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Clean user sandbox by User:AvicBot2

Hello Avicennasis

I was happy to find that you are running a bot that can clean user sandboxes, which is a very useful thing (in fact I am operating a similar bot on dewiki). Could you please add User:DrTrigon/sandbox to the list of pages? That would be great!

By the way; is there a possibility that the bot does not delete the whole page content but e.g. keep all text appearing before the sandbox template? What is the correct sandbox template to use with your bot?

Thanks and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 10:52, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Shouldn't be a problem - the script is set on crontab, with something like script.py -page:pagename -content:'DefaultPageContent' - So the page can be reset to whatever templates/text you want set for 'DefaultPageContent' (provided that 'DefaultPageContent' is static - I've not yet coded something to handle dynamic content.) Also, you can specify how frequently you want it cleaned - e.g., every 12 hours, Tuesdays, or whatever. Let me know what you need. ^Avic_ennasis @ 15:39, 2 Tevet 5772 / 15:39, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello! Thanks for your reply! I think I will use the same 'DefaultPageContent' as you on your sandbox! ;) But it would be very helpful if there would be a method for me to control the bot somehow. I need something to deactivate the bot temporarily; e.g. either a 'protected' area that does not get changed (e.g. in front of the template) or the bot resets the page if the template is existent only (so I can remove the template to deactivate and later put it back). Something like that would be very handy... ;) Anyway the desired reset interval is 24h, e.g. at midnight or shortly afterwards.

Thanks again and greetings to you! --DrTrigon (talk) 11:15, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok. I'll tinker with the script and see if I can get an enablepage to work for you, like AvicBot has for some of it's scripts. Perhaps something like User:DrTrigon/sandbox/checkpage with 'Enable' as the content? Let me know if that would work for you. I'll try to get some free time to code it soon. ^Avic_ennasis @ 02:56, 5 Tevet 5772 / 02:56, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

What about cleaning if (and only if) a given template (like e.g. your sandbox template) is present on the page? Can be checked through 'What links here' (better the api analogous ;)... Is more or less whatI used... ;) But essentially it is not important to me - do what is the most simple for you - thanks anyway!!! ;) greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 10:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Could you meanwhile set it to the same as on your sandbox, cleaned at midnight:

{{User:DrTrigon/sandboxnotice}}
==Test below here==

that would be a great start... Thanks a lot! Greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 21:31, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Should run UTC midnight-ish tonight. ^Avic_ennasis @ 12:37, 12 Tevet 5772 / 12:37, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Works fine! (even though the run was not at midnight... ;)) Thanks again and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 10:47, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

double redirect frequency

Context: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Special:MovePage_instructions. What's the mean or median and max time to double redirect correction? Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 12:50, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Not sure what median time is (never measured it) but this particular script runs every three hours. So, presuming the timing is perfect, the longest a redirect in mainspace might exist is a little over that 3 hours. ^Avic_ennasis @ 02:53, 5 Tevet 5772 / 02:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks...so if the script were instant and creation of redirects randomly uniformly distributed, mean/median would be able 1.5 hours. Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 03:02, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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The bot keeps false positiving the NBCN rd to NBC Sports Network over to Versus (TV channel); the intended target is NBC Sports Network as the Versus article will move over to there this afternoon due to a channel rebranding. Thank you. Nate • (chatter) 09:18, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

The bot is working as intended - NBCN was a redirect to NBC Sports Network, which is itself a redirect. As such, it's a double redirect - and so needs to be corrected.

When the Versus (TV channel) article is moved to NBC Sports Network, AvicBot will update the redirects accordingly. ^Avic_ennasis @ 12:28, 7 Tevet 5772 / 12:28, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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The WikiProject Film Newsletter Volume VII, no. 1 - January–February
Project news The current ongoing drive at WikiProject Film is the improvement of the Stub-Class articles from the Core article list. The aim is to improve these articles to Start-Class or better. The drive began with the 2011 update of the list, at which time 106 Stub-class articles remained—this is now down to 86. WP:FILM has several articles waiting to be reviewed for Good Article status: Rani Mukerji, Night of the Blood Beast, The Lion King, Match Point, 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), Taapsee Pannu, Motifs in the James Bond film series, Sjumandjaja, The Dirty Picture, Bipasha Basu, The Deer Hunter and Spencer Tracy. A significant number of these are on Asian cinema—you can help counter systemic bias by reviewing these articles! WP:FILM also has a number of articles hoping to gain Featured Article and List status: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (FAC), Jaws (film) (FAC), and List of accolades received by David Lynch (FLC). Night of the Living Dead is also currently undergoing a review of its Featured Article status. The Category:Film articles needing an image is quite large at 3,704 articles! You can help by even just adding one image a day to start working the list down. Information on finding and uploading images can be found on the infobox template page The past few weeks have seen the yearly ceremonies for some of the world's more prestigious film awards taking place—the 65th British Academy Film Awards (12/2), César Awards 2012 (24/2), and 84th Academy Awards (26/2). The ten most popular film-related articles this month were: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) War Horse (film) Red Tails Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol The Dark Knight Rises Agneepath (2012 film) Underworld: Awakening The Artist (film) Internet Movie Database Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in January and February Katharine Hepburn (15/2) Manhunter (film) (11/2) List of highest-grossing films (28/2) Jennifer Lopez filmography (19/2) Pride & Prejudice (2005 film) (29/2) Dabangg (26/2) Barbara Hershey (18/2) M (James Bond) (5/2) Labyrinth (film) (29/1) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (27/1) Paiyaa (13/1) Star Trek (film) (12/1) Chapter 27 (9/1) Snow Prince (5/1) Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (5/1) James Bond films (23/1) Superman (11/2) Member news New members to the project since the last issue include: Balajijagadesh, Bluejay Young, Cbennett1989, Chocochat77, Codrinb, Gothicfilm, MathewTownsend, SupernovaExplosion and many more Remember that any editor can give the WikiProject Film Award to another WP:Films member. If you do present this award, please make mention of it here or tell one of the newsletter editors who will then include it in the next issue. Please add your name to the member list if you have not already. Film pages by quality Quality Total FA 190 FL 483 FM 33 A 1 GA 1,430 B 1,515 C 10,543 Start 71,506 Stub 96,420 List 13,183 Category 54,554 Disambig 372 File 111,062 Portal 19 Project 229 Redirect 11,750 Template 9,511 NA 30 Assessed 382,831 Unassessed 6 Total 382,837 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 985,629 Ω = 5.43	Current proposals and discussions Coming to theaters Opened last weekend (24/2): Act of Valor Gone Good Deeds Wanderlust Opening this weekend (2/3): Being Flynn Project X The Lorax Opening next weekend (9/3): A Thousand Words John Carter Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Silent House Other March releases: The Deep Blue Sea (30/3) Bully (30/3) The Hunger Games (23/3) The Raid (23/3) Casa de Mi Padre (16/3) Jeff Who Lives at Home (16/3) 21 Jump Street (16/3) Did you know... ... that Gangavataran was the first sound film, and the last film, to be directed by Dadasaheb Phalke? ... that The Art of Woo, starring Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Beach, was funded by a grant from the Canadian Film Centre's Featured Film Project? ... that the film 10 Promises to My Dog is based on a novel that was inspired by The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership? ... that the tragic end of Raj Kapoor's film Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release? ... that Albert Kirchner, who made many pornographic films, was the first filmmaker to direct a film about the life of Christ? ... that Spanish character actor José Manuel Martín starred in one of the earliest Spaghetti Westerns, Savage Guns (1961), and went on to become one of the most prolific villains of the genre? ... that Am Abend, a 1910 German film, was one of the earliest pornographic films? ... that English filmmaker Greta Schiller directed the 1976 short film Greta's Girls which is one of the first documentaries that focuses on lesbians? From the editors If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Film. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – March). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this issue Grapple X (Lead Editor, Distributor) 2006: Nov Dec 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2012: Jan–Feb
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It's fixing a double-redirect - look at the article - Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen - it's a race, and related. There is no malfunction. ^Avic_ennasis @ 03:02, 10 Nisan 5772 / 03:02, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

oh, I was using a new bot, and it looked just like reoccurring vandalism from my view. I'm just getting used to it so sorry for the mistake.Coffeepusher (talk) 03:06, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

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I'm looking into solutions for this... No promises, but I'm thinking of having some way to log the bot edits for this might be best, so they can be reviewed later. ^Avic_ennasis @ 01:31, 20 Nisan 5772 / 01:31, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Awesome, looking forward to it. For now I'm just keeping track of them on the article's talk page so once the back and forth stops they can be restored. Y12J (talk) 10:29, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed your bot fixing a double-redirect, and then searched a bit more and see you have > 70K local edits, > 200K global edits, Global Rollback, two local Sysop rights, and run a Global Bot. Hence I could nominate you for Adminship if you want to start doing Sysop things over here, too? It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 15:37, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

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I appreciate your offer. I've thought about RfA before, to be honest. I've always been rather nervous about the whole process, though perhaps I should just "bite the bullet" and go for it. If you think I could be a better asset to the community with a mop, then who am I to disagree? ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:43, 26 Iyar 5772 / 05:43, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Cool. Seeing as I'm not overly familiar with your work, as I say, what major work have you done on en.wp specifically / what sort of admin work would you be looking to go into / anything else I should know? Thanks! It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 09:25, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

I've dabbled here and there, off and on - Mostly at WP:UAA and dealing with vandalism and speedy deletes. I also help with WP:CFD/W/M and as an admin could help with WP:CFD/W as well. I have a registered nick on IRC so I can respond to stuff real-time (though I haven't been on much lately, I should have more time available nowadays). The only concerns I think that might come is that 1.) my activity comes and goes (real life stuff affects that), though I do have email alerts for talk-page changes and will make it a point to respond quickly as an admin, and 2.) that my activity may not be "extensive" enough for some people, as far as admin-areas of the project. Hopefully, I'm wrong - I do like to think I've put in enough time here to know what's what. ^Avic_ennasis @ 02:47, 28 Iyar 5772 / 02:47, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

OK, there's the link. Read 1, 2 etc. – standard stuff. I wouldn't bother with {{RfX-notice|a}}, although on the subject of your user page, you might want to clean it up a bit. I don't just mean the pictures/whatever (nothing wrong with showing a bit of personality), but more the fact that it is confusing in places (e.g. do you have a degree in Theology or Computer Science?). Once you've filled in your page, feel free to transclude it yourself. Good luck! It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 10:48, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Heh, I'd forgot about most of those userboxes. I've cleaned it up a bit. My RfA is live now - thanks again for the nomination. I hope the community has the same trust in me that you have. ^Avic_ennasis @ 06:17, 29 Iyar 5772 / 06:17, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

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Is this bot possible?

I haven't discussed it with anyone on Spanish wikipedia yet, so I'd need to get it approved, but I was wondering if it would be possible to create a bot that can check for pages in a category on English Wikipedia that have spanish interwiki links and add the Spanish Wikipedia page to its corresponding category. For example I just created es:Categoría:Videos de YouTube, I would like to go through Category:YouTube videos and find pages like Nyan Cat which has an interwiki link to Spanish Wikipedia and add it. (I just did that one manually, but there are 156 pages in the category. I have created others too. If that can't be created, or they won't approve it on Spanish Wikipedia, is there a way to create something that will list all of the pages that have interwikilinks in a category for me? Ryan Vesey Review me! 20:24, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

I believe that should be do-able. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:07, 7 Sivan 5772 / 05:07, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

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en→es

I have a list of pages at User:Ryan Vesey/Pages in categories. Can you please create a list of the Spanish wikipedia pages that these correspond to? Ryan Vesey Review me! 06:50, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I have a new list now, can you assist? Ryan Vesey Review me! 00:12, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Your bot puts interwikies wrong

Hi, Thrashing (computer science) had interwiki to russian ru:Компьютерный сленг (this is real story, not just an example), which means "Computer slang" and this terms are not related completedly. The russian article had interwiki to english one, too. So, 26 May UTC I removed en->ru interwiki. But I didn't remove ru->en interwiki, because I'm too lazy and I hoped some interwiki bot will remove ru->en interwiki. But instead, your bot didn't remove ru->en interwiki and moreover 28 May 2:34 UTC it added en->ru interwiki again! So, it is bug in your bot. Please, fix it. If someone removes interwiki, it means that this interwiki is wrong, so any bot should not add it again and it should remove reverse-interwiki.

But this was only part of the problem. The real life is even worse: Thrashing (computer science) had the following interwikies: cv, de, (en), es, fr, gl, ja, pt, ru, th, uk. I read this articles (thanks to google translate) and understand, that (I'm sure):

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• de thrashing
• (en thrashing)
• es thrashing
• fr slang
• gl thrashing
• ja thrashing
• pt thrashing
• ru slang
• th thrashing
• uk slang

Moreover, all this articles have interwikies to each other (thanks to interwiki bots, dammit). So, they are complete graph. 26 May I not only removed en->ru interwiki, but also all other wrong interwikies (en->cv, en->fr, en->uk). 28 May 2:34 UTC your bot added this interwikies back. But instead, it had to split this complete graph to two connected components, i. e. two complete graphs: de-en-es-gl-ja-pt-th and cv-fr-ru-uk.

Also, the bot should correctly work in any case, for example, somebody changed en->ru interwiki and now it points to another article (bot should reconstruct complete graphs). Safinaskar (talk) 12:23, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Why there is such many interwiki bots? I think there should be only one interwiki bot for all languages. And it should have very stable code, it should correctly work in all situations etc. But now there are many bots and I think there is bots that has the same bug. Also, FYI: I just (28 May 13:04 UTC) splitted the graph manually. Safinaskar (talk) 13:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid that's how the code works. If an Interwiki is incorrect, it must be removed from the articles in all languages - else the bots will just assume that someone made a new page and that links are missing and re-add them. The bot's are not smart enough to read your edit summary or know if/why an interwiki was removed. Also, if there was just one bot running, It wouldn't be very effective - articles are created and deleted all the time across 250+ different language Wikipedias, and one bot simply could not keep up with that. ^Avic_ennasis @ 18:07, 7 Sivan 5772 / 18:07, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Bots are not smart enough? So, make them smart! Also, I have a question: have all interwiki bots the same code? Safinaskar (talk) 16:43, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

There are many minds much better than mine working on artificial intelligence - and until they succeed, I'm afraid we are stuck with rather 'dumb' bots. There is some variation in code from bot to bot, but I believe most of them rely on the same base - Pywikipediabot. ^Avic_ennasis @ 04:09, 10 Sivan 5772 / 04:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for link! I understand a lot of things (especially interwiki.py helped to me). Do you use this script? Do you use it in automatic mode or semi-automatic mode? I think I understand why there is such many interwiki bots: because they need manual interaction, so one human cannot work with all this interwikies. Moreover, such human should know all languages (oh!). Am I right? Safinaskar (talk) 08:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

RFA

Hi Avicennasis, I'm sorry to say that I have closed your RFA as unsuccessful, with a final tally of 67/34/6. Despite your apparently sound technical work, I felt that there was very consolidated opinion in the opposition section concerning your content contributions, with ultimately no overriding consensus to support you contributing in an administrative role here. I hope that you found the feedback constructive and valuable. Best, WilliamH (talk) 12:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Good luck next time :) Ryan Vesey Review me! 17:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that you RFA failed. I don't see how lack of content contributions would make you a bad admin. →Bmusician 02:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words. It is a valid point, though. At least I now know what the community expects of me in the role of an admin. I'll certainly be working to eliminate those concerns! ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:21, 8 Sivan 5772 / 05:21, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Nonfree content on your userpage

After the question was raised during your RFA, I'm surprised the matter was not pursued further. Under WP:NFCC #9, nonfree content may not be displayed outside article space, even if it meets "fair use" requirements of copyright law. I believe you should remove the material involved promptly. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:08, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I agree with Mr Wolfowitz. I also think that the quote is too long to be fair-use. -- Dianna (talk) 00:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

The entire text of the quote is available on Wikiquote. Text on Wikiquote is released under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. As such, the entire content of Avic's user page is composed of free material. If you still believe that the material is not free, I suggest that you raise the issue on Wikiquote. Ryan Vesey Review me! 03:30, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz does have a point - while the author himself has given away this book for free, that's only been "free as in beer, not as in speech," so it retains it's copyright (though Neil probably wouldn't mind the quote. ) I will also point out that fair use cannot and should not be measured by length. "The distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission." Regardless of length, though, it is non-free, and outside articlespace, and as such, I've removed it. It's about time I changed my userpage anyways.

A note about Wikiquote and the licensing - A person editing a page there (or here, really), agrees to license the material that s/he has created, not that they have copy/pasted word for word from another place. (Although it doesn't say it as explicitly.) If an editor were to pastes the entire text of a New York Best seller on Wikiquote (or, again, Wikipedia), and, by saving the page, "irrevocably agree to release [their] contribution the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL.", it does not and can not void the copyright of the author whose work they posted without permission. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:12, 8 Sivan 5772 / 05:12, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for researching this, Avicennasis, and for replacing the sketchy content. Good luck on your next attempt at demotion to admin! Might I suggest helping out at WP:EAR or answering queries that are tagged with the {{help me}} template as a couple of ways to get involved in helping users interpret the byzantine world of wiki? Regards, -- Dianna (talk) 18:57, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

AvicBot "repairs"

The article Joseph_(name) has a wrong link to the French Wikipedia: fr:József instead of fr:Joseph. I've fixed it, but your bot changed it back. Please fix it and tell AvicBot that József is the Hungarian form of the name! ;) Thx! – Insane.kismanO (talk) 11:02, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

When you update an interwiki, if it's incorrect, you must change the link on every other article in the Interwiki links, like this, else the bot will simply think the link is outdated do to a pagemove or something. This is how all iw bots work, I'm afraid - really easy to add links, really hard to correct them. ^Avic_ennasis @ 15:32, 8 Sivan 5772 / 15:32, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks! Glad I could be of help! ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:52, 9 Sivan 5772 / 05:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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 Done ^Avic_ennasis @ 11:04, 12 Sivan 5772 / 11:04, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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About interwikies (again)

Hi, I think that that bug in your bot is actually Pywikimedia bug (you are using this bot, right?). So, I posted the bug here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3532712&group_id=93107&atid=603138 Safinaskar (talk) 10:09, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, AvicBot (at least for interwikis) uses the PyWikipediaBot framework. ^Avic_ennasis @ 10:13, 17 Sivan 5772 / 10:13, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

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Protect pages from double redirect fix

I'd like to protect a couple of seldom-used pages from having their double-redirects "fixed" by your bot. Is there a tag which the bot will respect? —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 21:37, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes - simply add {{bots|deny=AvicBot}} to the page. I would suggest {{nobots}} though, as there are other bots that fix double-redirects. ^Avic_ennasis @ 00:05, 18 Sivan 5772 / 00:05, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. It turns out that double-redirects don't work, though, so I couldn't do what I wanted to do anyway. :) —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 22:30, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

And that's why the bots fix these - so they work. ^Avic_ennasis @ 06:57, 19 Sivan 5772 / 06:57, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

A question

How to move a file without leaving a redirect ? eg [5] regards--DℬigXray 05:53, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

It's a userright restricted to Sysops and Global Rollbackers. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:54, 18 Sivan 5772 / 05:54, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Indeed, so thats why i was not getting any such options, thanks for the clarification. any special req for global rollback rights ? --DℬigXray 05:56, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

One has to be active in anti-vandalism work across a wide-range of wikis. meta:Small Wiki Monitoring Team and meta:Global rollback go over these - but generally, one has to be active in reverting vandalism across different language wikis for a few months before they are likely to get the userright. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:59, 18 Sivan 5772 / 05:59, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

• ok , the quick reply is much appreciated, regards --DℬigXray 06:05, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Do you know if Wikipedia's technical restrictions allows for giving that option to a new userright? It just seems silly that more editors can't do that. Ryan Vesey Review me! 15:24, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, the ability to create a new userright with certain permissions is actually very easy to do, on the technical side - the problem would be getting consensus for such a change. ^Avic_ennasis @ 18:38, 19 Sivan 5772 / 18:38, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Think I should head to the village pump? I just can't think of a good reason of not granting permission to at least those with rollback rights. The only downside could be if someone didn't check for links. It would even help with vandalism. If someone chose to move Rod Hamilton to Republican pig farmer from Minnesota and they didn't leave a redirect, anybody could undo the move. Currently, it would take an admin. Ryan Vesey Review me! 18:56, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

You can certainly try - it is a rather useful tool, and it still leaves a history on both pages to show what happened. The community has gone both ways about breaking up the admin's toolbox - so it may gather some opposition, which you should be prepared for if you start that discussion. I do this it would help more than hurt, if given to trusted editors. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:34, 20 Sivan 5772 / 05:34, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

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Research project relating to the Wikimedia Strategy Process

Dear Avicennasis,

My name is Gordon Mueller-Seitz and my colleague, Leonhard Dobusch, and I are currently engaged in a research project relating to the Wikimedia Strategy Process that took place in 2009-2010. Our key interest is to explore how this strategy process actually unfolded.

In this connection, we started with interviewing WM personnel and promoters such as Eugene Kim in a first step. By now we want to broaden our insights in a second step and we would like to kindly inquire if it was possible to make a short telephone interview with you concerning the WM strategy process? If yes, we would very appreciate it if you could suggest a date/time that would suit you and the telephone number we could reach you from April onwards.

Thank you very much for a brief reply. We look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes, Gordon and Leonhard

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A25 Bridge still has that pesky double redirect. Olivier Charbonneau Bridge should be the final title. Peter Horn User talk 22:47, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

You'll have to move the article at Olivier-Charbonneau Bridge to Olivier Charbonneau Bridge, then. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:47, 28 Sivan 5772 / 05:47, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Backlog Priority Bot

Would it be conceivable for a Bot to be created that lists "Backlog priorities". I am thinking of something based on page view statistics. For example Firefighting averages around 250 views a day (usually more) and it has 3 tags on it. I'm sure there are similar articles with even more average daily views. Would it be possible for a bot to take page view information for a 30 day period divide that number by 30 and add and remove articles with maintenance tags to a page like Wikipedia:Articles with maintenance tags receiving over 1000 views a day, Wikipedia:Articles with maintenance tags receiving over 500 views a day, and Wikipedia:Articles with maintenance tags receiving over 100 views a day? It wouldn't be necessary for the bot to remove the pages if it was done manually. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:50, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

It should be possible, sure. I'm not quite sure how it could be implemented, but it's certainly do-able. ^Avic_ennasis @ 18:36, 29 Sivan 5772 / 18:36, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Is it something that you'd be interested in doing? Should I consider making the comment at bot requests? Ryan Vesey Review me! 02:48, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure on how to go about coding that - and I don't have Toolserver access, which might be helpful for this. It's certainly a good idea, just not one that I could implement - a request at WP:BOTR would be in order. ^Avic_ennasis @ 03:02, 1 Tamuz 5772 / 03:02, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

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So why would you unilaterally change a category in a block message I left on a user's page? I'm sure you know changing others' talk page contributions is almost always wrong. You seem to be doing it a heck of a lot. Toddst1 (talk) 02:33, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Just as it says on Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for spamming - "Over time, it is expected that the older talk pages listed here will be switched over to the newer categories." - I've been trying to sort this category into better subsets of that. ^Avic_ennasis @ 02:37, 1 Tamuz 5772 / 02:37, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Ok. That makes sense, but if you're going to switch them, do it right. That user should be part of both Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for advertising and Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names. You also made a similarly incorrect change on User talk:Empowerbpo. Beyond that, you should reference that you're updating the cats to newer ones in your edit summaries. As it stands now, it looks like you're second-guessing all these admins. Toddst1 (talk) 02:44, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'll go back over the ones I've done already to see if the advertising category also applies, and use a better edit summary. (I apologize for the prior one - I never intended for it to look like I was second-guessing anyone, but I can see now how that could be taken.) ^Avic_ennasis @ 02:48, 1 Tamuz 5772 / 02:48, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

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Double redirect to penis

Hi. Is there a way to prevent edits such as this? I guess the issue was caused by this bit of vandalism. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:26, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Not that I've been able to account for, just yet. I am going to start generating redirect-fix logs, based on namespace, like this, so the edits can be reviewed later for vandalism redirects. ^Avic_ennasis @ 19:44, 4 Tamuz 5772 / 19:44, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

C7H9NO5

The error is corrected. Thanks for letting me know. --Dcirovic (talk) 02:49, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

No problem. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:35, 5 Tamuz 5772 / 05:35, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Mackintosh Braun (band)

Hi, you recently declined my page due to a lack of notability and unverifiable references. The artist in question is signed to and has released two albums through Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and much of my information was cited through AllMusic.com, one of the leading music review/database sites on the internet. The group's soundtrack work was cited through IMDB and Wikipedia itself, and even if the group were not signed to a major label, I believe that this work alone would qualify them for inclusion. All of this information is available in the draft I submitted, and I would greatly appreciate it if you took a second look at the article. Thank you.

63.116.153.127 (talk) 19:04, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Please see my reply below. ^Avic_ennasis @ 18:40, 6 Tamuz 5772 / 18:40, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Avicennasis,

I noticed that you made an edit to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_engine

I work for FindTheBest, a company listed on that page. FindTheBest was blacklisted from Wikipedia a few years ago for adding a page while the company was still very young. Now that the site has grown to 10M visitors a month, I am attempting to get FindTheBest removed from the blacklist.

I appealed to this page, but was denied by ~Amatulić: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#FindTheBest.com

Amatrulic told me I need to find a trusted editor to make an appeal to have the FindTheBest page restored. Can you help me out? Feel free to contact me at evanthomas1(at)gmail(dot)com

Thanks!

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I'm sorry - based on prior user's actions with this site and repeated attempts to promote it on Wikipedia, I don't think I can be of any assistance to you with this. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:22, 6 Tamuz 5772 / 05:22, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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Err, it doesn't fail WP:NMUSIC since the band has signed at Warner... I have the helpee in #wikipedia-en-help. Please rethink your decision. (maybe d|v| would be more correct). mabdul 17:37, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I've resubmitted it myself for review from another editor. WP:NMUSIC doesn't list merely being signed at a big label as a notable trait - but it does mention releasing albums from a big label as counting. While this AfC does mention a couple albums, neither the article nor the references say which label they where released under - and the references do need work.

I have no prejudice on any editor un-doing any of my work on AfC if they feel I was in error. ^Avic_ennasis @ 18:39, 6 Tamuz 5772 / 18:39, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I've updated the albums. What other references need work? Besides the major label (and soundtrack work) what else is needed to demonstrate notability? 63.116.153.127 (talk) 19:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Interwiki

Could you make a note on AvicBot's page that shows editors that they can fix an incorrectly added interwiki link by hiding it in a hidden comment? See Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Request: "Bad link" advice for interwiki bots and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Bots adding incorrect interwiki? As a comment, it appears that advice given at User talk:Avicennasis/MainArchive/2012Q2#Your bot puts interwikies wrong actually doesn't work in some situations. It would be great if AvicBot could provide some amount of advice in the edit summary as well or at least point towards the advice on the bot's user page. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:20, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

This may not be the solution, it doesn't appear to be fully supported at the Bot owners' noticeboard. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:36, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Trumeau mirror

What criteria is the bot using to add interwikis? I just had to spend a few minutes at several wikipedias removing a wrong interwiki which was added to Trumeau mirror and other languages.--Jordiferrer (talk) 06:55, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

AvicBot only uses -Auto for interwikis - so any errors that occur are either due to another bot or a human editor. ^Avic_ennasis @ 06:57, 9 Tamuz 5772 / 06:57, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Do you know which was the error in the mentioned example? --Jordiferrer (talk) 23:47, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

It looks like the problem was caused by this pagemove on EnWp and this incorrect interwiki added to DeWp, which was then replicated to all the others by this interwiki bot. ^Avic_ennasis @ 07:07, 10 Tamuz 5772 / 07:07, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Question about AvicBot

I just saw that AvicBot is processing category renames. Does AvicBot delete categories after transferring their contents to the renamed categories? If not, I don't think it should be doing Cydebot's task. I disabled AvicBot for CfD until I hear back, though obviously anyone can turn it back on if they desire. Just trying to be cautious about something I haven't seen before.--Mike Selinker (talk) 07:48, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

AvicBot does not delete categories, as it is not an Adminbot. Per the BRFA for this task, AvicBot will move the pages in a category then tag that category with {{db-g6|bot=AvicBot|rationale=Empty Category per [[WP:CFD/W|CFD/W]] listing}}, for example, as it did with Category:Formula One drivers by constructor teams (I believe). AvicBot was running for exactly this reason, when Cydebot just seems to die at random. ^Avic_ennasis @ 09:16, 10 Tamuz 5772 / 09:16, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Cydebot does indeed seem to die at random. My concern is that this creates a lot of manual work, but if there's a way we can run the original categories through a deletion bot with the appropriate summaries, that might solve the problem. Anyway, we can continue with the process. Go ahead and re-enable the bot.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Article Rejection

Hi, I received a rejection for my article on "The Leprecaun Monthly" cartoon magazine. I used a couple of Wikipedia articles as reference that both reference the magazine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_%28cartoonist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fergus_O%27Hea

and I also included two other website references and the "Dictionary of Irish Artists", a book that is an encyclopedia of Irish Artists through the last two centuries which I was actually able to check out at a library and read (which is more than the other writers probably did for their articles because it's a very difficult book to find!). So in closing, I thought 5 references would be sufficient for this title. Can you tell me what I'm lacking? I have artwork too, but I can't upload it since my status is not high enough yet.

Thanks! 15:11, 18 July 2012 (UTC)LKruczek (talk) LKruczek (talk) 15:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC) "Lisa Kruczek, June 30, 2012" — Preceding unsigned comment added by LKruczek (talk • contribs) 20:18, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

AvicBot and talk pages

When AvicBot applies a speedy tag, if there is a talk page it tags that as well. The second step is unnecessary. When a page has been deleted, a prominent warning comes up automatically if there is a talk page. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 08:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Categories for discussion/Working/Large

Hi, Is Avicbot reading Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large as well as the regular page? There haven't been any large listings since the bot was put onto CFD stuff but it would be useful to know for certain if it will be looking there before doing so. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:37, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Nope, AvicBot only reads WP:CFD/W automatically. (Though if needed, AvicBot can be started manually on WP:CFD/W/L.) ^Avic_ennasis @ 22:34, 12 Tamuz 5772 / 22:34, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

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That is why I proposed a requirement at WP:BAG that the source code of all bots be provided before they are approved to do any novel task, and that the available source code by kept up to date as the bot matures. I haven't tracked whether that requirement actually ended up going through, but I still maintain that it's a good idea, and in order to "walk the walk", I contributed back the countless hours I've spent working on category robots back to the community to the PyWikipediaBot SVN repository. I'm sure you no doubt discovered that this was the case when you were able to effortlessly bring up your category moving bot in the wake of the June 2012 North American derecho that left Cydebot inoperative for five days owing to a lack of power. We are well-covered for the eventuality of me possibly getting run over by a bus (much as I would hate for that to happen).

However, the fact remains that I have not been run over a bus yet, and I would like to respectfully and politely ask for you to leave the category moving tasks to Cydebot until that (or another power outage) should occur. I spent a lot of time writing the bot and I think it's only fair that I get the enjoyment of of running it too, and it's important to clarify that I released the source code not for other people to be able to run it here, but for other people to be able to run it in the event that I am no longer able to (or of course on other language Wikipedias where I am not not running a bot). Thanks for letting me bend your ear, Cyde Weys 01:54, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello. First, let me thank you for the polite note. It seems clear to me that this is something you've spent a lot of thought on, and I appreciate that you can calmly and rationally explain your position on something that seems close to your heart.

The task I purposed was solely to have AvicBot run when Cydebot go down, as you mention above. It was never my intention to try to replace Cydebot - only to have a backup approved and on-hand should it be needed. This is why I coded in a checkpage - so that AvicBot's CFD task can be called upon only when Cydebot is not feeling well. When Cydebot is up, as is the case now, AvicBot should be disabled with this page.

For the moment, I've commented out this task from cron - effectively disabling the script. My question is - do you feel that this checkpage is enough? (Should the instructions be more clear about *only* enabling this task if Cydebot has been down for 'X' hours?) Would you prefer the checkpage to be fully protected, perhaps under your/Cydebots' userspace, for you to enable if you know Cydebot will be down? Or would you rather the task be left alone, until that bus comes along?

I will have no qualms about whichever decision you make. I can easily strike this task entirely off AvicBot's to-do list. I respect your choice in the matter, as well as the thoughtful way in which you've started this discussion. (If you prefer to continue this conversation more privately, feel free to email me.) Please let me know your thoughts or concerns with any of the above. ^Avic_ennasis @ 07:02, 24 Tamuz 5772 / 07:02, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for understanding. It's fine to leave the checkpage around with some instructions to the intent of "Do not enable this bot unless Cydebot is down and a sizable CFDW backlog has accumulated". Or some number of hours (24?) is fine, if that's easier to explain. --Cyde Weys 22:14, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

I've modified the editnotice for the checkpage to reflect the above - Feel free to make any other suggestions (or just modify it yourself.) I'm going to uncomment the line in my crontab to start this check again. If you need anything else, or decide later on to change your decision, my talk page is always open. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:21, 26 Tamuz 5772 / 05:21, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

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I have not received a reply for this post, so I'm posting again.

Hi, I received a rejection for my article on "The Leprecaun Monthly" cartoon magazine. I used a couple of Wikipedia articles as reference that both reference the magazine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_%28cartoonist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fergus_O%27Hea

and I also included two other website references and the "Dictionary of Irish Artists", a book that is an encyclopedia of Irish Artists through the last two centuries which I was actually able to check out at a library and read (which is more than the other writers probably did for their articles because it's a very difficult book to find!). So in closing, I thought 5 references would be sufficient for this title. Can you tell me what I'm lacking? I have artwork too, but I can't upload it since my status is not high enough yet.

Thanks!

LKruczek (talk) 15:10, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

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Pywikipediabot version

Hi Avicennasis! I notice that AvicBot (task list · contribs) seems to be running an old version of Pywikipediabot, which is causing small issues like this. As interwiki.py is frequently updated, the bot policy recommends that its users update to the latest version of the script daily. Is this something you could put in cron? Thank you! — madman 02:39, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Facepalm It is, or at least, was, until it apparently broke recently... Thank you for the heads-up. I've stopped any Interwiki instances until I've fixed that. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:59, 4 Av 5772 / 05:59, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

No problem! Thanks for your quick response. — madman 06:19, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

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 Doing... - AvicBot had a recent crash, so he's a little sluggish at the moment, but he should be back in full swing shortly. ^Avic_ennasis @ 09:01, 18 Av 5772 / 09:01, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

 Done on most wikis where AvicBot is flagged and a local userpage exist. ^Avic_ennasis @ 10:24, 18 Av 5772 / 10:24, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

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The Leprecaun Monthly

I have not been able to get a response from you for this question:

I received a rejection for my article on "The Leprecaun Monthly" cartoon magazine. I used a couple of Wikipedia articles as reference that both reference the magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_%28cartoonist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fergus_O%27Hea and I also included two other website references and the "Dictionary of Irish Artists", a book that is an encyclopedia of Irish Artists through the last two centuries which I was actually able to check out at a library and read (which is more than the other writers probably did for their articles because it's a very difficult book to find!). So in closing, I thought 5 references would be sufficient for this title. Can you tell me what I'm lacking? I have artwork too, but I can't upload it since my status is not high enough yet.

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please do not be deleted Mareeg State

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Sorry you can do, had no doubt, wrong as a character.... --abshir (talk) 11:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

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Unfortunately I won't be able to help out this term - various 'IRL' things lately have left me little time for Wikipedia. Sorry. ^Avic_ennasis @ 13:30, 10 Tishrei 5773 / 13:30, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

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I've thought about this myself - Unfortunately, I don't have too much time for Wikipedia lately. I may look into coding something down the line, though. ^Avic_ennasis @ 04:36, 30 Tishrei 5773 / 04:36, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

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Can you with your bot interwiki to add to my user page on other Wikipedias? Greeting! --Kolega2357 (talk) 20:26, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

 Done ^Avic_ennasis @ 04:45, 30 Tishrei 5773 / 04:45, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

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Bot edit war?

The are two bots reverting each other at Wikipedia talk:Sandbox. (see en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Sandbox&action=history) I am going to leave a {{Please see}} on Hazard-SJ (talk · contribs)'s talk page so that the two of you can work on a solultion. – Allen4names (IPv6 contributions) 17:35, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

 Fixed see here. ^Avic_ennasis @ 04:38, 30 Tishrei 5773 / 04:38, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Not quite. — Quondum 03:59, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Facepalm the problem is that there is no standard on what should be on each sandbox page. There should be an agreed upon standard, like a subpage, for each one. I'll have to take a look at this later... Thanks for pointing this out. ^Avic_ennasis @ 08:37, 2 Cheshvan 5773 / 08:37, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I believe part of this may have been an error on my part, but then, as Avicennasis pointed out, we should have a standard thing rather than having to define code individually for the sandboxes. On the Simple English Wikipedia, for example, they use simple:Wikipedia:Sandbox/Text (just substitute it onto the sandbox). We should have something like that implemented here. The closest thing I've seen is Template talk:Template sandbox#Usage, which gives this change, but I agreed with the presence of the noinclude tags, so I changed to Avic's version (excluding the note at the end). As for the message at this diff, I didn't put that in my code as that would have been inaccurate.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  03:26, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Facepalm from me too: the bots have also been conflicting on the templates x1 through x9. I have disabled the task for my bot at the moment to prevent this continuation (well...it affects all sandbox edits, including WP:SB (well LSBII is up now), but...). If the need arises or a conclusion is met, please notify me. Also, feel free to re-enable my bot by changing User:Hazard-Bot/Check/Sandbot back to "enable" if needed/if conflicts are resolved etc. LSBII might be down soon, considering the TS account hasn't been renewed.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  04:32, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

It's probably not simple to find a general solution; the most obvious would be to check to see whether the page was last edited by a known bot (possibly with with a summary that includes some word or phrase, e.g. "cleaned").

As an aside, I've only seen the {{facepalm}} tempate being used in a self-directed fashion, which does not fit with the description . — Quondum 12:12, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Quondum, I think I'll create subpages with the reset text, then we could just substitute it. Is that okay, Avic? Also, I had to re-enable my bot so it can help out at Wikipedia:Sandbox, as this doesn't look too good.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  16:20, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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There is currently some concern amid a few editors over this user: User talk:Felipito1.966 A quick look at their talk page and contributions shows that they seem only concerned with converting everything to UK English and metric, regardless of other opinions, original format, and even the accuracy of such changes.

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WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

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