTC) 18:59, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

You mean they can't check IP addresses already? I was under the impression that a number of people could determine the IP addresses.---Mona- (talk) 21:40, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
No, apparently RW got rid of that ability very early on so no one can do that.--Owlman (talk) (mail) 21:46, 6 March 2016 (UTC) 21:46, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
FFS. Of course the mods should be able to determine that. That would greatly increase the ability to enforce a ban/binning.---Mona- (talk) 21:50, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
One of the greatest friction points in your time on RW is that you seem to expect it to be run much more top-down than it is: that someone is responsible, that the hierarchy is firm, that interactions are policed. You seem to have greatly misperceived how authority here works. We are deeply uninterested in enforcing things without really good reason. If someone comes back and isn't obviously being a dickhead, then job done pretty much. Also, regulars change account names all the time just 'cos they feel like it. This is frequently infuriating and fucked-up, but it's a different infuriating and fucked-up to the one you seem to assume is right and natural - David Gerard (talk) 22:35, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
I don't think that giving the six mods the ability to check user IPs would lead to a more top-down administration. I don't expect the mods to use unless there is ample evidence that a user is a sock.--Owlman (talk) (mail) 22:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC) 22:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
I predict it's really not a happener without an overwhelming consensus from the editor population that this is a good idea, and I consider this unlikely (but you can try to gather such if you like) - David Gerard (talk) 22:54, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
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Moexlibu said:
A sudden outbreak of sanity?
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If that's Arisboch at all, it could also be just some guy with a similar political opinion and background stumbling upon the RW, lurking around there for a bit and finally, after the shitfests died down, decided to join. We shouldn't let ourselves be infected by their paranoia and tendency for witch hunts.

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David, in some rare moment of lucidity, refuses to be Mona's goon squad. Mona gets saltier than salt-dried vobla:
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The autist that has taken over for Ryulong (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sandflapjack https://www.reddit.com/user/Sandflapjack) is, of course, trying to smear Jamie Walton on the RW pages.

http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Gamergate&diff=prev&oldid=1636665
http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Gamergate&diff=prev&oldid=1636206
http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Gamergate&diff=prev&oldid=1637708

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March 1: Jamie Walton is revealed to have been participating in Gamergate's stalking of Brianna Wu for a year. Wu confirms. Despite Walton's denial, more and more evidence piles up of her using Gamergate to benefit her foundation all while attacking Wu.
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fuehrer_dessler said:
If that's Arisboch at all, it could also be just some guy with a similar political opinion and background stumbling upon the RW, lurking around there for a bit and finally, after the shitfests died down, decided to join. We shouldn't let ourselves be infected by their paranoia and tendency for witch hunts.
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Well spoken!
 
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