Template placement

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Noommos ( talk · contribs)

Time: 16:38, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Where: [1]

Discussion: Placement error. Inserted the template between WikiProject banners.

The bot did not take into account the whitespace. Changed the insertion method to handle bizarre formatting better. Noom _talk ^contribs 23:30, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Missing articles

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Noommos ( talk · contribs)

Time: 16:39, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Where: [2]

Discussion: Seems to have missed the first article here.

Fixed an issue where it wouldn't catch articles at the top of the book. Noom _talk ^contribs 00:24, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Duplicating reports

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Parsecboy ( talk · contribs)

Time: 12:43, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:Bayern class battleships [3]

Discussion: I fixed the duplication, but there's apparently a problem somewhere causing the bot to fail to see existing reports. Parsecboy ( talk) 12:43, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

It just happened again. Parsecboy ( talk) 14:30, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, two pieces of code were trying to perform the same task. Applied a fix and have updated the two broken books. Also fixed a bug in mySQL statements. Noom _talk ^contribs 18:03, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back on this so quickly. Everything looks good now. Parsecboy ( talk) 18:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

The bot doesn't report anything when it should report something.

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 07:20, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:Decade Volcanoes, Book talk:Dependency, Book talk:Han Dynasty, Book talk:Lists of United States Naval Academy alumni, Book talk:Public transport in Berlin Discussion: The bot doesn't report anything when it should report something. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Rest will be updated at next major run. Noom _talk ^contribs 18:43, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Something weird with a redirect

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 07:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, see entry for Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Building a Stronger Encyclopedia/Getting Readers to the Right Article: Naming, Redirects, and Disambiguation

Discussion: There's something weird going on here, although I don't know what exactly. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Noom _talk ^contribs 19:33, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Non-mainspace should be reported as NA-Class

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 07:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:Be Wikipedia Wise, amongst others.

Discussion: Not quite a bug, more like a tweak. Pages which aren't found in the mainspace should be reported as "NA-Class" rather than "Unassessed-Class". Aka, Help:Foobar, Wikipedia:Foobar, etc... should just be reported as NA-Class. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Implemented. Haven't tested it yet because the database corrupted. Noom _talk ^contribs 18:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Shouldn't the template look for NA=?? rather than Other=?? for the NA column? The bots currently set to return NA rather than Other for non-mainspace pages. Noom _talk ^contribs 19:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Not sure I'm following... ? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Ah I see. I've switched the template to NA rather than "Other". I assume no book uses Other (except for "Other=0")? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:56, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

So far I haven't seen a book with an article rated as 'Other'. Noom _talk ^contribs 15:57, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Bad edit summary

Status  Resolved

Task:

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 17:55, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:Foo Fighters

Discussion: The bot (correctly) reports 14 unassessed articles, but in the edit summary, it says 0. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:55, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, have been ill/busy for a few days. Having a look now. Noom _talk ^contribs 12:48, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Creating reports for deleted books

Status  Resolved

Task: Creating reports for books that have been deleted.

User: RL0919 ( talk · contribs)

Time: 20:07, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: [4], among others

Discussion: Several pages and the associated talk pages were deleted per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Book:Featured Articles, and a little over an hour later, NoomBot recreated the talk pages to produce reports for them. This might just be poor timing (tasks already cached in some sort of queue), but before I re-deleted I'd like to be sure it won't just keep recreating the pages. -- RL0919 ( talk) 20:07, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Seems to be they were deleted after the bot got the book list. The bot crashed so I can apply a quick fix to check if books still exist before attempting to generate book reports. Noom _talk ^contribs 03:00, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Implemented a fix. Fine to delete any recreated articles. Don't hesitate to undo/delete the bots actions on a book, it won't war with you. Noom _talk ^contribs 03:12, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

The bot edits Template:Saved book/sandbox ?

Status  Resolved

Task:

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 11:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: [5]Tempalte:Saved

Discussion: Don't know why it did that, but it shouldn't. Headbomb{ talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Articles reported as NA-class when they are not

Status  Resolved

Task:

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 11:30, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:Adoption

Discussion: For example, Adoption is rated B-Class, but reported as NA-Class. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:30, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Dollar sign problem

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 12:22, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:Metallica#Book report

Discussion: The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited is reported as The .98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited in Book talk:Metallica

Article reported twice

Status  Closed

Task: Book reports

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 07:24, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:The Time of Our Lives

Discussion: In Book:The Time of Our Lives, NoomBot reports The Climb (song) twice, even though it is only present once. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:24, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Will run bot with this bug still present overnight, due to the amount of time it's been off. Will fix this tomorrow afternoon. Noom _talk ^contribs 00:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

I did have a look into this bug, but I couldn't find a source of the error. The most recent edit by the bot has fixed this. It might be the computer went to sleep mid-way through the task and caused some problems (it did this earlier too (disabled auto-sleep)). Noom _talk ^contribs 13:47, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Editing only to update a timestamp

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Ucucha ( talk · contribs)

Time: 12:41, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Here.

Discussion: Why is the bot making an edit only to update a timestamp? Ucucha 12:41, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Data loss. The bot won't edit just for timestamps after this run. Noom _talk ^contribs 16:47, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Ucucha 19:31, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

This is still happening [6]. The bot should switch to a editing a subpage ( Template:Book report time) with a time stamp once it's done with the bot run rather than update the pages individually. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:05, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Unclear why it's still doing this. Will check soon. Noom _talk ^contribs 16:35, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Seems fixed:

Book:Canadian campaign of 1775 editing... Skipped; same content.
Book:Oryzomys editing... Skipped; same content.

Will monitor the bots next run to make sure it's not just updating timestamps. Noom _talk ^contribs 22:43, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Still doing it. [7] Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:32, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Okay, so I've done some more checking and ran it in 'silent' mode to see if it fails to compare book reports, and it seems to be okay now. It's possible that there was a small whitespace difference or slight change I made that caused the string containing the new report in it to be slightly different. I will be making some changes to make sure the code isn't as 'strict' when comparing reports, to make sure whitespace differences and minor changes make no difference. Keeping bug as closed an re-running bot again. Noom _talk ^stalk 18:54, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Redirects are not being followed for the book reports

Status  Resolved

Task:

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 01:29, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book:Atlas of Remote Islands/ Book talk:Atlas of Remote Islands (and every book with redirects)

Discussion: Redirects are not being followed for the book reports. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:29, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Noom _talk ^contribs 13:42, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Missing articles

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 20:01, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Where:

Discussion: Book talk:Nine Inch Nails is missing details about several articles in the book. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:01, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Whitespace issue, revised patterns. Noom _talk ^contribs 15:11, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Reports redirect, but not duplication

Status  Acknowledged

Task:

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 22:21, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book:The Sims / Book talk:The Sims

Discussion: The Sims 3 Stuff packs redirects to The Sims 3, which is already in the book. The bot reports the redirects, but not the duplication. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:21, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Probably fixed, can't find anywhere to test it. The bot didn't replace the Article#section properly. Noom _talk ^contribs 15:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Articles/Chapter duplicated

Status  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 18:11, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book_talk:Nine_Inch_Nails#book_report

Discussion: If you check the report, you see that the entire "Overview" chapter is duplicated. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:11, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Noom _talk ^contribs 12:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Failure at Book:Star Trek Motion Pictures

Status  Resolved

Task:

User: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)

Time: 17:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book:Star Trek Motion Pictures / Book talk:Star Trek Motion Pictures

Discussion: Report is empty. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Noom _talk ^stalk 23:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Book:Islands of Scotland

Status:  Resolved

Task: Book reports

User: Ben MacDui ( talk · contribs)

Time: 15:48, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Discussion: Dear Noombot, I don't know if this is a bug or something I have failed to do properly in the formatting of the page, but the update at Book talk:Islands of Scotland only includes the articles listed under the last heading of Book:Islands of Scotland (i.e. "Other archipelagos").

The bot didn't like the whitespace after the ':' but before the article. The patterns have been updated to allow for more whitespace. Noom _talk ^stalk 16:03, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Average score inconsistency

Status  Resolved

Task: Book Reports

User: Chris857 ( talk · contribs)

Time: 23:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Where: Book talk:FIRST

Discussion: I've noticed that the average book score and the average in the summary don't match up, and it seems to be that the summary isn't counting unassessed articles toward the article count. For example, this shows a score of 1.1, but the summary says 1.9.

Ah, yes, there was a slight inconsistency within the bots scoring table than what is shown in the actual book reports. I've modified it, and it should now correctly report unassessed ratings. Noom _talk ^stalk14:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)