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Whenever I put in a Google Book Search link it returns an error:
GBS page: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ix2eYaG82hYC&dq=francis+bacon+sound+houses&pg=PA407&ci=88,252,893,766&source=bookclip Image: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ix2eYaG82hYC&pg=PA407&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=BqE1OnF8zttsp03KpfntSa2oSwY&ci=88,252,893,766&edge=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.57.245.11 ( talk) 03:22, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Could something be done about some of the pointless edits that some bot do? I just can across User:VeblenBot which updates User:VeblenBot/PERtable and a good chunk of its edits are to simply update the timestamp. Isn't the "does not consume unnecessary resources" suppose to cover this? This isn't the only one that operates in this fashion either. — Dispenser ( talk) 01:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you're quite welcome! I have enough work pouring out of my ears as it is ;-) You'll have to get access to the stable server and the geohack tool by asking River Tarnell or Dab.. Somewhere, there was a list where you could enter your name as maintainer, but I can't find it anymore... Thanks, Magnus Manske ( talk) 20:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
I contacted the copyright holder in regards to the SMOG article, and it appears that he is the original author and frequent maintainer of the article. He has since added a GFDL statement to the bottom of his website.
The only other issue I can see is that he apparently invented this system of measurement, being a doctor in Applied Linguistics. His works are original works and may not be suitable for Wikipedia as he is the sole authority on the matter.
I do like his article though, and would like to see it expanded upon. I would like to forward our email correspondence to you if you're interested. ~ Agvulpine ( talk) 11:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
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What a wonderful thing you created! (BTW, "automaticly checked" needs to be corrected...) I thank you again - it really helps. -- andreasegde ( talk) 17:55, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I think it looks good. - Gwguffey ( talk) 16:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
What the heck is a good machine parseable datasets? I reaaly don't know about how to program bots and the like. Could you please reply on my talk page? Editorofthewiki ( talk) 17:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I checked out m:Talk:Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor#Single_quote_in_.23ifeq, and couldn't replicate. -- Splarka ( rant) 04:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Could you fix the spelling of "foundation" at [1]. A bit more documentation would also help. Thanks and happy editing, Geometry guy 23:16, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with the organisation - [2]
=)
— Reedy Boy 11:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it a bug from webchecklink here, that makes it show all pages from www.experts-exchange.com as "Service Unavailable", while they are accessible from a browser? Or is it a problem with experts-exchange itself? huji— TALK 09:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for the really useful link checker, however Bath, Somerset is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bath, Somerset and I've been asked to check the links. It shows 2 x 404 & 2x 400 errors but these all work when you click on them & the URL it takes you to is the same as in the refs. The last one is to a journal that requires a subscription & not a problem - but any advice on the others would be great.— Rod talk 18:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your "shameless self-plug" and gave it a try. I knew about those redirects, but had never bothered to update them. (Actually, I tested it first on Andrew Sullivan, which is a real mess, but decided not to make any changes for lack of knowledge or interest.) I was so impressed that I added a more detailed description here. One quirk I noticed is that the "Show preview" and "Show changes" buttons seem to work the first time only. -- Jtir ( talk) 22:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the interactive version of DumZiBoT. I have already put it to good use twice. [3] [4] (I changed the edit summary from the default.) The expanded description could probably go at the top, since several people have asked for DumZiBoT to be run on particular articles. -- Jtir ( talk) 20:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
It fails with the following message on articles with foreign characters in their title; e.g., Kemal Kerinçsiz. -- Adoniscik( t, c) 18:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x.. in position ..: ordinal not in range(128)
Hi !
A little bug in your tool :
In Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, there is the source text
[[Sweden]] || [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 500M (USD 72.2M)<ref>http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/4823/a/36245</ref> || || [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 1100M (USD 159M)<ref>[http://www.frii.se/index3.shtml Frivilligorganisationernas Insamlingsråd - Aktuellt<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> || || 177.2 || 0.5,
and it is converted into
[[Sweden]] || [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 500M (USD 72.2M)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/4823/a/36245 |title=]</ref> || || [[Swedish krona|SEK |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050101025709/http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/4823/a/36245 |archivedate=2005-01-01}}] 1100M (USD 159M)<ref>[http://www.frii.se/index3.shtml Frivilligorganisationernas Insamlingsråd - Aktuellt<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> || || 177.2 || 0.5
:)
NicDumZ ~ 19:47, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes the tool comes back with statistics fairly quickly (For example; Introduction to evolution, Bees and toxic chemicals and Dog), but othertimes seems to be slow, so slow that it might be broken ( Evolution for example). What is going on? Are those articles just too complicated? Is something else wrong?-- Filll ( talk) 01:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for implementing a readability analyser. I'm sure Wikipedia needs one of its own, because Wikipedia's conventions require so many elements that should not enter in to the calculations, e.g. UI elements, references list, "See also", links to editions in other languages, various templates that appear in certain article categories.
Even so, I was surprised by the difference in the scores given for
Evolution of mammals by your analyser and
Juicy Studio's Readability Test, which I've been using and recommending for a few years:
Your analyser | Juicy Studio | |
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Words | 8,401 | 10,033 |
Sentences | 300 | 1,078 |
Words per sentence | 28.00 | 9.31 |
Polysyllabic words | 1,327 | 2,306 |
Syllables per word | 1.75 | 1.75 |
Words per sentence | 28.00 | 10,033 |
Flesch Reading Ease | 30.4 | 49.23 |
Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 16.42 | 8.71 |
Gunning Fog | 18.29 | 12.92 |
The differences may be due to the factors I mentioned above, but they need to be explained - I expect editors who are sufficiently interested in readability to use your analyser will know and use others.
More generally, your analyser's output needs some explanation, for example:
You may also want to make the algorithm ignore:
Despite all these concerns, I'm doing to put a link to your analyser on my User page - it has the potential to be extremely useful.
PS If you like I could also do comparisions of results for less scientific subjects, e.g. a couple of articles on computer games, which might contain fewer sesquipedalians.
Philcha (
talk)
09:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm an admin over on Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki, and we are looking to include the collapsible templates into our wiki. I have tried to do this before by copying over the code, but it didn't work. I wonder if you could take the time to explain step-by-step how to set this up in advance. Thanks for your time (-: -- 82.37.50.162 ( talk) 10:49, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I recently rewrote {{ Navbox}} to fix a number of known bugs and to add a whole bunch of new features, including CSS support. Please check out my new code ( User:CapitalR/Navbox), the test and description page ( User:CapitalR/NavboxTest) and the Navbox talk page to add comments ( Template talk:Navbox#Complete Navbox rewrite). Seeing as you've done some work on this in the past and have been pushing for CSS to be added, I'd appreciate your comments, corrections, changes, and suggestions. Feel free to directly edit the code and test page in my user pages. Thanks, -- CapitalR ( talk) 19:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi dispenser,
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dispenser/cgi-bin/linkchecker.py only works for Wikipedias, as far as I can see, is that correct? — Pill ( talk) 13:28, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Could you tell me why this isn't working? Thanks! archanamiya · talk 14:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC) Never mind! archanamiya · talk 18:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Your Link Checker Tool is not working for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Could you look into that please? Thanks! Gary King ( talk) 04:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
The template metadata that you have added is a very useful column. Could you sort the keys in it alphabetically, though, so that accessdate is always before publisher, etc.? This would make it easier to sift through a lot of links and see which ones are missing information, and it would make it easy to compare between two links. Thanks! Gary King ( talk) 04:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I got this error when I hit 'Save changes':
<class 'wikipedia.NoPage'>: No textarea found args = ('No textarea found',) message = 'No textarea found'
Gary King ( talk) 01:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
<title>
to something else besides "Main Page"? This is so that I can reach it more quickly using Firefox 3's new address bar completer. Thanks!
Gary King (
talk)
04:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Is there a multi-article wrapper for the tools on http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dispenser/view/Pywikipedia, particularly reflinks.py? I'd like to run it against 50-odd articles in a human-assisted-bot format, so that as soon as I save a page it goes on to the next one in the list. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 17:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
For the work you do on the link checker tool, which makes FAC so much easier. Thank you. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC) |
WikiProxy isn't handling :
in titles correctly see
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. —
Dispenser
16:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey Dispenser, Just thought i'd let you know that im in the process of starting to overhaul AWB's List Maker.
We've made it more modular, so that plugins can be added for extra search criteria and such.
Its removed some of the things that made it more complex, and i've made the combo box now sorted as per your suggestions back in Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_18#Interface_Tweaks
If you SVN update you'll be able to see how much more simpler the code behind is... Was wondering what you were thinking regarding overhauling the designer (as now would be a good time to do so..)
Thanks
— Ree dy 10:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for reforming and putting in the corrected links and references on this article. Really helps! 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 12:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC) Stan
Can you help me with a question about your reference tool that was left on my user page? I'm not at all familiar with your tool so I can't answer the question. Thanks. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 04:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I was just about to use autowiki browser to link Captive market - but you seem to have beat me to it :) Chendy ( talk) 11:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
It looks like you tagged all the normal-distribution redirects from 68-99.7% as having possibilities. It happens that the article 68-95-99.7 rule covers (I think) pretty much everything those numbers have to say. Is it all right if I remove {{ R with possibilities}} from them? Lenoxus " * " 03:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
<font=3> Thanks for your comments on
Worlds End State Park which made
Featured Article today! Dincher ( talk) and Ruhrfisch ><>°° 23:57, 13 June 2008 (UTC) |
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I want someone to make a TOC(Tables of content) template for wikipedia like this [5]. If you know how to make, then please put on your effort as it will be good for wikipedia and its users. *The image is an edited one*. I didn't find any template that would break or split the contents into half and put the other half on right side [6]. This template will utilize the blank space and will make the contents table easily accessible without scrolling down. THANKS. Harryroger ( talk) 12:24, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Really needs an overhaul
You've suggested some good ideas with the DB scanner, its just hard to work from the way thats down... Dont know if you want to try making some changes
The List Maker does need overhauling, and with the code backend of it having been overhauled mainly by myself with Kingboyk's help, a few of the obstacles from your proposed changes are sorted...
Any chance of you trying to improve it again? And we will try and implement it?
Thanks!!
— Ree dy 21:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've applied that patch, and also made some more changes, tweaks, and improvements, completing some of the code and such to go with it. And also a new AWB specific scanner. See WT:AWB for more info. Give me a shout on my talk page/whatever if you need help with the code or anything. Keep up the good work! — Ree dy 20:56, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there something like this for TeX, LaTeX, PostScript, EPS files? 70.55.88.113 ( talk) 12:24, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I've been told that there are errors with your tool. Have a look at this, click the save button, then click save page on the article. I got this message "User Riana (talk) deleted this article after you started editing it, with a reason of:", though it wasn't deleted. Could you look into this? Thanks, -- Steve Crossin (contact) 05:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Believeing that you are the creator of it, I wanted to say how much I love the dabfinder tool! As someone who works with disambiguation pages quite a bit, it is wonerfully convenient to have that search to be able to find all the links to disambiguation pages on a given page. I know the toolserver page says that it is "currently experimental and may disappear in the future.", but I certianly hope it stays around! -- Natalya 21:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Undeleted and moved to your userspace. Sorry about any inconvenience. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:20, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible if you can centre align the template? Thanks. 144.214.102.23 ( talk) 02:30, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:McMaster
Why is it not checking this article?. See here.-- SkyWalker ( talk) 14:50, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
On a page called "aaa"? Nergaal ( talk) 16:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the userpage tweaks to the toolserver links, and for the helpful tools you've put up there. Sorry to bug you with another minor request, but do you know if there is any reason why these aren't specified in WP:IW or meta:Help:Interwiki linking? - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
I was working on a heavily-used template called {{ Infobox Hurricane Small}} and noticed some major style issues [7]. If you look at the page in IE, you'll see that it is very different than in Firefox. I don't know enough about css to fix this. I've tried the Wikipedia help areas a couple of times, but received no responses to my posts. Can you help, or do you know someone who can? Potapych ( talk) 16:39, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
A link checker at Peer review would be useful, but I think you've realised that the autogeneration of the page affects how that will work. Could you clarify for me the implementation? Thanks, Geometry guy 20:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
re.compile(r'<b><a href="[^"]*?/wiki/([^"]*)" title="[^"]*">', flags)
to get the list of articles from the HTML. This was the only effective way of doing it on
WP:TFA/R and HTML is the only general purpose way of articles out pages like
WP:FAC. If you think their's a better way of implementing this or if it causes trouble from some other scripts let me know. —
Dispenser
21:01, 17 August 2008 (UTC)I've been using your excellent link checker tool on Geology of Somerset, which is a current GA candidate & have dealt with most of the broken links etc. However the link to Severn Estuary Barrage from the Environment Agency gives a 200 error "File extension (.pd) not in dictionary" although the link opens the PDF document fine. Any ideas or help?— Rod talk 18:30, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I've been using this for some time after you recommended it; it's great, but any chance you could include the same information that the external tool has – especially publisher, accessdate, etc. that has been entered? Thanks in advance! Gary King ( talk) 22:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
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I am getting an error on tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/reflinks.py?page=Manuloc&citeweb=on. Is it something with the websites, or the tool? Thanks Lego Kontribs Talk M 04:57, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I have no idea what you mean by " we always encourage XHTML since including has no drawbacks on HTML4 complaints", but it doesn't sound very NPoV. Please explain. Why do you think it acceptable to replace HTML examples with XHTML? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 18:32, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I find your arguments unconvincing. Whether HTML or XHTML are better is a matter of personal (some would say religious) belief. It is not our place to be proselytising for one or the other. On the above page, HTML has precedence by virtue of being there first (like GB vs. US English spellings). I've raised the issue on the templates talk page. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I just tried checklinks: History of the Philippines (1898-1946), witt the result that this is a redirect page which redirects to a page with the same name.
Typing History of the Philippines (1898–1946) into the search box navigated me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1898%E2%80%931946), which rendered expected page content. However, I notice that http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=History_of_the_Philippines_(1898-1946)&redirect=no is a redirect to History of the Philippines (1898–1946).
It looks tome as if checklinks: History of the Philippines (1898-1946) is attempting to check the redirect page rather than the article page. I don't see a way to disambiguate that. -- Boracay Bill ( talk) 05:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to your tool, I corrected a number of coordinates. I also added a series of missing type parameters.
There are many coordinates that just use "city" as parameter (instead of "type:city"), I don't intend to fix for now, but I was wondering if there is a way to detect other elements as parameters without type:/region:/etc prefixes, that may be worth doing so. -- User:Docu
Would you re-generate the log? Given that I made a series of repairs and was wondering how much remains. -- User:Docu
#after line 10 (prependCount = 0)
semicolonCount = 0
regionCount = 0
#after line 34 (pagename = '')
namespace = ''
#Before line 53 (#Check to make sure there's atleast one number)
namespace = pagename.split(':')[0
if pagename == namespace: namespace = ''
#after line 55 (# typically templates and examples)
if namespace=='':print('NoDigits \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (coord, pagename, ))
#replace line 58 to fix formatting ( if pagename:print 'No N/S
if pagename:print 'No N/S \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (coord, pagename, )
#after line 68 (lon = float(coord[0].split(';')[1])
semicolonCount = semicolonCount + 1
#after line 145 (geotype = s.lower())
if geotype != "city": print 'Typeless \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (s, pagename, )
#before line 156 (if geotype: geotype+='-'+s)
print 'Typeless \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (geotype, pagename, )
regionCount = regionCount + 1
#afterline 185 (print '%d coordinates use "type_"' % prependCount
print '%d coordinates skip region:' % regionCount
print '%d coordinates use ";" to separate lat/long' % semicolonCount
Hi Dispenser, I replied here. Best regards, -- Flominator ( talk) 12:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
You added a source tag to my script. What does that do? Lightmouse ( talk) 10:57, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Lightmouse ( talk) 11:56, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for fixing up the spelling in List of Norwegian ministries. However, your semi-automatic editing was "spell checking" the Norwegian language versions of the department names, which uses departement (the correct spelling in Norwegian), and then "fixing" them into the English department. I have reverted the edit, but please be weary of this pit in the future. Thanks, and happy editing. Arsenikk (talk) 17:41, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I sent you an email about the use of your readability script. I would like to run the script for about 2000 articles starting from tonight. I hope it's ok with you. Thanks. -- Ragib ( talk) 00:58, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
By the way, in v2.0, you refer to the syllable module, but I don't see the code for that under the resources directory. Where do I get that? -- Ragib ( talk) 03:01, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I've noticed lately, (such as here), that your script is trying to change dates, such as "|accessdate=2007-12-28 " to "|accessdate$1=$2$3-$4-$5 ". Thought you'd appreciate the heads up. SQL Query me! 07:12, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
It hasn't been working for me lately; it constantly gets stuck at the uploading part. Is this happening to everyone at the moment, or is it just me? Gary King ( talk) 15:43, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
There has been some configuration changes by River over the past month. One of which has been to enable fastcgi for all PHP applications and a case by case basis for other languages. Presumably, some time constants have been changed for regular cgi applications. There isn't really much I can do other than lower internal delay constants which doesn't solve the issue. — Dispenser 16:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Now that most coordinates were converted to {{ coord}}, would you help me by re-generating the coordinates' log? There shouldn't be many changes compared the previous templates, but I'd like to make sure. The remaining "old" templates are mostly on Rambot/Smackbot pages.
BTW if you want, I can post a copy of your script including the changes suggested at #Coordinates to a page on your user talk "namespace". These changes as such are not needed to verify the conversions. -- User:Docu
./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Data truncated for column 'region' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Data truncated for column 'scale' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Data truncated for column 'type' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Incorrect integer value: 'building' for column 'scale' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Incorrect integer value: 'city' for column 'scale' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Incorrect integer value: 'landmark' for column 'scale' at row 1
Great thanks. I think I fixed quite a few of them. At
WP:GEO, I left a few that still need repair.
Geobox Rivers generated a lot of typeless errors, I fixed those, but not the ones generated by other Geoboxes. Most "Number:" errors seem to come from geoboxes as well. I left them for now, as I haven't quite figured out how they work. -- User:Docu
The WikiChevrons | ||
For locating several dead external links within the articles USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) I herby award you the WikiChevrons. Thanks for your help, and keep up the good work! TomStar81 ( Talk) 06:30, 6 October 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for {{
tl}} and fixing the minor issues of <br>
and underlines.
Unfortunately the {{
tl}} edit corrupted the formating of the shortcut box. You might have asked first. --
davidz (
talk)
03:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Dispenser, can I interest you in writing a Dispatch describing the Featured article tools? I'm interested in encouraging editors to 1) install the tools on talk page as I did at Talk:Tourette syndrome so I can watch for dead links, 2) use the dab and dead link checker more frequently at FAC and FAR, and 3) we need to decipher how to use the readability indeces. If you're interested, you could start a draft at WP:FCDW/TempTools, and others will help copyedit and tweak. Sample Dispatches are at {{ FCDW}}. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 05:46, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
There appear to be some quirks with the readability calculators. Taking Exile's Valor as an example, it says 59 words and 82 syllables, but 1.55 syllables per word (82/59 = 1.39). It seems to correctly plot 155 syllables per 100 words on the Fry graph, but 19.67 words/sentence would mean 5.08 sentences / 100 words; on my browser it shows up on the 4.8 line. It's not just that this is a stub - these quirks appear on larger articles, too. Any ideas? Gimmetrow 01:45, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I love reflinks, but it's been making an odd error lately. It is removing {{cite web from the beginning of properly-formatted refs. E.g., on Halle Berry it was trying to change
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/halleb/d0/i0000001.htm#i1|title=First Generation}}</ref>
to
<ref>http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/halleb/d0/i0000001.htm#i1|title=First Generation}}</ref>.
Thought you might want to know. [ roux ] [ x 18:11, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
I saw your comments about {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
but I didn't quite understand the technical issue about bugs. Frankly, I think 'time since last edit' is not as good as 'time since tag was placed'. I am actively editing your talk page now with my fingers on the keyboard so I might slap an 'in-use' tag on it if it were an article (I can't imagine myself actually doing that). My claim that your talk page is 'in-use' starts now and the clock that expires my claim starts ticking now. The logic of fingers-active-on-keyboard depends on the activity immediately following application of the tag, not any subsequent edits. My claim for 'in-use' does not even depend on any subsequent edit that I might make because that could just be a routine edit.
I have the impression that many people are nervous to remove these tags on active pages even though all the recent edits were routine.
Thus it may not matter that 'time since last edit' is technically difficult. Do you think that it would be technically easier to work with 'time since tag was placed'? Regards Lightmouse ( talk) 21:32, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Dispenser. When you were running Doctor Who missing episodes through your dead links bot, I see that you also removed some internal links to media sources in the references (e.g. changing " The Guardian" to "Guardian"). Is that standard usage? I had thought that it was considered informative to readers who might not be familiar with a given media source to link to our page on it. I don't much care about the use of the article ("The"), but why delink? Just curious. — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 18:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, this isn't a major problem by any means, but Reflinks has a spelling mistake that bugs me every time I use it. When running it, the line ""title" yeilds: [u'THE WORLD ECONOMY']" has a spelling mistake; "yeilds" should be "yields" :) Gary King ( talk) 21:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
A changed a word in your new entry from sounding to surrounding - [9]. Not sure if that's what you meant? -- Tagishsimon (talk) 21:06, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Hiya... regarding the link removal from the Public Register, the GG's site underwent a redesign a while ago, changed all their URLs. I was just too lazy last night to hunt down the new version, heh. // roux 22:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
for the link fixes in my userspace. - Dan Dank55 ( send/receive) 21:02, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how you feel about these, but...
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
For the amazing webreflinks.py tool, which has simplified the life of many an editor. It's an excellent tool that should be rolled into the MediaWiki platform. Well done, and thank you very much for coding and maintaining it. // roux 09:16, 29 November 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for the tool. I find very useful and it saves a lot of work. One thing I notice and I believe can be improved is that it does not seem to pickup links in infoboxes (within templates?). Try it on Pyramid Peak (Colorado). In the infobox template there are two links that are missed. Thanks again. -- DRoll ( talk) 04:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Due to PlayStation 4's deletion, I feel that this is the only way to define the intrigue of the PS4's release. Therefore, as I don't think the "PS4" search commonly refers to Phantasy Star IV, the PS4 article should reinstate my exclusive information. Also, this is official details about the next PlayStation, so why not? Redirects do not help Wikipedia expand. Please take this into consideration. Mike | talk 20:02, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, but as I have not humorously written about the PS4, but have simply given original information that people are bound to be interested in. Could I please create a disambiguation by the name of "PS4 (Console)"? As it is not interfering in your redirected article. Mike | talk 20:39, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
I use your tool to edit bare references to cite web format. Thank you for the tool, it does a lot of editing automatically that I had been doing manually. I have a suggestion. I would ask if it is possible to take what currently automatically fills into the "publisher" field and have it fill into the "work" field instead? Usually that information doesn't truly apply to the publisher field. The name of a newspaper or a website, for example, are normally what would be considered to be the name of the work and the actual true publishing company is some other entity. It also renders the field in italics format, which looks a lot better.-- 2008Olympian chitchat 11:32, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser. Is PDFbot still active? I've always found it very useful, and was hoping it would go through some articles. Jayjg (talk) 05:21, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
In this diff on the Chautauqua Institution article and others on my watchlist, your PDFbot has been changing PDF links. I don't quite understand what is being done. I have cumulatively added about a zillion PDF links to National Register documents, and I am adding more as time goes by, and I maintain wp:NRHPMOS and provide other guidance to other NRHP editors. I'd like to understand, so at least I could revise my own practices and update my guidance. By the way, i was on a 2 month or so wikibreak so you may have done a lot that i did not notice already. doncram ( talk) 21:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
I judge that the bot is malfunctioning. Please stop and discuss. I posted at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#admin help needed to stop PDFbot or some such title, asking for an admin to hit the big red stop button. doncram ( talk) 22:08, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
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Whenever I put in a Google Book Search link it returns an error:
GBS page: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ix2eYaG82hYC&dq=francis+bacon+sound+houses&pg=PA407&ci=88,252,893,766&source=bookclip Image: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ix2eYaG82hYC&pg=PA407&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=BqE1OnF8zttsp03KpfntSa2oSwY&ci=88,252,893,766&edge=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.57.245.11 ( talk) 03:22, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Could something be done about some of the pointless edits that some bot do? I just can across User:VeblenBot which updates User:VeblenBot/PERtable and a good chunk of its edits are to simply update the timestamp. Isn't the "does not consume unnecessary resources" suppose to cover this? This isn't the only one that operates in this fashion either. — Dispenser ( talk) 01:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you're quite welcome! I have enough work pouring out of my ears as it is ;-) You'll have to get access to the stable server and the geohack tool by asking River Tarnell or Dab.. Somewhere, there was a list where you could enter your name as maintainer, but I can't find it anymore... Thanks, Magnus Manske ( talk) 20:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
I contacted the copyright holder in regards to the SMOG article, and it appears that he is the original author and frequent maintainer of the article. He has since added a GFDL statement to the bottom of his website.
The only other issue I can see is that he apparently invented this system of measurement, being a doctor in Applied Linguistics. His works are original works and may not be suitable for Wikipedia as he is the sole authority on the matter.
I do like his article though, and would like to see it expanded upon. I would like to forward our email correspondence to you if you're interested. ~ Agvulpine ( talk) 11:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Halló Dispenser! Are you using
IRC? Or
Skype? My IRC nickname is gangleri the Skype name is irelgnag . Maybe we can chat about the topic. Best regards
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What a wonderful thing you created! (BTW, "automaticly checked" needs to be corrected...) I thank you again - it really helps. -- andreasegde ( talk) 17:55, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I think it looks good. - Gwguffey ( talk) 16:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
What the heck is a good machine parseable datasets? I reaaly don't know about how to program bots and the like. Could you please reply on my talk page? Editorofthewiki ( talk) 17:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I checked out m:Talk:Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor#Single_quote_in_.23ifeq, and couldn't replicate. -- Splarka ( rant) 04:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Could you fix the spelling of "foundation" at [1]. A bit more documentation would also help. Thanks and happy editing, Geometry guy 23:16, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with the organisation - [2]
=)
— Reedy Boy 11:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it a bug from webchecklink here, that makes it show all pages from www.experts-exchange.com as "Service Unavailable", while they are accessible from a browser? Or is it a problem with experts-exchange itself? huji— TALK 09:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for the really useful link checker, however Bath, Somerset is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bath, Somerset and I've been asked to check the links. It shows 2 x 404 & 2x 400 errors but these all work when you click on them & the URL it takes you to is the same as in the refs. The last one is to a journal that requires a subscription & not a problem - but any advice on the others would be great.— Rod talk 18:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your "shameless self-plug" and gave it a try. I knew about those redirects, but had never bothered to update them. (Actually, I tested it first on Andrew Sullivan, which is a real mess, but decided not to make any changes for lack of knowledge or interest.) I was so impressed that I added a more detailed description here. One quirk I noticed is that the "Show preview" and "Show changes" buttons seem to work the first time only. -- Jtir ( talk) 22:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the interactive version of DumZiBoT. I have already put it to good use twice. [3] [4] (I changed the edit summary from the default.) The expanded description could probably go at the top, since several people have asked for DumZiBoT to be run on particular articles. -- Jtir ( talk) 20:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
It fails with the following message on articles with foreign characters in their title; e.g., Kemal Kerinçsiz. -- Adoniscik( t, c) 18:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x.. in position ..: ordinal not in range(128)
Hi !
A little bug in your tool :
In Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, there is the source text
[[Sweden]] || [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 500M (USD 72.2M)<ref>http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/4823/a/36245</ref> || || [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 1100M (USD 159M)<ref>[http://www.frii.se/index3.shtml Frivilligorganisationernas Insamlingsråd - Aktuellt<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> || || 177.2 || 0.5,
and it is converted into
[[Sweden]] || [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 500M (USD 72.2M)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/4823/a/36245 |title=]</ref> || || [[Swedish krona|SEK |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050101025709/http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/4823/a/36245 |archivedate=2005-01-01}}] 1100M (USD 159M)<ref>[http://www.frii.se/index3.shtml Frivilligorganisationernas Insamlingsråd - Aktuellt<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> || || 177.2 || 0.5
:)
NicDumZ ~ 19:47, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes the tool comes back with statistics fairly quickly (For example; Introduction to evolution, Bees and toxic chemicals and Dog), but othertimes seems to be slow, so slow that it might be broken ( Evolution for example). What is going on? Are those articles just too complicated? Is something else wrong?-- Filll ( talk) 01:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for implementing a readability analyser. I'm sure Wikipedia needs one of its own, because Wikipedia's conventions require so many elements that should not enter in to the calculations, e.g. UI elements, references list, "See also", links to editions in other languages, various templates that appear in certain article categories.
Even so, I was surprised by the difference in the scores given for
Evolution of mammals by your analyser and
Juicy Studio's Readability Test, which I've been using and recommending for a few years:
Your analyser | Juicy Studio | |
---|---|---|
Words | 8,401 | 10,033 |
Sentences | 300 | 1,078 |
Words per sentence | 28.00 | 9.31 |
Polysyllabic words | 1,327 | 2,306 |
Syllables per word | 1.75 | 1.75 |
Words per sentence | 28.00 | 10,033 |
Flesch Reading Ease | 30.4 | 49.23 |
Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 16.42 | 8.71 |
Gunning Fog | 18.29 | 12.92 |
The differences may be due to the factors I mentioned above, but they need to be explained - I expect editors who are sufficiently interested in readability to use your analyser will know and use others.
More generally, your analyser's output needs some explanation, for example:
You may also want to make the algorithm ignore:
Despite all these concerns, I'm doing to put a link to your analyser on my User page - it has the potential to be extremely useful.
PS If you like I could also do comparisions of results for less scientific subjects, e.g. a couple of articles on computer games, which might contain fewer sesquipedalians.
Philcha (
talk)
09:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm an admin over on Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki, and we are looking to include the collapsible templates into our wiki. I have tried to do this before by copying over the code, but it didn't work. I wonder if you could take the time to explain step-by-step how to set this up in advance. Thanks for your time (-: -- 82.37.50.162 ( talk) 10:49, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I recently rewrote {{ Navbox}} to fix a number of known bugs and to add a whole bunch of new features, including CSS support. Please check out my new code ( User:CapitalR/Navbox), the test and description page ( User:CapitalR/NavboxTest) and the Navbox talk page to add comments ( Template talk:Navbox#Complete Navbox rewrite). Seeing as you've done some work on this in the past and have been pushing for CSS to be added, I'd appreciate your comments, corrections, changes, and suggestions. Feel free to directly edit the code and test page in my user pages. Thanks, -- CapitalR ( talk) 19:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi dispenser,
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dispenser/cgi-bin/linkchecker.py only works for Wikipedias, as far as I can see, is that correct? — Pill ( talk) 13:28, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Could you tell me why this isn't working? Thanks! archanamiya · talk 14:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC) Never mind! archanamiya · talk 18:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Your Link Checker Tool is not working for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Could you look into that please? Thanks! Gary King ( talk) 04:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
The template metadata that you have added is a very useful column. Could you sort the keys in it alphabetically, though, so that accessdate is always before publisher, etc.? This would make it easier to sift through a lot of links and see which ones are missing information, and it would make it easy to compare between two links. Thanks! Gary King ( talk) 04:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I got this error when I hit 'Save changes':
<class 'wikipedia.NoPage'>: No textarea found args = ('No textarea found',) message = 'No textarea found'
Gary King ( talk) 01:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
<title>
to something else besides "Main Page"? This is so that I can reach it more quickly using Firefox 3's new address bar completer. Thanks!
Gary King (
talk)
04:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Is there a multi-article wrapper for the tools on http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dispenser/view/Pywikipedia, particularly reflinks.py? I'd like to run it against 50-odd articles in a human-assisted-bot format, so that as soon as I save a page it goes on to the next one in the list. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 17:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
For the work you do on the link checker tool, which makes FAC so much easier. Thank you. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC) |
WikiProxy isn't handling :
in titles correctly see
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. —
Dispenser
16:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey Dispenser, Just thought i'd let you know that im in the process of starting to overhaul AWB's List Maker.
We've made it more modular, so that plugins can be added for extra search criteria and such.
Its removed some of the things that made it more complex, and i've made the combo box now sorted as per your suggestions back in Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_18#Interface_Tweaks
If you SVN update you'll be able to see how much more simpler the code behind is... Was wondering what you were thinking regarding overhauling the designer (as now would be a good time to do so..)
Thanks
— Ree dy 10:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for reforming and putting in the corrected links and references on this article. Really helps! 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 12:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC) Stan
Can you help me with a question about your reference tool that was left on my user page? I'm not at all familiar with your tool so I can't answer the question. Thanks. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 04:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I was just about to use autowiki browser to link Captive market - but you seem to have beat me to it :) Chendy ( talk) 11:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
It looks like you tagged all the normal-distribution redirects from 68-99.7% as having possibilities. It happens that the article 68-95-99.7 rule covers (I think) pretty much everything those numbers have to say. Is it all right if I remove {{ R with possibilities}} from them? Lenoxus " * " 03:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
<font=3> Thanks for your comments on
Worlds End State Park which made
Featured Article today! Dincher ( talk) and Ruhrfisch ><>°° 23:57, 13 June 2008 (UTC) |
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I want someone to make a TOC(Tables of content) template for wikipedia like this [5]. If you know how to make, then please put on your effort as it will be good for wikipedia and its users. *The image is an edited one*. I didn't find any template that would break or split the contents into half and put the other half on right side [6]. This template will utilize the blank space and will make the contents table easily accessible without scrolling down. THANKS. Harryroger ( talk) 12:24, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Really needs an overhaul
You've suggested some good ideas with the DB scanner, its just hard to work from the way thats down... Dont know if you want to try making some changes
The List Maker does need overhauling, and with the code backend of it having been overhauled mainly by myself with Kingboyk's help, a few of the obstacles from your proposed changes are sorted...
Any chance of you trying to improve it again? And we will try and implement it?
Thanks!!
— Ree dy 21:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've applied that patch, and also made some more changes, tweaks, and improvements, completing some of the code and such to go with it. And also a new AWB specific scanner. See WT:AWB for more info. Give me a shout on my talk page/whatever if you need help with the code or anything. Keep up the good work! — Ree dy 20:56, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there something like this for TeX, LaTeX, PostScript, EPS files? 70.55.88.113 ( talk) 12:24, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I've been told that there are errors with your tool. Have a look at this, click the save button, then click save page on the article. I got this message "User Riana (talk) deleted this article after you started editing it, with a reason of:", though it wasn't deleted. Could you look into this? Thanks, -- Steve Crossin (contact) 05:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Believeing that you are the creator of it, I wanted to say how much I love the dabfinder tool! As someone who works with disambiguation pages quite a bit, it is wonerfully convenient to have that search to be able to find all the links to disambiguation pages on a given page. I know the toolserver page says that it is "currently experimental and may disappear in the future.", but I certianly hope it stays around! -- Natalya 21:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Undeleted and moved to your userspace. Sorry about any inconvenience. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:20, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible if you can centre align the template? Thanks. 144.214.102.23 ( talk) 02:30, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:McMaster
Why is it not checking this article?. See here.-- SkyWalker ( talk) 14:50, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
On a page called "aaa"? Nergaal ( talk) 16:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the userpage tweaks to the toolserver links, and for the helpful tools you've put up there. Sorry to bug you with another minor request, but do you know if there is any reason why these aren't specified in WP:IW or meta:Help:Interwiki linking? - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
I was working on a heavily-used template called {{ Infobox Hurricane Small}} and noticed some major style issues [7]. If you look at the page in IE, you'll see that it is very different than in Firefox. I don't know enough about css to fix this. I've tried the Wikipedia help areas a couple of times, but received no responses to my posts. Can you help, or do you know someone who can? Potapych ( talk) 16:39, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
A link checker at Peer review would be useful, but I think you've realised that the autogeneration of the page affects how that will work. Could you clarify for me the implementation? Thanks, Geometry guy 20:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
re.compile(r'<b><a href="[^"]*?/wiki/([^"]*)" title="[^"]*">', flags)
to get the list of articles from the HTML. This was the only effective way of doing it on
WP:TFA/R and HTML is the only general purpose way of articles out pages like
WP:FAC. If you think their's a better way of implementing this or if it causes trouble from some other scripts let me know. —
Dispenser
21:01, 17 August 2008 (UTC)I've been using your excellent link checker tool on Geology of Somerset, which is a current GA candidate & have dealt with most of the broken links etc. However the link to Severn Estuary Barrage from the Environment Agency gives a 200 error "File extension (.pd) not in dictionary" although the link opens the PDF document fine. Any ideas or help?— Rod talk 18:30, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I've been using this for some time after you recommended it; it's great, but any chance you could include the same information that the external tool has – especially publisher, accessdate, etc. that has been entered? Thanks in advance! Gary King ( talk) 22:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
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I am getting an error on tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/reflinks.py?page=Manuloc&citeweb=on. Is it something with the websites, or the tool? Thanks Lego Kontribs Talk M 04:57, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I have no idea what you mean by " we always encourage XHTML since including has no drawbacks on HTML4 complaints", but it doesn't sound very NPoV. Please explain. Why do you think it acceptable to replace HTML examples with XHTML? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 18:32, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I find your arguments unconvincing. Whether HTML or XHTML are better is a matter of personal (some would say religious) belief. It is not our place to be proselytising for one or the other. On the above page, HTML has precedence by virtue of being there first (like GB vs. US English spellings). I've raised the issue on the templates talk page. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I just tried checklinks: History of the Philippines (1898-1946), witt the result that this is a redirect page which redirects to a page with the same name.
Typing History of the Philippines (1898–1946) into the search box navigated me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1898%E2%80%931946), which rendered expected page content. However, I notice that http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=History_of_the_Philippines_(1898-1946)&redirect=no is a redirect to History of the Philippines (1898–1946).
It looks tome as if checklinks: History of the Philippines (1898-1946) is attempting to check the redirect page rather than the article page. I don't see a way to disambiguate that. -- Boracay Bill ( talk) 05:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to your tool, I corrected a number of coordinates. I also added a series of missing type parameters.
There are many coordinates that just use "city" as parameter (instead of "type:city"), I don't intend to fix for now, but I was wondering if there is a way to detect other elements as parameters without type:/region:/etc prefixes, that may be worth doing so. -- User:Docu
Would you re-generate the log? Given that I made a series of repairs and was wondering how much remains. -- User:Docu
#after line 10 (prependCount = 0)
semicolonCount = 0
regionCount = 0
#after line 34 (pagename = '')
namespace = ''
#Before line 53 (#Check to make sure there's atleast one number)
namespace = pagename.split(':')[0
if pagename == namespace: namespace = ''
#after line 55 (# typically templates and examples)
if namespace=='':print('NoDigits \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (coord, pagename, ))
#replace line 58 to fix formatting ( if pagename:print 'No N/S
if pagename:print 'No N/S \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (coord, pagename, )
#after line 68 (lon = float(coord[0].split(';')[1])
semicolonCount = semicolonCount + 1
#after line 145 (geotype = s.lower())
if geotype != "city": print 'Typeless \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (s, pagename, )
#before line 156 (if geotype: geotype+='-'+s)
print 'Typeless \t%r\t[[%s]]' % (geotype, pagename, )
regionCount = regionCount + 1
#afterline 185 (print '%d coordinates use "type_"' % prependCount
print '%d coordinates skip region:' % regionCount
print '%d coordinates use ";" to separate lat/long' % semicolonCount
Hi Dispenser, I replied here. Best regards, -- Flominator ( talk) 12:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
You added a source tag to my script. What does that do? Lightmouse ( talk) 10:57, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Lightmouse ( talk) 11:56, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for fixing up the spelling in List of Norwegian ministries. However, your semi-automatic editing was "spell checking" the Norwegian language versions of the department names, which uses departement (the correct spelling in Norwegian), and then "fixing" them into the English department. I have reverted the edit, but please be weary of this pit in the future. Thanks, and happy editing. Arsenikk (talk) 17:41, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I sent you an email about the use of your readability script. I would like to run the script for about 2000 articles starting from tonight. I hope it's ok with you. Thanks. -- Ragib ( talk) 00:58, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
By the way, in v2.0, you refer to the syllable module, but I don't see the code for that under the resources directory. Where do I get that? -- Ragib ( talk) 03:01, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I've noticed lately, (such as here), that your script is trying to change dates, such as "|accessdate=2007-12-28 " to "|accessdate$1=$2$3-$4-$5 ". Thought you'd appreciate the heads up. SQL Query me! 07:12, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
It hasn't been working for me lately; it constantly gets stuck at the uploading part. Is this happening to everyone at the moment, or is it just me? Gary King ( talk) 15:43, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
There has been some configuration changes by River over the past month. One of which has been to enable fastcgi for all PHP applications and a case by case basis for other languages. Presumably, some time constants have been changed for regular cgi applications. There isn't really much I can do other than lower internal delay constants which doesn't solve the issue. — Dispenser 16:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Now that most coordinates were converted to {{ coord}}, would you help me by re-generating the coordinates' log? There shouldn't be many changes compared the previous templates, but I'd like to make sure. The remaining "old" templates are mostly on Rambot/Smackbot pages.
BTW if you want, I can post a copy of your script including the changes suggested at #Coordinates to a page on your user talk "namespace". These changes as such are not needed to verify the conversions. -- User:Docu
./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Data truncated for column 'region' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Data truncated for column 'scale' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Data truncated for column 'type' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Incorrect integer value: 'building' for column 'scale' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Incorrect integer value: 'city' for column 'scale' at row 1 ./geodbcompiler.py:231: Warning: Incorrect integer value: 'landmark' for column 'scale' at row 1
Great thanks. I think I fixed quite a few of them. At
WP:GEO, I left a few that still need repair.
Geobox Rivers generated a lot of typeless errors, I fixed those, but not the ones generated by other Geoboxes. Most "Number:" errors seem to come from geoboxes as well. I left them for now, as I haven't quite figured out how they work. -- User:Docu
The WikiChevrons | ||
For locating several dead external links within the articles USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) I herby award you the WikiChevrons. Thanks for your help, and keep up the good work! TomStar81 ( Talk) 06:30, 6 October 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for {{
tl}} and fixing the minor issues of <br>
and underlines.
Unfortunately the {{
tl}} edit corrupted the formating of the shortcut box. You might have asked first. --
davidz (
talk)
03:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Dispenser, can I interest you in writing a Dispatch describing the Featured article tools? I'm interested in encouraging editors to 1) install the tools on talk page as I did at Talk:Tourette syndrome so I can watch for dead links, 2) use the dab and dead link checker more frequently at FAC and FAR, and 3) we need to decipher how to use the readability indeces. If you're interested, you could start a draft at WP:FCDW/TempTools, and others will help copyedit and tweak. Sample Dispatches are at {{ FCDW}}. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 05:46, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
There appear to be some quirks with the readability calculators. Taking Exile's Valor as an example, it says 59 words and 82 syllables, but 1.55 syllables per word (82/59 = 1.39). It seems to correctly plot 155 syllables per 100 words on the Fry graph, but 19.67 words/sentence would mean 5.08 sentences / 100 words; on my browser it shows up on the 4.8 line. It's not just that this is a stub - these quirks appear on larger articles, too. Any ideas? Gimmetrow 01:45, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I love reflinks, but it's been making an odd error lately. It is removing {{cite web from the beginning of properly-formatted refs. E.g., on Halle Berry it was trying to change
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/halleb/d0/i0000001.htm#i1|title=First Generation}}</ref>
to
<ref>http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/halleb/d0/i0000001.htm#i1|title=First Generation}}</ref>.
Thought you might want to know. [ roux ] [ x 18:11, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
I saw your comments about {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
but I didn't quite understand the technical issue about bugs. Frankly, I think 'time since last edit' is not as good as 'time since tag was placed'. I am actively editing your talk page now with my fingers on the keyboard so I might slap an 'in-use' tag on it if it were an article (I can't imagine myself actually doing that). My claim that your talk page is 'in-use' starts now and the clock that expires my claim starts ticking now. The logic of fingers-active-on-keyboard depends on the activity immediately following application of the tag, not any subsequent edits. My claim for 'in-use' does not even depend on any subsequent edit that I might make because that could just be a routine edit.
I have the impression that many people are nervous to remove these tags on active pages even though all the recent edits were routine.
Thus it may not matter that 'time since last edit' is technically difficult. Do you think that it would be technically easier to work with 'time since tag was placed'? Regards Lightmouse ( talk) 21:32, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Dispenser. When you were running Doctor Who missing episodes through your dead links bot, I see that you also removed some internal links to media sources in the references (e.g. changing " The Guardian" to "Guardian"). Is that standard usage? I had thought that it was considered informative to readers who might not be familiar with a given media source to link to our page on it. I don't much care about the use of the article ("The"), but why delink? Just curious. — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 18:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, this isn't a major problem by any means, but Reflinks has a spelling mistake that bugs me every time I use it. When running it, the line ""title" yeilds: [u'THE WORLD ECONOMY']" has a spelling mistake; "yeilds" should be "yields" :) Gary King ( talk) 21:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
A changed a word in your new entry from sounding to surrounding - [9]. Not sure if that's what you meant? -- Tagishsimon (talk) 21:06, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Hiya... regarding the link removal from the Public Register, the GG's site underwent a redesign a while ago, changed all their URLs. I was just too lazy last night to hunt down the new version, heh. // roux 22:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
for the link fixes in my userspace. - Dan Dank55 ( send/receive) 21:02, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how you feel about these, but...
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
For the amazing webreflinks.py tool, which has simplified the life of many an editor. It's an excellent tool that should be rolled into the MediaWiki platform. Well done, and thank you very much for coding and maintaining it. // roux 09:16, 29 November 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for the tool. I find very useful and it saves a lot of work. One thing I notice and I believe can be improved is that it does not seem to pickup links in infoboxes (within templates?). Try it on Pyramid Peak (Colorado). In the infobox template there are two links that are missed. Thanks again. -- DRoll ( talk) 04:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Due to PlayStation 4's deletion, I feel that this is the only way to define the intrigue of the PS4's release. Therefore, as I don't think the "PS4" search commonly refers to Phantasy Star IV, the PS4 article should reinstate my exclusive information. Also, this is official details about the next PlayStation, so why not? Redirects do not help Wikipedia expand. Please take this into consideration. Mike | talk 20:02, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, but as I have not humorously written about the PS4, but have simply given original information that people are bound to be interested in. Could I please create a disambiguation by the name of "PS4 (Console)"? As it is not interfering in your redirected article. Mike | talk 20:39, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
I use your tool to edit bare references to cite web format. Thank you for the tool, it does a lot of editing automatically that I had been doing manually. I have a suggestion. I would ask if it is possible to take what currently automatically fills into the "publisher" field and have it fill into the "work" field instead? Usually that information doesn't truly apply to the publisher field. The name of a newspaper or a website, for example, are normally what would be considered to be the name of the work and the actual true publishing company is some other entity. It also renders the field in italics format, which looks a lot better.-- 2008Olympian chitchat 11:32, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser. Is PDFbot still active? I've always found it very useful, and was hoping it would go through some articles. Jayjg (talk) 05:21, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
In this diff on the Chautauqua Institution article and others on my watchlist, your PDFbot has been changing PDF links. I don't quite understand what is being done. I have cumulatively added about a zillion PDF links to National Register documents, and I am adding more as time goes by, and I maintain wp:NRHPMOS and provide other guidance to other NRHP editors. I'd like to understand, so at least I could revise my own practices and update my guidance. By the way, i was on a 2 month or so wikibreak so you may have done a lot that i did not notice already. doncram ( talk) 21:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
I judge that the bot is malfunctioning. Please stop and discuss. I posted at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#admin help needed to stop PDFbot or some such title, asking for an admin to hit the big red stop button. doncram ( talk) 22:08, 30 December 2008 (UTC)