User talk:Maffblaster/Archive 1

Why remove systemd page is marked as dirty ?
I am using gentoo in embedded HW and since I need reliability and simplicity I am using OpenRC

I followed the instructions on how to remove systemd [] and they are great, however, I see that you marked the page as dirty

If you give some hints I would gladly fix the wiky page

Would you be so kind to give some reasons for having the page dirty ?

Thanks, Damiano

How to delete an article
Hi Maffblaster!

How do I delete a page? Specifically these: User:Apfritts/Kernel3.17.7-gentoo and User:Apfritts/Kernel4.1.5-gentoo? I looked around online and other WikiMedia installations have a "Delete" button but I don't see that :-\

Thanks! AP Fritts (talk)


 * Apfritts,


 * If it's in your userspace you should be able to delete it by clicking the link (next to ) and click delete. If that's not working then you can mark any article for deletion (which will be done by an administrator) by using the  template. I thought there was an exception for articles in your personal user space pages. You can find more information here.


 * Hope this helps! --Maffblaster (talk) 18:05, 21 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I presumed you couldn't get it working so I removed the pages for you. --Maffblaster (talk) 16:27, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * You guessed correctly! I only had History, Move, Unwatch, and Refresh. THANK YOU!!! :) AP Fritts (talk) 16:45, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Your edit on "Intel"
I am somewhat confused about your edit on the Intel article. Could you please explain how the GPU generation Gen3 is connected to "Ivy Bridge"?

I have the typical Gen3 with slightly older cpu:

--Charles17 (talk) 12:02, 25 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Charles17, thanks for the message. I realized last night the edit I made was full of errors and will need to be properly corrected. I'm planning on revisiting the article later today (once I get my system more operational). At the time I made the edit I was also confused as to the definition of the different Intel processor generations. I thought my Ivy Bridge CPU was generation 3 and used the i915 drivers. I understand now that is clearly not the case. It uses the i965. It will get fixed soon! Thank you for keeping an eye on things! --Maffblaster (talk) 20:11, 25 December 2015 (UTC)


 * This edit conflicts with the Gen 2 line in the Feature_support section. Does Gen 2 need VIDEO_CARDS="intel" or VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915"? --Charles17 (talk) 09:52, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

IRC & others
Hi Matthew, no I don't use IRC… one day perhaps?

You asked this question in my talk page, is it the good process to answer in your talk page? (I am not such a good Wiki pratician…)

I made several changes in Cinnamon page and would like to know if something can be done (by me) for these changes to be quickly translatable (there is an important precision about Xorg version).

Best regards, Francoisd (talk) 11:50, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Proper etiquette on talk pages is to respond below the original message like I'm doing here. Make sure you use the colon to indent your reply. More colons are needed on each reply in the thread.


 * Unfortunately you need higher permissions in order to mark a page as translatable. Right now your best option when you'd like a specific page is to ask one of the Wiki project members to mark it for you. This is why I was mentioning you should join our channel in IRC if that's possible. IRC is the fastest way to contact us. If IRC is not an option, then second best is to email us. You can reach us at our devname@gentoo.org e-mail addresses. We will review your changes and, if everything looks right, mark the page. The reason we do things this way is because we want to spare translators the extra work of re-translating all the revisions of the page. If there is an error all the translators receive an the error as an update. When we fix the error all the translators will again receive the update and have to do more work. It's a little complicated, but we're trying to spare the translators from extra, unnecessary work. Hopefully this makes sense.


 * Depending your level of involvement and commitment to the Gentoo project, I would be happy mentor you towards the goal of a general wiki editor. This way you would eventually mark the pages yourself. I mentioned this recently on the main page. Let me know if you're interested. --Maffblaster (talk) 21:56, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Now I understand you could follow my talk page, knowing MediaWiki is a long process… I answered on your talk page to be shure you get the answer… if you agree, I'll move this thread from your to my page, tell me.


 * I would be happy to become a general editor, but don't know if that could be justified: I only create pages for softwares I know very well (not so many!) and would only mark thoses pages as translatable. For Cinnamon page, I think my recent changes don't require a better technical advise than mine. For Claws Mail one I don't know. So you can decide for the general editor role —that I'll restrict to my own pages. Francoisd (talk) 10:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)