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DRAFT: The Culprits: Current list of privs
This list is intended to track privs by merit, rather than privs as recorded by the system. Please let me know if I missed anybody or got any wrong, which I'm sure I did. (I have blanket-decided that all admins are I2s in Web by merit if they weren't SHes before, since honestly, if any of you want to work on Web I'm not making you start out at ( Read more... ) -
DRAFT: Memcache, and other Blacke Magick
What is a memcache? Is it like a cache that tells you what X-man you are?
If you're not familiar with web caching in general, hit up the web-cache training post before reading this one. All set? Good.
Memcache is a system created by the LiveJournal development team to reduce load on their database servers. (It has since been adopted by other ( Read more... ) -
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Hi there! One of your friendly neighborhood web admins speaking ( Read more... ) -
Guide to some basic web-ui requests
This document is intended to address the most common questions asked in web and how to go about answering/troubleshooting them. It shouldn't be viewed as a comprehensive list of all things that you'll ever see in web, but as a good starting point for common issues. Remember, in many cases, there isn't one specific 'correct' way to answer a request ( Read more... ) -
Guide to Identifying and Resolving Known Issues
In Review: What is Web-UI?Web-UI is a specialist category that deals with how users deal and communicate with LiveJournal's back-end (code, servers, and database). In particular, we deal with problems users are having with LiveJournal's code, servers, or database, and try to find resolutions to them. We do not, however, deal with questions ( Read more... ) -
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Web-UI: Revisiting the Category
This document serves as a follow-up to Introductory Guide To Supporting Web-UI. It explains some of the changes that have occurred in the category since the Introductory Guide was written, and provides further clarification as to what the category entails.
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Introduction To Caching
Target Audience: Unprivs and I1s
Summary: Covers in broad terms what a cache is, how browser caching works, why it can be a root or complicating issue in a presenting problem, ways of discerning these instances, treatment of caching problems, and norms for informing the user.
Assumed Knowledge: Introductory Guide To Answering In Web-UI, Principles ( Read more... ) -
Understanding Unicode
Many thanks to timwi for the following documentation.
What are character sets?
Computers store information in bits. ("Bit" is short for "binary digit".) Each ( Read more... ) -
Master Priv List, Web-UI
I'll probably be spamming web_ui tonight with a bit of admin reference stuff. Sorry about that.
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Answering In Web-UI: Principles Of Diagnosis
Web-UI differs from other specialty categories in that it is a diagnostic unit. This means that the methodology of answering in Web-UI is different to that of other categories ( Read more... )