[04:30:01] * comets punches Reedy 
[04:30:15] <comets>	 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! :D
[04:30:45] <ori>	 oh! happy birthday Reedy!
[04:35:58] <Snowolf>	 It's Reedy's birthday? Happy birthday :)
[04:36:20] <comets>	 yeah no cake either :(
[04:43:05] * bd808 pictures Reedy's bday cake -- https://img.memecdn.com/Birth-day_o_92764.jpg
[04:46:04] <comets>	 lol
[05:07:59] <p858snake|L2>	 bd808: I don't see that under Cat:Sam Reed on commons >.>
[05:08:44] <p858snake|L2>	 that category is surprisingly empty compared to what I thought it would be
[19:43:46] <TheDaveRoss_>	 is it possible to create a template which returns a unique number each time it is called?
[19:46:03] <Krenair>	 umm... shouldn't be. might be.
[20:22:34] <TheDaveRoss_>	 how hard would it be to get a global variable and function which was synchronous and incremented each time it was called?
[20:29:19] <legoktm>	 TheDaveRoss_: I believe Lua has a random number generator that you can use, which will practically be unique
[20:31:27] <TheDaveRoss_>	 I am looking to get a template which gets subst'ed in with a certain type of edit which will create a unique anchor and reference number
[20:31:40] <TheDaveRoss_>	 so it will be called a lot and must be unique
[20:32:28] <TheDaveRoss_>	 I guess some combo of pageid, timestamp and parsing of page text could do it, but that is way more complicated than should be necessary
[20:37:33] <ori>	 TheDaveRoss_: go with legoktm's suggestion -- use a randomly-generated ID rather than a monotonically incrementing one
[20:37:43] <ori>	 that way you're stateless
[20:37:53] <TheDaveRoss_>	 but also can have collisions
[20:38:22] <legoktm>	 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#math.random
[20:38:28] <ori>	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Random_UUID_probability_of_duplicates
[20:38:31] <legoktm>	 TheDaveRoss_: theoretically yes, realistically I doubt it
[20:38:48] <ori>	 "To put these numbers into perspective, the annual risk of a given person being hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion,[5] which means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10−11), equivalent to the odds of creating a few tens of trillions of UUIDs in a year and having one duplicate. In other words, only after generating 1 billion UUIDs every second for the next 100 years, the probability of cre
[20:38:48] <ori>	 ating just one duplicate would be about 50%."
[20:39:30] <TheDaveRoss_>	 fair enough
[20:54:37] <TheDaveRoss_>	 math.random can't generate a very big random number
[20:54:46] <TheDaveRoss_>	 30 bits or so it seems
[20:59:36] <ori>	 TheDaveRoss_: you can call it more than once :) https://gist.github.com/jrus/3197011#file-lua-uuid-lua
[21:31:33] * JeanFred waves at rfarrand_ 
[21:36:38] <rfarrand_>	 Hey JeanFred :) 
[21:37:10] <rfarrand_>	 Looking forward to see you soon :D
[21:45:46] <onlookerlooker>	 does anyone else have problems connecting to wikipedia.org server?
[21:46:44] <Nemo_bis>	 onlookerlooker: only a handful European nations
[21:47:23] <andre__>	 onlookerlooker: which provider and country are you on if I may ask? (privacy)
[21:47:46] <onlookerlooker>	 curious... any known reasons? (Poland)
[21:48:03] <andre__>	 onlookerlooker, we don't know yet but it's been reported in #wikimedia-operations
[21:48:20] <Jardinier>	 same problem in France
[21:51:22] <lluis_tgn>	 Hi there, can somebody check ca.wikipedia? We have some reports that is not working properly. Basic troubleshooting has already been tried.
[21:52:22] <andre__>	 lluis_tgn: Thanks! This is being discussed in #wikimedia-operations and looks like a European problem so far.
[21:52:36] <andre__>	 Feel free to join and watch :)
[21:52:41] <lluis_tgn>	 thanks andre__ :)
[21:52:46] <andre__>	 thanks for reporting :)
[21:56:35] <greg-g>	 thanks for the reports
[22:03:18] <ori>	 could a user affected by the outage try to traceroute text-lb.esams.wikimedia.org?
[22:03:41] <andre__>	 ori, sure, let me do that. 
[22:04:31] <andre__>	 ori, though I'm afraid that'll be pretty much the same as http://fpaste.org/321452/ against en.wp which I pasted 15min ago
[22:05:16] <andre__>	 ori: yepp. exactly the same output for text-lb.esams like for en.wp here, hence I won't repost