[00:02:18] <royh>	 Hi everybody. I think I registered an account a couple years ago (2008 it seems), but the account doesn't have an email associated with it, so I cant recover the password.
[00:02:25] <royh>	 I really want the username though (it's my last name; Hvaara). Any ideas on what I can (or can't) do?
[00:03:04] <Reedy>	 royh: Possibly
[00:03:04] <Reedy>	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Hvaara
[00:03:07] <comets>	 if the account has limited edits, request usurpation ..
[00:03:18] <Reedy>	 comets: it hasn't any
[00:03:19] <ZippityFlop>	 Hi royh
[00:03:30] <Reedy>	 Just needs detaching
[00:03:37] <ZippityFlop>	 see Special:SetEmail
[00:03:55] <Reedy>	 ZippityFlop: what?
[00:04:00] <Reedy>	 royh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations
[00:04:12] <ZippityFlop>	 Ah no
[00:04:15] <Reedy>	 There's no Special:SetEmail, and they can't login anyway
[00:04:21] <ZippityFlop>	 Request in SRCU
[00:05:01] <ZippityFlop>	 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_request/Username_changes
[00:05:08] <ZippityFlop>	 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes
[00:17:43] <royh>	 Usurp filed! :)
[00:18:03] <royh>	 Reedy, comets, ZippityFlop: Thanks! :)
[00:18:18] <ZippityFlop>	 :)
[00:24:12] <royh>	 iirc there's a high-content channel with all changes being announced?
[00:24:34] <Reedy>	 sort of
[00:24:38] <Reedy>	 it's not on freenode though
[00:24:59] <Reedy>	 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels#Recent_changes
[00:25:22] <royh>	 Reedy: Thanks! :)
[00:26:32] * royh joins #en.wikipedia@irc.wikimedia.org ;)
[00:26:55] <Reedy>	 you'll probably leave rather quickly ;)
[00:27:07] <royh>	 Haha :P
[00:33:30] <gaul>	 I am curious how Wikimedia stores all its image and video assets.  Does anyone have any pointers on the total data size and how it is managed?  I found this stale pointer to OpenStack Swift: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/09/scaling-media-storage-at-wikimedia-with-swift/
[00:35:47] <Reedy>	 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Swift for a few more pointers
[00:45:25] <gaul>	 Reedy: thanks!  It seems like Wikimedia has moved from Swift to Ceph?
[00:45:56] <ZippityFlop>	 Oh wikimedia has an IRC
[00:49:28] <Krenair>	 For recent changes feeds only
[00:49:44] <gaul>	 actually these references are not clear to me, it looks like there was significant discussion about ceph vs. swift
[00:52:59] <Reedy>	 Where are you looking?
[00:57:32] <gaul>	 Reedy: sorry I'm trying to understand some of the comments here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media_storage#Media_storage
[00:57:45] <Reedy>	 gaul: It's very likely documentation is out of date
[00:58:05] <Reedy>	 pmtpa is decomissioned now FYI
[10:53:56] <Nemo_bis>	 Ouch, chromium is not good for mass-editing by bulk opening of tabs... consumes so much memory as to bring me in swapdeath
[13:34:59] <Carmela>	 Try Chrome.
[14:31:34] <Nemo_bis>	 tsk tsk
[15:53:20] <Nemo_bis>	 uh, right, voting today
[15:53:27] <Nemo_bis>	 let's cross fingers
[15:53:43] <Cookies52>	 voting on what?
[15:54:09] <Reedy>	 AMERICA
[15:54:10] <marktraceur>	 Cookies52: The Future of the World.
[15:54:14] <marktraceur>	 Reedy: Same thing
[15:54:23] <Reedy>	 twss
[15:59:57] <Nemo_bis>	 on the empire's wars, essentially
[16:00:15] <Nemo_bis>	 And some other secondary things a certain body decides.
[20:40:19] <comunist-pancake>	 PING PING PING
[20:40:26] <comunist-pancake>	 HELP ME 
[20:40:33] <comunist-pancake>	 them guys in #wikipedia failed