User talk:Yurik/Archive September 19, 2005

What happened here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Hawking&diff=20614151&oldid=20614150

I assumed someone had taken issue with my inclusion of the drama on the list (I thought the fact that someone had made a biopic was a good illustration of Hawking's impact on popular culture), but looking at the history it appears to be an automated edit by YurikBot. -- Bonalaw 08:26, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Very strange, but i think its related to another bug i saw in a russian wiki - the article had a strange sequence of changes, removing some useful info. What i think we concluded was that there was some edit going on during the bot's save, and that's what caused it. Of course i am not certain, so i will continue exploring the issue. In the mean time, i re-ran the bot on Hawking's article, and nothing seem to change. --Yurik 06:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What's wrong with it?

It seems your bot on Portuguese Wikipedia is insisting on removing an interwiki from the Palmyra Atoll article. I think it doesn't like the chinese article of the atoll. Please get it straight, ok? My regards. - Renatomcr 13:22, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I filed a bug here. Apparently the bot does not see that page, and incorrectly deletes it. --Yurik 06:41, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish-language Wikinews

Hello. Would you consider to set up a version of your bot for interwikis at Wikinews? --Julián Ortega - drop me a message 22:10, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bot edit of the "Cricket" article

In the cricket article, your bot changed the de: spelling from "Cricket" to "Kricket". Just to let you know that this is incorrect; the sport (as opposed to the insect) is spelt with an initial C in German. Loganberry (Talk) 23:20, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bot did everything correctly. The article de:Cricket is a redirect to de:Kricket, and the bot correctly solved that. If the article should be named Cricket, ask local de: admin to delete the redirect and rename the article to the proper name. --Yurik 06:47, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, having just had a look, it seems that there's currently a debate going on there about which spelling is correct. And to clarify something: I wasn't saying your bot was acting incorrectly, just that (I think) the K spelling is incorrect. Loganberry (Talk) 02:02, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Weird edit by your bot

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moldova&diff=22205112&oldid=22025724 -- Jmabel | Talk 06:59, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Perfectly normal edit - the article does contain a very short description, but it has a link to EN:, and that is how it was found in the first place. The question marks are simply symbols with no good fonts. --Yurik 07:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

SerboCroat Wiki

I notice that you don't have a bot account on the serbocroat wiki which is sh (SrpskoHrvatski). Will it find our links anyway or should I hastle one of our admins to give you bot status there?Dejvid 18:19, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please give support at the meta here and also bug admins :) --Yurik 06:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with the bot

Hello,

Could you check the history page of th:บล็อก on Thai Wikipedia.

- When the "(robot Adding: el)," the robot undo the few previous changes without adding interwiki links.

Regards, th:User:Manop

Thanks for brining it up to my attention! I am not sure why that second edit has happened, and I will file a bug report with this. --Yurik 06:23, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bot on Slovene Wikipedia (:sl)

As you are operator of YurikBot on Slovene Wikipedia, could you please take a look at sl:Wikipedija:Boti and add missing information. Thanks in advance! Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 06:41, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki links on Ragweed

About two weeks ago, I went through all the ambrosia articles in all languages and removed all the wrong interwiki links. For some reason, though, they keep coming back. Is there some way to blacklist a page for bots or ask for bot operators to take extra attention? The bots are great but they are so fast at spreading mistakes, while it takes quite a bit of time for humans to manually go through all WPs and undo the damage. Rl 11:54, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There is no black list, but you can fairly easily fix it to prevent future bots from doing that - follow the instructions given at the begining of this page (FAQ). Thanks! --Yurik 22:38, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Broken robot

The robot is breaking Unicode links if the characters used are not in LATIN-1. -Howardjp 18:02, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please list broken pages, otherwise i have no way to fix the robot. --Yurik 22:36, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a link to the diff showing it: [1] -Howardjp 00:26, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The robot is working fine - its your computer that has no Chinese fonts installed :). For a long time now the wiki has switched to UTF8, a Unicode character encoding, which made it possible to have links in its native alphabets (so that speakers of that language can actually read them, as oppose to seeing cryptic numbers). If your computer has no font installed for that language, the browser will show it as question marks. The link will still work, as would have seen if you clicked on the zh: link. Hope this answers your concern. --Yurik 04:00, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing bot edit

===>League of Nations Your bot deleted the article from lv.wikipedia (lv:Nāciju līga), and I reverted it back. Why did it do this? You can respond here or on my talk page. Justin (koavf) 19:31, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

I am not an admin on latvian site, thus i cannot delete pages, and neither can my bot (it has a bot status, not admin status, both of which together is very dangerous). The article must have been deleted by an admin (has it existed at all?).

The bot removed the link lv:Nāciju līga on english wiki because that page does not exist in Latvian wiki. Only the links that are present in the wiki should be listed - otherwise we will end up with huge lists of links without any indication of which ones actually exist (they are not shown in red). There is no value in having broken links point to other languages. If you write the united nations article, please add it to the list, but not before that. Thanks! --Yurik 22:04, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting problem, more so than i thought at first. The link on the en: points to Nāciju līga, whereas the page is named Nāciju Līga, with the capital L. The wiki search box properly resolves that, but it wouldn't work for a plain link from a page (like that link you gave me). I added a page redirect, so now it should work. In the future, please make sure the link name is written in the proper case. Thanks! --Yurik 22:21, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki link on Bonito

I think these interwiki adds are inappropriate. de, it, and pt are disambiguation pages, two of which there're no mention about fish. de:Echter Bonito and pl:Bonito are connected with skipjack tuna. --Puzzlet Chung 05:49, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the FAQ above about solving this type of issue. The bot just followed some link on some other site that connected incorrect pages. Thanks! --Yurik 05:57, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Portugal

Errm, in the process of adding some language or other to the article, your bot reversed a lot of (well, a reasonable, recent portion of) edited material, which just gives people a needless hassle. Now, I don't know jack about bots, so I don't even remotely know what the cause could be, but could you please be careful? It sort of, like, horribly sucks. Cheers, Zeppocity 02:06, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Or removing. The point being; needless botty revert. Bah. :( Zeppocity 02:11, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know! I am in the process of improving bot's code, but mistakes are bound to happen :(. Please let me know of any other problems spotted. Thanks! --Yurik 04:13, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I will be sure to do so. I'm sorry if I came off snarky or something; it was just a tad bothersome. Anyway, good luck improving said bot. And, well, no problem. ;) Zeppocity 00:55, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Year format in Thai Wikipedia

Hi, all pages (th:0 (จำนวน), th:1 มกราคม, and th:4) are not year! We use the Buddhist Era which is directly 543 years earlier than the Christian Era. For example, 2005 A.D. is equivalent to 2548 B.E. The page 2548 B.E. is th:พ.ศ. 2548 (adding "พ.ศ. " before the year number). We have no conclusion for number pages (0, 1, 2, 3, etc.) yet. But I think they will be disambiguation pages. For the dacade, 1990s is equivalent to th:คริสต์ทศวรรษ 1990 (currently no content for all decades). th:คุยเกี่ยวกับผู้ใช้:Pi@k. 203.113.67.132 03:26, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Date formats in LA:

Although the bot may know most of them, there is a question you posted at la:. We few interested "la" writers agreed many months ago on the format of, and definitions for, decades and centuries (eg la:Decennium 200 and la:Saeculum 20), but we are a bit slow at correcting old nonconforming pages. Our decades go from 1-10, 11-20, and so on. Each block of 10 makes a century. See my recent contributions for a selection. Robin Patterson 06:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The last of the "BC" are shown as links (not yet live) at the top of the table on la:Saeculum_1.

Icelandic, Lithuanian, and Maori are perhaps the only three WPs that go along with "la" in defining decades from 1-10 etc. I wish there were more. Robin Patterson 06:33, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]