[19:43:05] Hi, what does the registration date at refer to? Registration of what? [19:44:51] The account on that project [19:45:05] Actually no [19:45:22] It is when you registered your account first [19:49:30] Zppix, well, but which account? Some of the project accounts listed on that page are way older (see, ) [19:50:58] pajz: the very first account [19:50:59] And if it's somehow the registration of the global account, I don't understand what that means and I don't understand why the "attached on" dates are all so much further in the future (did we have SUL in 2010 anyhow?). [19:51:14] Oh [19:51:17] Wait [19:51:20] Let me double check [19:51:28] Zppix, The account's first metawiki edits were in '06. [19:53:49] pajz: i think its when SUL was done for the account.... [19:54:31] Im not 100% sure [19:57:47] "Attached" date has nothing to do with registration date [19:58:48] (Except for post-SULF registrations, which are supposed to simultaneously be attached in all cases) [19:59:24] So what does it refer to? [19:59:25] I think the question was about the registration date above the table of projects Nemo_bis [19:59:44] yeah, exactly [20:00:02] That's the registration of the global account [20:00:11] Apparently you were lazy and delayed unification for two years ^^ [20:00:18] lol [20:01:31] So you could manually register a global account, and then later attach your local accounts? [20:02:16] Yes. You forgot everything? :) [20:02:27] Well you had to merge at least one account [20:02:37] apparently ;) [20:02:39] i.e. the one where you used Specia:MergeAccount [20:03:27] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Unified_login&oldid=1543008#How_to_unify_your_accounts [20:03:51] Hm, so how can it be that all "attached on" dates are from 2012 up when the registration date was 2010? [20:04:03] *whereas [20:04:59] No account is marked as home wiki, so it looks like you "lost" the account you registered your global account with, or something like that [20:05:26] Did you do some renaming dances? [20:06:10] Yeah, once. I see. [20:06:12] 2012 is probably the year when you bothered to enter the password and/or email address for all those accounts to be actually merged [20:07:09] Thanks for the explainer. [20:07:43] :) [20:07:43] 25 March 2008 is the day SUL went live. [20:08:07] And it took two painful weeks for me to unify :( [20:08:14] While everybody else was getting the cool IDs [20:08:26] yeah, I've got a three digit one. :p [20:09:27] They even removed the ID from Special:CentralAuth to discourage evil people like us from bragging [20:10:08] yeah, where do you get it from now ? [20:10:55] API I suppose [20:13:12] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth/API https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=globalallusers&agufrom=NickK [20:13:15] 559 according to an API call. [20:13:59] #1764 :( [20:14:35] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=globalallusers&agufrom=ArielGlenn 104! w00t [20:17:37] apergos: I remember there being a stampede to get a SUL account set up, but you registered at 06:48 and I didn't get round to it until 17:52, and there was only ~450 other accounts set up in that time. [20:18:15] I'd been nagging bri on forever about sul so I jumped on it pretty fast [20:18:46] and he's #488 [20:19:23] he was probably busy watching the sside effects [20:20:46] likewise, I'd given Bri and James a tough time about it. I would have been in first year at university at the time. 10 years later and I'll be, umm, in first year at university. [20:21:11] lol [20:21:23] at least you are sticking to it! [20:21:45] yes. Quite. [20:22:36] what course of study this time? [20:23:37] PhD in analytical chemistry/food chemistry [20:24:01] I'll bite... [20:24:18] any particular application? [20:24:42] mass spec to test chicken (well, that's the plan, at the moment) [20:28:08] what's the current state of the art for that? (you are talking to a person with 0 experience or knowledge in this area, be forewarned) [20:30:30] what we're trying to do is the state of the art technique - no sample preparation, take raw chicken, cut the chicken with an electric knife, which instantly vaporises and ionizes the sample, plug the data into a proprietary software package and get (in theory, once it's all programmed and tested) a traffic light type indication about whether the meat is safe, where it comes from etc. [20:32:00] where it comes from? how do you determine that? [20:34:20] that's what I've got to work out. We (well, I) am hoping to find small but significant changes in the chemical profile of the meat which can indicate regional variations. Whether those changes actually exist, on the other hand, is a point of contention between a number of people. [20:34:53] ohmy [20:35:08] well you might be able to resolve that point of contention once and for all [20:35:14] that would be worth something all by itself [20:38:00] but not a publication, unless it does somehow mysteriously all work out, unfortunately. [20:39:49] good luck! give us updates from time to time if you like [20:42:13] I'd be happy to. There won't be much if anything at all this year now, bit of pottering about thinking about all the ways this might work and the ever greater number of ways it probably won't work. [21:00:32] sure, that's how research always is [21:20:53] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018/Participants [21:21:02] Dev Summit Position Statements ^^ [21:21:40] position statements, like "My position is next to the bar" and "My position is next to the fruit salad bar" ? [21:23:44] something like that [21:25:22] interesting [21:25:35] mine is next to the smoothie bar [22:14:31] hi! I need to get the list of wikis where the given user is in 'sysop' group. Special:CentralAuth returns all groups for each wiki, which suits my need. But is there an API? I checked meta=globaluserinfo and looks like it doesn't have it. Will I have to parse the html output of Special:CentralAuth or is there a better way? [22:15:44] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page may have the information you're looking for [22:18:57] AntiComposite: are you talking to me? It certainly doesn't have it. As I mentioned, I already checked out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth/API#query+globaluserinfo [22:35:24] thanks rfarrand :D [22:37:20] Leloiandudu: could you file a bug to add that information to the API? it should be pretty simple to do [22:40:22] legoktm: thanks. will do [22:55:52] legoktm: done https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181905