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[1], Happy new year, -- Flominator ( talk) 19:23, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure if anything should be done about a series of entries in the coord-enwiki log, e.g.:
Their common point seems to be that a (in these cases useless) name precedes the coordinates, e.g. {{coord|name=Bocock Peak Provincial Park|55|51|N|122|56|W|region:CA|display=title}}. -- User:Docu
I was just adding references to Keith Miller in preparation for a FAC run but got suspicious when the "prose size" ballooned by about 5k from 85k to 90k, which made me suspicious, then I checked with Dr pda's script and it said that readable prose size was only 78k for Miller. It seems strange because I checked a few of my FA/GAs and in all the other cases the size was identical to within 1-2k. YellowMonkey ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 00:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
The below should allow to specify a distance from the first coordinates to center the selection around it. -- User:Docu
(source removed: solved)
The other day, I installed the mw GIS extension. A feature I liked, was the direct link to the list of places nearby on top of the map source page.
By moving up the links to locatecoord.py, this would be fairly easy to implement with GeoTemplate. I was wondering what you think of that. I'm not quite sure how frequently the mapsource and locatecoord pages are already used and how much additional traffic locatecoord could bear.
The GIS extension includes the distance and direction from the point of origin. I'm not sure if you want to add the distance on locateCoord.py results as well. [5] has a function to calculate the distance. -- User:Docu
Hi Dispenser, I see from the archived discussion that there was an issue with PDFbot ( talk · contribs) at the end of last year. Are there any plans to have it restart? I dread the thought of trying to fill in the sizes by hand. Thanks, Banyan Tree 11:12, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Checklinks is changing links with the file namespace ([[File:Example.png]]) to the image namespace. Is this a bug or is it intended this way? 71.164.134.228 ( talk) 06:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have changed this back - it was meant to be like that specifically because of links like the one to NI. Thanks again, — neuro (talk) (review) 04:39, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
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hi dispenser, love the app. ever consider making it into an automated simple.wikipedia input bot? simple wikipedia really needs some help. i've played around with this idea a fair amount, and even automated simplification http://spencerwaterbed.com/soft/simple/ wanna collaberate? Spencerk ( talk) 18:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I ran Reflinks on an article but it died. It seems to die on articles with over 150 references; can you confirm this? Gary King ( talk) 01:20, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
File:
to Image:
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The script dies if it tries to crawl http://www.faceoff.com/story.html?id=a04cce42-f515-4e06-b99f-d8ed9ee21ca3. I think it might be the apostrophe in the page's title that's causing the problem. Gary King ( talk) 19:25, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm a computational linguistics student writing my thesis on stylistics in Wikipedia - and so am very excited to come across your readability statistics tool (thankfully also written in my favourite language :)
I'm wondering, though - where does one get the "syllable" and "wikipedia" python packages? Also, are there any other versions of the tool (apart from tools:~dispenser/resources/sources/readability2.0.py) available?
Cheers! Aengus —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ventolin ( talk • contribs) 13:36, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Is this what you call « formatting » ?
Budelberger ( ) 22:46, 17 April 2009 (UTC).
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Kindly note this little glitch. ... Kenosis ( talk) 21:38, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
(?!([^<]|<(?!ref))*</ref>)
. Thanks for the report. —
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14:38, 16 June 2009 (UTC)Wheeeee. :D -- MZMcBride ( talk) 19:24, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
What happened here? Is there a problem with using PDFlink in a cite template because it's redundant with format=PDF or something? If so, shouldn't the bot add in format=PDF instead of simply removing PDFlink? Also, what happened with this "agancy" thing down here, which has the effect of removing the agency from the footnote, since it's an unrecognised parameter? 79.64.170.147 ( talk) 21:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I will use your geocoordinates from database "u_dispenser_p" now for WikiProjekt Wikipedia-World. So I play a little bit with your datas and get from you 677.000 coordinates for the main language where we had before 264.000 coordinates. Thats a big advancement and makes not so much work than to try to read the dumps with all stupid templates in it what we do in the past. I believe you use the links to geohack in the external link table. I write a tool to merge all language versions. So my first question is how actual are your datas? What do you do with this datas? Later I will have some special questions. -- Kolossos ( talk) 21:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Here some additional things for your to-do list ;-):
What do you think about it? -- Kolossos ( talk) 20:40, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I just moved WikiBlame to SourceForge for easier development and translation. I currently didn't migrate your requests from de:Benutzer Diskussion:Flominator/WikiBlame to the tracker there. Can you maybe copy the ones that are stil relevant into new tracker reports? Do you maybe want to have subversion access (but be warned of the code)? -- Flominator ( talk) 12:43, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be active on GeoTemplate. Could you comment on the SPER for adding elected.biz? Thanks, Celestra ( talk) 14:30, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
That is, changing <br> to <br />, a useless edit.-- BillFlis ( talk) 18:06, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I was using checklinks and noticed that the tool isn't fixing links correctly. For instance, I tried to change the following links on Video game console:
8 | accessdate=2008-07-21 date=2008-07-21 publisher= Eurogamer |
Hirai wants PS3 to beat PS2 [eurogamer.net] | 301 | Redirect does not contain ".,?&" |
publisher=Gameplan author=Forster, Winnie |
The Encyclopedia of Game Machines - Consoles, handheld & home computers 1972-2005 [gameplan-books.com] | 302 | Changes domain and changes path | |
9 | accessdate=2008-02-24 date=2008-02-19 publisher= Cnet |
HD DVD: Just another brick in the wall of defunct formats [news.com] | 301 | Changes domain |
17 | accessdate=2007-06-09 date=January 29, 2004 |
Nintendo DS Details Explosion - Screen, Battery, GBA Compatibility and More [spong.com] | 110 | Connection timeout |
I wanted to update the URLs on the first three and add in an archive link for the last one. When I save changes, archiveurl and archivedate tags are added into the first two sources with the URL as the paramter. Nothing is done for the second two. I also had similar problems with my first saved edit on History of video games and the draft of Downloadable content. Thanks. — Ost ( talk) 16:50, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I hope this is the correct place for my message. I just took a look at your log ( tools:~dispenser/view/File_viewer#log:coord-dewiki.log) and almost all errors are because of InvalidRegion. Please note, that the following region codes are used in German Wikipedia: XA, XI, XN, XO, XP, XS (see de:Vorlage:Coordinate#Ozeane). Maybe you can add those region codes as valid. Thanks -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 11:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
I have one question about this logfile, too. What happened to it? It is so huge that my browser crashes when I try to open it. I just saw before that de:Ägyptisches Museum Berlin is listed but there is no error in the coordinate. Thanks for you answer -- 92.229.118.30 ( talk) 19:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for letting us know of the new alt text viewer tool. I tried it out and find it quite helpful. I'd like to mention this on WP:ALT, and would like more info about it to do that. Can you please let me know:
|link=
" so that it does not function as a link to the corresponding image page. If the image is not purely decorative, it needs alt text.'Eubulides ( talk) 20:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
The tool is really useful and I hope you don't mind if a satisfied user has a few more suggestions. I visited http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/altviewer.py?page=Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama and came up with these ideas:
Thanks again. Eubulides ( talk) 18:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
The Altviewer does not seem to find images specified with "frame
". For example
User:Eubulides/Sandbox currently has three images, but the Altviewer misses
Image:Wikipedesketch1.png, I expect because that image is specified with "frame
".
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22:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
For Georgia Institute of Technology the Altviewer mishandles the display of File:Georgia Tech from condo building at Peachtree St and North Ave.JPG, which is given a width of 700px (!) in the article. The large width causes the Altviewer to generate a table entry where the alt text and caption of the right column are superimposed on the image, making the alt text hard to read. Eubulides ( talk) 19:36, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/altviewer.py/Mumbai causes the Altviewer to generate a "type 'exceptions.ValueError'" message highlighting line 46 ('html = html[html.index("<!-- start content -->"):html.index("<!-- end content -->")]') with the diagnostic:
<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: substring not found args = ('substring not found',) message = 'substring not found' /home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/logs/tmpf5nHUa.html contains the description of this error.
Eubulides ( talk) 17:31, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
For International Space Station the Altviewer does not notice the video File:January 2009 ISS tour.ogg and does not display its alt text. It'd be helpful to show that video (or at least a placeholder for it, if there are technical difficulties with that), along with its alt text and caption; that way a reviewer can easily see whether videos and other media files have alt text. Eubulides ( talk) 16:23, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
For Shark the Altviewer does not find the alt text for Image:Tiger shark teeth.jpg or for Image:Parts of a shark.svg or for Image:Tiburón.jpg. It marks their alt text as being blank, but it is not blank. Eubulides ( talk) 06:17, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I just now visited the Altviewer page for the Electron article and it misfired in a big way: it listed only seven small icons, and it failed to report all the thumbnails in Electron. The only images it reported (all with what it said were non-thumbnails with missing alt text) are File:Wiktionary-logo-en.png, File:Wikibooks-logo.svg, File:Wikiquote-logo.svg, File:Wikisource-logo.svg, File:Wikiversity-logo.svg, File:Commons-logo.svg, and File:Wikinews-logo.svg. Most of these seven images do not appear in Electron, and should not have been reported. Of the two images that do appear, File:Commons-logo.svg does have alt text, but the tool missed it. The only image that was handled correctly was File:Wikisource-logo.svg. Eubulides ( talk) 22:54, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
I added Alt text to an article during an FAC but its not showing, only showing the previous ALT text. Teeninvestor ( talk) 15:51, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
&nogzip
to the url). I might have to add gzip support to GeoHack for faster page generation. —
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22:43, 30 August 2009 (UTC)Unfortunately I am again observing the problem. The Altviewer page for Starvin' Marvin (South Park) currently shows only blank alt text, even though alt text was added over 20 minutes ago. The Altviewer's page says "This page was last modified on 31 August 2009 at 00:09" which, if UTC, means that it's more than a day old. As a result, I'm finding it difficult to respond to review requests like this one. Eubulides ( talk) 03:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Maybe this is due to the MediaWiki upgrade? but anyway, the Altviewer is currently missing some images that it should report. For example, its report for Cato June fails to mention the lead (infobox) image File:20070130 Cato June at Super Bowl XLI press conference.jpg. Similarly, its report for Battle of the Alamo fails to mention the lead image File:Alamo texas.jpg. Eubulides ( talk) 03:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
|image_alt=
instead of |alt=
, fixed both of them for you. —
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05:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
I tried the new Altviewer out on WP:PIC and it had some real problems:
Eubulides ( talk) 05:36, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
The
Altviewer analysis of
Marshalsea says that
File:Marshalsea.jpg is an "(Unlinked image)" but that image looks fine to me: it is marked with |link=
|alt=
and so should be considered to be OK, as it's marked as a purely decorative image, just as
File:BigBenAtDusk.jpg is on the same page.
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16:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks again for implementing the toolserver page to run the peer review script. When I made a template here link to it, I noticed a slight issue. If I urlencode a title with a space in it, the space becomes a +. It would be more user friendly if your script changed this plus back to a space in the text box. Example: [1]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Peerreviewer doesn't like ampersands in article titles... when I try to put in either of the following, it runs a PR on
Ratchet, instead of
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: [[Ratchet %26 Clank: Up Your Arsenal]], [[Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal]]. It doesn't return anything with [[Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal]]
Otherwise, this seems like a great tool. It also says that references are needed on articles which are already well-referenced, such as
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate (
PR). Otherwise, I've seen no reproduceable bugs, and it seems like a great tool overall. Thanks! –
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Thanks for disambiguating some links, but your edit changed image links from File:Herminium monorchis (plant).jpg which is what it says nowadays on the image file page, to Image:Herminium monorchis (plant).jpg which I thought had been superseded. Is the change correct? Thanks, dave souza, talk 22:07, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Not really sure I followed your comments re: Template:Scroll box as used on the Template:Complete timeline of Macintosh models. If the height needs to be greater than 760 to work, it would seem the solution should be to increase the height to 761. Nothing in the Scroll box template applies to obscured image while scrolling. The userbility problem I have this way, is my browser window cannot open wider to display the entire table and text at the same time, requiring I shift the entire article to the right, losing the left navigation pane, which seems completely out of character for Wiki. I have never seen another article that requires scrolling off screen to see it. This article in particular has been this way since 2006. There must be another solution to fix whatever your problem is, which I am unable see. -- Mac128 ( talk) 01:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I just now visited tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/Stanisław Koniecpolski and got a result back saying "<class '_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError'>" and bunch of other stuff. Eubulides ( talk) 00:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, Thanks for your message. In your edit on 6 August, you said ‘We have automated tools for this, don't do it by hand′.
Could you please explain how I can put this in motion. The Wikipedia articles I wish to check with Checklinks are in User:Marek69/sandbox11. I also have the same list in User:Marek69/sandbox10, which I have prepared to check with Reflinks.
Please could you advise me as to how I should proceed with this.
Thank you (in advance) for your assistance, which will be much appreciated :-)
Kind Regards 02:45, Marek.69 talk 02:46, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Just to inform you that your version of the peerreviewer script is being use by tools:~dispenser/view/Peer reviewer (see the about section). I hope this is alright with you. Also, somebody had ask to fix image: being change to file:. — Dispenser 16:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
javascript:while(confirm(/x/g.test('xyx')))
. It work as excepted if the g flag is dropped, which suggests that the pointer moves and resets at the end. —
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01:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm wondering if you know of a tool to show the growth of an article over its lifetime. Like some sort of carting tool like Readablility, only it shows it over time.-- Patrick { oѺ∞} 00:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
The dab tool at the top of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates is not working. Can you take a look? Thanks, Dabomb87 ( talk) 14:29, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
%3F
to ?
has been worked around. Apparently the new regular expressions interpreter cannot handle (A|B|) and \w. —
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Hi Dispenser, you said that the source code was available for tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/backlinkscount.py, where can I find it? I'd like to be able to tweak it in different ways, like right now tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/backlinkscount.py?title=Template:Otheruses4 only returns 442. I'm guessing that it's not counting transclusion, does it count redirects? Thanks, — Sligocki ( talk) 01:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
One of the new links doesn't work.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 03:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
First, thank you very very much for this great tool!
I am having a bit of difficulty, though, with a couple of features:
I see both errors when trying to use the tool on Gerald Ford. There are a few sources I would like to fill.
Thank you again for this tool! Please feel free to answer here, I am watching your talk page in hopes of an answer. - sinneed ( talk) 16:22, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
cellpadding, cellspacing, bgcolor, align
, and they are converted as best as I can, but I'll look into work around your float:right/align=left mistake. —
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22:09, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Hey Dispenser, again one question concerning your log ( tools:~dispenser/view/File_viewer#log:coord-dewiki.log). Is there a possibility to suppress all pages beginning with Vorlage:Positionskarte? These are only instructions how to use templates. -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 16:12, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
-- тнояsтеn ⇔ 14:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
coord-dewiki.log
since several days.regioncheck-dewiki.log
, please note that there is some problem with coordinates in France (they are marked as outside of Turkey).Thanks -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 20:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
coord-dewiki.log
shows errors if dim contains decimal numbers which are used for ships and buildings in the German Wikipedia. --
тнояsтеn
⇔
14:20, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
scale:
value was not ten times of dim:
value. The factor 10 is how GeoHack converts the values dim to scale. The code _dim:{{{dim}}}_scale:{{{dim}}}0
in
de:Vorlage:CoordinateLINK does not handle decimals correctly. And scale: is now redundant to dim: I would recommend removing it. —
Dispenser
05:25, 7 November 2009 (UTC)You asked for and i thought it's a good idea. But is the pagename really necessery? with the API comes this information implicitly. So finally, i d'like to remove this parameter. Visi-on ( talk) 21:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
http://\w+\.wikipedia\.org/wiki/([^#?]+)
expression (no / or secure server). If GeoTemplate is setup correctly then links that require {pagename} (e.g. "All coordinates on pagename") will be hidden by CSS.?curid=###
is good enough. —
Dispenser
05:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)Hi,
I created {{ GeoTemplate/venus}}, based on your work on {{ GeoTemplate/mars}}. Could you check it, please? It's called by pages using {{ Venus coords and quad cat}}. Cheers, Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:38, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Hey Dispenser, I noticed PDFbot hasn't run since June. Are you planning to run it again? I liked what it did, and I have an article that could really use it. Jayjg (talk) 02:51, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Dispenser- I saw your name in the history for Help:Table, looked at your user page, and thought I'd throw you an FYI regarding my somewhat tragic attempts to fix the page formatting code in the Lyon article. Do you think I'm on the right track with my observations on that talk page? Thanks in advance for even a glance at the problem. Eric talk 17:12, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I quickly whizzed through the tools as you asked and tried them on an article that I know has minor problems. Excuse the bullets!
Hope that helps, I have added a link to the tool page to my user page, they will all wonder how I am spotting errors!! Cheers. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 00:48, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Hiya, Dispenser. I'm just curious about something you mentioned on the PDFlink talk page. In your support for the delinking of the "PDF" in the template, you said that you had "actually been delinking some of the hard links with PDFbot". Can changes like this be made to a bot without getting a third approval? (Of course, it's a fairly moot point now that the template's been changed.) I was going to ask someone over at the BAG, but then I thought 'no'... I'll check with Dispenser first. That's some pretty great work you do, and believe me, I am fully clueless when it comes to the programming level. I sincerely revere such work.
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In your edit summary you say that the on-screen diameter is exactly 10 cm at 72 dpi. However, most mapping services only have a finite number of scales they can display, so there must be substantial round-off at some point in the process. In most cases, therefore, the size of the onscreen viewing circle does not exactly match your calculation. Can I add "roughly" back into the documentation? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 10:12, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'd greatly appreciate it if you could implement the 'km' suffix for dim:, and also arrange to be able to tolerate an optional 'm' suffix: this would make dim: much more self-documenting: 'dim:100m' in the context of a large building, for example, is pretty much self-explanatory. I can't see any need for any other SI suffixes at the moment: as said on the other talk page, 61cm is perfectly well codable as 0.61m, and things like 3000km are just fine for all earthly applications, in my opinion. -- The Anome ( talk) 11:17, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
When you want to request speedy deletion of a redirect page, please put the speedy deletion template at the beginning of the page, before the #REDIRECT directive; otherwise it is difficult for the reviewing administrator to find and review the request. Thanks. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 13:06, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey there Dispenser,
Im going on a bit of an AD campaign for your tool : CHECKLINKS. I introduced a template ({{ Dead link header}}) that was aproved ( here) and asked someone to help me with the bot that will add this to articles. Just FYI. -- Tim1357 ( talk) 21:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey Dispenser,
I created a new template: {{ Dead link header}}, that provides a link to your tool , Checklinks. I would greatly appreciate it if the tool removed all instances of the template when it is run on an article. Thanks, Tim1357--( what?... ohhh) 13:43, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Looks good from here; thank you so much for all you do. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:20, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I swear I feel as if I have lost an arm when I can't Reflinks an article. Brazil kills Reflinks when I run it. Just an FYI. Thanks again.- Sinneed 19:42, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
There has very little activity with User:Gary King/peer reviewer.js. Would you mind if I added a notice asking for a new maintainer of the peer reviewer script? — Dispenser 05:48, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Just a small note to thank you for providing the http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/logs/coord-nlwiki.log page. I discovered it yesterday so I could finally correct all kind of errors very effectively. Great job. Michiel1972 ( talk) 20:20, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
I've been trying to get the Google Mars link on Template:GeoTemplate/mars to work with the Dawes Crater testcase on Template talk:GeoTemplate, which has been hanging. I've found that longitudes less than -180 cause Google Mars to display a blank map. (Dawes Crater is at 322 degrees west longitude on Mars, which is why it triggers this issue.) Could you stick a modulo-360 function into the calculation of {londegdec} such that the range -360 to -180 would get mapped to 0 to 180? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 02:30, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
while(lat < -180) lat+=360;
. I would like to research this better to understand if it should also be converting them for values greater than 180. I should be able look into it after we've completed the move off the stable servers. —
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23:23, 19 November 2009 (UTC)By the way, I'm wondering how well {zoom} works with Google Mars. Does Google Mars really use the same zoom-to-scale function as Google Maps despite the fact that a degree of arc is much smaller on Mars than it is on Earth? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 23:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason PDFbot adds the border width, such as here? -- NE2 21:54, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi most indispensable Dispenser. We have now added the spellchecking fix to MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js. So it's time to bypass your browser cache and you will have spellchecking in the edit summary field.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 17:11, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I just answered your statement regarding featured article tools over at de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kandidaturen_von_Artikeln,_Listen_und_Portalen#English_.22Featured_article.22_tools. Regards, -- X-Weinzar ( talk) 22:26, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
hey there dispenser, I just wrote some script that takes links, and dates fed into it, and returns the internet archive url that is closest to that date (within the range of 4 months from the original date) so it would work like this
getArchiveURL('http://Iamdead.com', '20080304')
that wold return the archive closest to the date 03/04/2008. It only works if the date is in the format yyyymmdd. I was thinking you may be able to use it in checklinks, to take some of the repetitive work away from the user. Here is the full code, if you want it.
import urllib2
import datetime
def dateranger(numbers): #this module returns the range of dates to search for. The internet archive api takes this, and returns the url closest to the center.
daterangehigh = datetime.timedelta(weeks=8)
daterangelow = datetime.timedelta(weeks=-4)
year = int(str(numbers) [:4])
month = int(str(numbers) 4:6])
day = int(str(numbers) 6:10])
accessdate = datetime.date(year,month,day)
accessdatehigh = str(accessdate + daterangehigh)
accessdatelow = str(accessdate + daterangelow)
return accessdatelow.replace('-','') + '-' + accessdatehigh.replace('-','')
def getArchiveURL(archiveURL, date): #the following was borrowed from weblinkchecker
archiveURL = 'http://web.archive.org/web/%s/%s' % (dateranger(int(date)), archiveURL)
try:
f = urllib2.urlopen(archiveURL)
except urllib2.HTTPError:
# The Internet Archive yields a 403 error when the site was not
# archived due to robots.txt restrictions.
return None
except UnicodeEncodeError:
return None
data = f.read()
if f.headers.get('content-encoding', None) == 'gzip':
# Since 2008, the Internet Archive returns pages in GZIPed
# compression format. Unfortunatelly urllib2 doesn't handle
# the decompression for us, so we have to do it ourselves.
import gzip, StringIO
data = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(data)).read()
if "https:// FILE ARCHIVED ON" in data:
y = re.search('(?<=//\sFILE\sARCHIVED\sON\s)(\d+)',x)
return 'web.archive.org/web/' + y.group() + archiveURL
else:
return None
I'd appreciate it if you would respond to comments I made at Wikipedia:Bot requests. Cheers, -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 04:31, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser. Thanks for the code you showed over at MediaWiki talk:Sharedupload-desc-here#Link to secure server. It inspired me to make the template {{ sec link auto}} and write Wikipedia:Secure server. I am now applying {{sec link auto}} all over the place, including the Main Page. See Wikipedia talk:Secure server#Sister project links. And we have even changed how the secure server log in looks. :))
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 03:17, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it safe to change the url from stable? Noticed ~geohack is working, just dont know if it's ready or not. Q T C 00:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
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[1], Happy new year, -- Flominator ( talk) 19:23, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure if anything should be done about a series of entries in the coord-enwiki log, e.g.:
Their common point seems to be that a (in these cases useless) name precedes the coordinates, e.g. {{coord|name=Bocock Peak Provincial Park|55|51|N|122|56|W|region:CA|display=title}}. -- User:Docu
I was just adding references to Keith Miller in preparation for a FAC run but got suspicious when the "prose size" ballooned by about 5k from 85k to 90k, which made me suspicious, then I checked with Dr pda's script and it said that readable prose size was only 78k for Miller. It seems strange because I checked a few of my FA/GAs and in all the other cases the size was identical to within 1-2k. YellowMonkey ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 00:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
The below should allow to specify a distance from the first coordinates to center the selection around it. -- User:Docu
(source removed: solved)
The other day, I installed the mw GIS extension. A feature I liked, was the direct link to the list of places nearby on top of the map source page.
By moving up the links to locatecoord.py, this would be fairly easy to implement with GeoTemplate. I was wondering what you think of that. I'm not quite sure how frequently the mapsource and locatecoord pages are already used and how much additional traffic locatecoord could bear.
The GIS extension includes the distance and direction from the point of origin. I'm not sure if you want to add the distance on locateCoord.py results as well. [5] has a function to calculate the distance. -- User:Docu
Hi Dispenser, I see from the archived discussion that there was an issue with PDFbot ( talk · contribs) at the end of last year. Are there any plans to have it restart? I dread the thought of trying to fill in the sizes by hand. Thanks, Banyan Tree 11:12, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Checklinks is changing links with the file namespace ([[File:Example.png]]) to the image namespace. Is this a bug or is it intended this way? 71.164.134.228 ( talk) 06:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have changed this back - it was meant to be like that specifically because of links like the one to NI. Thanks again, — neuro (talk) (review) 04:39, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
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hi dispenser, love the app. ever consider making it into an automated simple.wikipedia input bot? simple wikipedia really needs some help. i've played around with this idea a fair amount, and even automated simplification http://spencerwaterbed.com/soft/simple/ wanna collaberate? Spencerk ( talk) 18:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I ran Reflinks on an article but it died. It seems to die on articles with over 150 references; can you confirm this? Gary King ( talk) 01:20, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
File:
to Image:
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The script dies if it tries to crawl http://www.faceoff.com/story.html?id=a04cce42-f515-4e06-b99f-d8ed9ee21ca3. I think it might be the apostrophe in the page's title that's causing the problem. Gary King ( talk) 19:25, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm a computational linguistics student writing my thesis on stylistics in Wikipedia - and so am very excited to come across your readability statistics tool (thankfully also written in my favourite language :)
I'm wondering, though - where does one get the "syllable" and "wikipedia" python packages? Also, are there any other versions of the tool (apart from tools:~dispenser/resources/sources/readability2.0.py) available?
Cheers! Aengus —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ventolin ( talk • contribs) 13:36, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Is this what you call « formatting » ?
Budelberger ( ) 22:46, 17 April 2009 (UTC).
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Kindly note this little glitch. ... Kenosis ( talk) 21:38, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
(?!([^<]|<(?!ref))*</ref>)
. Thanks for the report. —
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14:38, 16 June 2009 (UTC)Wheeeee. :D -- MZMcBride ( talk) 19:24, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
What happened here? Is there a problem with using PDFlink in a cite template because it's redundant with format=PDF or something? If so, shouldn't the bot add in format=PDF instead of simply removing PDFlink? Also, what happened with this "agancy" thing down here, which has the effect of removing the agency from the footnote, since it's an unrecognised parameter? 79.64.170.147 ( talk) 21:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I will use your geocoordinates from database "u_dispenser_p" now for WikiProjekt Wikipedia-World. So I play a little bit with your datas and get from you 677.000 coordinates for the main language where we had before 264.000 coordinates. Thats a big advancement and makes not so much work than to try to read the dumps with all stupid templates in it what we do in the past. I believe you use the links to geohack in the external link table. I write a tool to merge all language versions. So my first question is how actual are your datas? What do you do with this datas? Later I will have some special questions. -- Kolossos ( talk) 21:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Here some additional things for your to-do list ;-):
What do you think about it? -- Kolossos ( talk) 20:40, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I just moved WikiBlame to SourceForge for easier development and translation. I currently didn't migrate your requests from de:Benutzer Diskussion:Flominator/WikiBlame to the tracker there. Can you maybe copy the ones that are stil relevant into new tracker reports? Do you maybe want to have subversion access (but be warned of the code)? -- Flominator ( talk) 12:43, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be active on GeoTemplate. Could you comment on the SPER for adding elected.biz? Thanks, Celestra ( talk) 14:30, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
That is, changing <br> to <br />, a useless edit.-- BillFlis ( talk) 18:06, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I was using checklinks and noticed that the tool isn't fixing links correctly. For instance, I tried to change the following links on Video game console:
8 | accessdate=2008-07-21 date=2008-07-21 publisher= Eurogamer |
Hirai wants PS3 to beat PS2 [eurogamer.net] | 301 | Redirect does not contain ".,?&" |
publisher=Gameplan author=Forster, Winnie |
The Encyclopedia of Game Machines - Consoles, handheld & home computers 1972-2005 [gameplan-books.com] | 302 | Changes domain and changes path | |
9 | accessdate=2008-02-24 date=2008-02-19 publisher= Cnet |
HD DVD: Just another brick in the wall of defunct formats [news.com] | 301 | Changes domain |
17 | accessdate=2007-06-09 date=January 29, 2004 |
Nintendo DS Details Explosion - Screen, Battery, GBA Compatibility and More [spong.com] | 110 | Connection timeout |
I wanted to update the URLs on the first three and add in an archive link for the last one. When I save changes, archiveurl and archivedate tags are added into the first two sources with the URL as the paramter. Nothing is done for the second two. I also had similar problems with my first saved edit on History of video games and the draft of Downloadable content. Thanks. — Ost ( talk) 16:50, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I hope this is the correct place for my message. I just took a look at your log ( tools:~dispenser/view/File_viewer#log:coord-dewiki.log) and almost all errors are because of InvalidRegion. Please note, that the following region codes are used in German Wikipedia: XA, XI, XN, XO, XP, XS (see de:Vorlage:Coordinate#Ozeane). Maybe you can add those region codes as valid. Thanks -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 11:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
I have one question about this logfile, too. What happened to it? It is so huge that my browser crashes when I try to open it. I just saw before that de:Ägyptisches Museum Berlin is listed but there is no error in the coordinate. Thanks for you answer -- 92.229.118.30 ( talk) 19:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for letting us know of the new alt text viewer tool. I tried it out and find it quite helpful. I'd like to mention this on WP:ALT, and would like more info about it to do that. Can you please let me know:
|link=
" so that it does not function as a link to the corresponding image page. If the image is not purely decorative, it needs alt text.'Eubulides ( talk) 20:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
The tool is really useful and I hope you don't mind if a satisfied user has a few more suggestions. I visited http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/altviewer.py?page=Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama and came up with these ideas:
Thanks again. Eubulides ( talk) 18:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
The Altviewer does not seem to find images specified with "frame
". For example
User:Eubulides/Sandbox currently has three images, but the Altviewer misses
Image:Wikipedesketch1.png, I expect because that image is specified with "frame
".
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22:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
For Georgia Institute of Technology the Altviewer mishandles the display of File:Georgia Tech from condo building at Peachtree St and North Ave.JPG, which is given a width of 700px (!) in the article. The large width causes the Altviewer to generate a table entry where the alt text and caption of the right column are superimposed on the image, making the alt text hard to read. Eubulides ( talk) 19:36, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/altviewer.py/Mumbai causes the Altviewer to generate a "type 'exceptions.ValueError'" message highlighting line 46 ('html = html[html.index("<!-- start content -->"):html.index("<!-- end content -->")]') with the diagnostic:
<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: substring not found args = ('substring not found',) message = 'substring not found' /home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/logs/tmpf5nHUa.html contains the description of this error.
Eubulides ( talk) 17:31, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
For International Space Station the Altviewer does not notice the video File:January 2009 ISS tour.ogg and does not display its alt text. It'd be helpful to show that video (or at least a placeholder for it, if there are technical difficulties with that), along with its alt text and caption; that way a reviewer can easily see whether videos and other media files have alt text. Eubulides ( talk) 16:23, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
For Shark the Altviewer does not find the alt text for Image:Tiger shark teeth.jpg or for Image:Parts of a shark.svg or for Image:Tiburón.jpg. It marks their alt text as being blank, but it is not blank. Eubulides ( talk) 06:17, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I just now visited the Altviewer page for the Electron article and it misfired in a big way: it listed only seven small icons, and it failed to report all the thumbnails in Electron. The only images it reported (all with what it said were non-thumbnails with missing alt text) are File:Wiktionary-logo-en.png, File:Wikibooks-logo.svg, File:Wikiquote-logo.svg, File:Wikisource-logo.svg, File:Wikiversity-logo.svg, File:Commons-logo.svg, and File:Wikinews-logo.svg. Most of these seven images do not appear in Electron, and should not have been reported. Of the two images that do appear, File:Commons-logo.svg does have alt text, but the tool missed it. The only image that was handled correctly was File:Wikisource-logo.svg. Eubulides ( talk) 22:54, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
I added Alt text to an article during an FAC but its not showing, only showing the previous ALT text. Teeninvestor ( talk) 15:51, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
&nogzip
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22:43, 30 August 2009 (UTC)Unfortunately I am again observing the problem. The Altviewer page for Starvin' Marvin (South Park) currently shows only blank alt text, even though alt text was added over 20 minutes ago. The Altviewer's page says "This page was last modified on 31 August 2009 at 00:09" which, if UTC, means that it's more than a day old. As a result, I'm finding it difficult to respond to review requests like this one. Eubulides ( talk) 03:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Maybe this is due to the MediaWiki upgrade? but anyway, the Altviewer is currently missing some images that it should report. For example, its report for Cato June fails to mention the lead (infobox) image File:20070130 Cato June at Super Bowl XLI press conference.jpg. Similarly, its report for Battle of the Alamo fails to mention the lead image File:Alamo texas.jpg. Eubulides ( talk) 03:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
|image_alt=
instead of |alt=
, fixed both of them for you. —
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05:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
I tried the new Altviewer out on WP:PIC and it had some real problems:
Eubulides ( talk) 05:36, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
The
Altviewer analysis of
Marshalsea says that
File:Marshalsea.jpg is an "(Unlinked image)" but that image looks fine to me: it is marked with |link=
|alt=
and so should be considered to be OK, as it's marked as a purely decorative image, just as
File:BigBenAtDusk.jpg is on the same page.
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16:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks again for implementing the toolserver page to run the peer review script. When I made a template here link to it, I noticed a slight issue. If I urlencode a title with a space in it, the space becomes a +. It would be more user friendly if your script changed this plus back to a space in the text box. Example: [1]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Peerreviewer doesn't like ampersands in article titles... when I try to put in either of the following, it runs a PR on
Ratchet, instead of
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: [[Ratchet %26 Clank: Up Your Arsenal]], [[Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal]]. It doesn't return anything with [[Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal]]
Otherwise, this seems like a great tool. It also says that references are needed on articles which are already well-referenced, such as
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate (
PR). Otherwise, I've seen no reproduceable bugs, and it seems like a great tool overall. Thanks! –
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Thanks for disambiguating some links, but your edit changed image links from File:Herminium monorchis (plant).jpg which is what it says nowadays on the image file page, to Image:Herminium monorchis (plant).jpg which I thought had been superseded. Is the change correct? Thanks, dave souza, talk 22:07, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Not really sure I followed your comments re: Template:Scroll box as used on the Template:Complete timeline of Macintosh models. If the height needs to be greater than 760 to work, it would seem the solution should be to increase the height to 761. Nothing in the Scroll box template applies to obscured image while scrolling. The userbility problem I have this way, is my browser window cannot open wider to display the entire table and text at the same time, requiring I shift the entire article to the right, losing the left navigation pane, which seems completely out of character for Wiki. I have never seen another article that requires scrolling off screen to see it. This article in particular has been this way since 2006. There must be another solution to fix whatever your problem is, which I am unable see. -- Mac128 ( talk) 01:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I just now visited tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/Stanisław Koniecpolski and got a result back saying "<class '_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError'>" and bunch of other stuff. Eubulides ( talk) 00:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, Thanks for your message. In your edit on 6 August, you said ‘We have automated tools for this, don't do it by hand′.
Could you please explain how I can put this in motion. The Wikipedia articles I wish to check with Checklinks are in User:Marek69/sandbox11. I also have the same list in User:Marek69/sandbox10, which I have prepared to check with Reflinks.
Please could you advise me as to how I should proceed with this.
Thank you (in advance) for your assistance, which will be much appreciated :-)
Kind Regards 02:45, Marek.69 talk 02:46, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Just to inform you that your version of the peerreviewer script is being use by tools:~dispenser/view/Peer reviewer (see the about section). I hope this is alright with you. Also, somebody had ask to fix image: being change to file:. — Dispenser 16:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
javascript:while(confirm(/x/g.test('xyx')))
. It work as excepted if the g flag is dropped, which suggests that the pointer moves and resets at the end. —
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01:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm wondering if you know of a tool to show the growth of an article over its lifetime. Like some sort of carting tool like Readablility, only it shows it over time.-- Patrick { oѺ∞} 00:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
The dab tool at the top of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates is not working. Can you take a look? Thanks, Dabomb87 ( talk) 14:29, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
%3F
to ?
has been worked around. Apparently the new regular expressions interpreter cannot handle (A|B|) and \w. —
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Hi Dispenser, you said that the source code was available for tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/backlinkscount.py, where can I find it? I'd like to be able to tweak it in different ways, like right now tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/backlinkscount.py?title=Template:Otheruses4 only returns 442. I'm guessing that it's not counting transclusion, does it count redirects? Thanks, — Sligocki ( talk) 01:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
One of the new links doesn't work.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 03:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
First, thank you very very much for this great tool!
I am having a bit of difficulty, though, with a couple of features:
I see both errors when trying to use the tool on Gerald Ford. There are a few sources I would like to fill.
Thank you again for this tool! Please feel free to answer here, I am watching your talk page in hopes of an answer. - sinneed ( talk) 16:22, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
cellpadding, cellspacing, bgcolor, align
, and they are converted as best as I can, but I'll look into work around your float:right/align=left mistake. —
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Hey Dispenser, again one question concerning your log ( tools:~dispenser/view/File_viewer#log:coord-dewiki.log). Is there a possibility to suppress all pages beginning with Vorlage:Positionskarte? These are only instructions how to use templates. -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 16:12, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
-- тнояsтеn ⇔ 14:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
coord-dewiki.log
since several days.regioncheck-dewiki.log
, please note that there is some problem with coordinates in France (they are marked as outside of Turkey).Thanks -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 20:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
coord-dewiki.log
shows errors if dim contains decimal numbers which are used for ships and buildings in the German Wikipedia. --
тнояsтеn
⇔
14:20, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
scale:
value was not ten times of dim:
value. The factor 10 is how GeoHack converts the values dim to scale. The code _dim:{{{dim}}}_scale:{{{dim}}}0
in
de:Vorlage:CoordinateLINK does not handle decimals correctly. And scale: is now redundant to dim: I would recommend removing it. —
Dispenser
05:25, 7 November 2009 (UTC)You asked for and i thought it's a good idea. But is the pagename really necessery? with the API comes this information implicitly. So finally, i d'like to remove this parameter. Visi-on ( talk) 21:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
http://\w+\.wikipedia\.org/wiki/([^#?]+)
expression (no / or secure server). If GeoTemplate is setup correctly then links that require {pagename} (e.g. "All coordinates on pagename") will be hidden by CSS.?curid=###
is good enough. —
Dispenser
05:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)Hi,
I created {{ GeoTemplate/venus}}, based on your work on {{ GeoTemplate/mars}}. Could you check it, please? It's called by pages using {{ Venus coords and quad cat}}. Cheers, Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:38, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Hey Dispenser, I noticed PDFbot hasn't run since June. Are you planning to run it again? I liked what it did, and I have an article that could really use it. Jayjg (talk) 02:51, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Dispenser- I saw your name in the history for Help:Table, looked at your user page, and thought I'd throw you an FYI regarding my somewhat tragic attempts to fix the page formatting code in the Lyon article. Do you think I'm on the right track with my observations on that talk page? Thanks in advance for even a glance at the problem. Eric talk 17:12, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I quickly whizzed through the tools as you asked and tried them on an article that I know has minor problems. Excuse the bullets!
Hope that helps, I have added a link to the tool page to my user page, they will all wonder how I am spotting errors!! Cheers. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 00:48, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Hiya, Dispenser. I'm just curious about something you mentioned on the PDFlink talk page. In your support for the delinking of the "PDF" in the template, you said that you had "actually been delinking some of the hard links with PDFbot". Can changes like this be made to a bot without getting a third approval? (Of course, it's a fairly moot point now that the template's been changed.) I was going to ask someone over at the BAG, but then I thought 'no'... I'll check with Dispenser first. That's some pretty great work you do, and believe me, I am fully clueless when it comes to the programming level. I sincerely revere such work.
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In your edit summary you say that the on-screen diameter is exactly 10 cm at 72 dpi. However, most mapping services only have a finite number of scales they can display, so there must be substantial round-off at some point in the process. In most cases, therefore, the size of the onscreen viewing circle does not exactly match your calculation. Can I add "roughly" back into the documentation? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 10:12, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'd greatly appreciate it if you could implement the 'km' suffix for dim:, and also arrange to be able to tolerate an optional 'm' suffix: this would make dim: much more self-documenting: 'dim:100m' in the context of a large building, for example, is pretty much self-explanatory. I can't see any need for any other SI suffixes at the moment: as said on the other talk page, 61cm is perfectly well codable as 0.61m, and things like 3000km are just fine for all earthly applications, in my opinion. -- The Anome ( talk) 11:17, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
When you want to request speedy deletion of a redirect page, please put the speedy deletion template at the beginning of the page, before the #REDIRECT directive; otherwise it is difficult for the reviewing administrator to find and review the request. Thanks. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 13:06, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey there Dispenser,
Im going on a bit of an AD campaign for your tool : CHECKLINKS. I introduced a template ({{ Dead link header}}) that was aproved ( here) and asked someone to help me with the bot that will add this to articles. Just FYI. -- Tim1357 ( talk) 21:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey Dispenser,
I created a new template: {{ Dead link header}}, that provides a link to your tool , Checklinks. I would greatly appreciate it if the tool removed all instances of the template when it is run on an article. Thanks, Tim1357--( what?... ohhh) 13:43, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Looks good from here; thank you so much for all you do. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:20, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I swear I feel as if I have lost an arm when I can't Reflinks an article. Brazil kills Reflinks when I run it. Just an FYI. Thanks again.- Sinneed 19:42, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
There has very little activity with User:Gary King/peer reviewer.js. Would you mind if I added a notice asking for a new maintainer of the peer reviewer script? — Dispenser 05:48, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Just a small note to thank you for providing the http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/logs/coord-nlwiki.log page. I discovered it yesterday so I could finally correct all kind of errors very effectively. Great job. Michiel1972 ( talk) 20:20, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
I've been trying to get the Google Mars link on Template:GeoTemplate/mars to work with the Dawes Crater testcase on Template talk:GeoTemplate, which has been hanging. I've found that longitudes less than -180 cause Google Mars to display a blank map. (Dawes Crater is at 322 degrees west longitude on Mars, which is why it triggers this issue.) Could you stick a modulo-360 function into the calculation of {londegdec} such that the range -360 to -180 would get mapped to 0 to 180? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 02:30, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
while(lat < -180) lat+=360;
. I would like to research this better to understand if it should also be converting them for values greater than 180. I should be able look into it after we've completed the move off the stable servers. —
Dispenser
23:23, 19 November 2009 (UTC)By the way, I'm wondering how well {zoom} works with Google Mars. Does Google Mars really use the same zoom-to-scale function as Google Maps despite the fact that a degree of arc is much smaller on Mars than it is on Earth? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 23:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason PDFbot adds the border width, such as here? -- NE2 21:54, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi most indispensable Dispenser. We have now added the spellchecking fix to MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js. So it's time to bypass your browser cache and you will have spellchecking in the edit summary field.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 17:11, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, I just answered your statement regarding featured article tools over at de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kandidaturen_von_Artikeln,_Listen_und_Portalen#English_.22Featured_article.22_tools. Regards, -- X-Weinzar ( talk) 22:26, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
hey there dispenser, I just wrote some script that takes links, and dates fed into it, and returns the internet archive url that is closest to that date (within the range of 4 months from the original date) so it would work like this
getArchiveURL('http://Iamdead.com', '20080304')
that wold return the archive closest to the date 03/04/2008. It only works if the date is in the format yyyymmdd. I was thinking you may be able to use it in checklinks, to take some of the repetitive work away from the user. Here is the full code, if you want it.
import urllib2
import datetime
def dateranger(numbers): #this module returns the range of dates to search for. The internet archive api takes this, and returns the url closest to the center.
daterangehigh = datetime.timedelta(weeks=8)
daterangelow = datetime.timedelta(weeks=-4)
year = int(str(numbers) [:4])
month = int(str(numbers) 4:6])
day = int(str(numbers) 6:10])
accessdate = datetime.date(year,month,day)
accessdatehigh = str(accessdate + daterangehigh)
accessdatelow = str(accessdate + daterangelow)
return accessdatelow.replace('-','') + '-' + accessdatehigh.replace('-','')
def getArchiveURL(archiveURL, date): #the following was borrowed from weblinkchecker
archiveURL = 'http://web.archive.org/web/%s/%s' % (dateranger(int(date)), archiveURL)
try:
f = urllib2.urlopen(archiveURL)
except urllib2.HTTPError:
# The Internet Archive yields a 403 error when the site was not
# archived due to robots.txt restrictions.
return None
except UnicodeEncodeError:
return None
data = f.read()
if f.headers.get('content-encoding', None) == 'gzip':
# Since 2008, the Internet Archive returns pages in GZIPed
# compression format. Unfortunatelly urllib2 doesn't handle
# the decompression for us, so we have to do it ourselves.
import gzip, StringIO
data = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(data)).read()
if "https:// FILE ARCHIVED ON" in data:
y = re.search('(?<=//\sFILE\sARCHIVED\sON\s)(\d+)',x)
return 'web.archive.org/web/' + y.group() + archiveURL
else:
return None
I'd appreciate it if you would respond to comments I made at Wikipedia:Bot requests. Cheers, -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 04:31, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser. Thanks for the code you showed over at MediaWiki talk:Sharedupload-desc-here#Link to secure server. It inspired me to make the template {{ sec link auto}} and write Wikipedia:Secure server. I am now applying {{sec link auto}} all over the place, including the Main Page. See Wikipedia talk:Secure server#Sister project links. And we have even changed how the secure server log in looks. :))
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 03:17, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it safe to change the url from stable? Noticed ~geohack is working, just dont know if it's ready or not. Q T C 00:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)