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The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 1 June 2009

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 23:16, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

New WP:ALM newsletter ready.

Christ, I'm getting behind on these. WesleyDodds (talk) 09:22, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Create-A-Bot Questions

Excuse me, I have a few questions on creating a bot, could you please do your best to answer them?

How do I create a bot?
How do I operate a bot?
What will happen if the bot malfunctions and I can't block it?
Do I need to be an administrator to create a bot?

Thank you! Veraladeramanera (talk) 22:30, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

To make a bot, you should see WP:MAKEBOT. If the bot malfunctions, you stop it from the terminal. And no, you don't need to be an admin. (X! · talk)  · @1001  ·  23:02, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

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Tropical cyclone WikiProject newsletter #26

Number 23, June 7

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of April and May 2009.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Cyclone Aila near landfall

Cyclone Aila was the second tropical cyclone to form within the Northern Indian Ocean during 2009. The disturbance that was to become Cyclone Aila formed on 21 May 2009 about 950 kilometres (590 mi) to the south of Kolkata, in India. Over the next couple of days the disturbance slowly developed before a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert was issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center early on 23 May 2009 and being designated as a depression by RSMC New Delhi. As of 27 May 2009, 330 people have been killed by Aila and at least 8,208 more are missing, while about 1 million are homeless. Health officials in Bangladesh confirmed a deadly outbreak on diarrhea on 29 May, with more than 7,000 people being infected and four dying. In Bangladesh, an estimated 20 million people were at risk of post-disaster diseases due to Aila. Damage totaled $40.7 million (USD).

Other tropical cyclone activity

Tropical Depression One was the first tropical cyclone to develop during the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. The depression formed on May 28, out of a disorganized area of low pressure off the coast of North Carolina. However after attaining its peak strength the depression began to weaken due to increasing wind shear and cooling sea surface temperatures with the final advisory being issued on May 29.

  • 2009 Pacific typhoon season - In the two month period, there were four tropical cyclones, all within a short time period and small area. Tropical Depression Crising moved through the Philippines but didn't develop. Typhoon Kujira formed over the Philippines, causing 29 deaths and almost $30 million in damage, before becoming the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane. While Kujira was active, a tropical depression formed and dissipated over the open ocean, while Typhoon Chan-hom developed and organized in the South China Sea, eventually crossing Luzon and causing 60 deaths and heavy damage.
  • North Indian - Aside from Aila, Cyclone Bijli formed in April, making landfall on Bangladesh and killing 7 people.
  • South Indian– Cyclone Jade was the final Cyclone to form. Jade formed on April 5th from a tropical disturbance it quickly intensifed and bcame a category one tropical cyclone on the SSHS before making its first of three landfalls on Madagascar. Jade then dissipated on April 11 after causing fifteen deaths.
  • Australian Region - Cyclone Kirrly formed on April 25 in the Arafura Sea to the north of Australia within 5 degrees of the equator which is an unusual area of formation. It quickly reached its peak before making landfall on eastern Indonesia.
  • South Pacific - As the last newsletter was published Tropical Cyclone Lin was just devloping as Tropical depression 14F. Lin eventually went on to affect Fiji and Tonga causing at least $1000 worth of damage. Tropical Disturbance 15F also formed this month within the Solomon Islands. It moved eventually moved into the Australian Region but was not monitored by TCWC Brisbane as anything higher than an area of low pressure.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The member of the month is Jason Rees, who joined Wikipedia in 2007, and has written nine tropical cyclone GA's. Jason primarily focuses on Southern Hemisphere storms, as well as the Western Pacific. He has plans for featured topics for several seasons, but for now, he is a regular member of the project who adds his input in discussions on the talk page. We thank Jason for his work, and we look forward to more articles!

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Sep Oct Nov Dec
FA 47 49 49 50
A 19 19 19 19
GA 161 187 198 202
B 17 13 21 22
C 107 119 118 122
Start 201 204 210 210
Stub 19 19 16 17
Total 571 613 631 642
ω 2.92 2.88 2.87 2.87
percentage
≥Less than C 		38.5 36.4 35.8 35.4
percentage
≥GA or better 		39.8 42.1 42.2 42.2

Project News
There is debate as usual with regards to notability, as well as the status of the project in general, but nothing new is going on.

During the last week, some editors have organized a page — Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Viewed stats — that has a listing of monthly page views within the project. It is under construction, although it is complete for all Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones, as well as all Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1979 to the present. Interestingly, the top 6 viewed EPAC articles are all featured, and all of the top 16 in the basin are GA's. Unfortunately, the Atlantic, at least from 1979 to the present, is much worse, despite being viewed much, much more. The top eight-viewed Atlantic articles all are viewed more than 10,000 times per month, for a total of 363889 views per month, but only two of them are featured, and none of the others are GA. As always, any help in the retired storms would be greatly appreciated.

Somewhat tying into the bettering of project articles, the basin article challenge is still ongoing. Hurricanehink is currently in the lead with a GA in 2 basins. Cyclonebiskit is in 2nd, with one GA in the EPAC. The challenge is still open to anyone, and it is not so much a race, rather a challenge just to get a fairly important GA in each basin.

User:X!/RfX Report overdue times

Hey X!, as noted at WP:BN, just wanted to ask if you could tweak the report code so the overdue didn't come up early. For RfB it's very early apparently and for RfA it's a few hours early at times. Thanks - Taxman Talk 18:21, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Some shameless thankspam!

User:Colds7ream/RfA

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Question

I have used the toolserver articles created link and noticed that it truncates the list such that only the last 100 created articles are displayed. Is there anyway to get the a total number of articles a user has created? ---kilbad (talk) 19:08, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIX and XX

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Talkback

Hello, X!. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:Hide Pages in Watchlist.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Dabomb87 (talk) 14:26, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Post

Thanks for picking up the TROLL for me.

As a completely unrelated note, nifty editnotice. I once did a poll, and upon having Stop! shouted in their general direction, most people's immediate response was "in the name of love" (others answered "sign"). Personally, I go for "pyjama time"—but I see you're more of a parachute pants man yourself.

÷seresin 00:21, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

On a related note, the delivery is ready to go for this week, and I think it also did not get delivered last week. StepShep hasn't been active for a while now, so you're only one for delivery. I can try to recruit someone else if you're too busy; just let me know. Thanks!--ragesoss (talk) 02:56, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 15 June 2009

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 12:36, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I am honored to award you this barnstar!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For kindness in welcoming new editors to the wiki community and offering to help navigate the sometimes deep waters of wikipedia, I hereby award you this barnstar! pmcyclist (talk) 15:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Just over a year ago you welcomed me with a plate of steaming fresh chocolate chip cookies. Thank you! pmcyclist (talk) 15:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Signpost page

Thank you for your work on the Arbitration Report in the Signpost ... and good luck on your exams. (I don't want to see a response to this message until after the 17th!)

Just as a suggestion, when you prepare the arbitration report, for the cases that have been closed that week, it would be best to update the summaries to reflect the final remedies that were adopted rather than those that were previously proposed. They are often the same, but not always. Just a thought.

Thanks, and if you have any questions please let me know. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

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Caching of results

Hey. I tried to ask you this on IRC, but I know you've had a busy week so I guess I shouldn't expect a quick reply. And you appear to be asleep. Anyhow, would it be possible to have a (hidden?) option on your cloned RFAP tool to only load cached results? I'm assuming there is a cache given RFAs updated this run: None!. And possibly a plaintext output? Not to worry if you can't, it's not even your code for heaven's sake. Just thought I'd ask though. - Jarry1250 (t, c, rfa) 11:19, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, if you've got a publicly accessible cache file somewhere, that'd be two birds and one stone. - Jarry1250 (t, c, rfa) 18:06, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Data gathering request at WT:RFA

I floated your name as someone who would probably be able to crunch some data: Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Stats request re: composition of RfA voters by user access level. –xenotalk 14:11, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

  • On the subject of the RFA participation tool, how painful would it be to add the ability to take (a) prior username(s) to properly parse after renames? –xenotalk 22:18, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Toolserver question

There's a guy who's recently started voting again at RFA, and I'd like for people to be able to see his previous votes, but he's changed his name, and http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rfap/ doesn't report his previous votes using either the old name or the new name; it just lists them as "unparseable" or something. Is there a fix? (Watchlisting) - Dank (push to talk) 18:58, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, no. This is because the tool reads signatures, which means that all votes are read by the old username. The reason they're unparseable is because it's getting all the user's edits to all RfAs, which include ones made under his new name. However, it doesn't see the new name on the RFA, so it doesn't parse it. (X! · talk)  · @116  ·  01:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Finished translation (German)

*Beitragszähler (Version $1) *Navigation *QUelltext betrachten *$1 ist kein korrektes Wiki *Willkommen bei X!s Beitragszähler *Benutzername *Wikipedia *Absenden *MySQL Fehler, bitte an X! melden mit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:X!/Bugs">dem Fehler-Melder.</a> Bitte sicher gehen, dass der folgende SQL Fehler genannt wird dabei:<br /><pre>$1</pre> *$1 existiert nicht. *Achtung: Replag ist hoch, Änderungen neuer als $1 werden nicht angezeigt. *Artikel *Benutzer-Information *Benutzergruppen *Erster Beitrag *Veränderte Artikel *Durchschnittliche Änderungen pro Seite *Beiträge (inklusive gelöschte) *Gelöschte Beiträge *Sichtbare Beiträge *number_format($1) *Namesräume gesamt *Monatsübersichten *Logbücher *Benutzer gesperrt *Benutzerrechte geändert *Benutzer erstellt *Seiten gelöscht *Seiten patrolliert *Seiten geschützt *Seiten wiederhergestellt *Benutzer entsperrt *Seitenschutz aufgehoben *Dateien hochgeladen *Benutzer umbenannt *Rechte gewährt *Rechte weggenommen *Seiten verschoben *Am meisten bearbeitete Artikel *In $1 Sekunden ausgeführt *$1 MB Speicher verbraucht. *In anderen Sprachen benutzen: *($1 fehlende Meldungen) *Bei Übersetzungen helfen? <a href="http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/count/translate.php">Die Übersetzungsseite</a> erklärt wie du helfen kannst. *Aktionen *Y!s Beitragszähler ist offline wegen eines MySQL-Problems. yarrow (der Datenbank-Server) is defekt und deshalb existiert kein Weg, die für den Zähler nötigen Daten zu erlangen. Dieses Problem betrifft alle Tools die den Datenbank-Server benutzen. Wenn eine einfache Nummer genügt, ist diese under "Meine Einstellungen" zu finden. Entschuldigung für die Störung. *MySQL Status *w *d *h *m *s Here you go, have fun :-) SoWhy 10:07, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll put this in when I get a chance. (X! · talk)  · @117  ·  01:47, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

New article tool

Hey there. Your New Article tool truncates to 100 pages. Is it able to be used to display all new pages? Cheers. p.s. don't reply until after the exams. p.p.s. Good luck with the exams. Alan

As of 01:44, 21 June 2009 (UTC), there is. At the notice, when it says "Truncated to 100 pages", there is a link now to show all new pages. Be warned, however, it's slow. (X! · talk)  · @114  ·  01:44, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Happy adminship anniversity!

Happy Adminship from the Birthday Committee

Wishing X!/Archives/06/2009 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

-- I dream of horses (talk) 14:32, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXI

Delivered by The Helpful Bot at 22:38, 22 June 2009 (UTC) for the WikiCup. To report errors, please leave a message on the talk page.

Signpost for delivery

The Signpost is ready for delivery. If you are around and can handle this, it would be much appreciated. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 01:16, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 22 June 2009

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

checking in...

Any progress with this bot_idea....? Just curious. Kingturtle (talk) 03:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

User:X!/AFD report. It would be running more often, if not for the fact that it takes 45 minutes to generate it. The toolserver kills long running scripts, so I can't run it there. (X! · talk)  · @140  ·  02:21, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Genius! Sheer genius! It doesn't have to run that often. How can we reduce the run-time? It wouldn't have to run that often, maybe twice a week, say Mondays and Thursdays. Would that be possible? Kingturtle (talk) 02:24, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

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SoxBot at chu

I've done a soft shutdown (I assume it supports nobots, I didn't want to block it because you run other bots on that account as well). Because the bot has once again removed someone else's comments, please fix this. --Chris 03:17, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

 Fixed (X! · talk)  · @561  ·  12:28, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Barack Obama approval graph isn't updating

'Pologies if you already realized this, but I can't find anything in your talkpage archives. -- Soap Talk/Contributions 03:21, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

 Fixed (X! · talk)  · @561  ·  12:27, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Changing username

I and User:Apollo Augustus Koo are exactlly the same person, why did you refuse my request? --Apollo Augustus Koo (talk) 02:51, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

I gave up then. I'll continue to use User:Apollo Augustus Koo as a sock puppetry. Thank you all the same. --Apollo Augustus Koo (talk) 03:27, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXII

Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 22:00, 28 June 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Signpost ready

The Signpost is done and ready for delivery. If you can get it out to subscribers, it would be very appreciated. If you can't, let me know. Regards. --Aude (talk) 00:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Dear Soxbot, when you deliver the signpost, be so kind as to include a link to it in your edit summary. Many of us don't bother subscribing because we know that delivery will be coming up all over our watchlists. It would be a boon for us if it came with a link we could click on. Hesperian 02:02, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Looks like Soxbot, stopped the delivery at Usernames starting with S. -- Tinu Cherian - 04:41, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
I guess that would explain why I didn't get it last night.--Susan118 talk 16:34, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
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