Thanks for your help with the Vote/Article conversion.
If I may be so bold as to ask something else... would it be feasible for NekoDaemon to occasionally look through a list of {{Categoryredirect}}s, and move any articles in the redirecting category, into the category it redirects to? For instance, such categories as American painters and United States painters come in redundant pairs and all articles should be in either, not spread arbitrarily among both. Such cat redirs are generally instated by CFD consensus. Yours, Radiant_>|< 18:03, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
Since you're an admin, you can protect pages against vandalism yourself. Just press "protect" and add the {{vprotected}} template. Andre (talk) 17:58, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
Hi. On the theme of above (in relation to USS Missouri (BB-63), make sure you do add that template so that people don't get a shock when they try to edit the page, and so that new users can understand why the page is protected (and if necessary, dispute that it should be). Slacspeak up!20:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
As requested i've added my bot to the list. Mostly running interwiki's, but as it will not always be limited to that function i've placed it in the general 'bots with flag' section. CyeZ13:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm uncertain and unclear how your bot got a bot flag without going through Wikipedia talk:Bots, but it is required that your bot gets approval at Wikipedia talk:Bots before running your bot before applying bot flag status. I know that you might have added it yourself, as well intended that maybe, but I personally didn't see it, and I don't want you to get any trouble or problems when someone comes running up complaining that your bot is doing such and such when it shouldn't be. --AllyUnion(talk)07:33, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm just barely around. I occasionally make edits here and there, but I'm not very active anymore. My bots don't work anymore either (probably), and I don't have the time (or inclination really) to make it work.
But, I'm the kind of person who gets bored with stuff and then goes back to it eventually, so I might do that. But I'll never write another bot unless a bot friendly interface for wikimedia is written because they'd make changes to Wikimedia and then suddenly my bot didn't work anymore, and that got frustrating. Kevin Rector (talk) 20:09, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Good points about the changing interface, that gave a lot of bot writers a lot of pain. But Media Wiki upgrades of the caliber of version 1.5 will not happen that often I think. Oleg Alexandrov23:53, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Good evening. I have been working on a top-to-bottom rewrite of the Guide. My goals were, in order, to:
Reduce the size of the page
Remove the references to "voting" and return the tone to one of discussion
Clean up the order and flow
My current draft is 7 screens long (down from 13 screens in the "live" version. I think that I have kept all the relevant lessons, instructions and good advice. I did sacrifice some of what, in my opinion, were rare or secondary situations.
Before I post this for wider discussion, I wanted to ask the opinion of a few people like you who have been intimately involved with the existing process. When you have a minute, would you mind commenting on the draft? Did I cut too much? Have I changed the actual intent of any instruction? Do you consider this better, worse or neutral? By the way, I'd also appreciate any help with format and clean-up. I'm getting bleary-eyed. Thanks. Rossami(talk)01:27, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
No, never used the framework. =Nichalp«Talk»= 04:11, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
I have both, but I can't access wikipedia through linux. So I use Windows. I think I do have the python framework setup files somewhere in an old CD. What should I do now. Install the latest one, or will the old version suffice? =Nichalp«Talk»= 04:18, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
Forgive my ignorance, but what's CVS? =Nichalp«Talk»= 04:26, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
I would be interested in writing the questions but I don't know if I have time to really sit down and commit any time to it until next month. I don't know how quickly these usually turn around (this was really the first one I discovered) so just let me know if that's ok or if you want to go with someone else for some/all of them. ESkog12:24, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I've created a bot account User:Nichalp-bot. Have I to append the below text to user-config.py? =Nichalp«Talk»= 18:05, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
f = file('something.csv')
text = f.readlines()
for line in text:
items = line.replace('\n','').split(',')
name = items[0]
state = items[1]
population = items[2]
.....
I wrote a big paragraph on a peer review for your "Chinese Art" request. But when I looked, it didn't seem to be there. So just incase, I thought I'd put it on here as well, just to be safe:
Well I saw your request sitting there patiently, waiting for someone to look at it. I happily obliged. Well... My personal opinion is: The opening paragraph "Chinese art is art....etc", needs major reworking as it is both irrelevant in some places & confusing on the whole. It should either be deleted all together or start with a brief overview of the timeline of Chinese art or something similar. The content is very broad & covers a wide range of Chinese art. Some areas, such as performing Chinese arts, need a bit more depth & research to delve deeper into the subject. Some internal links need creating so that every red link is blue. I would also suggest some horizontal bars to separate the performing arts, sculpture, painting etc, areas more clearly. Although it may be a problem, I would like to see a couple more pictures towards the beginning, just to spice it up. But other than that, you could add a simple timeline to the begininning (E.G: ???? BC- This painter was born. ???? BC- This guy created this piece of art. ???? BC- This artist died. ???? BC- This city reached a golden age. ???? AD- This event influenced Chinese art.). I think the article is very well done, but with these & possibly a few more tweeks & adjustments, it will be a FA in no time. Good work. Spawn Man14:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Beland. I'm beginning to feel that it necessary for a group of people who are willing to commit themselves to review bot proposals on the English Wikipedia. I really dislike that I seem to be the only one handing down the judgments on Wikipedia talk:Bots. Such a group or committee should be formed of technical and non-technical Wikipedians who can determine whether a bot's usefulness is harmless and useful. While bots are useful on the Wikipedia, I do feel that it is the responsibility of the bot owner to maintain and check what its bot is doing and whether their bot is doing the job correctly. Failure to do so, to me, violates the harmless and useful part. Non-technical members of such a community is necessary for the judgment of character of a bot owner and whether the bot owner is responsible enough to keep their bot well maintained. What do you think? --AllyUnion(talk)05:51, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I'll add Wikipedia talk:Bots to my "actively monitoring" list and try to check there more often and opine on others' proposals. Actually, I've been meaning to go through the proposals there and archive resolved ones. I added a link from "Things to watch" on Wikipedia:Maintenance, and a link from the "Get involved" section of the Community Portal. I also added the page itself to Category:Wikipedia proposals. Something could perhaps be added to WP:RFC. If you'd like to make a list of active participants on Wikipedia:Bots or Wikipedia:Cleaning department or whereever, fine by me, and feel free to add my name. But I've noticed that simply making a list of participants doesn't seem to keep people involved. People (including myself) tend to forget they've signed up as soon as something else catches their attention. And certainly adding a layer of bureaucracy that takes time to manage would only make the problem worse.
Personally, my watchlist is too big to monitor on anything but the timescale of months, but other people might be more active if they were encouraged to watchlist the page. Increased visibility may also help, by reminding participants that the page exists, and by attracting new participants. Occasionally posting on the Village Pump or filing RFCs for interesting bots may help do that. And certainly it's good of you to remind us bot operators on our personal talk pages of our civic duty to participate. 8) -- Beland06:10, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The game was originally closed-source, and although the code was released under the GPL, the art is still copyrighted and used by permission of the creators. Andre (talk) 22:46, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you very kindly for your support of my nomination. I promise your trust hasn't been misplaced; I will only be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) · Katefan0(scribble) 21:36, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, AllyUnion. I've placed a message, cron, and user list at User:NotificationBot/Mind Benders and the respective pages. I just wanted to notify you and let you know, as it appears that I am the first to use this wonderful bot (thanks for designing it, by the way!) I only had a bit of trouble with the cron, but I think I've figured it out. It should deliver the message at 22:06 UTC time today. When I want to deliver a new message, all I have to do is to change the message and the cron, right? Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for offering your help. Right now I just started a new school year, and since IRC is blocked, my ability to edit Wikipedia has been limited until I can get a VPN working here. As such, my Wikipedia projects, including SubstBot, are on hold. Once I have gotten these things sorted out I would greatly appreciate if you would feel qualified and available to be my Wiki-bot guru, though. Thanks again --Ryan Delaneytalk22:08, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Cool! Thanks for designing a wonderful bot! I think you enabled it or something, but it sent out the messages successfully. Will it be operational now? I probably will send another message in a day or two. Thanks for your help! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 23:08, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I am contacting logged-in users who have taken an interest in, or edited, Wikipedia_talk:Assume_good_faith, and asking them to respond to a question I have placed on that page which goes to the policy of WP:AGF.
Hello, AllyUnion. Just to let you know NotificationBot didn't run yesterday; I think you may have been developing it but I just wanted to let you know. In either case, I've rescheduled the cron so that it should run today at 21:26 UTC time. Thanks for this wonderful bot; your work is appreciated! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
A while back I recall you were involved in rewriting Star Trek. If completed I'm curious what you would have done to add that new rewrite to the main article. Would you just do a straight copy and paste or would you merge page histories or what? Just curious because a rewrite was done at Lost by a handful of editors and there seems to be (or will be soon enough anyway) a consensus that that version should replace what is current there and I'd like to know ahead of time how to go about this... properly. Thanks K1Bond00704:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi AllyUnion, the notification bot you designed for User:Flcelloguy, ie. MindBenders, seems to have sent the latest message three times to everyone (for me at 06.19, 06.21 and 06.22 UTC). You may want to take a look. Cormaggio@09:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, AllyUnion, just wanted to let you know that your notification bot's message has an unclosed parenthesis: there is a left parenthesis before the talk link, and paired parentheses as part of the link. Just wanted to let you know! — Knowledge Seekerদ03:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I have set the bot up with the code you gave me, it seems to be not working properly. I do not see whats wrong with the code avalible at: User:Cool Cat/Counter Vandalism Unit#Python
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "defcon4.py", line 3, in ?
mypage = wikipedia.page(wikipedia.getSite(), 'Template:Wdefcon')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'page'
hi, i was looking for a few images of hollywood's taft building and think yours are the best so far... do you have any others that i may be interested in to drop into my site @ nine9design.com under the contact page? i know, after you see the site you'll wonder why i don't take the image myself? i guess it's because i just want to drop the image in now, instead of later! :)
Any page smaller than 15 bytes turns out to be people testing edit power, or genuinely vandalisisng wikipedia. There are two legitamate cases of 15 bytes.
#redirect[[[A]]]
{{deletedpage}}
So if #redirect or {{deletedpage}} not present on page, delete. I already have my vandal bot identifying tiny pages. The community so far did not show any objections @ [[3]].
So basicaly if the vandal bot requests a check the pyton bot will go to the necesary page and check if its either a redirect or a template, if not delete.
Hi, I was wondering if I could request final approval and a bot-flag for Whobot. Had some downtime due to the hurricane, but have been running fine for the past few days. Thanks. ∞Who?¿?08:04, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I like the new option of resetting the sandbox. I originally had the link go to a previous edit and then you had to save the page but with this new tool it's a lot easier now. -- Thorpe talk11:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to write something to help maintain the reference desk pages, specifically the archival of old questions on a regular basis. Could you point me in the right direction to get started with writing a bot? --HappyCamper20:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I program for a living when I'm not editing Wikipedia :-) - Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, Fortran, and the occasional database stuff. At work, I shift between different languages often; based on the needs at hand. If there is a particular language which is well suited for bot writing, I'd be willing to pick it up. --HappyCamper22:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ally. Your AFD bot is removing the purge cache template when it closes the current AFD day. Is there any reason why it can't leave it there? Paul August☎00:34, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
On the request of Radiant!, it was requested for it to be removed. But frankly, I do not see any reason to leave it on either. Is there any specific reason you think it should be left on? --AllyUnion(talk)03:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Well if you don't purge the cache you don't see the previous updates that have been made to the transcluded pages. So, for example this can cause "double" closures, where an editor wil "close" the AfD even though it has been already closed. I've had to correct several of these recently. Is there some reason it should not be left on? Paul August☎14:10, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Beland, do you think there would be enough interest to start somelike like a WikiProject for bot programmers? Something basically we can collaborately join together somewhere, discuss ideas, help write bots together? --AllyUnion(talk)04:56, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's an interesting idea. I've found wikitext (especially for bots that edit wikitext) to be a rather poor container for code. I suppose the thing to do is to set up a cvs repository, or make use of an existing Wikimedia one. -- Beland 04:18, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
I wouldn't know how to set the scope of it for Source Forge... And this would give us an advantage for several users to change bot code. It seems my code stays relatively static because no one else has the ability to really affect changes other than myself. Sourceforge may be a good solution, but I think we might be able to use a Wikimedia server. Maybe we should ask Jimbo? I mean this more of a bot developer kind of thing rather than the MediaWiki software developer kind of thing. --AllyUnion(talk)04:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like it would worik... and, as I said originally, it would be very useful in navigation. You're right that the current day would always display a redlink to the next day, but if commenting it out would fix that, all the better. My only concern was that it would cause problems with the "long list" which lists a whole week's worth of AFD at once. If there's no problem with that though and it's not too much teouble, I think it would be a Good Thing. Grutness...wha?07:11, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Kakashi Bot is adding the navigation table twice at the top of each VfD log
Oh, really? I'm sure I've seen Uncle G's bot going around making daily subpages somewhere or other, so I asked him to do WP:CP too. If it should really be your bot doing it, for consistency or whatever, then do change it over. It doesn't bother me at all which bot does the job! -Splashtalk13:38, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I want my bot to create new articles using the .csv info.
I also later plan to use the bot to add infoboxes to pages that are already created, using the same csv information (ofcourse with some additional details like location maps). =Nichalp«Talk»=15:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
East Kameng is a district in Arunachal Pradesh //comment: the state name will be in the csv// in India. It has an area of 4,134 km² and a population of 57,065 with a density of 14 per square kilometre. The town of [[[Seppa]] is the district headquarters.
if if the "area" is between 1-9 then area_magnitude=6; if the "area" is between 10-99 then area_magnitude=7 and so on... So in the above case "area"=2,996, so area_magnitude=9. =Nichalp«Talk»=05:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The introduction text would be (and only applied if the article does not exist):
'''East Kameng''' is a district in [[Arunachal Pradesh]] in [[India]]. It has an area of 4,134 km² and a population of 57,065 with a density of 14 per [[square kilometre]]. The town of [[[Seppa]] is the district headquarters.
. Ryan Norton T | @ | C 07:41, 27 September 2005 (UTC)