[02:36:31] <Pathoschild>	 Hi. I'm trying to figure out why Meta's built-in welcome script created talk pages for users who apparently never existed. One example is 'Ayoub popitto'[1], who doesn't exist[2] and was never renamed[3]. I've found such pages created in 2011 and 2012 so far.
[02:36:34] <Pathoschild>	 [1]=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ayoub_popitto [2]=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Ayoub_popitto [3]=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/renameuser?page=User%3AAyoub+popitto
[06:10:22] <Fiona>	 Pathoschild: Maybe hidden or locked accounts?
[06:10:58] <Fiona>	 I think Special:CentralAuth also excludes certain wikis.
[06:12:56] <Fiona>	 Hmm.
[06:13:01] <Fiona>	 I'm looking at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/2015_invalid_user_pages now.
[06:26:56] <Fiona>	 Pathoschild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Ownerless_pages_in_the_user_space BTW. :P
[06:27:03] <Fiona>	 Though that's old and for a different wiki.
[06:27:16] <Fiona>	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Ownerless_pages_in_the_user_space/Configuration if you're curious.
[06:27:34] <Pathoschild>	 Yep, probably the same query too.
[06:27:48] <Pathoschild>	 I asked a steward, account isn't hidden either. It's a mystery.
[10:05:15] <sanddust>	 Hi Guys, is there a way to tunnel requests from port 29418 to HTTP/HTTPS ports. Most of the ports in my college are blocked therefore I am not able to fetch or push patches to mediawiki or run commands like "git review -s"
[10:05:55] <sanddust>	 would greatly appreciate suggestions in this  regard.. thanks..