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![]() Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update. Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board. The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ( Talk), S Masters ( talk), and The Raptor Let's talk. |
Hi Dodo, please use the "AWB-Option -> Do not use section edit summaries" as it will only enlarge the summary. -- Schlurcher ( talk) 16:02, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
-- HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:48, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB — mono 00:37, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
The next GOCE newsletter will probably need to be sent out at the end of this month. Do you think you could wait that long to test your bot, or does it need to be tested now? The Raptor Let's talk/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 16:36, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi! How long should I wait until making this request again? Is there anything I need to do to prepare for a second time? Should I talk to the dissenting user's/suers' talk page(s) and inquire further about it? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:45, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I archived you requests and bot status was granted already. So just start operations :-) -- EugeneZelenko ( talk) 15:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
How did you get a toolserver account so fast? Lol! It took me months. Can you approve me and maybe give me ability to approve as well? I've got some once-in-a-while message delivery tasks I might offload onto the new bot. – xeno talk 16:41, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedians are notoriously impatient (or at least, I am =); have you considered running the bot four times daily as opposed to once? – xeno talk 12:48, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
See what MDB did here. — mono 15:43, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Should be done. - EdoDodo talk 18:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including
Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody!
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Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 18:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC).
I sent the request to MDB to deliver the GOCE newsletter to the rest of the Guild members. I tried my best to remove the names of users that have already received the newsletter, but I'm pretty sure I missed some. Just thought I'd let you know. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 14:02, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Don't feel too bad about it, everyone makes mistakes. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 22:15, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Should be done. I removed duplicates manually from a few users. Sorry about that. For any Unix folks interested, I ran uniq on a combined list of the users in the two requests, but forgot to sort it! - EdoDodo talk 22:41, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the offer, but I prefer to deliver it myself as it helps me to keep track of current members. AWB makes things simple enough (there was a time when I used to deliver it to 200+ people without it), and only takes about ten minutes. Again, thanks for the suggestion. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 02:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
The new "run" interface is freaking cool! Nice work. As you might have noticed, your bot is approved and flagged now. You should probably set it to start adding the bot flag. – xeno talk 22:08, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Hmm... I enabled the bot flag but it doesn't seem to be working. Perhaps it's a bug in Peachy... I'll look into it. - EdoDodo talk 21:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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For creating MessageDeliveryBot, which makes delivering newsletters and things like that so much easier, I award you the da Vinci Barnstar. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 14:48, 4 August 2010 (UTC) |
Hi,just wondering if you have received any contact from the ISP in relation to this abuse case? Thanks, Acather96 ( talk) 18:29, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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http://toolserver.org/~dodo/cgi-bin/delivermessages.sh.
06/08/10 (00:55:06) Bot is already running or severely malfunctioned at last run, exiting.
monosock 00:57, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
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Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Mono at 01:51, 6 August 2010 (UTC).
Please see User talk:Chzz#Delivery Successful again. Thx. Chzz ► 16:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
In Italian, the villain's name is spelled "Jago", not "Iago". 207.237.243.185 ( talk) 16:28, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
You are required to also spam WP:AN, WT:RFA, WP:VPM, WT:BOT, as well as WP:BON (which you've already done). Please see Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_Approvals_Group. Best, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 21:07, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm having problems running MDB. Every time I try to run the bot, a screen comes up that says "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Is it just that my computer is stupid, or is there something wrong with the bot? I think the former is much more likely. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 22:21, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
There are currently 2,926 articles in the backlog. You can help us! Join the September 2010 drive today! |
The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invite you to participate in the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September at 23:59 (UTC). The goals for this drive are to eliminate 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles. Sign-up has already begun at the September drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! |
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 23:21, 17 August 2010 (UTC).
Your bot is live, after I fixed it. I've committed the relevant fixed to svn. [ stwalkerster| talk 00:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Could you possibly scale your user page so it fits, I don't like scrolling across, and surely, others don't. Just a suggestion... Hazard-SJ Talk 16:22, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
WP:MILHIST has asked to know some of the capabilities of your bot.
WikiCopter Radio ChecklistFormerly AirplanePro 02:03, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, please stop running this bot on Commons without a bot flag. If you run it in the future, please ignore commented out content like this. Thanks. Rocket000 ( talk) 18:37, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi there! The bot should ignore content that is commented out, or between <nowiki> tags. As far as I see, the edits that DodoBot made to commons:File:SFO_at_night.jpg were to non-commented out text. I realize that that was one rare case where the bot shouldn't have edited the header, but there is really no way for the bot to know. Thanks for the suggestions, I've added ==License== and ==File history== to the changes the bot will make if it comes across them. - EdoDodo talk 19:26, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Nice work! Certainly a very good start :). I'll add some more to it later. I've removed the one that changes <br> to <br /> because that is very controversial (see this discussion). Hope you don't mind. - EdoDodo talk 13:44, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I took the liberty of creating the user page under your userspace at commons:User:Rocket000/Regexes/XML, hope you don't mind. It's still being worked on and need to do a bit more debugging, but basically that's what I had in mind. I had it put just the replacements part of the XML instead of the whole file, so it can be added to existing bots more easily. - EdoDodo talk 01:25, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Ah, okay :). Well, for the moment I'll run it without getting approval since it's just one page, but if anyone objects I'll stop it and request approval. I've scheduled the bot to check for changes once a day, slightly after midnight UTC. - EdoDodo talk 13:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Trial complete. Removed from crontab so it won't run any more. I've updated the BRFA too. :D [
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I know it was a limited run, but I don't think requests like this one should be approved. – xeno talk 20:32, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
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archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page. If you cannot find the archive of the discussion you are looking for the archive index may help. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 |
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![]() Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update. Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board. The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ( Talk), S Masters ( talk), and The Raptor Let's talk. |
Hi Dodo, please use the "AWB-Option -> Do not use section edit summaries" as it will only enlarge the summary. -- Schlurcher ( talk) 16:02, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
-- HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:48, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB — mono 00:37, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
The next GOCE newsletter will probably need to be sent out at the end of this month. Do you think you could wait that long to test your bot, or does it need to be tested now? The Raptor Let's talk/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 16:36, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi! How long should I wait until making this request again? Is there anything I need to do to prepare for a second time? Should I talk to the dissenting user's/suers' talk page(s) and inquire further about it? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:45, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I archived you requests and bot status was granted already. So just start operations :-) -- EugeneZelenko ( talk) 15:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
How did you get a toolserver account so fast? Lol! It took me months. Can you approve me and maybe give me ability to approve as well? I've got some once-in-a-while message delivery tasks I might offload onto the new bot. – xeno talk 16:41, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedians are notoriously impatient (or at least, I am =); have you considered running the bot four times daily as opposed to once? – xeno talk 12:48, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
See what MDB did here. — mono 15:43, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Should be done. - EdoDodo talk 18:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including
Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody!
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Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa TALK and S Masters ( talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions |
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 18:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC).
I sent the request to MDB to deliver the GOCE newsletter to the rest of the Guild members. I tried my best to remove the names of users that have already received the newsletter, but I'm pretty sure I missed some. Just thought I'd let you know. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 14:02, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Don't feel too bad about it, everyone makes mistakes. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 22:15, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Should be done. I removed duplicates manually from a few users. Sorry about that. For any Unix folks interested, I ran uniq on a combined list of the users in the two requests, but forgot to sort it! - EdoDodo talk 22:41, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the offer, but I prefer to deliver it myself as it helps me to keep track of current members. AWB makes things simple enough (there was a time when I used to deliver it to 200+ people without it), and only takes about ten minutes. Again, thanks for the suggestion. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 02:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
The new "run" interface is freaking cool! Nice work. As you might have noticed, your bot is approved and flagged now. You should probably set it to start adding the bot flag. – xeno talk 22:08, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Hmm... I enabled the bot flag but it doesn't seem to be working. Perhaps it's a bug in Peachy... I'll look into it. - EdoDodo talk 21:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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The da Vinci Barnstar | |
For creating MessageDeliveryBot, which makes delivering newsletters and things like that so much easier, I award you the da Vinci Barnstar. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 14:48, 4 August 2010 (UTC) |
Hi,just wondering if you have received any contact from the ISP in relation to this abuse case? Thanks, Acather96 ( talk) 18:29, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
at
http://toolserver.org/~dodo/cgi-bin/delivermessages.sh.
06/08/10 (00:55:06) Bot is already running or severely malfunctioned at last run, exiting.
monosock 00:57, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
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Project news
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Featured article
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Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Mono at 01:51, 6 August 2010 (UTC).
Please see User talk:Chzz#Delivery Successful again. Thx. Chzz ► 16:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
In Italian, the villain's name is spelled "Jago", not "Iago". 207.237.243.185 ( talk) 16:28, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
You are required to also spam WP:AN, WT:RFA, WP:VPM, WT:BOT, as well as WP:BON (which you've already done). Please see Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_Approvals_Group. Best, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 21:07, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm having problems running MDB. Every time I try to run the bot, a screen comes up that says "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Is it just that my computer is stupid, or is there something wrong with the bot? I think the former is much more likely. The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 22:21, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
There are currently 2,926 articles in the backlog. You can help us! Join the September 2010 drive today! |
The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invite you to participate in the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September at 23:59 (UTC). The goals for this drive are to eliminate 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles. Sign-up has already begun at the September drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! |
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 23:21, 17 August 2010 (UTC).
Your bot is live, after I fixed it. I've committed the relevant fixed to svn. [ stwalkerster| talk 00:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Could you possibly scale your user page so it fits, I don't like scrolling across, and surely, others don't. Just a suggestion... Hazard-SJ Talk 16:22, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
WP:MILHIST has asked to know some of the capabilities of your bot.
WikiCopter Radio ChecklistFormerly AirplanePro 02:03, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, please stop running this bot on Commons without a bot flag. If you run it in the future, please ignore commented out content like this. Thanks. Rocket000 ( talk) 18:37, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi there! The bot should ignore content that is commented out, or between <nowiki> tags. As far as I see, the edits that DodoBot made to commons:File:SFO_at_night.jpg were to non-commented out text. I realize that that was one rare case where the bot shouldn't have edited the header, but there is really no way for the bot to know. Thanks for the suggestions, I've added ==License== and ==File history== to the changes the bot will make if it comes across them. - EdoDodo talk 19:26, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Nice work! Certainly a very good start :). I'll add some more to it later. I've removed the one that changes <br> to <br /> because that is very controversial (see this discussion). Hope you don't mind. - EdoDodo talk 13:44, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I took the liberty of creating the user page under your userspace at commons:User:Rocket000/Regexes/XML, hope you don't mind. It's still being worked on and need to do a bit more debugging, but basically that's what I had in mind. I had it put just the replacements part of the XML instead of the whole file, so it can be added to existing bots more easily. - EdoDodo talk 01:25, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Ah, okay :). Well, for the moment I'll run it without getting approval since it's just one page, but if anyone objects I'll stop it and request approval. I've scheduled the bot to check for changes once a day, slightly after midnight UTC. - EdoDodo talk 13:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Trial complete. Removed from crontab so it won't run any more. I've updated the BRFA too. :D [
stwalkerster|
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23:29, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I know it was a limited run, but I don't think requests like this one should be approved. – xeno talk 20:32, 25 August 2010 (UTC)