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:::…There seem to be other instances of altering literal citation quotes[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orthodox_Christianity_in_Turkmenistan&diff=516234686&oldid=495567415]. If running as a [[WP:MEATBOT]] with the safeties and human oversight turned off, could you ''please'' make sure the regexes stay clear of anything that is a literal representation of a remote resource. Eg. {{tlx|cquote}}, {{tlx|cite|(quote|title|author|first|last|…){{=}}…}}. —[[User:Sladen|Sladen]] ([[User talk:Sladen|talk]]) 01:14, 6 October 2012 (UTC) |
:::…There seem to be other instances of altering literal citation quotes[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orthodox_Christianity_in_Turkmenistan&diff=516234686&oldid=495567415]. If running as a [[WP:MEATBOT]] with the safeties and human oversight turned off, could you ''please'' make sure the regexes stay clear of anything that is a literal representation of a remote resource. Eg. {{tlx|cquote}}, {{tlx|cite|(quote|title|author|first|last|…){{=}}…}}. —[[User:Sladen|Sladen]] ([[User talk:Sladen|talk]]) 01:14, 6 October 2012 (UTC) |
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::::Quotes can also change to the style of Wikipedia. -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis#top|talk]]) 08:24, 6 October 2012 (UTC) |
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[[WP:MOSQUOTE]] reads "a few purely typographical elements of quoted text should be adapted to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment" and later "Spaces before punctuation such as periods and colons: these should be removed as alien to modern English-language publishing.". I think here we have a similar change. In fact, AWB doesn't remove space from percent numbers inside quotes. I did it manually in same cases. I can leave a message to MOSQUOTE to ask for clarification. -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis#top|talk]]) 08:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC) |
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I left a question waiting for clarification: [[Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#MOSQUOTE_vs_PERCENT]]. -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis#top|talk]]) 08:32, 6 October 2012 (UTC) |
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:Meanwhile I won't be changing anything inside quotes. -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis#top|talk]]) 08:34, 6 October 2012 (UTC) |
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{{disambiguation cleanup}} and AWB
Hallo, twice today you've added {{stub}} and other tags to a dab page which had {{disambiguation cleanup}}. Is AWB not spotting that these are dab pages? PamD 19:14, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- And here you added {{orphan}} to another page with {{disambiguation cleanup}}. PamD 19:31, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the report. I had this problem in mind and I am going to fix it right now. I had to leave home for a reason and I didn't have time to finish my reverts. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:43, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- rev 8327 fixes this problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:44, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the report. I had this problem in mind and I am going to fix it right now. I had to leave home for a reason and I didn't have time to finish my reverts. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:43, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Minor defaultsort problem
AWB didn't want to add defaultsort to İnlice, Sincik. I guess it didn't recognize İ. Bgwhite (talk) 01:47, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- rev 8328 -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:20, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- I added it but searching for this character gives my all the Is too. I am not sure this is a standard Unicode character. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- It is Turkish... Dotted and dotless I. I'm helping Dr. Blofeld update Turkish villages via AWB. Lots of find and replace type things. This is how I came across this. Bgwhite (talk) 07:43, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- I added it but searching for this character gives my all the Is too. I am not sure this is a standard Unicode character. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Passion
hi, it appears https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Passion:_Music_for_The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ&diff=next&oldid=496374705 messed up the numbering in the lower half of the article, care to try reinstating it? cheers, Doceddi (talk) 02:05, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. I think I fixed it now. Please check. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:04, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
AWB: Infinite loop
Evening Magioladitis.
After compiling several revisions of AWB (8327/8330) in Visual C# 2010 Express, the program discards whatever edits I attempt and immediately initiates the 'Restarting in...' loop that increases incrementally. Since this infinite loop occurs regardless of whether I actually introduce any changes to the source, I'm uncertain as to an effective workaround. Prior to the recent updates, the alterations I introduced in 5.3.1.0 and 5.3.1.1 didn't occasion a loop.
Unless you're otherwise busy, I'd appreciate some guidance in debugging and resolving the problem. Thanks, Mephistophelian (talk) 18:47, 2 September 2012 (UTC).
- Does this loop happen if you use our compiled debug version found in http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ ?
- No, I don't encounter any difficulties with the 8323 snapshot. While I'd prefer to compile the source, if the loop becomes unavoidable, then I'll resort to this debug version instead.
- Does this loops happen to a certain page? If yes, which page is this? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:51, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- Since the loop occurs when editing my sandbox, Talk:John Cuthbert (Royal Navy officer), Talk:John Currie (sportsman), and several random pages, I'm assuming that it's a systemic difficulty, but I'll experiment further to confirm. Mephistophelian (talk) 19:14, 2 September 2012 (UTC).
- Do you have any plugins installed? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:23, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- I've tried compiling the solution with and without the plugins, and I still encounter the loop. Mephistophelian (talk) 19:27, 2 September 2012 (UTC).
- Following our conversation on IRC, I updated .NET from 3.5 to 4.0 and still encounter the infinite loop. While compiling via SharpDevelop 4.2.2, I encountered a processor mismatch warning and after changing the Target CPU to 'Any processor', the build (8335) finished successfully without additional errors or warnings. Editing the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox with the new build still results in the recurrence of the loop. Mephistophelian (talk) 06:09, 3 September 2012 (UTC).
- I've tried compiling the solution with and without the plugins, and I still encounter the loop. Mephistophelian (talk) 19:27, 2 September 2012 (UTC).
- Do you have any plugins installed? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:23, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- Since the loop occurs when editing my sandbox, Talk:John Cuthbert (Royal Navy officer), Talk:John Currie (sportsman), and several random pages, I'm assuming that it's a systemic difficulty, but I'll experiment further to confirm. Mephistophelian (talk) 19:14, 2 September 2012 (UTC).
Since you are building it alone, please try something: Put a break point on line 757 of WikiFunctions.API.ApiEdit: var xml = CheckForErrors(result, "edit"); to see what XML the API returns. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:34, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
- Done. While I've resolved the issue, I lack the expertise to investigate it comprehensively. Thanks again for your assistance. Mephistophelian (talk) 09:49, 6 September 2012 (UTC).
importance parameter in WP Biography and AWB overuse
I almost had a heart attack when over 900 articles showed up in Category:Biography articles needing priority parameter replacement today. An editor added "importance" to over 1,100 articles in under two hours. I've left them a message. However, they have done 70,000 edits, mostly with AWB, in two months. Looking at August 29 edits, there are alot of cosmetic edits. I think he needs some help above my pay grade. Bgwhite (talk) 05:57, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- I can easily fix them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:15, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- I left a message to editor's page too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:51, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- Done I fixed everything. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:51, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
AWB rev8323 message
In the past AWB has always prompted me that there's a new version available. That hasn't happened this time, and an explicit 'check for updates' in AWB comes up saying that none are available. (I'm using AWB 5.3.1.0). What's happening? Colonies Chris (talk) 09:18, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- There will be a release version too. 5.3.1.2 is a debug version i.e. it keeps in your local drive a profiling.txt which shows the time each function needs to be processed for each article you saved. This will help us in case you need to report a bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:37, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- We didn't disactivate 5310 yet because in other projects it works fine. It outdated for the enwiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:37, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
5400 released and 5310 disabled. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:33, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
- FYI - when I tried using 5.3.1.2 today I received a message asking me to upgrade, but the AWB updater didn't automatically download the new version. I had to go to the web site to get it. Same issue when using the 5.3.1.0 SVN a few days ago when 5.3.1.2 was released. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:21, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia defaultsort problem.
In DEFAULTSORT missing for titles with special letters, there are articles that are not showing up. Examples are Alanyurt, İscehisar, Alibeyce, Emirdağ, Anayurt, Şuhut, Armutlu, Çay.
Looking at the articles that are in the Check Wikipedia list, only articles that have a special character in the first word shows up. There are no articles that have an ok first word, but a special character in any other word. Is Check Wikipedia's perl script only checking the first word? Bgwhite (talk) 20:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- No idea. You can make your own database scans ofcourse. You can also ask de:Benutzer_Diskussion:Stefan_Kühn/Check_Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:36, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- I submitted it to Stefan. Looking at the code, the text being checked is defined as: $testtext = substr ($testtext, 0, 3); So, it is only checking the first 3 letters for weird characters. How would I go about doing my own database scan in this case... I have a feeling it is downloading the perl program. Also, what database dump would I get if I wanted to scan talk pages via AWB. Bgwhite (talk) 22:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- I have some bad news: You would have to download the BIG hug terribly supersized database dump that has only article space from WP:DUMP. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:28, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- I submitted it to Stefan. Looking at the code, the text being checked is defined as: $testtext = substr ($testtext, 0, 3); So, it is only checking the first 3 letters for weird characters. How would I go about doing my own database scan in this case... I have a feeling it is downloading the perl program. Also, what database dump would I get if I wanted to scan talk pages via AWB. Bgwhite (talk) 22:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Disabled AWB
IF your the one who disabled AWB give yourself a {{trout}}
! Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 16:48, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
- Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
- Research: The most recent DR data
- Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
- Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
- DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
- Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
- Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?
--The Olive Branch 19:14, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia
When does Check Wikipedia update? Mandarax has been thru updating alot of the DEFAULTSORTs. Add to my cleaning up Turkish town's DEFAULTSORT and it is hard to tell what to do and not do. Bgwhite (talk) 07:34, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- After you are done with the current list press "Set all articles as done!" to force list empty. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:36, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Not what I was asking. Just wondering when it updates the list because if it updates in the next few days, I'll hold off. A majority are already done and it will be a little easier going thru the list. Bgwhite (talk) 07:45, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- I think the best practise is to make your own list from the dump and run the bot for the next days. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:54, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Not what I was asking. Just wondering when it updates the list because if it updates in the next few days, I'll hold off. A majority are already done and it will be a little easier going thru the list. Bgwhite (talk) 07:45, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
AWB sort bug
On Talk:Lillian O’Donnell, AWB wanted to set listas=O’Donnell, Lillian. Bgwhite (talk) 07:43, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Apostrophes? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:53, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Yes. AWB is doing it correct for DEFAULTSORT, but not listas. Talk:P. S. O’Hegarty is another one. Bgwhite (talk) 08:04, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- With rev 8358 will work fine. DEFAULTSORT was not correct added correctly neither. The autovalue was {{DEFAULTSORT:O’Donnell, Lillian}} -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:06, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Grrr, I swear defaultsort was ok. I just found another one Talk:Lê Thị Lựu. It does ê ok, but not the ự. Has been working find for other Vietnamese names. I want to say it worked fine for defaultsort, but hey, my mind working, world peace breaking out and my wife being nice are somethings that ain't gonna to happen. Bgwhite (talk) 08:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- rev 8359 for the Vietnamise character. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Grrr, I swear defaultsort was ok. I just found another one Talk:Lê Thị Lựu. It does ê ok, but not the ự. Has been working find for other Vietnamese names. I want to say it worked fine for defaultsort, but hey, my mind working, world peace breaking out and my wife being nice are somethings that ain't gonna to happen. Bgwhite (talk) 08:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- With rev 8358 will work fine. DEFAULTSORT was not correct added correctly neither. The autovalue was {{DEFAULTSORT:O’Donnell, Lillian}} -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:06, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Yes. AWB is doing it correct for DEFAULTSORT, but not listas. Talk:P. S. O’Hegarty is another one. Bgwhite (talk) 08:04, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- With 8357 the autovalue was {{DEFAULTSORT:O’Donnell, Lillian}}
- With 8358 the autovalue is {{DEFAULTSORT:ODonnell, Lillian}}
- "Only hyphens, apostrophes and periods/full stops punctuation marks should be kept in sort values." I am not sure we follow this for the other names. Do you have an example where apostrophes should be kept? I am right that I change "’" with "'"? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:18, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- "I am right that I change "’" with "'"?" I'm not sure, but it sounds correct.
- "Only hyphens, apostrophes and..." See above at User talk:Magioladitis#AWB bug?. AWB currently removes ' from all other names. In theory, ' should be removed. In practice, I'm fine with the way AWB currently does things. It would be a huge pain to change, especially with all those Arabic names. Bgwhite (talk) 08:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Another one Tạ Tỵ. It is having problems with the ỵ or whatever that is. Bgwhite (talk) 07:23, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- rev 8368 Magioladitis (talk) 07:46, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Not removing the | character. See User_talk:Bgwhite#Possible bug in BG19bot. Bgwhite (talk) 22:24, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- Too late :) I already left a comment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:25, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Two more: Lê Lựu, the ự. and Čungāx̌, the x̌. Bgwhite (talk) 08:28, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
- You reported the first one already. rev 8390 for the second one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:14, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Manually fixed this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:21, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Đỗ Minh Quân, the ỗ. Not sure if this was added because I found this in an older AWB, but Phạm Nguyên Sa, the ạ. In ictu oculi is having fun creating Vietnamese articles, which is why I'm seeing all the fun Vietnamese characters. Bgwhite (talk) 05:42, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Checkmate! rev 8414 Fixes diacritics for all special Vietnamese characters including those with tonal symbols and for letters with circumflex. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:08, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- rev 8415 More diacritics. Better organised those with caron and macron sign.
- rev 8416 More diacritics. Better organised those with acute and grave accent.
- rev 8417 More diacritics. Better organised those with umlaut and dot above sign.
- rev 8416 Letters with dot sign below. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:17, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
bot update
FYI... Check Wikipedia update today.
- Finished with DEFAULTSORT with blank at first position
- Finished with DEFAULTSORT with special characters except for special cases.
- Manually working on DEFAULTSORT missing for titles with special letters. Most problem articles are one of two cases. A Turkish city than I need to fix manually for Dr. Blofeld or the page is a redirect. AWB doesn't place DEFAULTSORT on redirects. Did you know there was the Category:Redirects from titles with diacritics? Grrrr.
- I requested bot approval to add WikiProject Biography to talk pages. Bgwhite (talk) 21:47, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
This is super good news! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:18, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
For "3": You have to disactivate "Bypass redirects" from Options pulldown menu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:26, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- No that wasn't the problem. The problem was to make sure "Bypass redirects" was off in my default settings so I don't forget to disactivate it. Of course it doesn't stop me from doing something else stupid in the future. Bgwhite (talk) 00:27, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
yobot problem?
- I don't think Yobot is setting work-group priority like thus summary says: Leif Andersson, Nils Andersson and Stig Bornhager
- I haven't had AWB set WikiProjectBannerShell for ages. What special magical thing am I do wrong, again?
- If talk page has living=yes, but article lists them as dead, they show up in this database report.
Bgwhite (talk) 06:33, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
I'll just keep adding.... Don't know if this is a bug or a feature request.
- When AWB adds WikiProject Biography and there already is a {{Talk header}} on the page, AWB adds WP Biography above the Talk header. Is there some way to add it below the Talk header?
- When there is WPBS and a WP Biography with living=yes, could AWB add blp=yes to WPBS?
Bgwhite (talk) 08:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Edit summary: The correct edit summary should be "Removed empty priority parameter". The code is here: User:Yobot/Task 17
- The correct use of the whole thing is the following, until we make a new plugin for AWB,
- Merge scripts: User:Yobot/Task 17 and User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects
- Turn general fixes on
- WPBS is added only when templates of the form "WikiProject..." are found. General fixes will move {{Talk header}} on the top and adde
|blp=yes
to WPBS. - Most probably the Plugin++ was severe problems. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:23, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Another one... Mušḫuššu, it be the ḫ. Bgwhite (talk) 21:56, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed rev 8406 -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:21, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- I added some more with rev 8407 -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:29, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed rev 8406 -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:21, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Victor Turner (civil servant)
Hello, I came across this article about my wife's great uncle and sadly discovered that there are errors in it. All the information I have on him is on my own website at http://adamantane.madasafish.com/TurnerAC.html . I left some feedback on the wikipedia page but this has now disappeared. I emailed Aminullah Chaudry, the author of the book "Political Administrators: The History of the Civil Service in Pakistan" to try to discover if the incorrect information came from his book but so far I have not received a reply. I was going to edit the page but I doubt that I can cope with the complexity of the footnote coding to be able to do this successfully. Please would you put me in touch with someone who will correct the personal information to what the family knows is correct? We owe it to his memory that he should be properly honoured in wikipedia. Adamantan2ol (talk) 09:12, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Your feedback may be at the Article Feedback page. You may want to post a note at Talk:Victor Turner (civil servant), or take a shot at adding footnotes by just using <ref>...</ref> with your website or other source in the middle. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 01:20, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your response and encouragement. That is my feedback you have found, though I cannot now access it from the article and its talk pages. This feedback should be removed because I shall be bold and tackle the article myself now, having practiced in the sandbox.Adamantan2ol (talk) 08:19, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
- If you have Victor Turner (civil servant) on your watchlist, you could use the link at the top of your watchlist that says "Feedback from my watched pages »" to see the feedback. I agree that it's hard to find. I'm marked the feedback as resolved for you. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:32, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
I mentioned your evil name
Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ryan Vesey Bot 3. Bgwhite (talk) 22:30, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oh no! LOL -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:31, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks for the head up! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:36, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
listas and AWB
First off, you scared me with a blank talk page. Have you thought about adding Miszabot to your talk page so it automatically archives your take pages?
More importantly, I cannot get AWB to not add listas when adding WP Biography. I've done a reset of my settings and module loaded, but it still adds listas. What incredibly stupid thing am I doing? Bgwhite (talk) 22:54, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Are you using the Plugin++? Plugin++ always adds listas if missing in manual mode. Why you don't want to add listas? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:56, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- I'm using KingbotK. I'm just adding WikiProject Biography to talk pages that don't have it. It is for Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/BG19bot_5. Bgwhite (talk) 23:14, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Let me understand. Are you having problems with listas in bot mode? Is it still added in bot mode? Do you get false keys? (I don't mean with a bot account but in bot mode. When autosave is on listas should not be added).-- Magioladitis (talk) 23:17, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, ok. I was not in bot mode. I running manually to make sure I had all my settings correct. See, I was doing something incredibly stupid. Bgwhite (talk) 23:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Run your first 5-10 edits with Delay 8-10 second to check if the edits are right in bot mode. Then you can change Delay to 0 to run faster. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:38, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, ok. I was not in bot mode. I running manually to make sure I had all my settings correct. See, I was doing something incredibly stupid. Bgwhite (talk) 23:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Let me understand. Are you having problems with listas in bot mode? Is it still added in bot mode? Do you get false keys? (I don't mean with a bot account but in bot mode. When autosave is on listas should not be added).-- Magioladitis (talk) 23:17, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- I'm using KingbotK. I'm just adding WikiProject Biography to talk pages that don't have it. It is for Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/BG19bot_5. Bgwhite (talk) 23:14, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
AWB bot
Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Italic title bot. Read the request and clarifying what AWB can do and can't would be nice (since some users are not familiar with AWB). -- Cheers, Riley Huntley talk 20:31, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for taking a look! Would you be able to join the AWB IRC channel? -- Cheers, Riley Huntley talk 00:03, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
- I am about to sleep. Tomorrow. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:12, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
What am I doing wrong
I cannot get AWB to add WPBS to Talk:Günter Lörke and add WP Biography below the talk header in Talk:George S. Klein when I have the WikiProject module running. What in the world am I doing wrong? Bgwhite (talk) 08:39, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- [1]. Maybe you don't have general fixes on? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:42, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I am a confirmed idiot. Bgwhite (talk) 08:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- In the past I had this kind of problems and it took more time to solve them. This is the reason I am working in simplifying the plugin and try to make a "do-all-edits-in-one-single-tool". -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:48, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I am a confirmed idiot. Bgwhite (talk) 08:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
AWB query
Hello, and sorry to bother you, but I was wondering what this edit to Jonathan Spector was for? I thought we weren't meant to use AWB just for adding or removing whitespace or blank lines if the changes don't affect what the reader sees? cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:53, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- AWB failed to fix an unbalanced bracket. Check that I did some similar cases to record them. I just reported an AWB bug on this direction. All pages I am editing have an unbalanced brackets and I am trying to improve AWB's logic to fix more of them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:55, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I believe you, but I don't see an unbalanced bracket in that page. And your next edit to that page changed 2 apparently well-formed hand-coded citations with US date format, as used consistently throughout the article, to cite-web-family templates with yyyy-mm-dd dates. Not sure why you'd be doing that, either? at least, if it's testing, not without an explanatory edit summary at the time and undoing after... cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:35, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I am not sure but I think cite-web is adviced against the other method. I also didn't find the unbalanced bracket and I though it was due to the quotes or something. I am not sure about the ISO dates rules but I've seen they are used more than US/UK date system for references. Feel free to fix them. I spent some time to check the Manual of Style but I got more confused. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:40, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I believe you, but I don't see an unbalanced bracket in that page. And your next edit to that page changed 2 apparently well-formed hand-coded citations with US date format, as used consistently throughout the article, to cite-web-family templates with yyyy-mm-dd dates. Not sure why you'd be doing that, either? at least, if it's testing, not without an explanatory edit summary at the time and undoing after... cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:35, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
(edit conflict) :::Aah. Perhaps your list's out of date. There were 2 citations with unbalanced brackets, until about 24 hours ago when I fixed them: currently refs #10 and #22. Though the ones you changed were current #22 and #26. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:44, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
You are still making trivial edits. SpinningSpark 15:16, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed. Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:30, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
While we are on the subject, what's the point of this edit? Mentoz86 (talk) 15:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- There is a rule that if there are more than 3 wikiprojects to add WPBS. I have to admit that the purpose of the edit was to remove priority which has been done by another editor 20 minutes earlier. Same problem as above. Now fixed because this editors stopped editing the same list with me and I updated the list after their edits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:15, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Somebody is talking about you behind your back
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BG19bot 6
Should I request any more Check Wikipedia tasks on our march to world domination? Bgwhite (talk) 23:04, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Of course! I can't wait. We can be Batman and Robin. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- So, I pick the first 10 names out of Category:Biography articles with blank priority parameter (they start with the letter B) to run the test on the bot. Something is weird, none of these names have a blank priority. What is going on? I panic wondering if the category is filled with bogus names. Noooo, Yobot ran thru the names 4 minutes earlier. Crap, you are in a different continent, which means I can't strangle you. Bgwhite (talk) 09:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- Ooops. I am too fast. :D Try going to letter.... X LOL. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:11, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- So, I pick the first 10 names out of Category:Biography articles with blank priority parameter (they start with the letter B) to run the test on the bot. Something is weird, none of these names have a blank priority. What is going on? I panic wondering if the category is filled with bogus names. Noooo, Yobot ran thru the names 4 minutes earlier. Crap, you are in a different continent, which means I can't strangle you. Bgwhite (talk) 09:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- Bot was approved. I too have joined in the fun and frivolity of removing the priority parameter. It looks like you are doing a random list, so I started out with the letter C.
I fixed all of them. Task was approved. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:19, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
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Yobot added extra blank lines
Hi. I checked out a few of Yobot's many edits which showed up on my watchlist, and saw that extra blank lines were added. Examples: Talk:Maximilien Luce, Talk:Max Ernst, Talk:Joseph Stella. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 08:54, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up. I have no clue why this happens. I've never encountered something like this. In one of the cases I see that also no header was added. I'll try to find out. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- How often does this happen? Any clue? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:12, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I have no idea. I usually assume that there won't be problems with Yobot's edits, so I rarely look at them, but there were just so many on my watchlist recently that I took a look at a few. (At first I thought it was adding one blank line for every WikiProject, but then I saw that this didn't apply to the Max Ernst page above.) MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:43, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Something in logic when WPBS is added and comments exist. No very common but I 'll try to find a solution. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:10, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I have no idea. I usually assume that there won't be problems with Yobot's edits, so I rarely look at them, but there were just so many on my watchlist recently that I took a look at a few. (At first I thought it was adding one blank line for every WikiProject, but then I saw that this didn't apply to the Max Ernst page above.) MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:43, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- How often does this happen? Any clue? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:12, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
I might want to take a look to this one too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:56, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Does it help to gather more examples? Yobot just added five blank lines to Talk:Robert Delaunay, but I won't bother reporting any more unless you say it may help to resolve the issue. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:12, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. Now it's clear. No WPBS and no header. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:40, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Yobot request
Does Yobot have permission to fiddle with Defaultsort or does BG19bot 4 have permission in this case? I've got a list of 3,000 names that contain no space after the comma. For example: DEFAULSTORT:Doe,John. There will be more names, but I only searched for two word names. I'm enjoying the database scanner on AWB that you *forced* upon me. I download the BIG database and fixed some problems on talk pages I came across during BG19bot 6's test run. Bgwhite (talk) 08:26, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Bot bots can do that. Both Batman and Robin can catch the bad guys. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:32, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing them! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:13, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Request
I'd appreciate it if you quit swapping out {{WPMED}} when you clean up talk pages with AWB. Like {{MILHIST}}, the abbreviated version is used on the clear majority of pages. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:40, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- {{MILHIST}} said is OK that if we, I and some editors convert to the "WikiProject..." version. I can skip the WPMED but in general uniformatation has benefits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:42, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- Kumioko and I have had long discussions about the benefits and costs associated with standardization. Kumioko remains unconvinced of the costs; I remain unconvinced of the benefits. I request that you skip this one (one, meaning WPMED. I don't care what you do with the other variants, like WP Medicine). WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:35, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Magioladitis, was this page a mistake? I tagged it with G2 under that assumption. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 18:40, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- It's for testing reason. We check wheter AWB can recreate salted pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:41, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oh. Sorry! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 18:45, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- My mistake that I didn't say anything in the edit summary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:52, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- I deleted it after the test and restored salt. -- Magioladitis (talk)
- My mistake that I didn't say anything in the edit summary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:52, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oh. Sorry! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 18:45, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Yobot freaked out a little
Here. It looks like a one-off error that hasn't been repeated, so I'm posting here rather than User talk:Yobot, so the bot isn't stopped. --Floquenbeam (talk) 23:38, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- It was caused by edit conflict. I 've seen this while happening. Thanks for the report. Mess now reverted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:11, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
It's not cleared out.
Talk:Barrie Vagg, Talk:Billy Payne (footballer) and others. They still have |priority=
, they have the category listed at the bottom of the page, but the names don't show up in the category. Strange. Bgwhite (talk) 23:49, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- The Return of the Living Dead! I am fixing them tomorrow. Time to sleep. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:12, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
At bottom of talk page
(Copyrighted image removed ) Bgwhite (talk) 08:27, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
CHEWIKI for elwiki
Can you help in activating el:Βικιπαίδεια:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Μετάφραση for CHECKWIKI? At start as a test case. -- Magioladitis (d) 26 août 2012 à 10:59 (CEST)
- Hi, do you still need help for CHECKWIKI on elwiki ? Since you have a first version for the CHECKWIKI configuration, I think you should ask sk to activate his script for elwiki, giving him the link to the translation page and the project page. You would start having list of pages in a few days (it can take some time) and then check that the detections are ok for elwiki. In the same start checking articles with WPCleaner. --NicoV (talk) 14:04, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
- I left a message. I can't be bothered to complete the translation. I was hoping for help for other Greek editors. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
- I understand, I hope you will find more help now that the toolserver has made its first run on elwiki. --NicoV (talk) 13:05, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- I left a message. I can't be bothered to complete the translation. I was hoping for help for other Greek editors. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Broken table
Hi, with this edit Yobot added an unnecessary heading inside a table, which broke the page layout. Looks like it's been going on for over a year. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:22, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. I am going to have a look. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:10, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
- Altogether I found 24 - these are the ones that I fixed but two or three of those were not Yobot edits. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:46, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
- I asked for help. Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Desubstitute_Oldafdfull. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:41, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- Altogether I found 24 - these are the ones that I fixed but two or three of those were not Yobot edits. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:46, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Mounif Nehmeh revision
Hi Magioladitis!
I've been looking into the orphan note you left at the page Mounif Nehmeh and added the page at List of Lebanese people. What I'd love to know from you is if that was enough for starters and if not, if you had suggestions for me where to look. Whatever you can give me, it's much appreciated!
Greetings, Glavcos (talk) 11:37, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- I removed the tag. You still need to add wikilinks to this page in 1-2 pages to ensure that people read it. Happy editing! -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you
The Technology Barnstar | ||
For everything you have done to improve WP:AWB by resolving bugs and responding to feature requests, I am pleased to award you this barnstar. Keep up the great work! GoingBatty (talk) 00:52, 22 September 2012 (UTC) |
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:53, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Custom module
Can you take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ryan Vesey Bot 3? I'm having an issue with the custom module. Ryan Vesey 15:28, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- Magio, if bots are going to use User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects I recommend we remove the sections removing parameters and just leave the WikiProject Banner normalization logic. What do you think? Kumioko (talk) 15:55, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- What parameters get removed? Ryan Vesey 16:01, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- Just Deprecarted, unused and unneeded ones within the WikiProject banners like taskforce's and the like that are =no or with no Yes/No set at all. If you look at the User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects page I recommend removing everything below //Delete some general WikiProject parameters if = no. The exception might be the last couple groups where it fixes some typos and problems with parmater names. In order to use those though you would need to get that added to your bot request and its not really worth the effort IMO. It only affects a small percentage of pages, like less than 1%. Kumioko (talk) 16:11, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- IMO, we can add leave it as if. Ryan, I added some comments on the page above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:33, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- Just Deprecarted, unused and unneeded ones within the WikiProject banners like taskforce's and the like that are =no or with no Yes/No set at all. If you look at the User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects page I recommend removing everything below //Delete some general WikiProject parameters if = no. The exception might be the last couple groups where it fixes some typos and problems with parmater names. In order to use those though you would need to get that added to your bot request and its not really worth the effort IMO. It only affects a small percentage of pages, like less than 1%. Kumioko (talk) 16:11, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- What parameters get removed? Ryan Vesey 16:01, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Is that really intended?
I think this edit has removed the rating by the WikiProject. Was that really intended or just a problem with AWB. Thank you···Vanischenu「m/Talk」 04:40, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
- This is a glitch to the code. Thanks for the report. I'll fix it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:52, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
- Done I fixed them all.
- Found 51 pages with |importance=lowimagedetailsunref=. All in WikiProject Engineering.
- Found 168 pages with |importance=imagedetailsunref=.
- Found 5 pages with |importance=midimagedetailsunref=. All in WikiProject Genetics.
- Found 1 page with |importance=topimagedetailsunref=.
- Found 2 pages with |importance=highimagedetailsunref=. All in WikiProject Genetics.
- Magioladitis (talk) 08:41, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
- Done I fixed them all.
- Thank you···Vanischenu「m/Talk」 08:55, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
I also fixed the logic in the code so it shouldn't happen again. Kumioko (talk) 14:12, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your efforts on Guyana request
Thank you for your efforts on my Guyana talk page request. The 'bot is doing a good change, much needed, but there should also be |importance=low as one of the parameters. The change will put the articles in both South America and Guyana projects, but it will leave the South America entries without an importance. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:12, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, noticed. Many were categories with no importance. The remaining 100 pages will be done correctly. Someone needs to go back and readd importance using AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:14, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
The module I used. For future reference:
private static readonly Regex Templ = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(new List<string>("WikiProject Guyana".Split(',')));
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "";
foreach(Match m in Templ.Matches(ArticleText))
{
string TemplCall = m.Value, newValue = m.Value;
string gi = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(newValue, "importance");
newValue = Tools.SetTemplateParameterValue(newValue, "Guyana-importance",gi);
ArticleText = ArticleText.Replace(m.Value, newValue);
}
return ArticleText;
}
-- Magioladitis (talk) 00:18, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Done -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:24, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
CheckWikipedia oddity
Why are articles such as 2013 Kenyan Women's Premier League showing up in "The title has a special letter and in the article there is no DEFAULTSORT" I hadn't seen titles with ' show up before, atleast that I can remember. Bgwhite (talk) 07:02, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
- Better leave a comment at de:Benutzer_Diskussion:Stefan_Kühn/Check_Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:06, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Infobox discussions
I nominated several infoboxes for discussion, on September 22, 23 and 24. Your wise counsel would, as always, be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:27, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
CheckWiki bot
Anything special I should add or not add on requesting a CheckWikibot? Any of the ids that AWB can do, but are controversial? Bgwhite (talk) 21:51, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
- The list of what can be done and what can't be done can be found here: User:Magioladitis/AWB_and_CHECKWIKI. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:10, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
- I think the advice is instead of trying to do all the errors together, load one error per time or make groups (interwiki fixes together etc) and add skip conditions for this error (or this group of errors) by using custom modules. I did that for error 61: User:Yobot/Error 61. Maybe you could help so we make some more.
- Running manually for a short period helped me to find 2 bugs and make 2 feature requests on duplicated interwikis.
- User:Michael Anon has a script doing fine with error #2. AWB fixes 90% of the cases.
- User:Frescobot does some of the errors (#64 is one of them) but its owner doesn't remove them from the list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:42, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
- When I have a short amount of time and I can't stand to see another listas or talk page, I've manually run some errors. I recently found a bug with "Headlines end with colon" that was fixed.
- Been doing error #26, "HTML text style element <b> (bold text)". Some pages have been in there for upto 2 years. AWB will only do a <b></b> pair. I've got a little regex that turns any <b> or </b> into ' ' '. Not sure if it is a good idea to add that little regex into AWB. Bgwhite (talk) 00:01, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- You can of course ask for a bot task for some of them.
- Replacing unclosed tags can always be an unpleasant surprice.
- I had in mind to add some more support for CHECKWIKI in AWB. Any feedback will be useful. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:05, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- I think the advice is instead of trying to do all the errors together, load one error per time or make groups (interwiki fixes together etc) and add skip conditions for this error (or this group of errors) by using custom modules. I did that for error 61: User:Yobot/Error 61. Maybe you could help so we make some more.
You could start with "Headlines fixes" (errors #57 and #44, semimanually: #8, #19, manually: #49). -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:49, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- I did do #57 and #44 semi-manually as that is how I spotted some AWB errors. I'll do the other three after I get done with #26. Bgwhite (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- Requested under Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BG19bot 7 Bgwhite (talk) 07:26, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- I left a comment there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
User:Magioladitis/AWB and CHECKWIKI updated to show the specific function used to fix each error. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:48, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Date problem
Hi, just spotted this edit which left an invalid date, year at start & end. I have fixed, changed to day first format as well as the reference dates appear to be day first. Keith D (talk) 18:19, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll report this on AWB's bug page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:39, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- rev 8444 fixes it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:03, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
minor Yobot17 module hiccup
I've run into a minor hiccup with the Yobot17 module. This started with AWB 8414. The lines are:
string ListasValue = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(newValue,"listas");
newValue = Tools.RemoveTemplateParameter(newValue,"listas");
newValue = Tools.SetTemplateParameterValue(newValue,"listas",ListasValue);
The code removes a newline character, so the listas is no longer on a separate line. It comes out looking like:
{{WikiProject Biography |living=yes |class=Stub|listas=Menees, Eric }}
Bgwhite (talk) 05:45, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Since you always set the parameter then you should not remove it. Ofcourse it won't go at the bottom but the best solution is to only Set and not Remove. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:13, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
AWB bug on a checkwiki?
This relates to id #54 on removing <br> from lists. Common thread is that all the br symbols are in external links. Example pages are: Alexander Barrass, C M Leumane, and Cecil Pitt. Bgwhite (talk) 07:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
- It only removes <br> but not <br />. I'll try to fix this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:53, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
- SyntaxRegexListRowBrTag needs to be updated. -- 07:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed rev 8438. Very nice catch! -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:46, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Yobot issue
HI
Just drawing your attention to a new fairly major issue from last night User talk:Yobot#Broken talk page banner and a couple from the last few weeks.
Hopefully this can be swiftly dealt with as it is breaking assessments, causing banners to not display, as well as causing banner-shell errors.
Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 15:09, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oh. Cool you wrote me here. I am going to check it and fix it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:11, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Yobot finished removing nested and empty priority. I updated my settings file in case I rerun in the future. I am going to fix any occurrences but it seems you fixed most of them already. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:19, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
WP:MMA
Thanks for helping to make MMA articles on wikipedia better! In September 168 people made a total of 956 edits to MMA articles. I noticed you havn't listed yourself on the WikiProject Mixed martial arts Participants page. Take a look, sign up, and don't forget to say hi on the talk page. |
Wikify deprecated
Hi. Yobot is continuing to add {{Wikify}} to articles even though the template is deprecated. Can it instead add Dead End or Underlinked? Cheers Del♉sion23 (talk) 19:48, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I am on it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:54, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
- FYI... This was discussed on the talk page for AWB a few weeks back. It is supposed to be fixed in the next version of AWB. Yobot uses AWB.
- Delusion23, your signature uses the depreciated font tag. The font tag was removed from HTML5 and a hack is making it work for the time being in Wikipedia. Suggest you fix it. User:LadyofShalott has a signature with multiple colors and you can look at hers for an example. Bgwhite (talk) 20:17, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Regex page in your userspace
Do you mind if a page is created in your userspace? It would contain various regex formulas. For example, how to scan biographies to see if priority is left blank as some articles don't show up in the tracking category. Scan to see if there is a space after the comma in defaultsort. Rather it be in your space as you are the ringleader. Bgwhite (talk) 17:28, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- Feel free, my good friend Samwise Gamgee. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:00, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- This is appropriate. Bgwhite (talk) 18:26, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- User:Magioladitis/AWB regular expressions Bgwhite (talk) 20:04, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- To remove parameters you should better use the built-in function RemoveTemplateParameter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:43, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- I added a regular expression to find, not remove. In the latest dump, there were 194 talk pages with empty priority/importance parameter that were not showing up in Category:Biography articles with blank priority parameter. You have to find them in order to remove them. Bgwhite (talk) 20:56, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- To remove parameters you should better use the built-in function RemoveTemplateParameter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:43, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- User:Magioladitis/AWB regular expressions Bgwhite (talk) 20:04, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- This is appropriate. Bgwhite (talk) 18:26, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Mediawiki sort problem
See User talk:Okeyes (WMF)#Mediawiki sort problem Bgwhite (talk) 17:51, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Getting rid of some WikiProject Biography redirects
What are the odds that we can remove the following redirects:
- Template:Wpbiography
- Template:Bio
- T:WPBIO
- Template:WikiProject biography
- Template:Wikiproject biography
- Template:WPBIOGRAPHY
- Template:Wpbio
- Template:WikiProject Biographies
All have under 150 transclusions, most are under 15. Bgwhite (talk) 22:41, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- You can try... Especially for the cross-namespace one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:52, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Please check the infobox. I haven't got it quite right. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 10:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC) Done 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:10, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Wikify again
Hey just to reitorate, Template:Wikify is now obselete. Please do NOT use it. You added it to a few dozen articles today using AWB, even ones where I'd already replaced the template with Underlinked. Del♉sion23 (talk) 17:17, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Damn. I am sorry. I didn't have time to update my settings. Doing right now! -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:18, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- I fixed all those that you didn't fix. I did a lot of clicks today! -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:31, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
checkwiki error 63 problem
Among the many that AWB doesn't fix....
- See: *12 [[Ed Olczyk]]<sup><small>A</small></sup>
American Aeronautical Corporation
- See: <small><sup>([http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/CradleOfAviationMuseum/AmericanAeronauticalS56SavoiaMarchetti/index.htm photos])</small></sup>
American Family Association v. City and County of San Francisco
- See: <ref><small>On February 19, 1999, in [[Coosa County, Alabama]], Billy Jack Gaither was beaten to death with an axe handle and his body was burned because he was homosexual.</small></ref>
Bgwhite (talk) 18:51, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
I sent you by mail rev 8454. I reported the bugs in AWB bug's page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:01, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Got the email. Hmmm, I didn't know executables now end in just .ex :). $(#*@_ Bill Gates... changing 'mv' command to 'move'. I already said the trial was complete, so no more fixing #61 today. Bgwhite (talk) 19:24, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- You'll have to rename .ex to .exe. Gmail didn't allow me to send exe file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:25, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- That's why I complained about 'move'. It always takes me a few seconds before it dawns on me that I'm not on Linux/Unix. It is hard to teach this old dog new tricks. Bgwhite (talk) 19:34, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- LOL. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:35, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- That's why I complained about 'move'. It always takes me a few seconds before it dawns on me that I'm not on Linux/Unix. It is hard to teach this old dog new tricks. Bgwhite (talk) 19:34, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- You'll have to rename .ex to .exe. Gmail didn't allow me to send exe file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:25, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
checkwiki error 17 problem
- [[Category:General Hospital characters]]
- [[Category:General Hospital characters|Spencer, Luke]]
- [[Category:General Hospital characters]]
- [[Category:General Hospital characters| ]]
- [[Category:Indian criminal law]]
- [[Category:Indian criminal law|Pena,UGIO,IKIl code]]
Bgwhite (talk) 19:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Misleading edit summaries
Hello Magioladitis, this edit[2] purports to be "Remove space in percent per WP:PERCENT", yet is doing nothing of the sort, and nothing that would give leave for the white-space shuffling. Please try to ensure that edit summaries are accurate to some degree. —Sladen (talk) 23:21, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Ooops. Forgot to really remove the correct space. Now did. The ones not caught by my regex I have to do manually and sometimes I get confused. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:23, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- …There seem to be other instances of altering literal citation quotes[4]. If running as a WP:MEATBOT with the safeties and human oversight turned off, could you please make sure the regexes stay clear of anything that is a literal representation of a remote resource. Eg.
{{cquote}}
,{{cite|(quote|title|author|first|last|…)=…}}
. —Sladen (talk) 01:14, 6 October 2012 (UTC)- Quotes can also change to the style of Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:24, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- …There seem to be other instances of altering literal citation quotes[4]. If running as a WP:MEATBOT with the safeties and human oversight turned off, could you please make sure the regexes stay clear of anything that is a literal representation of a remote resource. Eg.
WP:MOSQUOTE reads "a few purely typographical elements of quoted text should be adapted to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment" and later "Spaces before punctuation such as periods and colons: these should be removed as alien to modern English-language publishing.". I think here we have a similar change. In fact, AWB doesn't remove space from percent numbers inside quotes. I did it manually in same cases. I can leave a message to MOSQUOTE to ask for clarification. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
I left a question waiting for clarification: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#MOSQUOTE_vs_PERCENT. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:32, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- Meanwhile I won't be changing anything inside quotes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:34, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
AWB question
Question, AWB didn't fix this: [[The_Christy_Miller_series|The Christy Miller Series]]. The problem is the the first S in series. I'm not entirely sure about capitalizing in Wikilinks, but I thought didn't matter. Bgwhite (talk) 01:35, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I don't think it would have been right for WP:AWB/GF to change it either to The Christy Miller series or The Christy Miller Series. What would you have wanted it changed to? GoingBatty (talk) 05:45, 6 October 2012 (UTC)