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Hi, I just ran dabfix on Secrets and it mad a bit of a mess on the songs section. I saved the output to User:Tassedethe/Secrets. I'm not sure I'm too keen on the style for songs. It changed everything from "a song by" to "a song on". One problem is that getting the apostrophe for the artist/band could be tricky. I changed The Pierces's to The Pierces'. It also looks like a dabfix too far, there's nothing really wrong with how it was, although having it impose consistency could be good on some pages. But I'll still be using it, it's still much too useful to give up! :) While I'm unloading I think you changed the behaviour for how it deals with redlinks in templates. I agree that just because it has 10-20-whatever links it shouldn't be an automatic choice to go on the page but now it doesn't show up as existing. It would be useful if it did, it's quite common for the template link to be a match for the dab page but someone has used a non-standard disambiguator, or (if it is a name) there is actually a middle initial. Just letting you know my thoughts. Happy editing. Tassedethe ( talk) 02:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
I've been liking the tool so far, but I've noticed a few issues. Particularly, the script seems to screw up with apostrophes, so that it gives phrases like "the band, 's album". It also seems to remove the italics from ship names as can be seen on Marigold. Today I also noticed that it seems to have issues with Japanese characters, as seen when trying to run the script on Bottom. As always, thanks for creating and maintaining another useful tool. — Ost ( talk) 21:25, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Not a big deal, certainly, but I was curious what the difference between {{Wiktionary}}
and {{Wiktionary|worldwide}}
was in this particular case. I only removed the "worldwide" parameter because I was already editing the page, and according to the template docs it's superfluous -- my "-dicdef" summary was in reference to removing the dictionary definition of "worldwide" from the body of the page.
Also no big deal on the date for the album either way, btw; you probably noticed I'd even left the date for the other album in. Cheers, NapoliRoma ( talk) 14:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser,
The PDFlink template in footnote 15 is not working, but I can't figure out why. Would you have any idea? Thanks, Jayjg (talk) 23:53, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
The tool removed the wiktionary link because there was no Hot mess (disambiguation) (or similar qualifier) to the page. Thus, there is no a path for a reader reaching the disambiguation page to expect "hot mess" as a definition. Primary topic usage around it complicates it more so. However, I'll look into to add a Wiktionary verification in the future. Secondly point, heading the are more semantic then bold text and I'm using this to enhance the presentation in another tool. Use level 3 headings can be used if you visually like them better. — Dispenser 00:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
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This is for your continued work on all of your Toolserver tools. Keep it up! Logan Talk Contributions 19:59, 22 January 2011 (UTC) |
This report, in the third row, shows Matthew Keating (disambiguation) as a redirect to Matt Keating. Actually, the title is a redirect to Matthew Keating, and the page history shows that it always has been. Seems like a possible bug in the script that generates the report. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 21:32, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
rd_fragment
and rd_interwiki
) introduced with
bug 14418. (It may have died actually) —
Dispenser
02:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)Drop by to tell you new beta is up, http://waybackmachine.org/ « ₣M₣ » 22:47, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, your activity check tool has been brought up in this discussion at the WikiProject Council regarding WikiProject activity. I think that if the tool could be modified to only include a subset of pages (for example articles tagged with a WikiProject banner), then it could be used to measure the activity / inactivity of entire WikiProjects. Do you think this is possible? Thanks a lot, Mlm42 ( talk) 18:17, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Brilliant. -- JaGa talk 05:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, why is the region "RU-ZAB" listedd as error in coord-dewiki.log ? -- 91.22.202.234 ( talk) 09:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
This might be a toolserver bug, not a rdcheck bug. But it would seem that anytime I click a link on rdcheck with a link with an ampersand (&) the link does not work. see this: http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=Texas_A%26M_University
Now, if I were to click on a link like Texas A&M, i would only get Texas A. See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Texas%20A&M&redirect=no
A similar bug was found in other tools, so I think it might be a toolserver thing. thanks for your help. Oldag07 ( talk) 02:30, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Any progress in getting me added as a maintainer of geohack? I am now confident that I can add the stuff myself. The modules and changes involved are listed here. You might care to do a quick check of my version of geohack.php. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:31, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
The sound boxes at "F and A"—nice. Tony (talk) 07:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. There might be an error with the tool. Please check the following links, and keep your view highlighted on the swingout boxes in the article
(div style="clear:both; class="NavFrame" changing into ---> <divavFrame">
Hi, thanks so much for organising the sounds last week. This time, I wanted to move the sounds up, possibly to be just under the admins. But I can't get rid of the header "Want the latest Signpost delivered to your talk page each week?" that intrudes just above it. Can you help? Link Tony (talk) 10:11, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Please check User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Req:_Sort_.28and_normalize.3F.29_list_entries_contained_in_a_single_line, I have added single line sorting to wikEd. Sorting is alphabetically an corrected for numbers. Cacycle ( talk) 21:45, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Several years back, the documentation for {{
coord}} and/or
WP:GEO (possibly it was a
WT:GEO discussion) described an elevation
parameter, and went into some detail about units and how it improves on the type:mountain(
nnnn)
for other situations. I don't see the description anywhere now, but I've faithfully added elevations when doing other work to a coordinate. Unfortunately,
your tool flags these which some people have "repaired" by deleting the parameter. Maybe this is an appropriate discussion for WP:GEO (or maybe it already occurred, but I missed it), but how do you feel about accepting elevation:? Awhile back I saw another digest of coordinates which recognizes it—maybe that was your work as well? —
EncMstr (
talk)
08:15, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I was intrigued to see that you've been implementing new globes for GeoHack (such as Jupiter). Very cool! However, when you do this, you should document the change at Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/globe:. Also, I notice that the Jupiter test case you added to Template talk:GeoTemplate/test coordinates is broken; the red dot does not coincide with the Great Red Spot. — Stepheng3 ( talk) 03:12, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Just a heads up, at tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/dabfix.py, the link to the DabFix bookmarklet in the box on the right points to eabfix.py - Kollision ( talk) 10:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Could you tell me please, why this domain is listed as a WP-Blacklist URL. See tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py/de:William-Brewster-Medaille . Thx -- Gary Dee ( talk) 13:05, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I don't quite understand its purpose/function. The link to the example didn't work for me. Any ideas? Tony (talk) 02:08, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser, I was using Reflinks, and I noticed it was now adding &useskin=modern to the end of the URL when the preview or show changes button is used. Is there a setting that I can use so Monobook is automatically used, rather than removing &useskin=modern manually each time? Thanks, Alpha Quadrant talk 23:09, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
useskin
between edit screens. —
Dispenser
02:13, 2 April 2011 (UTC)A formal Request for Comment has now been started on this topic. Feel free to contribute; best, Ironholds ( talk) 19:30, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm interested in using your Geohack tool here, but it doesn't seem to have any documentation or any explanation of what to do with all that lovely code. You should probably write a line or two in the commented-out section at the top as to where to put the code to actually use your script! Thanks, Oreo Priest talk 00:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
If there is a "+" within a redirect lemma then it will be wrong encoded on the result page. So if a request like this one is started then you'll get invalid results like this:
instead of this:
-- ζ 10:51, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, i want to help for translate this page for the portuguese language. I want to know if i have just traslate that page, or in another place. Please, answer in wiki-pt page. Thanks. -- Vitor Mazuco Talk! 15:47, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be an issue with Rdcheck and at least {{ visible anchor}}. It's coming back with invalid redirects when the template is involved. An example is here: tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=List_of_characters_in_The_Batman
- J Greb ( talk) 17:14, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I’m finding this tool very useful to look for existing section redirects. Is there any nice easy way of skipping the “Hidden links on redirect” part, which is killing tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py/WP:Redirect? All those pages use templates which display links back to WP:Redirect, even though I understand Media wiki does not show any extra text on a redirect page. Vadmium ( talk) 03:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC).
[[WP:Redirect]]
→ [[w:WP:Redirect]]
. See also:
Bug 7304. —
Dispenser
04:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Okay; thanks for the bug reference. Vadmium ( talk) 02:33, 11 June 2011 (UTC).
<class 'oursql.ProgrammingError'>: (1049, "Unknown database 'u_dispenser_p'", None)
Hi, it seems there's a problem with ghel's database, would you please take a look at the error?? Thanks! --
Joana.estafanell (
talk)
10:10, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
I am the author of the GoogleTrans gadget. Thanks very much for those stats you put up on Sept 11 2009. It was good to get some feedback on the real use of the gadget. Is it a lot of trouble to get current stats like that for the gadgets? I'd certainly like to know how GoogleTrans is going right now.
Thanks Again
Endo999 ( talk) 22:41, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I just took a look at the gadget use list. Just what I was looking for.
Endo999 ( talk) 01:37, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, I've just taken a look at the User Preferences db page and it hasn't run for 3 weeks. Is this intentional or has something slipped in the db reports?
Endo999 ( talk) 22:43, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser excuse my bad english. This ISO Codes are updatet. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-1_newsletter_vi-8_split_of_the_dutch_antilles_final-en.pdf. Please can you update your File viewer too? Thanks. -- 80.142.203.184 ( talk) 12:50, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Regarding that list you told us about during this discussion, I have changed many of those titles by removing the {{ Lowercase}} template and inserting {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} in its stead. I didn't get into trouble until I worked on the maNga (album) page. It lead me to the Manga (band) article, which I tried to move to maNga (band). My question to you has to do with the lowercasing of the first letter of these articles. It seems the guidelines tell us to lowercase the first letter only when it is pronounced separately and the second letter is uppercase, as in eBay and iTunes. Many of those articles on the list were more like the maNga articles, and I went ahead and lowercased those first letters in accordance with the WP:COMMONNAME policy, which says to title articles in a way that is familiar to the readers of those articles. So which do you think is correct? maNga or Manga? This is important, because if I've been wrong, then there are a lot of articles that were on that list that I'm going to have to go back and change. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX ) 23:07, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, when I tried to use the interactive version of reflinks today it showed the raw Python code, rather than the actual interface, this was only when I clicked on the radio button next to and Plain links, it worked fine for the other 2 radio button options, do you know what the problem is as I can't seem to use it despite clearing my cache and refreshing multiple times. — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 10:26am • 00:26, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
in the interactive mode. Shows the script code upon entering the article name. Materialscientist ( talk) 12:16, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for the DAB page for Google phone, but I wonder if it needs what appears to be a clone of the talk page from the Nexus.
<Change of subject to Search-related tools> Since you seem to love the challenge of making useful tools, and probably created the above DAB page as a result of seeing the following: This tool idea may interest you. I also discovered that it's possible to set up an article called "Name" without being aware that there is already an existing category called "Name" — the Wikipedia search box doesn't search Category and Sub-Category titles by default (I think it should), and most mere mortals will (a) never work out that it doesn't, and (b) never work out how to use the search box to find if there is a Category or Sub-Category called "Name" ( problem described here ). Categories list many terms with related meanings. It would surely be useful if Wikipedia had a tool to prompt people who attempt to create an article called "Name" that there is already a Category or Sub-Category called "Name", and would they like to view that first (to help them find articles similar to "Name" that already exist in the Category indexes)? LittleBen ( talk) 15:16, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(page_title SEPARATOR "|")
FROM page
JOIN redirect ON rd_from=page_id
WHERE page_namespace=0
GROUP BY CAST(page_title AS CHAR CHARACTER SET utf8) COLLATE utf8_general_ci
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT rd_title) >= 2
{{ Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite/June 2011}} BrownBot ( talk) 19:03, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Replied at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk#Project statistics. Thanks! - Mabeenot ( talk) 03:11, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Dispenser. In case you hadn't noticed already, a change was recently made to the {{
dn}}
template to allow a "date=" parameter; and, to make things even "nicer," a bot is now running around converting all instances of {{
dn}}
to read {{
Disambiguation needed|date=June 2011}}
. Dab Solver recognizes the old format, but not the new; hopefully it won't be too difficult to adapt to this change. --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
14:53, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for this tool : file viewer it's really nice. But I need to know if it currently works only for fr:template:Cood or also of his French little brother fr:template:Coordonnées ? Thank you again, Otourly ( talk) 14:42, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello dispenser, excuse me for my bad english. This site and some other too is shown the errors only like [[?curid=886]]. Is it possible to fix this? -- 80.142.207.56 ( talk) 00:09, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
&pagename={{PAGENAMEE}}
parameter. —
Dispenser
05:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC)Hello Dispenser, I am translated your documentation from user page for the wiki-pt, this was the last. And I want to know if you can available for the portuguese use your tool? You are planning, for us? Thanks! -- Vitor Mazuco Talk! 00:54, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
As always, thanks for supporting these great tools. It's a minor nuisance, but I wanted to note reflinks improperly parses IGN authors, as in this example: var authorId = "41401878" by Richard George.
"Final Fantasy's Rhythm Hits 3DS - Nintendo 3DS News at IGN". Ds.ign.com. Retrieved 2011-07-19.{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link). Additionally, it would be great if checklinks automatically worked with the Wayback Machine again; it's still very useful, but it was much easier to add archives before archive.org's new interface when checklinks automatically searched for archives. —
Ost (
talk)
21:13, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, the File Viewer has a mistake. See the bottom of all country-pages. -- Knochen ( talk) 17:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
local_infile=True
in the connection handling part of the python code. The upside to all this is I can re-load the data files. —
Dispenser
20:14, 22 July 2011 (UTC)Hi Dispenser, in the text about redundancy in the automated peer reviewer, "Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant" should be changed to "Vague terms of size are often unnecessary and redundant". Thanks. Graham 87 03:00, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for pinging me on the click-tracking GLAM stats idea that you put on the village pump. I've forwarded a link to that to the cultural-partners mailing list if anyone technical there wants to get involved with the idea. I can say however that Stats/metrics/analytics things are a big and hairy piece of software... I've been told that, whilst the WMF is indeed building up it's capacity in this field, GLAM-specific stuff is not first priority. I'm working on alternatives to this but I can say it's not going to happen in the short term. That said, it doesn't mean your proposal necessarily has to go through centralised development things like the WMF, so don't let that stop you if you've got consensus and someone to code the thing :-) Witty lama 06:06, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I would like to have more information about your greatfull tool. For the error region invalid, the tool detect an error based on ISO_3166-1 or ISO_3166-2 ? I know we could put the ISO_3166-2 code but I don't know that if my coordinates are out, the tool detect the subdivision problem or only for countries ? What about the case of international lakes or mountain, could we write for exemple for the " fr:Mont-Blanc" FR-74/IT-23 ? How will react your tool ? And what about three-regions (or more) objects ? Regards, Otourly ( talk) 19:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
region:
field to 60 bytes which is enough for 10 region codes with subdivisions separated by slashes. However, aside from the abandoned regioncheck script that checks the point is inside the region, little software uses this information. The original intent was to give GeoHack the ability to hide services that did not have coverage, but this has become a maintenance nightmare (dewiki didn't notice half the links were duplicates). Due to its relative uselessness and that an automatic region locator is working, I am considering deprecating the field.Once again, many thanks for this great tool. Suggestion. I encounter more and more often that newbies place references in the form <ref>{{html://abcd.feg.com/bla.asp}}</ref> or even <ref>{{www.abc.com/bla.htm}}</ref>. Can you make reflinks process those, perhaps in the "interactive", "and Plain links". Thanks. Materialscientist ( talk) 05:42, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser, the File Viewer shows this error on all sides. Can you fix it? -- Knochen ( talk) 16:03, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries and see if the suggestions might apply to your bot? Feel free to add your own suggestions and comments there too. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I was using Dabfix and it left behind some rather strange syntax relating to the intro. Another editor has fixed most of these entries (like so). Just a glitch? Tassedethe ( talk) 15:14, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
subst:
correctly. This has been now fixed. —
Dispenser
17:49, 31 August 2011 (UTC)User | Fixes | EditHours | Edit/min | Bonus |
---|---|---|---|---|
R'n'B | 3801 | 58.7 | 1.08 | 17% |
Woohookitty | 2649 | 28 | 1.58 | 1% |
JustAGal | 2225 | 121 | 0.31 | 99% |
Squids and Chips | 1669 | 53.5 | 0.52 | 24% |
JaGa | 898 | 26.3 | 0.57 | 20% |
J04n | 730 | 45.2 | 0.27 | 64% |
William Avery | 657 | 29.2 | 0.38 | 4% |
StAnselm | 467 | 30.7 | 0.25 | 38% |
Bte99 | 425 | 31.7 | 0.22 | 83% |
Gongshow | 407 | 6.3 | 1.07 | 1% |
JamesAM | 328 | 31.2 | 0.18 | 40% |
C777 | 257 | 7 | 0.61 | 0% |
X201 | 226 | 18.8 | 0.2 | 85% |
69.248.62.131 | 196 | 21.3 | 0.15 | 93% |
TimBentley | 190 | 6 | 0.53 | 15% |
BD2412 | 181 | 7.3 | 0.41 | 27% |
Odie5533 | 181 | 7 | 0.43 | 44% |
GoingBatty | 154 | 6.7 | 0.39 | 19% |
Koumz | 129 | 7 | 0.31 | 31% |
Logan | 117 | 12.7 | 0.15 | 93% |
Hey, I just wanted to let you know all of my Toolserver data has been ported over to u_jason_p, so everything is now available for you to play with. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, -- JaGa talk 06:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
/* Count Dab Challenge by WikiProject */
SELECT pb_title, COUNT(*)
FROM u_jason_p.all_dab_links
LEFT JOIN u_dispenser_p.projectbanner ON pb_page=article_id
JOIN u_jason_p.contest_dabs ON c_id=dab_id
GROUP BY pb_title
ORDER BY COUNT(*);
rev_id
+ fix count for previous months? —
Dispenser
07:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I've got several questions/comments that have been building up lately:
Thanks, -- JaGa talk 05:15, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
CAST(pl_title AS CHAR CHARACTER SET utf8)
that isn't present in redlink.py. The time limit was there before, but I've had to a lot less generous so it doesn't take 2 minutes to load per dablink. As it stands, the medium generation for the related map+redlinks suggestion has increased from 5 to 11 seconds even with the 20 timeout./* Estimate article transclusion count for templates (and other embedding) */
SUM((SELECT COUNT(*) FROM templatelinks
JOIN page AS trans ON trans.page_id=tl_from + 0 AND trans.page_namespace=0
WHERE tl_namespace=refer.page_namespace AND tl_title=refer.page_title)) AS trans_count
The following is now appearing just above the #workarea element on each dabsolver page:
UnboundLocalError("local variable 'rival' referenced before assignment",)
-- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 21:28, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
I, Sarah, hereby award Dispenser this barnstar for all the amazing tools, programs, ideas, and smartness that Dispenser..well...dispenses. Thank you for all you do for Wikipedia and it's related projects!! SarahStierch ( talk) 02:49, 22 September 2011 (UTC) |
Your further input has been requested. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:01, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Since about 1 Oct, clicking on "Unlink" is converting Link to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/|Link]] instead of unlinking it; and clicking on "I don't know / Tag {{dn}}" is not doing anything at all. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 20:23, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
I've tried Dap Solver in En.Wiki, it's amazing, I'd like to translate it into Arabic.Wiki! How about that?? Thanks :) Sean ( Hit) 06:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know your rdcheck tool seems to be crashing on the strcat page: tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py/strcat. It gives a “substring not found” ValueError on line 90; I think it is failing to find a <!-- bodytext --> comment tag in the HTML page. Perhaps Wikipedia has recently changed the way the pages are coded, because I recently edited that page. Vadmium ( talk, contribs) 01:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC).
Sure enough, I checked your talk page before adding that post and it was fine; now rdcheck crashes on your talk page as well :). I wonder if you could get away with searching the whole page for element identifiers without limiting to the “bodytext”. Vadmium ( talk, contribs) 01:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC).
Hi Dispenser! I see you've been active on this talk page, but not on User talk:Dispenser/Reflinks. There have been a few questions for you posed there, and your responses would be greatly appreciated. I use Reflinks almost every day, and hope you will continue to maintain it. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 02:02, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Reflinks is removing border="1" from wikitables. It is problematic to expand the use of Reflinks too much beyond references. See this standard wikitable code created by clicking the table button:
{| class="wikitable" border="1" |- ! header 1 ! header 2 ! header 3 |- | row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |}
There was long discussion about this (border="1"), and its use with the wikitables CSS class. There are good reasons for its addition to wikitables. I don't want to repeat it all here. The gist of it is that parts of wikipedia pages and tables are copied to email, blogs, web pages, and all over. The Wikitable CSS class is usually not copied with it. But border="1" is copied with it. This allows the tables to be comprehensible no matter where they are copied to. Otherwise the tables are oftentimes a jumbled mess of numbers without any borders. Wikipedia is all about CC-sharing its articles, and it needs to be shared comprehensibly.
Please do not let Reflinks do things against consensus. I also notice reflinks removing <center> tags from an article.
I do not know if this matters much to that particular article, but again Reflinks should not be changing the format of articles. And in any case what is in wikitext is not necessarily what ends up in the HTML after MediaWiki codes the page. There is a lot of code in wikipedia articles that does not meet HTML 5. It is unrealistic to expect people to fix the many mistakes that Reflinks may be introducing with all these changes. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 00:55, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
$(function(){$("table.wikitable").attr("border", 1)});
(unindent). I don't understand JS. I understand CSS somewhat. I am not clear about what you are proposing. I thought at first that you were proposing a personal JS change. I struck out part of my previous comment. If changing the JS in the way you describe will allow everyone to copy tables into email, web pages, etc. and still have borders, then thanks for the JS code. I suggest you propose it to the JS talk page. If I propose it I doubt anybody will listen. Maybe you can propose it, and point to this to explain the need:
I did some more reading. See the links below. border="1" is now allowed in HTML 5. No one has found a way otherwise to share tables with borders while copying and pasting, in syndication, via RSS readers, etc.. I don't pretend to understand it all.
My experience with the CSS and JS talk pages on Wikipedia has been fairly negative mostly due to this religious reverence for a future form of HTML 5 nirvana. Now that those creating the HTML 5 standards have allowed people to think logically about this, maybe there is hope here too.
Would it be easier to revert the removal of the JS code that enabled the addition of border="1"? See this diff of its removal. The edit comment refers to this discussion. The initial discussion that added border="1" is here.
I started a discussion here:
Hey, I got this message a bit ago:
Do you know how to help her, or what went wrong? Thanks, -- JaGa talk 02:30, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser. I have opened a request for bot approval for adding region info to coordinates templates on Commons. I think it is useful metadata, including for your coordinates databases (coord_commonswiki_p). Can you give your opinion there please? Regards. emijrp ( talk) 18:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
I am getting this error when I follow the Computers link on the tool, A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
/home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/godab.py in ()
18 if './' not in topic:
19 try:
=> 20 f = open(path, 'r+')
21 size = os.path.getsize(path)
22 #offset = int(random.uniform(0, size - min(4096, size/2)))
f undefined, builtin open = <built-in function open>, path = '../temp/dabs/challenge/WikiProject_Computing'
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: Errno 90 Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS: '../temp/dabs/challenge/WikiProject_Computing'
args = (90, 'Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS')
errno = 90
filename = '../temp/dabs/challenge/WikiProject_Computing'
message = ''
strerror = 'Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS'
/home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/tracebacks/tmpMxaALI.html contains the description of this error.
Mo ainm ~Talk 21:12, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
ln -s ./ challenge
not ln -s challenge ./
. —
Dispenser
21:17, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
"Your closing in on" should be "You're [or You are] closing in on".... -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 15:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I really like the ghel tool and its regular dumps that are available via your tool server account. i have a question concerning the ghel tool: i do not completely understand the field gc_primary within the output table. initially i thought that this field indicates whether there is a link on top of the wikipedia page which opens the openstreetmap map. but there are pages within the german wikipedia which are set to gc_primary = 1, but do not have such a link. e.g. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDU (page_id = 3956889 = gc_from). so what is the actual supposed meaning of gc_primary?
Regards, Stefan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.30.4.138 ( talk) 17:01, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Dispenser (via IRC): The gc_primary is meant to indicate the desiganted coordinate for the topic. Unfortunately, the syntax (absents of &title=) is the same for when people forget to name referenced locations in the article. I don't understand why, but some people despise title coordinates.
The Original Barnstar | |
Thank you for showing me how to use CatScan :) -- Sp33dyphil © • © 06:42, 10 November 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Dispenser, for this page ( dewiki-CoordinateNO.log) there is no update - last at 14 Sep 11. Can you fix it? -- 217.246.216.131 ( talk) 02:32, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Could you have a look at comment 13 in this bug thread:
It is discussing this:
Here is more info:
Why would one want to replace style="background-color:" with style="background:" in header cells? That breaks the sorting workaround for styled header cells in tables. It is the opposite of what is recommended in the bug thread. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 08:36, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
There's an error on dablinks. When I enter this to check DAB pages on the Simple English Wikipedia, an error appears. Just thought I'd let you know, if you don't already. Best, Albacore ( talk) 21:45, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Howdy. I've created a database u_tb_dab_p on s1, in which you'll find a single table rls ( redlink varbinary(255), suggestion varbinary(255) ). I've populated it with an initial million rows for you to be going on with. This reduces our interface to:
SELECT suggestion FROM u_tb_dab_p.rls WHERE redlink = 'some red link';
An index has been added to support the above query. You're welcome to amend the table structure and contents to suit your needs. I'll plan on maintaining it roughly every 6 months. We can tinker with the quantity vs quality of suggestions once we see how it works. - TB ( talk) 07:52, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it's because they're short article names or because they're uppercase, but dabfix.py never returns HTML to edit these dabs. Josh Parris 00:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I finally got a return [on BMR], and when I click on "Show details" I get:
ERROR: Redlink FullText search: ProgrammingError(1146, "Table 'u_dispenser_p.redlinks_enwiki' doesn't exist")
but the full HTML page wasn't returned. Josh Parris 12:37, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Any idea what happened here? Brackets were replaced by hashes for many wikilinks. The problem seems to have gone away since, but an editor was asking me about it (via DPL bot's {{ dablinks}} templates). -- JaGa talk 15:50, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
X-XSS-Protection: 0
header or users can disable it following the instructions linked from my tools. —
Dispenser
22:25, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser, how did your tool "LocateCoord" find the coordinates? It is a problem for your tool, when the weblinks to the GeoHack are protocol relative or HTTPS only? When yes, it is possible to fix your tool? Thank you. Der Umherirrende 18:55, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. How come dab_solver.py always tells me "BD2412 is now XXX behind you"? It is always BD2412, no matter how far behind me he is or how many other users are between the two of us. Right now, PhnomPencil is the user just behind me, but I'm still getting BD2412 messages. (Maybe it's psychoanalyzing me....) -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 15:52, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Pending any further discussion on the appropriateness of your bot calls in this article, I've reverted 'em because they appear unnecessary and inappropriate. The (now somewhat archaic) word 'cretin' is adequately defined in Wikipedia. I would say that meaning No. 2 is actually the more prevalent since the medical substitution of specific terms such as Congenital hypothyroidism. Anyway, the provided Wikilink for Cretinism perfectly disambiguates the former (discontinued) medical usage and the ironic pejorative usage (which is itself, of course, subjected to implied irony by being placed in the mouth of Basil Fawlty). Also, the term 'waiter' is fully disambiguated by the provided Wikilink. It seems to me that the use of bots for such purposes has significant limitations when dealing with subjects involving habitual English usage and important irony, and that you should enter a proper discussion before making such calls. But maybe you can persuade me otherwise. Cheers,01:13, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Nice userpage :D Res Mar 03:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Checklinks and the DAB page are not working for the Simple English Wikipedia's pages. See here, for example. Other Wikipedias seem to work fine (like this). Best, Albacore ( talk) 14:53, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! There's a discussion going on in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#While_we.27re_talking_about_it... regarding systematic errors in the geohack OSGB36 output. The fix would seem to be quite simple to implement, but none of the participants in the conversation have either checkin rights or familiarity with the geohack code. Would you or one of the other geohack maintaners be able to help with this? -- The Anome ( talk) 16:52, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Those two were deleted last year. I was just cleaning up the page by removing them. The Haz talk 16:55, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I came across a disambiguation page that contained an entry to a deleted article ( Colloquy). Is there a tool to find these? Or does some bot clean them up? -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:34, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
/* Deleted dablinks SLOW_OK */
SELECT *, (
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM pagelinks
JOIN page ON page_id=pl_from AND page_namespace=0
LEFT JOIN categorylinks ON cl_from=pl_from AND cl_to="All_disambiguation_pages"
WHERE pl_namespace=0 AND pl_title=log_title AND cl_to IS NULL
) AS links
FROM (
SELECT STRAIGHT_JOIN
dab.page_title,
log_title,
log_user_text,
log_timestamp,
log_comment
FROM categorylinks
JOIN page AS dab ON dab.page_id=cl_from AND dab.page_namespace=0
JOIN pagelinks ON pl_from=cl_from AND pl_namespace=0
LEFT JOIN page AS pl ON pl.page_title=pl_title AND pl.page_namespace=0
JOIN logging_ts_alternative ON log_title=pl_title AND log_namespace=0
WHERE cl_to="All_disambiguation_pages"
AND pl.page_id IS NULL
AND log_type="delete"
AND log_comment REGEXP
"([[]{2}|/wiki/)(Project:|Wikipedia:|WP:)(PROD|Articles[_ ]+for[_ ]+deletion/[^]{|}[]*|CSD#A7|CSD#G5|CSD#G11)"
LIMIT 1000
) AS x
GROUP BY 1, 2
HAVING links < 1;
Hi, I'm currently developing an extension for storing and retrieving geographical data. It will use the same {{ coord}} templates as Geohack uses, so I have a few questions about the relationship between dim and scale. Why there are two of them in the first place? I see that GeoHack docs on TS consider scale deprecated, but from dumps I see that it's much more popular than dim. What would you recommend to store? Max Semenik ( talk) 12:47, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, do you know a reason why de:Hotel_Pagano is not in your database? The article an the template seem ok and the article is relative old. -- Kolossos ( talk) 21:44, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
mysql> SELECT el_to -> FROM externallinks -> JOIN page ON page_id=el_from -> WHERE page_namespace=0 AND page_title="Hotel_Pagano"; +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | el_to | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://www.goethezeitportal.de/fileadmin/Images/wd/projekte-pool/italien/reisestationen/capri_insel/proelss_pagano.pdf | | http://www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=capri | | http://www.kirche-capri.de/geschichte1.htm | | http://www.lapalma-capri.com/it/history.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
And Vorlage:Coordinate and Vorlage:Zitat are the only templates on the page, seems MediaWiki screwed up saving the page. It'll probably clear out with a null edit. — Dispenser 22:14, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
I have started a request at de:Wikipedia:Bots/Anfragen. -- Gerd Fahrenhorst ( talk) 19:42, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
I don't think I did anything odd, but another editor reported this edit. Just letting you know in case this was a bug. Vegaswikian ( talk) 01:54, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
is this still in use? if so, we should document it? if not, we can delete it? Frietjes ( talk) 20:58, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello!
I noticed your redlinks.py script when using the wonderful Dab Solver tool, and started using it for other editing unrelated to dab solving.
I get surprising results sometimes though, especially in terms of namespaces. For instance I notice that there is a link to red category commons:Category:10th century BC bronzes on commons:Template:1st millennium BC bronzes and, through inclusion, on commons:Category:8th-century BC bronzes for instance. However this red category is not linked on http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/redlinks.py?page=10th_century&namespace=14&dbname=commonswiki although the results are apparently not limited to links from the main or category namespace. How can it be? Place Clichy ( talk) 17:45, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
One of the issues associated with working on Featured portals is finding content for Did you know? I've found that the best way to do so is a Ctrl + F search for parts of keywords; for Volcanoes, I used "volc". So, my question is this; would it be possible to create a tool that, given certain keywords, would search through Wikipedia:Recent additions and its subpages and return any hooks containing these keywords? It would certainly make life easier. Thanks, Res Mar 03:24, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, After an update of templates (
de:Vorlage:Coordinate,
de:Vorlage:CoordinateNO and so on) was that list not updated (
dewiki-CoordinateNO.log). Can you fix that? --
Knochen (
talk)
20:21, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
DPL bot ( talk) seems to think you might be able to run a check for dabs needed on a contributor's Watchlist. If so, I volunteer my watchlist for such a dab run.
In any case, thanks for your contributions to WP.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 15:48, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Disambiguation algorithms: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-02-27/Recent research (down the bottom). Josh Parris 13:12, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
— Jeff G. ツ (talk) 04:28, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I liked that tool very much, but when I look at http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=de:Vorlage:Weiterleitungshinweis it gives me a HTTP 301 redirect to itself. What's up? -- ✓ B ergi 02:51, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
It would appear that if the process of tagging an entry with disambiguation needed leaves it with zero points, it falls out of the top of the list where most editors look for work needed. If something is tagged as DN, it should still be worth at least a point to fix. In any case, those articles needing disambiguation with 0 points should be listed closer to the top. Vegaswikian ( talk) 00:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks again for all your help! I announced the script and WP:BACKLOG changes carefully asking for concerns and questions to go to me. https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/categorder.py?page=Category:Wikipedia_files_lacking_a_description seems like the sort of thing that you would want to know about. Is it failing because it has files? I tried it with other categories with files in them, and they do the same thing. Npmay ( talk) 08:02, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Nevermind, I figured out what was happening; files aren't articles. Fixed. Npmay ( talk) 05:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at the sources for the first four or so items on http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/categorder.py?page=Category:All_articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability e.g. Special:WhatLinksHere/The LEAGUE (nonprofit) -- that has 8999 incoming links, but only 3 from article space. It looks as if categorder.py may somehow be counting all backlinks instead of just article space. Sorry to bother you, but I'm sure you want to know about this one. Npmay ( talk) 19:14, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I got a very nice barnstar that should've gone to you, so I'm pasting a copy here:
The Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
The DAB solver is very impressive. I thought it looked a bit daunting when I first saw it, but I pushed through and it is very well organized. Worked like a charm, kudos. SPhilbrick (Talk) 12:20, 20 March 2012 (UTC) |
Cheers, -- JaGa talk 15:45, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know I love dab_solver! Beautiful work! Ijon ( talk) 21:06, 20 March 2012 (UTC) |
Dispenser... I must thank you sincerely on behalf of the Simple Wikipedia, for adapting your tools to our project! It's going to be a huge help to our small community! Osiris ( talk) 02:21, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Edinburgh Wanderer 17:12, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Nyttend ( talk) 02:05, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Category:PDFlink without a parameter, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 19:22, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, there's a typo and missing "." in your watcher tool. "Pages with fewer then 30 watchers are hidden" should be "Pages with fewer than 30 watchers are hidden." Graham 87 04:41, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
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---|---|
Join us for an an
civic edit-a-thon, Wikipedia meet-up and instructional workshop that will be held this weekend on Saturday, April 21, at the
New York Public Library Main Branch.
The event's goal will be to improve Wikipedia articles and content related to the neighborhoods and history of New York City - No special wiki knowledge is required! Also, please RSVP!-- Pharos ( talk) 17:24, 16 April 2012 (UTC) |
I'd like to second the request made at User_talk:Dispenser#OSGB36_errors_in_geohack, above, and point out that there have also been discussions about it at Template_talk:GeoTemplate#old-maps.co.uk and there's a GNU GPU free library here that will fix it. I asked RHworth to do this, but he's not gotten around to it. I'd be happy to fix it myself, if I had access and the slightest possible idea about how to do PHP coding, but I don't. What needs to be fixed are {osgb36easting}, {osgb36northing}, and {osgb36ref} (which also seems to round differently than the two all-numeric formats, in addition to the main error). Please? Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 18:44, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya! As you may be aware there was a bug in an old version of Reflinks which mistook the text in the commentbox for the name of the uploader which resulted in this kind of stuff. "Meld je aan of registreer je om een reactie te plaatsen!" is Dutch and means "Login or register to comment". No worries; I think I fixed 'em all. AFAIK the current version of Reflinks doesn't have this bug anymore; is that true? Arcandam ( talk) 06:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
@Dispenser: Are you there mate? Please respond. Arcandam ( talk) 14:01, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Why are you ignoring me? You've seen the "You have new messages"-banner, right? Arcandam ( talk) 01:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
? Arcandam ( talk) 23:54, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello? Arcandam ( talk) 13:20, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Ola? Arcandam ( talk) 23:59, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
If you have a dab link listed say for SQL Server and then you go the page it shows up as not found. One case where this occurs is if the link is coded as SQL Server using the code instead of a space. Vegaswikian ( talk) 23:07, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
isspace()
method. Work for even the funky Ogham Space Mark (
SQL Server) and others on
Space (punctuation)#Spaces in Unicode. —
Dispenser
04:17, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/West_Croydon_to_Wimbledon_Line
Broke for me, is something wrong? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 16:53, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
connections[host, dbname]
. —
Dispenser
03:01, 13 June 2012 (UTC)Some of these show up in Dabsolver, but Dabsolver can't find them :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:47, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
\{\{[Ss]tnlnk\|([^[\]{|}<\n>]+)\}\}
with [[\1 railway station|\1]]
), but I do not have the time to do every one of them. Also, lots of pages don't follow the templates pattern, take
Fairfield railway station as an example. If you need help writing regexes I suggest writing on the
WP:TECHPUMP or
WP:BOTREQ. —
Dispenser
17:16, 14 June 2012 (UTC)recently updated to accept a second parameter 18:02, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Can you look at this link which shows over 30 links and yet when you check most, there is nothing there. Maybe some templates or something else. But it would be nice to have it fixed. Also, it seems that this project does not show up in your list with a link count that I could find. So something weird is in play. Vegaswikian ( talk) 20:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Please could you comment in this discussion? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:47, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm curious why you removed this pattern from Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/coordinates search tool. Best regards, — Stepheng3 ( talk) 01:03, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Duplicate param
in ghel, it was previously disabled for type:
since Commons set a "default" in their templates. I've been working recently to remove the data pollution there. BTW, does geosearch.py still work? —
Dispenser
05:09, 27 June 2012 (UTC)Thank you very much! -- Port(u*o)s ( talk) 20:17, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Since you're around at the moment, could I ask if you have this on your to-do list? Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 16:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser. Since a few days French Geoportail has completely changed its syntax for URLs. We have modified fr:Modèle:GeoTemplate, but in order to directly call www.geoportail.gouv.fr , we need a new scale variable (there are already {mmscale} and {osmscale}), this could be {gpscale} (for &z= in the URL), whose value is 2.24579E-9 * {scale} (see talk on GeoTemplate). Could you add this feature to geohack.php on toolserver.org ? (because {{#expr: 2.24579E-9*{scale} }} is not understood by mediawiki). Thanking you by advance, Jack ma ( talk) 05:33, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Dispenser I had a question about the DAB solver app you made and I was hoping you could help me with it. When I look at WikiProject Rhode Island and several others the app says that there are no DABS to solve. However when I look at WikiProject United States, which supports these projects, they show up. I assume that this is because they fall under the WikiProject United States banner but I'm not sure. Is that true and is there anything you can do to fix that so that we can still use the tool without having to fish through the WPUS project to find them. Thanks in advance for the help. Kumioko ( talk) 20:31, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
A wheelbarrow full of stroopwafels. | |
Thanks a lot for helping me with that WP:REFLINKS bug! Arcandam ( talk) 01:17, 4 August 2012 (UTC) |
I have been trying to edit my watchlist. When I click the "View and edit watchlist" link, I get a Wikipedia error page. When I click the "Edit raw watchlist" link, the resulting page doesn't load at all. I have nearly 24,000 pages on my watchlist, so that may have something to do with it. However, with that many pages, I don't remember all of them. If I could, I would be able to type them in and unwatch them that way.
I know that you have "projects" on toolserver.org, so I was wondering if you have a solution on there. If not, do you know what I can do? Thanks. Allen (Morriswa) ( talk) 03:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for hosting that tool. I was missing it, but didn't want to remove the dead link in case it came back online eventually. — Torchiest talk edits 22:11, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, why is the parameter state listed there. He is listed in this template to be correct -- Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ 02:39, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just noticed that locateCoord.py displays an earth map even if another globe has been set, example: tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/locateCoord.py?dbname=nowiki&lon=137.42&lat=-4.47&range_km=1000&globe=Mars. It seems like the earth map is hardcoded. – Danmichaelo ( talk) 20:50, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser. Since GeoHack refuses computations with #expr: could you introduce a new variable "gscale" into geohack.php whose value would be 3.16906E-9 * {scale}
(scale factor for
France Géoportail new version, see above) ? Let me know if you are not the right person to do this extension, if not who to contact ? Thanking you by advance,
Jack ma (
talk)
09:44, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Whaddya think? I'm a bit sceptical, but I'm willing to go along if you and Russ like it. I do like the idea of making absolutely certain the reader understands this is not a warning, but it seems to me that's already obvious. Maybe a pared-down version of Sue's text is in order?
Russ, the discussion in question is here. -- JaGa talk 16:27, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I have this page on my watchlist. When i use Dabsolver in the watchlist section for Disambiguation pages i click on fix list and it takes me to Disambig fix list for R. Any ideas why this is happening. If you reply here could you give me a talkback. Blethering Scot 17:56, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
%26
was unescaped when redirecting to the new dpl project. I've updated the address to avoid the script. —
Dispenser
21:42, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
rawurlencode()
when inserting stuff in URLs. —
Dispenser
06:22, 27 August 2012 (UTC)We use this everyday. Its very useful. We would really like to be able to list out articles that have been changed if they are from project Gibraltaredia OR from project Gibraltar. Is there anyway we can do this? Thanks for your help Victuallers ( talk) 20:29, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
|
) like Template:WikiProject_GibraltarpediA|Template:WikiProject_Gibraltar
. —
Dispenser
19:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)Hi Dispenser, how often is regioncheck-dewiki.log being updated? And please note that ISO 3166-2:AN does not exist anymore (but is listed by your logfile). -- тнояsтеn ⇔
I find that both of these links are functioning for Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh.
I have not (yet) checked other WikiProjects for the same phenomenon.
—
Wavelength (
talk)
16:56, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
You removed the disambiguation hatnote for Checkered Flag (video game) claiming that "Hatnote to Checkered Flag not needed" (but no explanation as to why you think this).
There is at least one other article for a video game entitled Chequered Flag (video game); near-identical name but with the British spelling, certainly close enough to risk confusion. (Please note that contrary to what some believe, dab pages and hatnotes are not solely for identically-spelled articles, but apply to any plausible cases of potential confusion). The dab page also mentions a 1988 arcade game by Konami called "Checkered Flag"- currently redlinked, but still notable, and still a potential source of confusion.
I've reinstated the hatnote. Please feel free to contact me if you disagree with this, thank you.
Ubcule ( talk) 21:14, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you see my request and you say that you do think my gadget? Please, can you also create my gadget?-- Vivaelcelta { discusión · contributions} 19:14, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you did to develop the disambiguation tools. I read about your other projects here. Thanks for everything - you are an inspiration for me to try to do more. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:04, 27 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello, I like your notice about the future of Toolserver. Perhaps you could email the other Toolserver users to suggest doing the same? We'd need some summary on a wiki page. -- Nemo 08:36, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser,
thanks again for helping to answer a journalist's question about maps and geocoordinates on Wikipedia some weeks ago. The resulting article has now come out on Talking Points Memo: http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/wikipedia-maps-inside-encyclopedias-little-known-cache-of-geo-data.php
Among other things, it links to your coordinate statistics and heavily features WikiMiniAtlas, so your input definitely had an impact.
Regards, Tbayer (WMF) ( talk) 17:35, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/categorder.py/Category:All_NPOV_disputes returns an error saying to contact you about it. Can you get it working, please? 81.169.144.135 ( talk) 00:30, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Have you changed something in dab_solver.py in the past few days that might make it slower to load? Since the end of last week, it seems extraordinarily slow, even though other Toolserver pages seem to load without abnormal delays. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 13:34, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
This edit introduced some bad links, e.g. the link to O-ren Ishii is a bad link because it goes to a redirect page which then redirects to the wrong place. JoshuSasori ( talk) 13:23, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Any idea why this article is proving impossible for Weblinks to resolve ?. About 30+ bare urls in the mix, but the messages at the top of the page must mean something to someone, but are complete gibberish/jargon to me. Thanks,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 22:48, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Should the user script for Reflinks make it load on my toolbox? Doesn't work that way for me. I have Firefox 16.0.2, Windows XP. I have added the XSS exception to my NoScript. I use Modern skin. I first added the user script to my modern.js, and nothing changed in the toolbar. So, I switched and added it to my common.js yesterday. I still don't see it in my toolbox. Please advise.
— Maile (
talk)
15:55, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.
All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!-- Pharos ( talk) 07:04, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, We were discussing the issue of handling large volume of bad unwatched edits at the India noticeboard. Is it possible to add a filter, "Hide confirmed users" on the WikiProject watch tool? Thanks. — Ganeshk ( talk) 13:31, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
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We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!-- Pharos ( talk) 01:52, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
I am attending HOPE Number Nine from July 12 to 15 with no Internet |
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Hi, I just ran dabfix on Secrets and it mad a bit of a mess on the songs section. I saved the output to User:Tassedethe/Secrets. I'm not sure I'm too keen on the style for songs. It changed everything from "a song by" to "a song on". One problem is that getting the apostrophe for the artist/band could be tricky. I changed The Pierces's to The Pierces'. It also looks like a dabfix too far, there's nothing really wrong with how it was, although having it impose consistency could be good on some pages. But I'll still be using it, it's still much too useful to give up! :) While I'm unloading I think you changed the behaviour for how it deals with redlinks in templates. I agree that just because it has 10-20-whatever links it shouldn't be an automatic choice to go on the page but now it doesn't show up as existing. It would be useful if it did, it's quite common for the template link to be a match for the dab page but someone has used a non-standard disambiguator, or (if it is a name) there is actually a middle initial. Just letting you know my thoughts. Happy editing. Tassedethe ( talk) 02:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
I've been liking the tool so far, but I've noticed a few issues. Particularly, the script seems to screw up with apostrophes, so that it gives phrases like "the band, 's album". It also seems to remove the italics from ship names as can be seen on Marigold. Today I also noticed that it seems to have issues with Japanese characters, as seen when trying to run the script on Bottom. As always, thanks for creating and maintaining another useful tool. — Ost ( talk) 21:25, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Not a big deal, certainly, but I was curious what the difference between {{Wiktionary}}
and {{Wiktionary|worldwide}}
was in this particular case. I only removed the "worldwide" parameter because I was already editing the page, and according to the template docs it's superfluous -- my "-dicdef" summary was in reference to removing the dictionary definition of "worldwide" from the body of the page.
Also no big deal on the date for the album either way, btw; you probably noticed I'd even left the date for the other album in. Cheers, NapoliRoma ( talk) 14:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser,
The PDFlink template in footnote 15 is not working, but I can't figure out why. Would you have any idea? Thanks, Jayjg (talk) 23:53, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
The tool removed the wiktionary link because there was no Hot mess (disambiguation) (or similar qualifier) to the page. Thus, there is no a path for a reader reaching the disambiguation page to expect "hot mess" as a definition. Primary topic usage around it complicates it more so. However, I'll look into to add a Wiktionary verification in the future. Secondly point, heading the are more semantic then bold text and I'm using this to enhance the presentation in another tool. Use level 3 headings can be used if you visually like them better. — Dispenser 00:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
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This is for your continued work on all of your Toolserver tools. Keep it up! Logan Talk Contributions 19:59, 22 January 2011 (UTC) |
This report, in the third row, shows Matthew Keating (disambiguation) as a redirect to Matt Keating. Actually, the title is a redirect to Matthew Keating, and the page history shows that it always has been. Seems like a possible bug in the script that generates the report. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 21:32, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
rd_fragment
and rd_interwiki
) introduced with
bug 14418. (It may have died actually) —
Dispenser
02:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)Drop by to tell you new beta is up, http://waybackmachine.org/ « ₣M₣ » 22:47, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, your activity check tool has been brought up in this discussion at the WikiProject Council regarding WikiProject activity. I think that if the tool could be modified to only include a subset of pages (for example articles tagged with a WikiProject banner), then it could be used to measure the activity / inactivity of entire WikiProjects. Do you think this is possible? Thanks a lot, Mlm42 ( talk) 18:17, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Brilliant. -- JaGa talk 05:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, why is the region "RU-ZAB" listedd as error in coord-dewiki.log ? -- 91.22.202.234 ( talk) 09:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
This might be a toolserver bug, not a rdcheck bug. But it would seem that anytime I click a link on rdcheck with a link with an ampersand (&) the link does not work. see this: http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=Texas_A%26M_University
Now, if I were to click on a link like Texas A&M, i would only get Texas A. See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Texas%20A&M&redirect=no
A similar bug was found in other tools, so I think it might be a toolserver thing. thanks for your help. Oldag07 ( talk) 02:30, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Any progress in getting me added as a maintainer of geohack? I am now confident that I can add the stuff myself. The modules and changes involved are listed here. You might care to do a quick check of my version of geohack.php. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:31, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
The sound boxes at "F and A"—nice. Tony (talk) 07:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. There might be an error with the tool. Please check the following links, and keep your view highlighted on the swingout boxes in the article
(div style="clear:both; class="NavFrame" changing into ---> <divavFrame">
Hi, thanks so much for organising the sounds last week. This time, I wanted to move the sounds up, possibly to be just under the admins. But I can't get rid of the header "Want the latest Signpost delivered to your talk page each week?" that intrudes just above it. Can you help? Link Tony (talk) 10:11, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Please check User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Req:_Sort_.28and_normalize.3F.29_list_entries_contained_in_a_single_line, I have added single line sorting to wikEd. Sorting is alphabetically an corrected for numbers. Cacycle ( talk) 21:45, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Several years back, the documentation for {{
coord}} and/or
WP:GEO (possibly it was a
WT:GEO discussion) described an elevation
parameter, and went into some detail about units and how it improves on the type:mountain(
nnnn)
for other situations. I don't see the description anywhere now, but I've faithfully added elevations when doing other work to a coordinate. Unfortunately,
your tool flags these which some people have "repaired" by deleting the parameter. Maybe this is an appropriate discussion for WP:GEO (or maybe it already occurred, but I missed it), but how do you feel about accepting elevation:? Awhile back I saw another digest of coordinates which recognizes it—maybe that was your work as well? —
EncMstr (
talk)
08:15, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I was intrigued to see that you've been implementing new globes for GeoHack (such as Jupiter). Very cool! However, when you do this, you should document the change at Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/globe:. Also, I notice that the Jupiter test case you added to Template talk:GeoTemplate/test coordinates is broken; the red dot does not coincide with the Great Red Spot. — Stepheng3 ( talk) 03:12, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Just a heads up, at tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/dabfix.py, the link to the DabFix bookmarklet in the box on the right points to eabfix.py - Kollision ( talk) 10:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Could you tell me please, why this domain is listed as a WP-Blacklist URL. See tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py/de:William-Brewster-Medaille . Thx -- Gary Dee ( talk) 13:05, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I don't quite understand its purpose/function. The link to the example didn't work for me. Any ideas? Tony (talk) 02:08, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser, I was using Reflinks, and I noticed it was now adding &useskin=modern to the end of the URL when the preview or show changes button is used. Is there a setting that I can use so Monobook is automatically used, rather than removing &useskin=modern manually each time? Thanks, Alpha Quadrant talk 23:09, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
useskin
between edit screens. —
Dispenser
02:13, 2 April 2011 (UTC)A formal Request for Comment has now been started on this topic. Feel free to contribute; best, Ironholds ( talk) 19:30, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm interested in using your Geohack tool here, but it doesn't seem to have any documentation or any explanation of what to do with all that lovely code. You should probably write a line or two in the commented-out section at the top as to where to put the code to actually use your script! Thanks, Oreo Priest talk 00:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
If there is a "+" within a redirect lemma then it will be wrong encoded on the result page. So if a request like this one is started then you'll get invalid results like this:
instead of this:
-- ζ 10:51, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, i want to help for translate this page for the portuguese language. I want to know if i have just traslate that page, or in another place. Please, answer in wiki-pt page. Thanks. -- Vitor Mazuco Talk! 15:47, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be an issue with Rdcheck and at least {{ visible anchor}}. It's coming back with invalid redirects when the template is involved. An example is here: tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=List_of_characters_in_The_Batman
- J Greb ( talk) 17:14, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I’m finding this tool very useful to look for existing section redirects. Is there any nice easy way of skipping the “Hidden links on redirect” part, which is killing tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py/WP:Redirect? All those pages use templates which display links back to WP:Redirect, even though I understand Media wiki does not show any extra text on a redirect page. Vadmium ( talk) 03:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC).
[[WP:Redirect]]
→ [[w:WP:Redirect]]
. See also:
Bug 7304. —
Dispenser
04:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Okay; thanks for the bug reference. Vadmium ( talk) 02:33, 11 June 2011 (UTC).
<class 'oursql.ProgrammingError'>: (1049, "Unknown database 'u_dispenser_p'", None)
Hi, it seems there's a problem with ghel's database, would you please take a look at the error?? Thanks! --
Joana.estafanell (
talk)
10:10, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
I am the author of the GoogleTrans gadget. Thanks very much for those stats you put up on Sept 11 2009. It was good to get some feedback on the real use of the gadget. Is it a lot of trouble to get current stats like that for the gadgets? I'd certainly like to know how GoogleTrans is going right now.
Thanks Again
Endo999 ( talk) 22:41, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I just took a look at the gadget use list. Just what I was looking for.
Endo999 ( talk) 01:37, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, I've just taken a look at the User Preferences db page and it hasn't run for 3 weeks. Is this intentional or has something slipped in the db reports?
Endo999 ( talk) 22:43, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser excuse my bad english. This ISO Codes are updatet. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-1_newsletter_vi-8_split_of_the_dutch_antilles_final-en.pdf. Please can you update your File viewer too? Thanks. -- 80.142.203.184 ( talk) 12:50, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Regarding that list you told us about during this discussion, I have changed many of those titles by removing the {{ Lowercase}} template and inserting {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} in its stead. I didn't get into trouble until I worked on the maNga (album) page. It lead me to the Manga (band) article, which I tried to move to maNga (band). My question to you has to do with the lowercasing of the first letter of these articles. It seems the guidelines tell us to lowercase the first letter only when it is pronounced separately and the second letter is uppercase, as in eBay and iTunes. Many of those articles on the list were more like the maNga articles, and I went ahead and lowercased those first letters in accordance with the WP:COMMONNAME policy, which says to title articles in a way that is familiar to the readers of those articles. So which do you think is correct? maNga or Manga? This is important, because if I've been wrong, then there are a lot of articles that were on that list that I'm going to have to go back and change. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX ) 23:07, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, when I tried to use the interactive version of reflinks today it showed the raw Python code, rather than the actual interface, this was only when I clicked on the radio button next to and Plain links, it worked fine for the other 2 radio button options, do you know what the problem is as I can't seem to use it despite clearing my cache and refreshing multiple times. — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 10:26am • 00:26, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
in the interactive mode. Shows the script code upon entering the article name. Materialscientist ( talk) 12:16, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for the DAB page for Google phone, but I wonder if it needs what appears to be a clone of the talk page from the Nexus.
<Change of subject to Search-related tools> Since you seem to love the challenge of making useful tools, and probably created the above DAB page as a result of seeing the following: This tool idea may interest you. I also discovered that it's possible to set up an article called "Name" without being aware that there is already an existing category called "Name" — the Wikipedia search box doesn't search Category and Sub-Category titles by default (I think it should), and most mere mortals will (a) never work out that it doesn't, and (b) never work out how to use the search box to find if there is a Category or Sub-Category called "Name" ( problem described here ). Categories list many terms with related meanings. It would surely be useful if Wikipedia had a tool to prompt people who attempt to create an article called "Name" that there is already a Category or Sub-Category called "Name", and would they like to view that first (to help them find articles similar to "Name" that already exist in the Category indexes)? LittleBen ( talk) 15:16, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(page_title SEPARATOR "|")
FROM page
JOIN redirect ON rd_from=page_id
WHERE page_namespace=0
GROUP BY CAST(page_title AS CHAR CHARACTER SET utf8) COLLATE utf8_general_ci
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT rd_title) >= 2
{{ Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite/June 2011}} BrownBot ( talk) 19:03, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Replied at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk#Project statistics. Thanks! - Mabeenot ( talk) 03:11, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Dispenser. In case you hadn't noticed already, a change was recently made to the {{
dn}}
template to allow a "date=" parameter; and, to make things even "nicer," a bot is now running around converting all instances of {{
dn}}
to read {{
Disambiguation needed|date=June 2011}}
. Dab Solver recognizes the old format, but not the new; hopefully it won't be too difficult to adapt to this change. --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
14:53, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for this tool : file viewer it's really nice. But I need to know if it currently works only for fr:template:Cood or also of his French little brother fr:template:Coordonnées ? Thank you again, Otourly ( talk) 14:42, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello dispenser, excuse me for my bad english. This site and some other too is shown the errors only like [[?curid=886]]. Is it possible to fix this? -- 80.142.207.56 ( talk) 00:09, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
&pagename={{PAGENAMEE}}
parameter. —
Dispenser
05:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC)Hello Dispenser, I am translated your documentation from user page for the wiki-pt, this was the last. And I want to know if you can available for the portuguese use your tool? You are planning, for us? Thanks! -- Vitor Mazuco Talk! 00:54, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
As always, thanks for supporting these great tools. It's a minor nuisance, but I wanted to note reflinks improperly parses IGN authors, as in this example: var authorId = "41401878" by Richard George.
"Final Fantasy's Rhythm Hits 3DS - Nintendo 3DS News at IGN". Ds.ign.com. Retrieved 2011-07-19.{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link). Additionally, it would be great if checklinks automatically worked with the Wayback Machine again; it's still very useful, but it was much easier to add archives before archive.org's new interface when checklinks automatically searched for archives. —
Ost (
talk)
21:13, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, the File Viewer has a mistake. See the bottom of all country-pages. -- Knochen ( talk) 17:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
local_infile=True
in the connection handling part of the python code. The upside to all this is I can re-load the data files. —
Dispenser
20:14, 22 July 2011 (UTC)Hi Dispenser, in the text about redundancy in the automated peer reviewer, "Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant" should be changed to "Vague terms of size are often unnecessary and redundant". Thanks. Graham 87 03:00, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for pinging me on the click-tracking GLAM stats idea that you put on the village pump. I've forwarded a link to that to the cultural-partners mailing list if anyone technical there wants to get involved with the idea. I can say however that Stats/metrics/analytics things are a big and hairy piece of software... I've been told that, whilst the WMF is indeed building up it's capacity in this field, GLAM-specific stuff is not first priority. I'm working on alternatives to this but I can say it's not going to happen in the short term. That said, it doesn't mean your proposal necessarily has to go through centralised development things like the WMF, so don't let that stop you if you've got consensus and someone to code the thing :-) Witty lama 06:06, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I would like to have more information about your greatfull tool. For the error region invalid, the tool detect an error based on ISO_3166-1 or ISO_3166-2 ? I know we could put the ISO_3166-2 code but I don't know that if my coordinates are out, the tool detect the subdivision problem or only for countries ? What about the case of international lakes or mountain, could we write for exemple for the " fr:Mont-Blanc" FR-74/IT-23 ? How will react your tool ? And what about three-regions (or more) objects ? Regards, Otourly ( talk) 19:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
region:
field to 60 bytes which is enough for 10 region codes with subdivisions separated by slashes. However, aside from the abandoned regioncheck script that checks the point is inside the region, little software uses this information. The original intent was to give GeoHack the ability to hide services that did not have coverage, but this has become a maintenance nightmare (dewiki didn't notice half the links were duplicates). Due to its relative uselessness and that an automatic region locator is working, I am considering deprecating the field.Once again, many thanks for this great tool. Suggestion. I encounter more and more often that newbies place references in the form <ref>{{html://abcd.feg.com/bla.asp}}</ref> or even <ref>{{www.abc.com/bla.htm}}</ref>. Can you make reflinks process those, perhaps in the "interactive", "and Plain links". Thanks. Materialscientist ( talk) 05:42, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser, the File Viewer shows this error on all sides. Can you fix it? -- Knochen ( talk) 16:03, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries and see if the suggestions might apply to your bot? Feel free to add your own suggestions and comments there too. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I was using Dabfix and it left behind some rather strange syntax relating to the intro. Another editor has fixed most of these entries (like so). Just a glitch? Tassedethe ( talk) 15:14, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
subst:
correctly. This has been now fixed. —
Dispenser
17:49, 31 August 2011 (UTC)User | Fixes | EditHours | Edit/min | Bonus |
---|---|---|---|---|
R'n'B | 3801 | 58.7 | 1.08 | 17% |
Woohookitty | 2649 | 28 | 1.58 | 1% |
JustAGal | 2225 | 121 | 0.31 | 99% |
Squids and Chips | 1669 | 53.5 | 0.52 | 24% |
JaGa | 898 | 26.3 | 0.57 | 20% |
J04n | 730 | 45.2 | 0.27 | 64% |
William Avery | 657 | 29.2 | 0.38 | 4% |
StAnselm | 467 | 30.7 | 0.25 | 38% |
Bte99 | 425 | 31.7 | 0.22 | 83% |
Gongshow | 407 | 6.3 | 1.07 | 1% |
JamesAM | 328 | 31.2 | 0.18 | 40% |
C777 | 257 | 7 | 0.61 | 0% |
X201 | 226 | 18.8 | 0.2 | 85% |
69.248.62.131 | 196 | 21.3 | 0.15 | 93% |
TimBentley | 190 | 6 | 0.53 | 15% |
BD2412 | 181 | 7.3 | 0.41 | 27% |
Odie5533 | 181 | 7 | 0.43 | 44% |
GoingBatty | 154 | 6.7 | 0.39 | 19% |
Koumz | 129 | 7 | 0.31 | 31% |
Logan | 117 | 12.7 | 0.15 | 93% |
Hey, I just wanted to let you know all of my Toolserver data has been ported over to u_jason_p, so everything is now available for you to play with. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, -- JaGa talk 06:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
/* Count Dab Challenge by WikiProject */
SELECT pb_title, COUNT(*)
FROM u_jason_p.all_dab_links
LEFT JOIN u_dispenser_p.projectbanner ON pb_page=article_id
JOIN u_jason_p.contest_dabs ON c_id=dab_id
GROUP BY pb_title
ORDER BY COUNT(*);
rev_id
+ fix count for previous months? —
Dispenser
07:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I've got several questions/comments that have been building up lately:
Thanks, -- JaGa talk 05:15, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
CAST(pl_title AS CHAR CHARACTER SET utf8)
that isn't present in redlink.py. The time limit was there before, but I've had to a lot less generous so it doesn't take 2 minutes to load per dablink. As it stands, the medium generation for the related map+redlinks suggestion has increased from 5 to 11 seconds even with the 20 timeout./* Estimate article transclusion count for templates (and other embedding) */
SUM((SELECT COUNT(*) FROM templatelinks
JOIN page AS trans ON trans.page_id=tl_from + 0 AND trans.page_namespace=0
WHERE tl_namespace=refer.page_namespace AND tl_title=refer.page_title)) AS trans_count
The following is now appearing just above the #workarea element on each dabsolver page:
UnboundLocalError("local variable 'rival' referenced before assignment",)
-- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 21:28, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
I, Sarah, hereby award Dispenser this barnstar for all the amazing tools, programs, ideas, and smartness that Dispenser..well...dispenses. Thank you for all you do for Wikipedia and it's related projects!! SarahStierch ( talk) 02:49, 22 September 2011 (UTC) |
Your further input has been requested. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:01, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Since about 1 Oct, clicking on "Unlink" is converting Link to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/|Link]] instead of unlinking it; and clicking on "I don't know / Tag {{dn}}" is not doing anything at all. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 20:23, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
I've tried Dap Solver in En.Wiki, it's amazing, I'd like to translate it into Arabic.Wiki! How about that?? Thanks :) Sean ( Hit) 06:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know your rdcheck tool seems to be crashing on the strcat page: tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py/strcat. It gives a “substring not found” ValueError on line 90; I think it is failing to find a <!-- bodytext --> comment tag in the HTML page. Perhaps Wikipedia has recently changed the way the pages are coded, because I recently edited that page. Vadmium ( talk, contribs) 01:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC).
Sure enough, I checked your talk page before adding that post and it was fine; now rdcheck crashes on your talk page as well :). I wonder if you could get away with searching the whole page for element identifiers without limiting to the “bodytext”. Vadmium ( talk, contribs) 01:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC).
Hi Dispenser! I see you've been active on this talk page, but not on User talk:Dispenser/Reflinks. There have been a few questions for you posed there, and your responses would be greatly appreciated. I use Reflinks almost every day, and hope you will continue to maintain it. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 02:02, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Reflinks is removing border="1" from wikitables. It is problematic to expand the use of Reflinks too much beyond references. See this standard wikitable code created by clicking the table button:
{| class="wikitable" border="1" |- ! header 1 ! header 2 ! header 3 |- | row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |}
There was long discussion about this (border="1"), and its use with the wikitables CSS class. There are good reasons for its addition to wikitables. I don't want to repeat it all here. The gist of it is that parts of wikipedia pages and tables are copied to email, blogs, web pages, and all over. The Wikitable CSS class is usually not copied with it. But border="1" is copied with it. This allows the tables to be comprehensible no matter where they are copied to. Otherwise the tables are oftentimes a jumbled mess of numbers without any borders. Wikipedia is all about CC-sharing its articles, and it needs to be shared comprehensibly.
Please do not let Reflinks do things against consensus. I also notice reflinks removing <center> tags from an article.
I do not know if this matters much to that particular article, but again Reflinks should not be changing the format of articles. And in any case what is in wikitext is not necessarily what ends up in the HTML after MediaWiki codes the page. There is a lot of code in wikipedia articles that does not meet HTML 5. It is unrealistic to expect people to fix the many mistakes that Reflinks may be introducing with all these changes. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 00:55, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
$(function(){$("table.wikitable").attr("border", 1)});
(unindent). I don't understand JS. I understand CSS somewhat. I am not clear about what you are proposing. I thought at first that you were proposing a personal JS change. I struck out part of my previous comment. If changing the JS in the way you describe will allow everyone to copy tables into email, web pages, etc. and still have borders, then thanks for the JS code. I suggest you propose it to the JS talk page. If I propose it I doubt anybody will listen. Maybe you can propose it, and point to this to explain the need:
I did some more reading. See the links below. border="1" is now allowed in HTML 5. No one has found a way otherwise to share tables with borders while copying and pasting, in syndication, via RSS readers, etc.. I don't pretend to understand it all.
My experience with the CSS and JS talk pages on Wikipedia has been fairly negative mostly due to this religious reverence for a future form of HTML 5 nirvana. Now that those creating the HTML 5 standards have allowed people to think logically about this, maybe there is hope here too.
Would it be easier to revert the removal of the JS code that enabled the addition of border="1"? See this diff of its removal. The edit comment refers to this discussion. The initial discussion that added border="1" is here.
I started a discussion here:
Hey, I got this message a bit ago:
Do you know how to help her, or what went wrong? Thanks, -- JaGa talk 02:30, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser. I have opened a request for bot approval for adding region info to coordinates templates on Commons. I think it is useful metadata, including for your coordinates databases (coord_commonswiki_p). Can you give your opinion there please? Regards. emijrp ( talk) 18:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
I am getting this error when I follow the Computers link on the tool, A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
/home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/godab.py in ()
18 if './' not in topic:
19 try:
=> 20 f = open(path, 'r+')
21 size = os.path.getsize(path)
22 #offset = int(random.uniform(0, size - min(4096, size/2)))
f undefined, builtin open = <built-in function open>, path = '../temp/dabs/challenge/WikiProject_Computing'
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: Errno 90 Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS: '../temp/dabs/challenge/WikiProject_Computing'
args = (90, 'Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS')
errno = 90
filename = '../temp/dabs/challenge/WikiProject_Computing'
message = ''
strerror = 'Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS'
/home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/tracebacks/tmpMxaALI.html contains the description of this error.
Mo ainm ~Talk 21:12, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
ln -s ./ challenge
not ln -s challenge ./
. —
Dispenser
21:17, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
"Your closing in on" should be "You're [or You are] closing in on".... -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 15:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I really like the ghel tool and its regular dumps that are available via your tool server account. i have a question concerning the ghel tool: i do not completely understand the field gc_primary within the output table. initially i thought that this field indicates whether there is a link on top of the wikipedia page which opens the openstreetmap map. but there are pages within the german wikipedia which are set to gc_primary = 1, but do not have such a link. e.g. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDU (page_id = 3956889 = gc_from). so what is the actual supposed meaning of gc_primary?
Regards, Stefan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.30.4.138 ( talk) 17:01, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Dispenser (via IRC): The gc_primary is meant to indicate the desiganted coordinate for the topic. Unfortunately, the syntax (absents of &title=) is the same for when people forget to name referenced locations in the article. I don't understand why, but some people despise title coordinates.
The Original Barnstar | |
Thank you for showing me how to use CatScan :) -- Sp33dyphil © • © 06:42, 10 November 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Dispenser, for this page ( dewiki-CoordinateNO.log) there is no update - last at 14 Sep 11. Can you fix it? -- 217.246.216.131 ( talk) 02:32, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Could you have a look at comment 13 in this bug thread:
It is discussing this:
Here is more info:
Why would one want to replace style="background-color:" with style="background:" in header cells? That breaks the sorting workaround for styled header cells in tables. It is the opposite of what is recommended in the bug thread. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 08:36, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
There's an error on dablinks. When I enter this to check DAB pages on the Simple English Wikipedia, an error appears. Just thought I'd let you know, if you don't already. Best, Albacore ( talk) 21:45, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Howdy. I've created a database u_tb_dab_p on s1, in which you'll find a single table rls ( redlink varbinary(255), suggestion varbinary(255) ). I've populated it with an initial million rows for you to be going on with. This reduces our interface to:
SELECT suggestion FROM u_tb_dab_p.rls WHERE redlink = 'some red link';
An index has been added to support the above query. You're welcome to amend the table structure and contents to suit your needs. I'll plan on maintaining it roughly every 6 months. We can tinker with the quantity vs quality of suggestions once we see how it works. - TB ( talk) 07:52, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it's because they're short article names or because they're uppercase, but dabfix.py never returns HTML to edit these dabs. Josh Parris 00:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I finally got a return [on BMR], and when I click on "Show details" I get:
ERROR: Redlink FullText search: ProgrammingError(1146, "Table 'u_dispenser_p.redlinks_enwiki' doesn't exist")
but the full HTML page wasn't returned. Josh Parris 12:37, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Any idea what happened here? Brackets were replaced by hashes for many wikilinks. The problem seems to have gone away since, but an editor was asking me about it (via DPL bot's {{ dablinks}} templates). -- JaGa talk 15:50, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
X-XSS-Protection: 0
header or users can disable it following the instructions linked from my tools. —
Dispenser
22:25, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser, how did your tool "LocateCoord" find the coordinates? It is a problem for your tool, when the weblinks to the GeoHack are protocol relative or HTTPS only? When yes, it is possible to fix your tool? Thank you. Der Umherirrende 18:55, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. How come dab_solver.py always tells me "BD2412 is now XXX behind you"? It is always BD2412, no matter how far behind me he is or how many other users are between the two of us. Right now, PhnomPencil is the user just behind me, but I'm still getting BD2412 messages. (Maybe it's psychoanalyzing me....) -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 15:52, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Pending any further discussion on the appropriateness of your bot calls in this article, I've reverted 'em because they appear unnecessary and inappropriate. The (now somewhat archaic) word 'cretin' is adequately defined in Wikipedia. I would say that meaning No. 2 is actually the more prevalent since the medical substitution of specific terms such as Congenital hypothyroidism. Anyway, the provided Wikilink for Cretinism perfectly disambiguates the former (discontinued) medical usage and the ironic pejorative usage (which is itself, of course, subjected to implied irony by being placed in the mouth of Basil Fawlty). Also, the term 'waiter' is fully disambiguated by the provided Wikilink. It seems to me that the use of bots for such purposes has significant limitations when dealing with subjects involving habitual English usage and important irony, and that you should enter a proper discussion before making such calls. But maybe you can persuade me otherwise. Cheers,01:13, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Nice userpage :D Res Mar 03:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Checklinks and the DAB page are not working for the Simple English Wikipedia's pages. See here, for example. Other Wikipedias seem to work fine (like this). Best, Albacore ( talk) 14:53, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! There's a discussion going on in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#While_we.27re_talking_about_it... regarding systematic errors in the geohack OSGB36 output. The fix would seem to be quite simple to implement, but none of the participants in the conversation have either checkin rights or familiarity with the geohack code. Would you or one of the other geohack maintaners be able to help with this? -- The Anome ( talk) 16:52, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Those two were deleted last year. I was just cleaning up the page by removing them. The Haz talk 16:55, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I came across a disambiguation page that contained an entry to a deleted article ( Colloquy). Is there a tool to find these? Or does some bot clean them up? -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:34, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
/* Deleted dablinks SLOW_OK */
SELECT *, (
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM pagelinks
JOIN page ON page_id=pl_from AND page_namespace=0
LEFT JOIN categorylinks ON cl_from=pl_from AND cl_to="All_disambiguation_pages"
WHERE pl_namespace=0 AND pl_title=log_title AND cl_to IS NULL
) AS links
FROM (
SELECT STRAIGHT_JOIN
dab.page_title,
log_title,
log_user_text,
log_timestamp,
log_comment
FROM categorylinks
JOIN page AS dab ON dab.page_id=cl_from AND dab.page_namespace=0
JOIN pagelinks ON pl_from=cl_from AND pl_namespace=0
LEFT JOIN page AS pl ON pl.page_title=pl_title AND pl.page_namespace=0
JOIN logging_ts_alternative ON log_title=pl_title AND log_namespace=0
WHERE cl_to="All_disambiguation_pages"
AND pl.page_id IS NULL
AND log_type="delete"
AND log_comment REGEXP
"([[]{2}|/wiki/)(Project:|Wikipedia:|WP:)(PROD|Articles[_ ]+for[_ ]+deletion/[^]{|}[]*|CSD#A7|CSD#G5|CSD#G11)"
LIMIT 1000
) AS x
GROUP BY 1, 2
HAVING links < 1;
Hi, I'm currently developing an extension for storing and retrieving geographical data. It will use the same {{ coord}} templates as Geohack uses, so I have a few questions about the relationship between dim and scale. Why there are two of them in the first place? I see that GeoHack docs on TS consider scale deprecated, but from dumps I see that it's much more popular than dim. What would you recommend to store? Max Semenik ( talk) 12:47, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, do you know a reason why de:Hotel_Pagano is not in your database? The article an the template seem ok and the article is relative old. -- Kolossos ( talk) 21:44, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
mysql> SELECT el_to -> FROM externallinks -> JOIN page ON page_id=el_from -> WHERE page_namespace=0 AND page_title="Hotel_Pagano"; +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | el_to | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://www.goethezeitportal.de/fileadmin/Images/wd/projekte-pool/italien/reisestationen/capri_insel/proelss_pagano.pdf | | http://www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=capri | | http://www.kirche-capri.de/geschichte1.htm | | http://www.lapalma-capri.com/it/history.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
And Vorlage:Coordinate and Vorlage:Zitat are the only templates on the page, seems MediaWiki screwed up saving the page. It'll probably clear out with a null edit. — Dispenser 22:14, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
I have started a request at de:Wikipedia:Bots/Anfragen. -- Gerd Fahrenhorst ( talk) 19:42, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
I don't think I did anything odd, but another editor reported this edit. Just letting you know in case this was a bug. Vegaswikian ( talk) 01:54, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
is this still in use? if so, we should document it? if not, we can delete it? Frietjes ( talk) 20:58, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello!
I noticed your redlinks.py script when using the wonderful Dab Solver tool, and started using it for other editing unrelated to dab solving.
I get surprising results sometimes though, especially in terms of namespaces. For instance I notice that there is a link to red category commons:Category:10th century BC bronzes on commons:Template:1st millennium BC bronzes and, through inclusion, on commons:Category:8th-century BC bronzes for instance. However this red category is not linked on http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/redlinks.py?page=10th_century&namespace=14&dbname=commonswiki although the results are apparently not limited to links from the main or category namespace. How can it be? Place Clichy ( talk) 17:45, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
One of the issues associated with working on Featured portals is finding content for Did you know? I've found that the best way to do so is a Ctrl + F search for parts of keywords; for Volcanoes, I used "volc". So, my question is this; would it be possible to create a tool that, given certain keywords, would search through Wikipedia:Recent additions and its subpages and return any hooks containing these keywords? It would certainly make life easier. Thanks, Res Mar 03:24, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, After an update of templates (
de:Vorlage:Coordinate,
de:Vorlage:CoordinateNO and so on) was that list not updated (
dewiki-CoordinateNO.log). Can you fix that? --
Knochen (
talk)
20:21, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
DPL bot ( talk) seems to think you might be able to run a check for dabs needed on a contributor's Watchlist. If so, I volunteer my watchlist for such a dab run.
In any case, thanks for your contributions to WP.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 15:48, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Disambiguation algorithms: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-02-27/Recent research (down the bottom). Josh Parris 13:12, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
— Jeff G. ツ (talk) 04:28, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I liked that tool very much, but when I look at http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=de:Vorlage:Weiterleitungshinweis it gives me a HTTP 301 redirect to itself. What's up? -- ✓ B ergi 02:51, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
It would appear that if the process of tagging an entry with disambiguation needed leaves it with zero points, it falls out of the top of the list where most editors look for work needed. If something is tagged as DN, it should still be worth at least a point to fix. In any case, those articles needing disambiguation with 0 points should be listed closer to the top. Vegaswikian ( talk) 00:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks again for all your help! I announced the script and WP:BACKLOG changes carefully asking for concerns and questions to go to me. https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/categorder.py?page=Category:Wikipedia_files_lacking_a_description seems like the sort of thing that you would want to know about. Is it failing because it has files? I tried it with other categories with files in them, and they do the same thing. Npmay ( talk) 08:02, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Nevermind, I figured out what was happening; files aren't articles. Fixed. Npmay ( talk) 05:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at the sources for the first four or so items on http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/categorder.py?page=Category:All_articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability e.g. Special:WhatLinksHere/The LEAGUE (nonprofit) -- that has 8999 incoming links, but only 3 from article space. It looks as if categorder.py may somehow be counting all backlinks instead of just article space. Sorry to bother you, but I'm sure you want to know about this one. Npmay ( talk) 19:14, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I got a very nice barnstar that should've gone to you, so I'm pasting a copy here:
The Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
The DAB solver is very impressive. I thought it looked a bit daunting when I first saw it, but I pushed through and it is very well organized. Worked like a charm, kudos. SPhilbrick (Talk) 12:20, 20 March 2012 (UTC) |
Cheers, -- JaGa talk 15:45, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know I love dab_solver! Beautiful work! Ijon ( talk) 21:06, 20 March 2012 (UTC) |
Dispenser... I must thank you sincerely on behalf of the Simple Wikipedia, for adapting your tools to our project! It's going to be a huge help to our small community! Osiris ( talk) 02:21, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Edinburgh Wanderer 17:12, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Nyttend ( talk) 02:05, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Category:PDFlink without a parameter, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 19:22, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, there's a typo and missing "." in your watcher tool. "Pages with fewer then 30 watchers are hidden" should be "Pages with fewer than 30 watchers are hidden." Graham 87 04:41, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
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---|---|
Join us for an an
civic edit-a-thon, Wikipedia meet-up and instructional workshop that will be held this weekend on Saturday, April 21, at the
New York Public Library Main Branch.
The event's goal will be to improve Wikipedia articles and content related to the neighborhoods and history of New York City - No special wiki knowledge is required! Also, please RSVP!-- Pharos ( talk) 17:24, 16 April 2012 (UTC) |
I'd like to second the request made at User_talk:Dispenser#OSGB36_errors_in_geohack, above, and point out that there have also been discussions about it at Template_talk:GeoTemplate#old-maps.co.uk and there's a GNU GPU free library here that will fix it. I asked RHworth to do this, but he's not gotten around to it. I'd be happy to fix it myself, if I had access and the slightest possible idea about how to do PHP coding, but I don't. What needs to be fixed are {osgb36easting}, {osgb36northing}, and {osgb36ref} (which also seems to round differently than the two all-numeric formats, in addition to the main error). Please? Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 18:44, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya! As you may be aware there was a bug in an old version of Reflinks which mistook the text in the commentbox for the name of the uploader which resulted in this kind of stuff. "Meld je aan of registreer je om een reactie te plaatsen!" is Dutch and means "Login or register to comment". No worries; I think I fixed 'em all. AFAIK the current version of Reflinks doesn't have this bug anymore; is that true? Arcandam ( talk) 06:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
@Dispenser: Are you there mate? Please respond. Arcandam ( talk) 14:01, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Why are you ignoring me? You've seen the "You have new messages"-banner, right? Arcandam ( talk) 01:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
? Arcandam ( talk) 23:54, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello? Arcandam ( talk) 13:20, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Ola? Arcandam ( talk) 23:59, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
If you have a dab link listed say for SQL Server and then you go the page it shows up as not found. One case where this occurs is if the link is coded as SQL Server using the code instead of a space. Vegaswikian ( talk) 23:07, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
isspace()
method. Work for even the funky Ogham Space Mark (
SQL Server) and others on
Space (punctuation)#Spaces in Unicode. —
Dispenser
04:17, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/West_Croydon_to_Wimbledon_Line
Broke for me, is something wrong? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 16:53, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
connections[host, dbname]
. —
Dispenser
03:01, 13 June 2012 (UTC)Some of these show up in Dabsolver, but Dabsolver can't find them :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:47, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
\{\{[Ss]tnlnk\|([^[\]{|}<\n>]+)\}\}
with [[\1 railway station|\1]]
), but I do not have the time to do every one of them. Also, lots of pages don't follow the templates pattern, take
Fairfield railway station as an example. If you need help writing regexes I suggest writing on the
WP:TECHPUMP or
WP:BOTREQ. —
Dispenser
17:16, 14 June 2012 (UTC)recently updated to accept a second parameter 18:02, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Can you look at this link which shows over 30 links and yet when you check most, there is nothing there. Maybe some templates or something else. But it would be nice to have it fixed. Also, it seems that this project does not show up in your list with a link count that I could find. So something weird is in play. Vegaswikian ( talk) 20:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Please could you comment in this discussion? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:47, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm curious why you removed this pattern from Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/coordinates search tool. Best regards, — Stepheng3 ( talk) 01:03, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Duplicate param
in ghel, it was previously disabled for type:
since Commons set a "default" in their templates. I've been working recently to remove the data pollution there. BTW, does geosearch.py still work? —
Dispenser
05:09, 27 June 2012 (UTC)Thank you very much! -- Port(u*o)s ( talk) 20:17, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Since you're around at the moment, could I ask if you have this on your to-do list? Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 16:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser. Since a few days French Geoportail has completely changed its syntax for URLs. We have modified fr:Modèle:GeoTemplate, but in order to directly call www.geoportail.gouv.fr , we need a new scale variable (there are already {mmscale} and {osmscale}), this could be {gpscale} (for &z= in the URL), whose value is 2.24579E-9 * {scale} (see talk on GeoTemplate). Could you add this feature to geohack.php on toolserver.org ? (because {{#expr: 2.24579E-9*{scale} }} is not understood by mediawiki). Thanking you by advance, Jack ma ( talk) 05:33, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Dispenser I had a question about the DAB solver app you made and I was hoping you could help me with it. When I look at WikiProject Rhode Island and several others the app says that there are no DABS to solve. However when I look at WikiProject United States, which supports these projects, they show up. I assume that this is because they fall under the WikiProject United States banner but I'm not sure. Is that true and is there anything you can do to fix that so that we can still use the tool without having to fish through the WPUS project to find them. Thanks in advance for the help. Kumioko ( talk) 20:31, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
A wheelbarrow full of stroopwafels. | |
Thanks a lot for helping me with that WP:REFLINKS bug! Arcandam ( talk) 01:17, 4 August 2012 (UTC) |
I have been trying to edit my watchlist. When I click the "View and edit watchlist" link, I get a Wikipedia error page. When I click the "Edit raw watchlist" link, the resulting page doesn't load at all. I have nearly 24,000 pages on my watchlist, so that may have something to do with it. However, with that many pages, I don't remember all of them. If I could, I would be able to type them in and unwatch them that way.
I know that you have "projects" on toolserver.org, so I was wondering if you have a solution on there. If not, do you know what I can do? Thanks. Allen (Morriswa) ( talk) 03:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for hosting that tool. I was missing it, but didn't want to remove the dead link in case it came back online eventually. — Torchiest talk edits 22:11, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, why is the parameter state listed there. He is listed in this template to be correct -- Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ 02:39, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just noticed that locateCoord.py displays an earth map even if another globe has been set, example: tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/locateCoord.py?dbname=nowiki&lon=137.42&lat=-4.47&range_km=1000&globe=Mars. It seems like the earth map is hardcoded. – Danmichaelo ( talk) 20:50, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dispenser. Since GeoHack refuses computations with #expr: could you introduce a new variable "gscale" into geohack.php whose value would be 3.16906E-9 * {scale}
(scale factor for
France Géoportail new version, see above) ? Let me know if you are not the right person to do this extension, if not who to contact ? Thanking you by advance,
Jack ma (
talk)
09:44, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Whaddya think? I'm a bit sceptical, but I'm willing to go along if you and Russ like it. I do like the idea of making absolutely certain the reader understands this is not a warning, but it seems to me that's already obvious. Maybe a pared-down version of Sue's text is in order?
Russ, the discussion in question is here. -- JaGa talk 16:27, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I have this page on my watchlist. When i use Dabsolver in the watchlist section for Disambiguation pages i click on fix list and it takes me to Disambig fix list for R. Any ideas why this is happening. If you reply here could you give me a talkback. Blethering Scot 17:56, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
%26
was unescaped when redirecting to the new dpl project. I've updated the address to avoid the script. —
Dispenser
21:42, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
rawurlencode()
when inserting stuff in URLs. —
Dispenser
06:22, 27 August 2012 (UTC)We use this everyday. Its very useful. We would really like to be able to list out articles that have been changed if they are from project Gibraltaredia OR from project Gibraltar. Is there anyway we can do this? Thanks for your help Victuallers ( talk) 20:29, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
|
) like Template:WikiProject_GibraltarpediA|Template:WikiProject_Gibraltar
. —
Dispenser
19:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)Hi Dispenser, how often is regioncheck-dewiki.log being updated? And please note that ISO 3166-2:AN does not exist anymore (but is listed by your logfile). -- тнояsтеn ⇔
I find that both of these links are functioning for Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh.
I have not (yet) checked other WikiProjects for the same phenomenon.
—
Wavelength (
talk)
16:56, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
You removed the disambiguation hatnote for Checkered Flag (video game) claiming that "Hatnote to Checkered Flag not needed" (but no explanation as to why you think this).
There is at least one other article for a video game entitled Chequered Flag (video game); near-identical name but with the British spelling, certainly close enough to risk confusion. (Please note that contrary to what some believe, dab pages and hatnotes are not solely for identically-spelled articles, but apply to any plausible cases of potential confusion). The dab page also mentions a 1988 arcade game by Konami called "Checkered Flag"- currently redlinked, but still notable, and still a potential source of confusion.
I've reinstated the hatnote. Please feel free to contact me if you disagree with this, thank you.
Ubcule ( talk) 21:14, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you see my request and you say that you do think my gadget? Please, can you also create my gadget?-- Vivaelcelta { discusión · contributions} 19:14, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you did to develop the disambiguation tools. I read about your other projects here. Thanks for everything - you are an inspiration for me to try to do more. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:04, 27 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello, I like your notice about the future of Toolserver. Perhaps you could email the other Toolserver users to suggest doing the same? We'd need some summary on a wiki page. -- Nemo 08:36, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser,
thanks again for helping to answer a journalist's question about maps and geocoordinates on Wikipedia some weeks ago. The resulting article has now come out on Talking Points Memo: http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/wikipedia-maps-inside-encyclopedias-little-known-cache-of-geo-data.php
Among other things, it links to your coordinate statistics and heavily features WikiMiniAtlas, so your input definitely had an impact.
Regards, Tbayer (WMF) ( talk) 17:35, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/categorder.py/Category:All_NPOV_disputes returns an error saying to contact you about it. Can you get it working, please? 81.169.144.135 ( talk) 00:30, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Have you changed something in dab_solver.py in the past few days that might make it slower to load? Since the end of last week, it seems extraordinarily slow, even though other Toolserver pages seem to load without abnormal delays. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 13:34, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
This edit introduced some bad links, e.g. the link to O-ren Ishii is a bad link because it goes to a redirect page which then redirects to the wrong place. JoshuSasori ( talk) 13:23, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Any idea why this article is proving impossible for Weblinks to resolve ?. About 30+ bare urls in the mix, but the messages at the top of the page must mean something to someone, but are complete gibberish/jargon to me. Thanks,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 22:48, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Should the user script for Reflinks make it load on my toolbox? Doesn't work that way for me. I have Firefox 16.0.2, Windows XP. I have added the XSS exception to my NoScript. I use Modern skin. I first added the user script to my modern.js, and nothing changed in the toolbar. So, I switched and added it to my common.js yesterday. I still don't see it in my toolbox. Please advise.
— Maile (
talk)
15:55, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.
All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!-- Pharos ( talk) 07:04, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dispenser, We were discussing the issue of handling large volume of bad unwatched edits at the India noticeboard. Is it possible to add a filter, "Hide confirmed users" on the WikiProject watch tool? Thanks. — Ganeshk ( talk) 13:31, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to celebrate Wikipedia Day and the 12th anniversary (!) of the founding of the site at Wikipedia Day NYC on Saturday February 23, 2013 at New York University; sign up for Wikipedia Day NYC here, or at bit.ly/wikidaynyu. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!-- Pharos ( talk) 01:52, 2 January 2013 (UTC)