User:MuppetArchives/Current Events 11 (July 2006)

Archive of Current events discussions.

New French Muppet Show?
I have no idea if this is the place for this or not, but this may be worth making a page for. I'll leave it up to you guys to decide. I Babelfished the article, and it sounds like they may have done some new material specifically for France in a TMS format. http://www.leblogtvnews.com/article-1123391.html Scooter 13:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, Andrew added that yesterday at Le Muppet Show (France). -- Danny (talk ) 13:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, okay, thanks. So the voice-over guys are doing the puppets? Wow, that's...wow. Ouch. Scooter 13:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Are they not puppeteers? There must be puppeteers in France. -- Danny (talk ) 13:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * No, I haven't finished the Le Muppet Show page yet and importing all the details, but as is clear from that French article, the voices and puppeteers are seperate. The article specifies that Yves Brunier was amongst the puppeteers on the pilot. Andrew Leal (talk ) 14:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Upgrade update
Here's a quick update on the position with upgrading MediaWiki. You may remember that when we tried to go to the latest version of MediaWiki there was a drastic slowdown across all Wikia hosted wikis. It's taken quite a while to pin-point exactly why this happened. It didn't happen to Wikipedia, so it wasn't clear why we were having this problem (most people are not on 1.7alpha, which is ahead of the main release, so not a lot of info on other's experiences with this version).

So John and Jason have been carefully testing various versions in an attempt to isolate which exactly which change was causing the slowdown. There were a lot of changes in between, so finding the problem change wasn't simple. They have now isolated it, fixed it, and hopefully we are ready to go to 1.7Alpha r15298 - not far off the version that Wikipedia is on at the moment. That's being tried on Monday.

There have been a few tests over the last couple of weeks, some of which have caused some slowdown or broken html tags. So many thanks to everyone for your patience with this. Hopefully this upgrade will bring in some features that we've been waiting for (I hardly dare say it but... fully working parser functions?)

After this, the plan is to go to a more regular upgrade schedule. That will mean much smaller, and so safer, jumps between versions.

Thanks again -- sannse (talk) 21:31, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Lisa -- Thanks for letting us know! I really appreciate it. -- Danny (talk ) 21:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Song Identification
A couple weeks back, I opened up the talk page for Rowlf at the Piano and posted some audio samples in an attempt to discover the names and/or composers of the songs. It occured to me afterward that not everyone may know how to play the MediaWiki preferred audio format, OGG. Simply put, you can download the free software Audacity available for most platforms, or install a plugin for WinAmp if you prefer. This info may also be suitable for the FAQ, but for now I'm just tossing this out there. -- Scott (talk ) 22:29, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, there's also a plug-in for iTunes, I believe. --  Zanimum 14:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks to Justin at the ToughPigs forum, we've found one of them.
 * Thanks also to Nick for the iTunes plugin. -- Scott (talk ) 15:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

new project page
I just created the Image chamber to facilitate an easier means by which we can keep track of unused files on the wiki. It also helps to better point out the policy on when and why we would delete files. -- Scott (talk ) 15:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)