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I usually reply here for toolserver issues (eg. issues that other people are likely to be interested in), but I may reply on your page for non-toolserver issues. If I leave a note on your talk page, I'll have it in my watchlist, so feel free to reply there.
I'll generally keep comment history as intact as possible, but I reserve the right to ruthlessly reorganize and sometimes refactor comments, to keep the page organized and keep it from growing too quickly.
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:) Kate fixed the toolserver replication stoppage, it's slowly working its way towards real-time, hopefully it will be much better in ~24 hours. -- Interiot 04:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your doing the query. I'll get on to it as soon as I can (the new semester just started). Regarding the accuracy: Yes, I expected a bit of inaccuracy at the very beginning, since the history of articles wasn't tracked properly at that time. Another source of errors is that a deleted article's history also is deleted, so no trace of it remains. Still, I do not think this will matter much. It would be nice if this matched the official article count, but that isn't very important, since any predictions will be inaccurate anyway. Amaurea 08:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Sure, I'll start working on that. :) The final version of the function getSource(URL) is at
User:AySz88/Java Sandbox. --
AySz88^
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Got to 1.0 of the Namespace parser - it ultimately returns a HashMap of namespaces and associates each foriegn namespace with the English name. I'm expecting the tool will want to iterate through the HashMap instead of checking each string individually. -- AySz88^ - ^ 09:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Namespace.getFullMap("en");
and increment the Namespace that has a key that matches the namespace. --
AySz88^
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23:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC)No problem! (And my congratulations beforehand.) Your RfA page is on my watchlist, so whenever I see someone vote, I update the tally. It's not that big of a deal; I've seen candidates update their own tallies before, but I woudn't worry about it if I were you. Some users will update the tally eventually, and quite frankly, it's not that big of a deal. Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 02:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there Interiot! I don't think we've interacted before, but I have a small question. What is your edit counter tool's relationship to the old Kate's Tool? Is it the same thing, spruced up, or something else which has replaced it altogether? I was just curious because on RfA, it seems like "Interiot's tool" is the new toy to help investigate potential admins. Good luck on your own RfA, by the way! Cheers, Bratsche talk | Esperanza 04:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Sure, I've added a question to that extent, per the several proposals in Wikispace to create such a layer. The poll doesn't propose more layers that are less spread apart; the poll doesn't propose anything. However, if community says that we should have such layers, I'd be happy to propose them and/or work out the details. R adiant _>|< 12:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not completely sure how you operate the ArbCom counter, but RomaC has withdrawn from the race. Cheers, Ingoolemo talk 17:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I was bold and grouped your comments about an intermediate layer of user powers with mine under a new option [1], describing the difference between 'tools' and 'powers'. If you object to this, please move it back to where you had it. Thanks! -- nae'blis (talk) 19:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I love your tree walker. I asked user:Lupin to add it to the dev version of the popup menu gadgetry, which he graciously did. However, it may not handle weird user names well when invoked that way. Consider this URL: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/contribution_tree?dbname=enwiki_p&user=Can't%20sleep,%20clown%20will%20eat%20me (this is for User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me) If you try to walk down one of the namespaces, it seems to choke on the single quote... is that because the single quote should have been urlencoded already when first invoked?
PS, I will watch here, you can answer here (I need to make a template for that!)... Oh, and congrats on your impending ascension! ++ Lar: t/ c 00:51, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey there. Congratulations, you've just been made a sysop! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except junk like "LALALALAL*&*@#@THIS_SUXX0RZ"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.
Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun!— Ilyan e p (Talk) 22:06, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations Interiot! -- a.n.o.n.y.m t 22:19, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Some editcount-cruft regarding those who voted:
[2] -- Interiot 01:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot! We haven't interacted much, but I read somewhere in your userpages that you can run queries on the database dump upon request. I was wondering if you could produce a list of articles that have not been categorized yet. I'm in no hurry so you can take your time if you choose to run this query. I'll be watching this space. Many thanks! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 15:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
The report can be found here. Let me know if there's anything else you need (particularly if it comes from a Special: page, apparently those are really easy to run). -- Interiot 08:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, thank you for creating your edit counter, which is very useful. I have a request: would it be possible to have a color denoting article edits alone, rather than mixing them with category, template, and image edits? It would be useful to see at a glance how much people are contributing to the main namespace in relation to other edits.
SlimVirgin
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14:00, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
January 2005 Mainspace: 1024 (42%) Talk: 240 (10%) Template: 3 (1%) Template talk: 0 (0%) Category: 10 (1%) Category talk: 1 (1%) ... ...
I changed the color scheme on the counter to lighten it up a bit. If anybody has better suggestions, or if anybody can confirm whether this is suitable for users with colorblindness of one type or another, I'd appreciate it. For what it's worth, I'm pulling my color schemes from ColorBrewer and ColorSchemer. Compare the original to the new. -- Interiot 03:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi
Under WP:KATE or something like that there is a script for creating a static link to Kate's edit counter in the user options in the top-right hand corner of the Monobook script.
I have the modded the script slightly to point to yours, you might want to take a look at it, borrow it, steal it, make any comments or moderations you want, or whatever. It's at User:Haza-w/Interiot code. haz ( user talk) 10:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
This is something I've always wondered, but felt was too stupid to ask. You're so nice, though, and well-qualified to answer, that I'm finally just going for it: Why are the best user-created tools, including yours, resident at the .de (German) server? Best wishes, Xoloz the idiot 18:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
The list of uncatagorized pages is very useful! I just used it to catagorize about 60 rivers! I downloaded the list, hacked up a quick script to pull out the items with the word "River" in them, and formatted the result in wiki-form(see this user page of mine); going through it, I found 60 rivers I could easily catagorize, and I did! 60 down, only 66,000+ to go! Wheee! We should really annouce this great tool of yours more widely; also, if you want to hack on it to display a clickable, filtered(either strict text or regexp) list, that would be even cooler. Yay, yay, yay - we can actually do catagorizing in a sane way now! JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Got a question for you. How feasible would it be for you to add a "Sysop: True/false" output line to your edit counter? Every so often, I see a user who I think would make a great admin, and I check their edit count to see how feasible a RfA would be, and so it would be really nice to add that kind of line to it. As it stands, I have to go find the list of admins, then hunt for their name...not as easy. Just a suggestion. Great work on it, by the way; I like the little graph at the bottom. Take care. —
BorgHunter
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00:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
( \r). The bug is fixed, and Lar is willing to host the file for us, which I'll ask about when we release v4.0. I'm not sure if you have a copy of the tool in your local machine, but if you do, would you mind having a look at it and tell us what you think? Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 02:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
*sigh* Sorry to interupt you again but can I make another suggestion? I saw you just added the pop-ups for each month pulling up stats for edits. Can I suggest instead of pop-ups, make it a link on the month?
Example:
Instead of the pop-up stats, it would read:
2006/01 (which would link to the monthly stats).
This way you can see a clear visual of the contributions, by month, and this could probably help with the contribution tree. — Moe ε 07:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
There is no specific problem in viewing the pop-ups but it might be beneficial to make it a link, like my suggestion above, since other programs have problems with viewing it. It also looks a little sloppy to have a pop-up. Sorry if you didn't clearly understand my previous message. I'll try to give a better example.
Example using my edit count : My suggestion is no pop-up and make a link instead. So instead of viewing the pop-up you would see this:
2005/07 2658
2005/08 1881
2005/09 751
2005/10 479
2005/11 1837
2005/12 1531
2006/01 2481
Maybe you could make the red links go to your contribution tree? I hope this example is better. — Moe ε 15:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
The counter dosnt work for my name anymore. The same thing happened a while ago whit kate to. / Grön 11:16, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hiya, Have you considered adding a time-based (either as in "time of day", "day of the week" and/or "time of year") histogram to the Editcount? Best regards, -- Tournesol 11:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, your editcount is really very useful. I want to report you a minor bug. For example in this in edits by namespace part Şablon or Kullanıcı can be seen correctly but on popup window, they are not ok. It must be about charsets.-- Ugur Basak 12:37, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Just throwing out that your tool is awesome. Thanks for making it! Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk?) 22:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted to toss my thanks along also! I love the improvments you're making to your already awesome tool! If I may ask, what tool are you using to generate the graphs? -- light darkness 04:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I love the new graph content. Great job!-- ragesoss 05:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Very nice additions. -- Tantalum T e lluride 05:37, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for creating the toolserver auto-log for the PROD page. I was wondering, is it possible that it remembers past PRODs (that is, keep a log of pages that had a PROD template even if it was removed later). It would be a nice way to keep track of how many pages end up deleted or improved, and it's a possible way to detect a WP:POINTer who goes mass-removing PROD tags. R adiant _>|< 08:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
A great tool. One note - I'm not sure if you realise but on Kate's a list of possible usernames is shown as you type in a new username - a feature yours is lacking. Just wodered if you knew or not. Good luck! Ian13| talk 17:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm happy to discuss privacy issues with the daily/weekly graphs more. The graphs have gotten very positive responses, so I don't think I'll remove them ever, but there are some users, particularly ones who edit from work, who may have qualms about the graphs. I don't want to discourage anyone from editing, so I can opt-out specific users from the graphs. Please email me, or /msg Interiot on IRC, or otherwise if you'd like me to opt you out of it. Or if anyone has general thoughts on privacy, feel free to discuss it here... -- Interiot 18:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Interiot, I thought of a couple things that you might want to consider adding to your already great edit counter. In the popups, would it be possible to add the edits/page ratio by month? It'd help give an idea of what the person was working on during that month—stub sorting, sending an article through FAC, etc. For people like me who constantly change tasks, it'd be a nice addition. Also, I doubt this is possible mostly because it hasn't been done yet, but is there any way to count minor edits? -- Spangineer (háblame) 21:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. We're currently trying to get the bootcamp up and running, and I was wondering if it would be possible for Wikimedia to host a web-based IRC client for us. I noticed you have toolserver access, so I figured you might be good to ask. The client is PJIRC, modified to autoconnect and autojoin freenode and #wikipedia-bootcamp, with no possibility to join other channels or servers. All the IRC commands have been deactivated, with the exception of /msg, /me and /nick. It's written in Java, is released under the GPL license, and a working copy can be found at my site here. The idea is basically to have a button or a link someplace on the WP:BC page, and if nescesary also on some other pages, to enable new users to get help on IRC without having to download and install their own client, and also without having to know any commands. Thanks in advance. Bjelleklang - talk 00:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Nice improvements, keep up the good work. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 15:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it's no big deal if people are already placing templates, as long as we don't actually delete anything until five days after the "official" start. R adiant _>|< 15:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
That edit counter of yours is brilliant (and reveals a bit too much information). Take a Barnstar! Latinus 23:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot. I have an idea for the new graphs you've added to your edit counter--a vertical red line showing the current time or day. This would let users more easily see what the average contribution rate is at the current time. ~ MDD 46 96 00:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello.
I've been recently notified that, according to
Wikipedia fair use policy, fair use images may not be used outside article namespade, and that I have 35 of them on
my userpage. Could you please help me finding which ones of the images I have in that page are fair use, so that I can remove those and only those?
Thanks in advance, --
Fibonacci
04:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could create a toolserver script that would list all duplicate entries from the block, delete and protect logs made in the past week. That is, a list of all pages that were (un)deleted or (un)protected twice or more by the same admin, and of all users that were (un)blocked twice or more by the same admin, within the last week. This should help in putting a break on wheel warring.
>Radiant<
11:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Would be posible known distinct pages edits for namespace?
Something like...
Namespace | Edits | Disctinct pages |
(Main) | 3000 | 1500 |
Discusión | 100 | 6 |
Usuario | 100 | 1 |
Usuario Discusión | 500 | 50 |
Wikipedia | 200 | 100 |
Wikipedia Discusión | 2 | 1 |
Yrithinnd 12:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC) sorry for my english :(
Software error:
Unable to connect to database: Host 'login-services.zedler.knams.wikimedia.org' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server at /home/interiot/public_html/perllib/ZedlerUtils.pm line 43.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (zedler-admins@wikimedia.org), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
-- Cool Cat Talk| @ 22:55, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it posible for the editcounter to complare two users. As in how common their editis are. (to primarily find out revert wars/stalking/or sockpuppetary) -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 22:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
It can also compare deleted edits (just statistics) assuming that can be done. (for deleted stalking/revert wars to be presented as evidence when necesary) --
Cool Cat
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22:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that the header of your undead list says: "This lists all articles tagged with a death category but not a birth category." I think it should be the other way around :-)
PS: The edit count tool is great. — Whouk ( talk) 13:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Hiya. Would it be possible to take a look at the code for your edit counter? I've found a MediaWiki feature request that I think might be very useful and easy to implement, but it would require cross-wiki database access (which I don't know how to do). Thanks! GeorgeStepanek\ talk 21:11, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments! I really appreciate being, well, appreciated :)
I think that clarifying the pseudo-namespaces would help (I'll read over it, it's probably a good idea) but I doubt you'll get people to delete the "wrong" shortcuts once they exist. But at least discouraging furhter "wrong" ones would be useful.
The wheelwar detector doesn't have to run frequently, daily would be fine. The object isn't really to detect (and stop) wheel wars in progress, but to find out how large the problem actually is and who the problem admins are. I hear far too many complaints about admin abuse to not investigate it (generally those complaints don't even specify which admin they're talking about, and most may well be unfounded; but the atmosphere that "admins are evil" is not good for the 'pedia).
Yours, >Radiant< 00:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
You left two stubs not created ((indie)) and ((pop)). The indie can be done without, those fit into rock music and a couple others. On the otherhand the ((pop)) stub template really should be created, as many of these do not make reference to another genre. There are problably 100 or more album stubs that can be placed into the ((pop)) stub. Will you look into this for me? (as I have no clue on how to create any stub templates). Thanks Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 02:42, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Ok. I am going to ring their doorbell. Thanks Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 16:04, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Both the current and live trackers are producing html that looks like <a href="(link)" />(text)</a>
, which is invalid html, drives Tidy absolutely nuts, and would probably break on a standards-compliant browser, if such a beast really existed. Also, inspection of
User:Crypticbot/Proposed deletion's history reveals the following articles were at one time marked {{
prod}} but had their tags removed before you started keeping track of them, and could stand being put into your database by hand:
Time nominated | Article | Reason for deletion |
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02/04 03:33 | Alternate ( talk) | dictdef already in Wiktionary in a much better state |
02/04 00:30 | List of notable Veterans of other conflicts | Unmaintainable; potentially huge; "Other" than what? |
02/04 00:27 | Dark fall: The journal | Unreferenced; not notable; more about story than game |
02/04 00:05 | Abahani | no content, and no indication of notability, no sources |
— Cryptic (talk) 18:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and it would be keen if, for the main article links, it output html that looked like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious_Media
instead of
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Conscious_Media
; this matches the html produced by
Conscious Media and the category page, so folks' browsers will know the link has been visited and color it appropriately wherever it appears. —
Cryptic
(talk)
18:42, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
No need to change your utility functions, just filter their output before printing them:
use CGI::Util qw(unescape); my $fullname_link = unescape(ZedlerUtils::link_to_article($fullname)); unless ($fullname_link =~ /&/) { $fullname_link =~ s!/index\.php\?title=!iki/!; # quotes and question marks break links; all other characters are link-safe or not permitted in article names anyway $fullname_link =~ s/'/'/g; # or s/"/"/g if you start delimiting the link with double-quotes instead $fullname_link =~ s/\?/%3F/g; }
and stick $fullname_link in your printf instead of the link_to_article call. This doesn't break unicode urls if they're correctly formed in the initial index.php url; display problems are fixed by including a <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
in a <head> section. —
Cryptic
(talk)
20:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
The log is looking good! Sorry, I don't do IRC or IM much, mainly for lack of time. Talkpaging ok with you? For the "exprod" log, maybe for a deletion you could find the deleting user and deletion reason (generally A7, it seems), but that's not really important. I'd like to have it sorted by "current status" though. And maybe for "other" status pages, it would be possible to detect the first template on the page (e.g. "cleanup" or "mergeto") and show that. Just brainstorming actually. Thanks for your help~ >Radiant< 22:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible that you could modify your code or explain to me how I would modify it myself (since I don't know Perl) so I can use it on my own wiki? Thanks. -- Jediarchives11 02:46, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
So you mean people should just mention WP:NOT, WP:V etc in PROD nominations? I was going more for clear, natural language explanations in the actual nominations. It's been my experience that many people won't click a link to read more, especially not if its a link to a page of longwinded rules and guidelines. A simple, 30-word explanation would help most people... referring them to guidelines would just make them scratch their heads even more. At least that's how I see it. -- W.marsh 03:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
It is catching a ref to the PROD template, on
02/06 00:44 User:Flcelloguy/Signpost/News and notes 6 (reason not found)
Please fix. Thanks for all your work! JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:19, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Can you include <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
on the contributions tree thing like the edit counter tool? Thank you. --
WB
02:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I award this Barnstar of Diligence to Interiot, for his excellent work on a variety of toolserver scripts.
>Radiant<
23:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
well, thanks you very much for your version of editcount, we're having quite much fun right now :)
Darkoneko 18:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Excellent image; great that you found it and thanks for adding it to Sabot Georgewilliamherbert 21:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Would you be willing to make a log in the same format as the PROD log, but for
Category:Candidates for speedy deletion? What would be nice would be to be able to see all the reasons on one page... Thanks again for all your great work!
JesseW, the juggling janitor 10:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Have you seen Duesentrieb's CatScan? AFAIK, it can do: Changes in the last hour in Category:Automobiles and subcats, Articles in a subcat of both Category:Automobiles and Category:Wikipedia cleanup. If you haven't looked into it, I would strongly advise it... ;-) JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the danger of hanging out in deletion and blocking areas; well, I work on WP:CP, CAT:CSD, and PROD (rather than AfD or 3RR) for that reason. Less emotion in those areas. Wherever you work will benefit from your skill. Thanks. JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
As noted on the PROD talk page, there's a software error showing at the bottom of the history log. — Whouk ( talk) 13:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
The link from page http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/contribution_tree?namespace=0&user=Doug%20Bell&dbname=enwiki_p to the article Comparison of Java to C++ does not work. The link http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Comparison_of_Java_to_C++ drops the ++ when resolving to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Java_to_C instead of keeping it and resolving to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Java_to_C++
– Doug Bell talk• contrib 13:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, great work on tools! I wish I could anything like that. But I wonder if it would be possible to add one more feature to the prod log: that is a number of people who have clicked on the link to article or on the diff when it was nominated? I believe it would raise some red flags when an article would not have been reviewed by anybody. It was happening quite often on AfD when entries had to be re-listed to get more votes. Thanks! Renata 01:23, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
As a non-American, the American date format (today, 13 Feb, being 2/13, for instance) used on the proposed deletion page is intensely irritating. Could you please change it to use something more international? Probably either ISO 8601 or using textual names (so today would be 2006-2-13 or 13 Feb / Feb 13). Hairy Dude 04:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
G'day. I notice you recently added an image to Stall (flight), sourced from NASA. Unfortunately there are some significant errors in the image, so I have removed it from the page and made my concerns known on the talk page there and at Image talk:StallFormation.gif. I'd appreciate your input to see if we can find an alternative, since a image like it (but correct!) would definitely benefit the article. Graham 05:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Would you mind checking what's going on at [6] ? It's been stalled since this morning, and is currently 11 hours behind. Thanks, {{User:Vacuum/sig}} 22:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello! As a Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles member, I just thought you might want to input your opinions on an important discussion we're currently having about whether articles regarding similar vehicles should be merged into one or split by brand. If you would like to comment or read further, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#Articles of Similar Vehicles. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and feedback. Airline 23:43, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Interiot. In celebration of Random Acts of Kindness Week, I want to thank you for all the great tools you have created. Us faeries aren't big fans of technology (no love there), but I must say, your tools really are useful and have helped us to better understand each other. Thank you. The Kindness Fairy 05:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I think I have got a problem. After I changed my preference of the look of my nickname (in My preferences) my edit counts were not updated. I made a couple of edits on Wikipedia (english version) and the counts stayed at 2792. I hope you can give me your advise on this situation soon. Thank You. S iva1979 Talk to me 12:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I viewed your userbox rss feed page and think its a really cool thing. Well, I updated my userboxes a couple of days before that and my userbox count was not updated. I just wondered how often its updated. You can let me know at my user page. Thanks:) -- Think Fast 01:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm sure this will tax your coding powers! Include a link to your [7] and/or a one liner about/showing the replicaiton lag (currently 17 hours plus) to help people understand the limitaitons of the toolserver. Rich Farmbrough. 15:48, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you possibly find a spot to place the current lag time on your Edit Counter? It's just an extra step to check the PROD counter for current lag :-P If not, no worries. Cheers! -- light darkness ( talk) 22:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
<iframe src="cgi-bin/replag?text" width=700 height=40 frameborder=0 style="margin-left:5em; margin-top:-1em"></iframe>on the edit count page. -- M @ th wiz 2020 01:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I made a small number of edits today and they are not showing up on the edit counter, can you please fix this? The Eye of Timaeus 23:48, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
If you agree that the revised userbox is OK, as it seems you do at
Template talk:User CDP-USA, then would you please remove the deletion box on the main page. Apparently, I as the creator am not allowed to do so. We all must be WikiLegal.
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Hi. Is it possible to get a list of all articles that have been listed for the PROD process? I'm not technically minded, so I don't have a clue at all. It would be useful in analysing the process. Steve block talk 09:26, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello again Interiot! I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I've currently proposed a bot to maintain a stat page on Wikipedia, and I was planning on getting the edit counts from the toolserver, more specificly your tool. A user has asked if this would cause any stress on the toolserver, I expressed that there would be no more than 1 hit per hour, but if you could possible post on the WT:B page your opinion on the impact, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks. -- light darkness ( talk) 12:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering wether there is something wrong with the server. I've gotten used to checking there to see how long a user has been editing here but for 2 or 3 days now my counter (that's what comes up first) is stuck at the same number. Wasn't sure if you were aware of any problem... -- Mmounties 16:21, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I saw the hit count on the prod log, neat, thank you! But I wonder if you know that Toolserver database replication lag is: 1 day, 20 hours behind real-time! Can something be done? Renata 00:57, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
How much longer is your edit counter not going to be working? Moe ε 01:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
_ _ First let me say that the edit count tool needs nothing more to make it wonderful. And i keep thinking of not-so-stupid ways to make what it already does even more useful. In particular, i think the graphs of when in the day and when in the week the user tends to edit are helpful with vandals, both in ruling out hypotheses about the context the edits are made in, and in at least suggesting whether a specific block is likely to affect the vandal at all.
_ _ (I wonder whether it might be a more powerful tool against IP vandals with the ability to graph by namespace and/or "degrees of separation" from specific articles that have been related to previous vandalism by the same IP. Conceivably these could be part of establishing sonar-like signatures of vandals and of others sharing an IP, and make surveillance for vandalism more efficient.)
_ _ But i write today with what i hope are some much quicker SMOPs. I've gotten reasonably good at relating UTC times to the present moment, but at the other conversion problems (e.g. inferring what time zones are most consistent with an IP's usage pattern, and determining when in my local time i should apply a block that will be effective) i am clumsy enough to make it attractive to get back to editing and leave the enforcement to colleagues. My intuition is that one feature could significantly reduce my frustration level. Namely, i'd like a client-side control -- i think those triangular controls (triangular for my IE at least, and Java-provided, i think) on Recent changes, for hiding or showing the full series of rapid-fire edits by one editor on one page, must be implemented similarly to what i have in mind. The control i have in mind would have 24 settings, or for simplicity maybe just 12 (representing two time adjacent zones, each pair by the average of their offsets). I would try out hypotheses (edits mostly during day, edits mostly in evening) by setting roughly what i think is the editor's time zone, and -- ta-da! -- auxiliary scales below the two graphs would label them with the editor's corresponding local time. Then, having arrived at a theory of where on the graphs their next vandalism is likely, i switch to my own time zone (and the one next door), and see when i should come back to monitor for trouble, or to set up a "pinpoint blocking raid".
_ _ Having said that, its almost pointless to bother mentioning putting a line of text below the day-of-week table with the names of the days. Not a big deal, but a presumably cheap amenity, even if (in order to assure match up) they have to be on a separate graphic of precisely the same width.
_ _ I will continue to venerate you at my desktop virtual Interiot altar even if your priorities are in entirely different directions, so thanks for the opportunity to maybe play a small role in making it better.
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You just deleted the template that I worked very hard on. Please bring it back, or at least let me have the code so I can just keep it on my page! Please, Im having a really bad day already. Weatherman90 17:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)\
Hello. User:Dschor is placed upon temporary probation and restricted from article construction. Despite this, he has made an sandbox in his talkpage for making contributions upon his return ( here). As such, I took the liberty of making them for him, and I was wondering if it possible to add 4 edits to his mainspace edit count beacuse they are rightfully his edits, and I feel he is entitled to it. Please respond on my talkpage. - Zero Talk 17:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to use jaws for windows, a screen reader, to access your edit counting tool. However, it crashes completely on jaws 5.1 (the version I use) and sometimes crashes in a demo of 7.0 (the latest version. The computer completely freezes, so I can't get any error logs. The only thing I could find that seemed unfamiliar or likely to cause jaws to crash were the on-mouse-over and popup links in the months contribution table. I'm not that familiar with advanced html, but it would be easier if the on-mouse-over links to the user's contributions were replaced with normal links that open in a new window, if possible.
Also, I'd like to see stats on the percentage of minor edits made/the number of new articles created. This would be useful for providing a quick overview of a user's style.
Thanks, Graham/pianoman87 talk 12:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
About a month ago I made a (silly) userbox that I noticed your template counter didn't pick up. It's Template:User Shot in Reno. I was amused, wondering how long the little box would survive in the current climate, but I thought, if this demonstrated a bug in your acquisition of templates, you might want to know about it. Regards, JDoorj a m Talk 21:47, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
For what it's worth, it appears that {{ user piano-1}} may be one of the first non-babel and non-directly-wikipedia-related userboxes created on enwiki, by Yummifruitbat on 28 May, 2005, created "to illustrate idea". -- Interiot 19:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Interiot. I've got a couple ideas for tools. Displaying metrics, really. identifying trending and such. I have an idea of what the sql would look like, but I am not familiar enough with what the schema looks like to actually visualize the data. I'm quite accomplished with web-based tools, and I'd love the opportunity to be able to prototype some of the things I would like to put together. I understand that only administrators have access to SQL. Is it possible I could have read-only access to a slave database to mock up tools? I have seen User:Topbanana's page on making a mirror database, but the downloads are fragmented and difficult to reconstruct into a working, "offline" copy. Alternatively, I suppose I could look at the source for the tool(s) you have, and hack in my own sql. The problem with that is I am primarily a perl programmer. What do you think?
Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.
If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
In order to cancel out some of the noise in edit counts I wonder if any of the following suggestions might be implemented:
Thoughts? – Doug Bell talk• contrib 08:38, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
My script has only made 6 queries per day, I don't think that I'm the cause of the increased traffic :P Also, regarding getting someone to run the query on the toolserver, is it even possible to mass get the edit counts of certain usernames? If not, I'd need everyones edit count above 2,500, and then I'd have to filter out those that don't wish to be on the list. -- light darkness ( talk) 17:02, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
The recent inclusion of adminactions :) You are the best, great job / Grön sv 19:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Great addition! But oh man, there are so many possibilities from here—maybe a total admin action count right under edit count, perhaps a green line on the graphs to show the distribution of admin actions through the day and week (maybe on a different scales?), and maybe on the bar chart a distinction in the total count: instead of "Month - Total count - Bar", it could be "Month - Edit count/Admin action count - Bar". -- Spangineer (háblame) 22:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Just an idea, but it was pointed out to me that we should notify the original author about "their" article being proposed. Wondering if it would be possible to make the current PROD system or a PROD bot to auto notify the user? I am unfamilar with bot programming on wikipedia, but if it isn't too hard to pick up (ie if you could point me in the right direction of say a bot howto) I'd try to make something. I am by no means a programmer, but I have wrote hundreds of shell/perl/VDS scripts (VDS is a quick and dirty scripting language for windows).
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Doesn't seem to be updating the edit count I Love Plankton 16:50, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I often see a request of people who want to see which articles they've created because they haven't been tracking their activity and if you forget, it's pretty hard to retrace. Could you write some sort of tool that extracts first edits from an article's history to alow creation counts and easy lists of created pages? Please post a quick note on my talk if you reply here. - Mgm| (talk) 18:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I hereby decree you are now Saint Interiot of the Awesome, Amazing, Kick@$$ Edit Counter, now that you put the admin actions in; you've opened up a can of worms though, since now everytime I think of something new, I'll be running over here to suggest it! :-D Essjay Talk • Contact 07:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
It looks like the average edits/day is low. It should just be the simple calculation (total edits)/(number of days from first edit until now). I've made almost 150 edits in a month and it says that my average edits/day is 1.62, when it should be almost 5. -- Gandalf 07:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
…is brilliant! Would it be possible to include "talk" and "contributions" links next to the user name? Cheers for another excellent tool! — Phil | Talk 09:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
OK, Interiot, please tell me, what are the criteria for deleting an obviously unworthy character - I simply don't know. Crzrussian 15:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Dunno if this is the sort of thing that your tools could conceivably handle, but I'd quite like a "which edit first/last contains a given text string" tool. OTOH an update to the new admin-actions, to show just admin-actions broken down into blocks, protects, etc would be useless but fun :-) William M. Connolley 21:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC).
Each time I check out your edit counter, I say to myself, "Jeff, there is no dag gurn way that this here edit counting contrapulation ken git any better <spit><ptang!>." But then I fire up my old crank-powered computerizer, and what do my eyes behold? A better counter. It's a work of art. A thing of beauty. You've heard this a billion times about your tools, no doubt, but keep up the awesome work. -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The Avg edits/day should be calculated from the day of the first edit to the current day. It seem to use the last day of the current month to determine the number of days. – Doug Bell talk• contrib 15:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have deleted edits on the color-coded bar graph? Cool, if possible. -- Zsinj Talk 20:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Alright! I have an associate in my Mindspillage vandalism! HAHAHAHAHAHA </crazed vandal> :-) Essjay Talk • Contact 01:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
=== code samples of both original Kate's tool and my modded version that works perfectly with yours === //Kate's tool link script // Add a "Kate" link to your monobook "personal menu" list at the very // top of the page. // // Indicate where you would like "Kate" to appear: // pt-userpage, pt-mytalk, pt-preferences, // pt-watchlist, pt-mycontris, pt-logout // gsKateInsertBefore = 'pt-logout'; // leave blank to append after "logout" // function KateLink() { var user = document.getElementById( 'pt-userpage').firstChild.firstChild.data; var li = document.createElement( 'li' ); li.id = 'pt-kate'; var a = document.createElement( 'a' ); a.appendChild( document.createTextNode( 'Kate' ) ); // eh, the css makes the text lowercase a.href = 'http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?dbname=enwiki&user=' + user; li.appendChild( a ); if ( ! gsKateInsertBefore ) // append to end (right) of list { document.getElementById( 'pt-logout' ).parentNode.appendChild( li ); } else { var before = document.getElementById( gsKateInsertBefore ) before.parentNode.appendChild( li, before ); } } if ( window.addEventListener ) window.addEventListener( 'load', KateLink, false ); else if ( window.attachEvent ) window.attachEvent ( 'onload', KateLink );
//Interiot's tool link script // Add a "Interiot" link to your monobook "personal menu" list at the very // top of the page. // // Indicate where you would like "Interiot" to appear: // pt-userpage, pt-mytalk, pt-preferences, // pt-watchlist, pt-mycontris, pt-logout // gsInteriotInsertBefore = 'pt-logout'; // leave blank to append after "logout" // function InteriotLink() { var user = document.getElementById( 'pt-userpage').firstChild.firstChild.data; var li = document.createElement( 'li' ); li.id = 'pt-interiot'; var a = document.createElement( 'a' ); a.appendChild( document.createTextNode( 'Interiot' ) ); // eh, the css makes the text lowercase a.href = 'http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Pegasus1138&dbname=enwiki_p'; li.appendChild( a ); if ( ! gsInteriotInsertBefore ) // append to end (right) of list { document.getElementById( 'pt-logout' ).parentNode.appendChild( li ); } else { var before = document.getElementById( gsInteriotInsertBefore ) before.parentNode.appendChild( li, before ); } } if ( window.addEventListener ) window.addEventListener( 'load', InteriotLink, false ); else if ( window.attachEvent ) window.attachEvent ( 'onload', InteriotLink );
The fact that they use a different format for their strings while not a "problem" causes issues when trying to implement them both in url string sets. Your tool also does not allow for the +user part of the string which Kate's does, granted I do not entirely understand the purpose of it though.
Pegasus1138
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Hello,
Some time ago I wrote the following about Kate's edit count tool. The same can be said about your tool.
Kate ( http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user= ) might be considered a breach of policy §7 Privacy_policy#User_data which states : Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available via "user contributions" lists, and occasionally in aggregated forms published by other users. Kate is not an other user but a tool displayed on a website owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Kate is not an "occasional" publication, but a systematic tool available 24 hours a day, and providing informations on all users, not a smaller set of users selected on a particular occasion. The "disclaimer" section on Kate's main page seems to be the result of an inaccurate reading of the above mentioned §7. Kate is a controversial tool : see en:Wikipedia:Editcountitis for further reading.-- Theo F 10:36, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
I would not need to make these critics if you provided an "opt in" system instead of "opt out".
Best regards
Teofilo talk 12:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Just to add that teo, on fr:, has very often a point of view shared only by himself ;D Alvaro 13:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I did the undelete. However, it's still an orphan (and I think it still has the CSD tag). I'll leave dispensation to you, though. Geogre 14:52, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't email you, but I would like an edit count graph for me of my edits from my first, to current. Is this possible? --
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Generate the list of articles created for Brian0918, after tweaking the script's output slightly. -- Interiot 05:30, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, I made some fun using your counter, listing how often myself and others have visited our village pump on Dutch wikipedia. (See this if you like). I wonder if it is possible to list the other way around, I mean, a list of contributors whith the number of edits for an individual article. Or does it exist already? (No priority of course, its just for fun). Thanks for the nice counter anyway. Pieter1 18:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to show the user who proposed the article for deletion on Proposed Deletion: current nominations? I think people will (wisely) more carefully review entries if they are made by users they don't know. Cheers, — Ruud 01:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Is it still possible to see deleted contributions using one of your tools, or do you know of one that allows this? I'm trying to track down which article by Dreamzweaver got deleted. - Mgm| (talk) 09:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, There is no article listed under 'Interiot's tool'. Why don't you create a page that links to your tool? - Richardcavell 08:51, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
I seem to be k-lined. Not sure why. I emailed staff@freenode.net, and I haven't heard anything back. Interestingly, I was k-lined while I was sleeping. I'm sure it's an error. IRC isn't required to hack perl, but it helps to be able to talk to your fellow hackers. Harumph. ... aa: talk 03:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. When I look at the edit count, there is a "deleted edits" item. What does this refer to? Thanks! Slowmover 16:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
Your edit counter is really really great, thank you very much for your hard work! Especially useful when examining sysop candidates's edits :-P
I was wondering if you could hack a little something. Knowing how many sysop are needed is kinda difficult now that the usual statistics are not anymore computed, but very important as it determined how picky/pushy we need to be.
Another way to determine that would be to know how much admin edits (the red bar in your tool) are done on a specific wikipedia in one month, divided by the number of sysop (in order to have an idea of the load on one admin. If we find 2,000, we're probably in need for new sysop :) ). As you seem to already compute the sum of admin edits per user, it seems to me it could be determined as well. Could you try to find the time to hack a small report tool that would give a result page once in a while?
Or maybe replace the very active wikipedians counter that was kept up-to-date in the statistics before? It could prove useful for the same task I think.
Thanks for your time spent at reading this!
Eden - Talk 11:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Interiot. First a word of appreciation for your marvellous work in supporting the {{ prod}} process, which I rate a big success and an improvement over the old model of "afd everything"! Can I suggest a small change to the previous nominations list query? Could it show only nominations that have been deleted or deprodded in, say, the last week or so (perhaps with a little cgi form at the top to allow date selection)? Currently it shows all, and this makes the page absolutely enormous, which probably puts some unnecessary strain on the toolserver (not to mention my browser :-)). Just an idea. Thanks. -- RobertG ♬ talk 12:04, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
There's probably a better place to ask this (feel free to redirect me ;-) but I thought maybe you would know this. Do you know if there is a reason a redirect to a subsection in an article will only redirect to the top of the article? (I.e. #REDIRECT [[User talk:Interiot#Redirect to subsection]] as a link will get to this subsection, but as a redirect will get to the top of this page.) I guess I'm wondering if this is something to ask about getting fixed, or if there is a reason it works the way it does. Thanks, – Doug Bell talk• contrib 17:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey there. Your tool indicates i uploaded this photo Image:WORONLDS3.jpg which is Image:WORONLDS3.jpg. Not me, I have never seen that image before. Moriori 20:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
A tool to seperate out the main namespace in the "Whatlinkshere" request. Several people have expressed interest. It will increase productivity.
Hi Interiot, I have an idea for something on the toolserver.
Several people have expressed interest in being able to view just the main namespace when using "Whatlinkshere". These people are doing link repair at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. Currently, "Whatlinkshere" doesn't filter by namespace but we would like to view just the Main namespace.
Bug 4624 (a namespace filter for "Whatlinkshere") has been filed with no response (the feature may induce too much server load, or maybe someone just needs to write a patch for Mediawiki).
The tool would be quite similar to the edit counter. A user enters the page name, and the tool returns a namespace breakdown like the edit counter (or just the Main namespace, since that's what is important). A note of the replication lag would be useful too.
I would expect load to be small, since normal operation would involve submiting a request, spending 20 minutes working through the output and then submiting again. There couldn't be more than a handful of people doing this from around the world at any one time.
I have asked pgk about it, and he said it's on his list but to ask you too.-- Commander Keane 17:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Interiot, sorry to bother you, but I just found that the size of the bars in your edit counter is not proportional to the number of edits. For example, a bar indicating 650 edits can be bigger than one indicating 700. You probably know this or the problem may have another source, for which you are not responsible, if that's the case, just ignore this. Anyway, your tool is very good. Thanks! Afonso Silva 11:00, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer! I found that with my own counting - [15] - I don't know if it is a problem caused by my browser, I use mozilla firefox. Perhaps a print screen will also help - Image:AfonsoSilva_Interiot.PNG - I hope I can upload such image without problem, you may delete it. Regards! Afonso Silva 18:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
My contribution count has stayed the same for the past 3 days, although I have made many edits. Is it just me? Or are other people having trouble. Weatherman90 18:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
woa, the new stats about sysop actions (delete/block/etc.) are really cool... thank you, I've dreamt of something like that for a long time :) ...but the result is kinda scary at the same time : my number of deletion is almost half my number of edits, and I've blocked no less than 500 people ^^; wikiholism is bad.
But, since these stats doesn't reflect on the "Total edits" number, don't you think it may be better to add a small separation (well, it could just be an horizontal line) between the "normal" and "sysopspecial" (since anybody can move a page) stats ? It should prevent people from making any confusion about that, and prevent you from receiving "why does the total edit number show (normal number) instead of (number+move and other special actions) ?" and other similar questions.
Darkoneko 10:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Both yours and Kate's counters have held me at 3893 edits for my past several edits (at least six). What could that be about? -- § Hurricane E RIC § Damages archive 02:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot. User:Kate used to run a list of administrator edit counts [16] [17]. She had a script to update them daily, but unfortunately her lists haven't updated since December. Could you take over that job, please? She provides her SQL query, so it might be very easy to set up (assuming the database scheme hasn't changed since then). Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 10:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
The bars in
[18] aren't proportionally consistent with the displayed edit counts. As of when the link above was added, I had 1113 edits in February and 1144 edits in March, yet the February bar is longer than the March bar. –
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Hi - you may want to deactivate the categories in User:Interiot/Sandbox/Security_engineering, as they're currently showing up in Category:Cryptography and Category:Security. Also: love the editcount tool - very spiffy! Regards, Ziggurat 20:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Can you add a chart for all the edits? It's great to see the charts for every month and I think it would be great to have a chart for all the edits. - nagytibi ! ? 09:33, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Interiot, thank you for your comments on the Luxury vehicles aritcle page. Unfortunately, User:Samstayton has started harassing me on Wikipedia. Please notice this comment he left on User talk:Samstayton which insulted me quite a bit
Also, he added this text after he had already left another comment with that timestamp, so that it would seem he left it almost 5 days ago. This is not the first time he has personally attacked me. I would like for me to use Wikipedia without being harrassed, and Samstayton is not letting that happen. I would be appreciative if you would look into this. I am trying not to respond personally and keep this as "business oriented" as possible. Thanks a lot! -- Zouf 13:47, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Interiot: There's been a WP:RFI placed about this- are you ok dealing with it as I see you've done some work on it already? Feel free to remove and/or archive the request from WP:RFI if you think this situation is over. Cheers, Petros471 18:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
A small remark for the results of your counter for nlwiki_p (example:
[19]): "Unknown namespace 100" = "Portaal" and "Unknown namespace 101" = "Overleg portaal". Keep up the good work! Best regards,
Tdevries
00:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Looking Over this data, there is a significant error in the edits/page category. At the least, the heading is more correctly stated as 'Saved Edits per Day'.
I go out of my way to NOT save until the edit is 'well cooked', so the edits/page number is missing the larger high quality edits I do make. Or is that edits/10 minutes data counting preview looks as well? In other word, what's it counting as an edit? Not a gripe, save as one computer pro to another, I think the heading needs the title I suggest, assuming my inference is correct on the save (vs preview) is the basis of the counter. I'm amazed at a thousand edits, not that I care!
Thanks, great work!
Hi again. Something occured which leads to a longish technical question. Thought I'd keep your talk uncluttered. No particular urgency, but a 'gut feel/knee jerk' answer would be nice! Fra nkB 20:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Welcome back from your holiday. I like your edit count too - here is my page. To me it looks a bit spikey. Have you considered a normal distribution blur, like this? Stephen B Streater 21:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I can't get the edit counter to work. I enter a user name (even my own) and it says "This user does not seem to have any edits, or they don't exist". I've tried different cases, as well as prepending "user:", but I can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong? Bubba73 (talk), 03:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add a "lookup specific edit #"? I see a lot of people posting their 1000, 2000, etc. edits, but I'm quite sure I'll be missing it then. Or is there a trick to this, maybe through "my contributions"? Thanks, dewet| ™ 10:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
First off, nice job with the editcounter! Secondly, not so nice ;-). Your editcounter, along with the whole toolserver stopped working in IE for me a few weeks ago. It works fine in Firefox, but not in IE. Here is what happens:
This happens with any new page on the toolserver. Who should I tell this to, and what should I do about it?
Prodego talk 19:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Still about the edit counter: I went to [20], clicked on the contribs of December 2005, and I got [21], which contains a contrib from July. Maybe something strange with that "999999" in the URL? Best, 151.100.59.2 20:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Your editcounter says that I have one deleted edit. I wanted to ask what deleted edits are and if it's possible for me to find out which edit that is. Can you please enlighten me? Thank you.
P.S. That Zen Master story is brilliant. Loom91 13:16, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Greetings. I like the {{ legend}} additions to the plate articles! I thought you might want to look at some maps I made using MS-Paint. (I know, I know, but it's all I had.)
All the best, – Quadell ( talk) ( bounties) 00:02, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot. First, let me say that your editcount tool is really, really great. Extremely useful for all sorts of things. In light of that, I have a request: as I understand the color scheme you have now, the green color covers both edits made to articles directly, and edits made to Talk:. Is that correct?
If so, would it be possible to make these two different colors? The reason I ask is that these sorts of things always come up in RfA's and similar; people are discussing if a given user has too much Talk: edits, not enough Talk: edits, etc. It would be convenient to see this in the color distribution as well.
Of course, there may be some technical reason why this might be hard to implement, and if so, then don't go through too much trouble. But if it's a quick thing, it would make your incredibly useful tool even more useful. Thanks! -- Deville ( Talk) 16:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The Cantonese Wikipedia (zh-yue) is now open. See if you can add it to the editcount program. -- D e ryc k C. 06:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
First, I love your counter. Great tool. (I definitely have editcountitis).
Just one suggestion/request. Could it generate a chart of edits per day (or maybe month) over time? If not, your tool is still awesome, but I think that chart or something like it would make a great addition.
Thanks, - Reuvenk [T] [C] 08:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Interiot; for the edit counter, on the count-per-page type/action, can you make a new column for percentage of total edits? (As in (main) | 377 | 24.5%)? Thanks,
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According to me, the list is a valid part of Wikipedia whereas the article is a for-deletion candidate. -- Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 07:59, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Interiot. I was just looking up my edit count and saw all my edits for the month of April was rolling over into March. Is this supposed to be happening? Moe ε 19:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Could you explain me why at my edit count [23] my only contribution displayed for April is my last? -- 81.9.133.60 21:22, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Your wonderful/evil/dealy tool seems to be updating very slowly. It now has a backlog of 1 day, 8 hours. Is everything ok? JoshuaZ 14:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Here [24], it shows "browse) -->" after the deleted edits. I guess this has something to do with the dashes in the username and only commenting out instead of deleting the "browse deleted edits" bit? Anyway, thanks a lot for your tool, I had a lot of fun with it already. Kusma (討論) 00:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
It would be a really cool thing if you added a historical graph to your replication lag display. If there was an easy way to see how the lag has been changing over time, people (like me) wouldn't worry that the toolserver was stuck when it was really just running slow. Hope you enjoyed your trip in March. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
First off, thank you for all your work creating the PROD utility pages on the toolserver! Unfortunately, while the current nominations just suffer from the normal ~1 day replication lag, the previous nominations seem to remain stuck in March. Is this a normal lag effect or another bug altogether? Best, Sandstein 15:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Interiot. Is it possible for you to generate a query for all pages that are on the Wikipedia namespace, that contain "WikiProject", "WikiPortal" or a variant in its name, and to list the number of edits in their history, as well as to determine the last edit on that page? That would be useful for obtaining a list of active WikiProjects for the List of WikiProjects (woefully out of date) and the Work Via WikiProjects lists, as I really wouldn't know where to start if running a database dump query... Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 00:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
This might also be useful within the editcounter to determine where Wikipedians spend their time—whether on WP:AFD, WP:FPC, WP:FAC, WP:FLC, or WP:PR, etc. In most cases, no one posts more than a few times to each of the pages in these sections, but the cumulative edits in these areas can be significant. Maybe incorporate it into the contribution tree? Or set up something that divides the edits to each section by month, not unlike the edit counter? Granted, the alphabetization option of the contribution tree can help a user get a handle on this, so maybe it isn't particularly necessary. — Spangineer [es] (háblame) 00:51, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I really would like you to reconsider the removal of the category on Marshall Teague. Why can't a NASCAR driver who had an impact on Hudson, also qualify as a automotive biography? How does adding his name hurt the category? Stude62 01:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, I have to draw your attention to the sad fact that your formal promise (included in the description of your famous edit counter even im Wikipedia-de) to reshape the size of information about WP-authors, namely the revelation of the days and hours of their contributions, DOESN'T WORK as far as I tested it.
Yes, I got the message You must be logged in and have a valid e-mail address in your preferences to send e-mail to other users. And I tell you honestly I have fulfilled those conditions. Nevertheless it won't set to work what it should do.
I want you to make it work even for those outside the huge english-speaking branch of wikipedia like me. And I tell you that I see it as a menace, to be spied out like that. (In my own nation, Germany, it is even judged as a broken law to spy out personal privacy like that. But in USA they are VERY greedy for data collecting about everybody, I know that.) Now I just want to get rid of those time budget spying and online publication for anybody else. Would you please see to it, that it might be accomplished SOON.
For your instruction, to go out the way of misunderstandings, I have newly made an English-WP second account under the same name but I want your help for my original account Justus Nussbaum at de.wikipedia.org. Thank you in advance for seeing to it quite soon. -- Justus Nussbaum 18:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
This is a not-completely-public tool, but in case anyone is interested... This is a tool that lists long-running queries on the toolserver, because longer queries can definitely increase the replication lag. Queries that are running for an hour or more are usually mistakenly created by the owner, who forgot to kill the long-running query. Queries that run for, say, 10 minutes or more, and which run very frequently (eg. via a public CGI script), are something that hopefully the user can optimize or cache, to limit its impact on the replication lag. -- Interiot 06:35, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
You should now have the ability to query the mysql replication status directly without the need to check the timestamps etc. Try "show slave status\G" next time you are logged on, column Seconds_Behind_Master (duh!). Though I believe Kate has said this can sometimes not match reality. -- pgk( talk) 16:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I saw you advertise your whatlinkshere tool on
Template:High-traffic, and I wanted to let you know it is appreciated. Is it possible for you to add in a feature that will organize the list by the date added (in the date=
parameter)? If you could, that would make the tool a million times more useful. Thanks,
Mysekurity
[m! 21:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Regarding your Wikiproject tool, could something similar be done for Portals? How complicated would it be to do? Steve block talk 09:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, when using the edit counter for other projects than the english wikipedia, it's always a bit lenghty to scroll through the menu to the right wiki. Duesentrieb's wiki selection is much faster. It would be nice if you could change the interface. greetings and thanks for your great tool :-) -- Elian Talk 09:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Here you go: de_wikiprojects. It'd be nice if you could post the link semi-prominently somewhere, just so people know about it, so the tools work isn't wasted. Also, the existing descriptive text is in English, I can replace any of it with a german translation if you want (though the "Replication lag is 1 minute, 17 seconds" and "476 rows generated in 0.46 seconds" text is auto-generated, and would take more work to swap out). -- Interiot 14:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I understand that deleted edits can no longer be viewed, but how about providing access to a summary of deleted edits by namespace? Cheers! bd2412 T 18:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted to congratulate you for removing the replication lag on the edit counter. Now we can all resume having it open in a second tab and refreshing every minute.
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21:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
So, last night, there was an architectural change to make en.wikipedia.org faster. As a side effect, the toolserver currently no longer receives replication updates from enwiki. Some admin work on the toolserver will be needed to allow the toolserver to receive updates from enwiki again. Kate is the primary admin on the toolserver. I'm not personally able to do anything to fix this, though I'll pass along any status updates I get. Note that the kowiki_p, mswiki_p, thwiki_p, and jawiki_p servers have long been in the same position enwiki_p is now in, and a technical solution hasn't been found for those yet, so it's possible that the toolserver will be down for some time, at least for enwiki.
There are various people who may be able to speed resolution of this issue ( Wikimedia Deutschland owns the server, and have a final say in what happens on it; the core Mediawiki developers, and possibly a few other people, may have some suggestions about possible technical solutions). But it still may be some time before the toolserver is available for enwiki, given how long the asian servers have been unavailable. -- Interiot 13:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
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I usually reply here for toolserver issues (eg. issues that other people are likely to be interested in), but I may reply on your page for non-toolserver issues. If I leave a note on your talk page, I'll have it in my watchlist, so feel free to reply there.
I'll generally keep comment history as intact as possible, but I reserve the right to ruthlessly reorganize and sometimes refactor comments, to keep the page organized and keep it from growing too quickly.
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:) Kate fixed the toolserver replication stoppage, it's slowly working its way towards real-time, hopefully it will be much better in ~24 hours. -- Interiot 04:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your doing the query. I'll get on to it as soon as I can (the new semester just started). Regarding the accuracy: Yes, I expected a bit of inaccuracy at the very beginning, since the history of articles wasn't tracked properly at that time. Another source of errors is that a deleted article's history also is deleted, so no trace of it remains. Still, I do not think this will matter much. It would be nice if this matched the official article count, but that isn't very important, since any predictions will be inaccurate anyway. Amaurea 08:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Sure, I'll start working on that. :) The final version of the function getSource(URL) is at
User:AySz88/Java Sandbox. --
AySz88^
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20:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Got to 1.0 of the Namespace parser - it ultimately returns a HashMap of namespaces and associates each foriegn namespace with the English name. I'm expecting the tool will want to iterate through the HashMap instead of checking each string individually. -- AySz88^ - ^ 09:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Namespace.getFullMap("en");
and increment the Namespace that has a key that matches the namespace. --
AySz88^
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23:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC)No problem! (And my congratulations beforehand.) Your RfA page is on my watchlist, so whenever I see someone vote, I update the tally. It's not that big of a deal; I've seen candidates update their own tallies before, but I woudn't worry about it if I were you. Some users will update the tally eventually, and quite frankly, it's not that big of a deal. Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 02:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there Interiot! I don't think we've interacted before, but I have a small question. What is your edit counter tool's relationship to the old Kate's Tool? Is it the same thing, spruced up, or something else which has replaced it altogether? I was just curious because on RfA, it seems like "Interiot's tool" is the new toy to help investigate potential admins. Good luck on your own RfA, by the way! Cheers, Bratsche talk | Esperanza 04:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Sure, I've added a question to that extent, per the several proposals in Wikispace to create such a layer. The poll doesn't propose more layers that are less spread apart; the poll doesn't propose anything. However, if community says that we should have such layers, I'd be happy to propose them and/or work out the details. R adiant _>|< 12:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not completely sure how you operate the ArbCom counter, but RomaC has withdrawn from the race. Cheers, Ingoolemo talk 17:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I was bold and grouped your comments about an intermediate layer of user powers with mine under a new option [1], describing the difference between 'tools' and 'powers'. If you object to this, please move it back to where you had it. Thanks! -- nae'blis (talk) 19:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I love your tree walker. I asked user:Lupin to add it to the dev version of the popup menu gadgetry, which he graciously did. However, it may not handle weird user names well when invoked that way. Consider this URL: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/contribution_tree?dbname=enwiki_p&user=Can't%20sleep,%20clown%20will%20eat%20me (this is for User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me) If you try to walk down one of the namespaces, it seems to choke on the single quote... is that because the single quote should have been urlencoded already when first invoked?
PS, I will watch here, you can answer here (I need to make a template for that!)... Oh, and congrats on your impending ascension! ++ Lar: t/ c 00:51, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey there. Congratulations, you've just been made a sysop! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except junk like "LALALALAL*&*@#@THIS_SUXX0RZ"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.
Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun!— Ilyan e p (Talk) 22:06, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations Interiot! -- a.n.o.n.y.m t 22:19, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Some editcount-cruft regarding those who voted:
[2] -- Interiot 01:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot! We haven't interacted much, but I read somewhere in your userpages that you can run queries on the database dump upon request. I was wondering if you could produce a list of articles that have not been categorized yet. I'm in no hurry so you can take your time if you choose to run this query. I'll be watching this space. Many thanks! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 15:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
The report can be found here. Let me know if there's anything else you need (particularly if it comes from a Special: page, apparently those are really easy to run). -- Interiot 08:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, thank you for creating your edit counter, which is very useful. I have a request: would it be possible to have a color denoting article edits alone, rather than mixing them with category, template, and image edits? It would be useful to see at a glance how much people are contributing to the main namespace in relation to other edits.
SlimVirgin
(talk)
14:00, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
January 2005 Mainspace: 1024 (42%) Talk: 240 (10%) Template: 3 (1%) Template talk: 0 (0%) Category: 10 (1%) Category talk: 1 (1%) ... ...
I changed the color scheme on the counter to lighten it up a bit. If anybody has better suggestions, or if anybody can confirm whether this is suitable for users with colorblindness of one type or another, I'd appreciate it. For what it's worth, I'm pulling my color schemes from ColorBrewer and ColorSchemer. Compare the original to the new. -- Interiot 03:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi
Under WP:KATE or something like that there is a script for creating a static link to Kate's edit counter in the user options in the top-right hand corner of the Monobook script.
I have the modded the script slightly to point to yours, you might want to take a look at it, borrow it, steal it, make any comments or moderations you want, or whatever. It's at User:Haza-w/Interiot code. haz ( user talk) 10:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
This is something I've always wondered, but felt was too stupid to ask. You're so nice, though, and well-qualified to answer, that I'm finally just going for it: Why are the best user-created tools, including yours, resident at the .de (German) server? Best wishes, Xoloz the idiot 18:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
The list of uncatagorized pages is very useful! I just used it to catagorize about 60 rivers! I downloaded the list, hacked up a quick script to pull out the items with the word "River" in them, and formatted the result in wiki-form(see this user page of mine); going through it, I found 60 rivers I could easily catagorize, and I did! 60 down, only 66,000+ to go! Wheee! We should really annouce this great tool of yours more widely; also, if you want to hack on it to display a clickable, filtered(either strict text or regexp) list, that would be even cooler. Yay, yay, yay - we can actually do catagorizing in a sane way now! JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Got a question for you. How feasible would it be for you to add a "Sysop: True/false" output line to your edit counter? Every so often, I see a user who I think would make a great admin, and I check their edit count to see how feasible a RfA would be, and so it would be really nice to add that kind of line to it. As it stands, I have to go find the list of admins, then hunt for their name...not as easy. Just a suggestion. Great work on it, by the way; I like the little graph at the bottom. Take care. —
BorgHunter
ubx (
talk)
00:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
( \r). The bug is fixed, and Lar is willing to host the file for us, which I'll ask about when we release v4.0. I'm not sure if you have a copy of the tool in your local machine, but if you do, would you mind having a look at it and tell us what you think? Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 02:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
*sigh* Sorry to interupt you again but can I make another suggestion? I saw you just added the pop-ups for each month pulling up stats for edits. Can I suggest instead of pop-ups, make it a link on the month?
Example:
Instead of the pop-up stats, it would read:
2006/01 (which would link to the monthly stats).
This way you can see a clear visual of the contributions, by month, and this could probably help with the contribution tree. — Moe ε 07:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
There is no specific problem in viewing the pop-ups but it might be beneficial to make it a link, like my suggestion above, since other programs have problems with viewing it. It also looks a little sloppy to have a pop-up. Sorry if you didn't clearly understand my previous message. I'll try to give a better example.
Example using my edit count : My suggestion is no pop-up and make a link instead. So instead of viewing the pop-up you would see this:
2005/07 2658
2005/08 1881
2005/09 751
2005/10 479
2005/11 1837
2005/12 1531
2006/01 2481
Maybe you could make the red links go to your contribution tree? I hope this example is better. — Moe ε 15:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
The counter dosnt work for my name anymore. The same thing happened a while ago whit kate to. / Grön 11:16, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hiya, Have you considered adding a time-based (either as in "time of day", "day of the week" and/or "time of year") histogram to the Editcount? Best regards, -- Tournesol 11:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, your editcount is really very useful. I want to report you a minor bug. For example in this in edits by namespace part Şablon or Kullanıcı can be seen correctly but on popup window, they are not ok. It must be about charsets.-- Ugur Basak 12:37, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Just throwing out that your tool is awesome. Thanks for making it! Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk?) 22:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted to toss my thanks along also! I love the improvments you're making to your already awesome tool! If I may ask, what tool are you using to generate the graphs? -- light darkness 04:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I love the new graph content. Great job!-- ragesoss 05:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Very nice additions. -- Tantalum T e lluride 05:37, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for creating the toolserver auto-log for the PROD page. I was wondering, is it possible that it remembers past PRODs (that is, keep a log of pages that had a PROD template even if it was removed later). It would be a nice way to keep track of how many pages end up deleted or improved, and it's a possible way to detect a WP:POINTer who goes mass-removing PROD tags. R adiant _>|< 08:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
A great tool. One note - I'm not sure if you realise but on Kate's a list of possible usernames is shown as you type in a new username - a feature yours is lacking. Just wodered if you knew or not. Good luck! Ian13| talk 17:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm happy to discuss privacy issues with the daily/weekly graphs more. The graphs have gotten very positive responses, so I don't think I'll remove them ever, but there are some users, particularly ones who edit from work, who may have qualms about the graphs. I don't want to discourage anyone from editing, so I can opt-out specific users from the graphs. Please email me, or /msg Interiot on IRC, or otherwise if you'd like me to opt you out of it. Or if anyone has general thoughts on privacy, feel free to discuss it here... -- Interiot 18:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Interiot, I thought of a couple things that you might want to consider adding to your already great edit counter. In the popups, would it be possible to add the edits/page ratio by month? It'd help give an idea of what the person was working on during that month—stub sorting, sending an article through FAC, etc. For people like me who constantly change tasks, it'd be a nice addition. Also, I doubt this is possible mostly because it hasn't been done yet, but is there any way to count minor edits? -- Spangineer (háblame) 21:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. We're currently trying to get the bootcamp up and running, and I was wondering if it would be possible for Wikimedia to host a web-based IRC client for us. I noticed you have toolserver access, so I figured you might be good to ask. The client is PJIRC, modified to autoconnect and autojoin freenode and #wikipedia-bootcamp, with no possibility to join other channels or servers. All the IRC commands have been deactivated, with the exception of /msg, /me and /nick. It's written in Java, is released under the GPL license, and a working copy can be found at my site here. The idea is basically to have a button or a link someplace on the WP:BC page, and if nescesary also on some other pages, to enable new users to get help on IRC without having to download and install their own client, and also without having to know any commands. Thanks in advance. Bjelleklang - talk 00:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Nice improvements, keep up the good work. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 15:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it's no big deal if people are already placing templates, as long as we don't actually delete anything until five days after the "official" start. R adiant _>|< 15:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
That edit counter of yours is brilliant (and reveals a bit too much information). Take a Barnstar! Latinus 23:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot. I have an idea for the new graphs you've added to your edit counter--a vertical red line showing the current time or day. This would let users more easily see what the average contribution rate is at the current time. ~ MDD 46 96 00:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello.
I've been recently notified that, according to
Wikipedia fair use policy, fair use images may not be used outside article namespade, and that I have 35 of them on
my userpage. Could you please help me finding which ones of the images I have in that page are fair use, so that I can remove those and only those?
Thanks in advance, --
Fibonacci
04:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could create a toolserver script that would list all duplicate entries from the block, delete and protect logs made in the past week. That is, a list of all pages that were (un)deleted or (un)protected twice or more by the same admin, and of all users that were (un)blocked twice or more by the same admin, within the last week. This should help in putting a break on wheel warring.
>Radiant<
11:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Would be posible known distinct pages edits for namespace?
Something like...
Namespace | Edits | Disctinct pages |
(Main) | 3000 | 1500 |
Discusión | 100 | 6 |
Usuario | 100 | 1 |
Usuario Discusión | 500 | 50 |
Wikipedia | 200 | 100 |
Wikipedia Discusión | 2 | 1 |
Yrithinnd 12:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC) sorry for my english :(
Software error:
Unable to connect to database: Host 'login-services.zedler.knams.wikimedia.org' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server at /home/interiot/public_html/perllib/ZedlerUtils.pm line 43.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (zedler-admins@wikimedia.org), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
-- Cool Cat Talk| @ 22:55, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it posible for the editcounter to complare two users. As in how common their editis are. (to primarily find out revert wars/stalking/or sockpuppetary) -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 22:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
It can also compare deleted edits (just statistics) assuming that can be done. (for deleted stalking/revert wars to be presented as evidence when necesary) --
Cool Cat
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22:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that the header of your undead list says: "This lists all articles tagged with a death category but not a birth category." I think it should be the other way around :-)
PS: The edit count tool is great. — Whouk ( talk) 13:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Hiya. Would it be possible to take a look at the code for your edit counter? I've found a MediaWiki feature request that I think might be very useful and easy to implement, but it would require cross-wiki database access (which I don't know how to do). Thanks! GeorgeStepanek\ talk 21:11, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments! I really appreciate being, well, appreciated :)
I think that clarifying the pseudo-namespaces would help (I'll read over it, it's probably a good idea) but I doubt you'll get people to delete the "wrong" shortcuts once they exist. But at least discouraging furhter "wrong" ones would be useful.
The wheelwar detector doesn't have to run frequently, daily would be fine. The object isn't really to detect (and stop) wheel wars in progress, but to find out how large the problem actually is and who the problem admins are. I hear far too many complaints about admin abuse to not investigate it (generally those complaints don't even specify which admin they're talking about, and most may well be unfounded; but the atmosphere that "admins are evil" is not good for the 'pedia).
Yours, >Radiant< 00:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
You left two stubs not created ((indie)) and ((pop)). The indie can be done without, those fit into rock music and a couple others. On the otherhand the ((pop)) stub template really should be created, as many of these do not make reference to another genre. There are problably 100 or more album stubs that can be placed into the ((pop)) stub. Will you look into this for me? (as I have no clue on how to create any stub templates). Thanks Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 02:42, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Ok. I am going to ring their doorbell. Thanks Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 16:04, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Both the current and live trackers are producing html that looks like <a href="(link)" />(text)</a>
, which is invalid html, drives Tidy absolutely nuts, and would probably break on a standards-compliant browser, if such a beast really existed. Also, inspection of
User:Crypticbot/Proposed deletion's history reveals the following articles were at one time marked {{
prod}} but had their tags removed before you started keeping track of them, and could stand being put into your database by hand:
Time nominated | Article | Reason for deletion |
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02/04 03:33 | Alternate ( talk) | dictdef already in Wiktionary in a much better state |
02/04 00:30 | List of notable Veterans of other conflicts | Unmaintainable; potentially huge; "Other" than what? |
02/04 00:27 | Dark fall: The journal | Unreferenced; not notable; more about story than game |
02/04 00:05 | Abahani | no content, and no indication of notability, no sources |
— Cryptic (talk) 18:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and it would be keen if, for the main article links, it output html that looked like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious_Media
instead of
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Conscious_Media
; this matches the html produced by
Conscious Media and the category page, so folks' browsers will know the link has been visited and color it appropriately wherever it appears. —
Cryptic
(talk)
18:42, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
No need to change your utility functions, just filter their output before printing them:
use CGI::Util qw(unescape); my $fullname_link = unescape(ZedlerUtils::link_to_article($fullname)); unless ($fullname_link =~ /&/) { $fullname_link =~ s!/index\.php\?title=!iki/!; # quotes and question marks break links; all other characters are link-safe or not permitted in article names anyway $fullname_link =~ s/'/'/g; # or s/"/"/g if you start delimiting the link with double-quotes instead $fullname_link =~ s/\?/%3F/g; }
and stick $fullname_link in your printf instead of the link_to_article call. This doesn't break unicode urls if they're correctly formed in the initial index.php url; display problems are fixed by including a <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
in a <head> section. —
Cryptic
(talk)
20:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
The log is looking good! Sorry, I don't do IRC or IM much, mainly for lack of time. Talkpaging ok with you? For the "exprod" log, maybe for a deletion you could find the deleting user and deletion reason (generally A7, it seems), but that's not really important. I'd like to have it sorted by "current status" though. And maybe for "other" status pages, it would be possible to detect the first template on the page (e.g. "cleanup" or "mergeto") and show that. Just brainstorming actually. Thanks for your help~ >Radiant< 22:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible that you could modify your code or explain to me how I would modify it myself (since I don't know Perl) so I can use it on my own wiki? Thanks. -- Jediarchives11 02:46, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
So you mean people should just mention WP:NOT, WP:V etc in PROD nominations? I was going more for clear, natural language explanations in the actual nominations. It's been my experience that many people won't click a link to read more, especially not if its a link to a page of longwinded rules and guidelines. A simple, 30-word explanation would help most people... referring them to guidelines would just make them scratch their heads even more. At least that's how I see it. -- W.marsh 03:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
It is catching a ref to the PROD template, on
02/06 00:44 User:Flcelloguy/Signpost/News and notes 6 (reason not found)
Please fix. Thanks for all your work! JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:19, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Can you include <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
on the contributions tree thing like the edit counter tool? Thank you. --
WB
02:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I award this Barnstar of Diligence to Interiot, for his excellent work on a variety of toolserver scripts.
>Radiant<
23:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
well, thanks you very much for your version of editcount, we're having quite much fun right now :)
Darkoneko 18:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Excellent image; great that you found it and thanks for adding it to Sabot Georgewilliamherbert 21:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Would you be willing to make a log in the same format as the PROD log, but for
Category:Candidates for speedy deletion? What would be nice would be to be able to see all the reasons on one page... Thanks again for all your great work!
JesseW, the juggling janitor 10:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Have you seen Duesentrieb's CatScan? AFAIK, it can do: Changes in the last hour in Category:Automobiles and subcats, Articles in a subcat of both Category:Automobiles and Category:Wikipedia cleanup. If you haven't looked into it, I would strongly advise it... ;-) JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the danger of hanging out in deletion and blocking areas; well, I work on WP:CP, CAT:CSD, and PROD (rather than AfD or 3RR) for that reason. Less emotion in those areas. Wherever you work will benefit from your skill. Thanks. JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
As noted on the PROD talk page, there's a software error showing at the bottom of the history log. — Whouk ( talk) 13:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
The link from page http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/contribution_tree?namespace=0&user=Doug%20Bell&dbname=enwiki_p to the article Comparison of Java to C++ does not work. The link http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Comparison_of_Java_to_C++ drops the ++ when resolving to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Java_to_C instead of keeping it and resolving to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Java_to_C++
– Doug Bell talk• contrib 13:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, great work on tools! I wish I could anything like that. But I wonder if it would be possible to add one more feature to the prod log: that is a number of people who have clicked on the link to article or on the diff when it was nominated? I believe it would raise some red flags when an article would not have been reviewed by anybody. It was happening quite often on AfD when entries had to be re-listed to get more votes. Thanks! Renata 01:23, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
As a non-American, the American date format (today, 13 Feb, being 2/13, for instance) used on the proposed deletion page is intensely irritating. Could you please change it to use something more international? Probably either ISO 8601 or using textual names (so today would be 2006-2-13 or 13 Feb / Feb 13). Hairy Dude 04:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
G'day. I notice you recently added an image to Stall (flight), sourced from NASA. Unfortunately there are some significant errors in the image, so I have removed it from the page and made my concerns known on the talk page there and at Image talk:StallFormation.gif. I'd appreciate your input to see if we can find an alternative, since a image like it (but correct!) would definitely benefit the article. Graham 05:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Would you mind checking what's going on at [6] ? It's been stalled since this morning, and is currently 11 hours behind. Thanks, {{User:Vacuum/sig}} 22:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello! As a Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles member, I just thought you might want to input your opinions on an important discussion we're currently having about whether articles regarding similar vehicles should be merged into one or split by brand. If you would like to comment or read further, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#Articles of Similar Vehicles. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and feedback. Airline 23:43, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Interiot. In celebration of Random Acts of Kindness Week, I want to thank you for all the great tools you have created. Us faeries aren't big fans of technology (no love there), but I must say, your tools really are useful and have helped us to better understand each other. Thank you. The Kindness Fairy 05:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I think I have got a problem. After I changed my preference of the look of my nickname (in My preferences) my edit counts were not updated. I made a couple of edits on Wikipedia (english version) and the counts stayed at 2792. I hope you can give me your advise on this situation soon. Thank You. S iva1979 Talk to me 12:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I viewed your userbox rss feed page and think its a really cool thing. Well, I updated my userboxes a couple of days before that and my userbox count was not updated. I just wondered how often its updated. You can let me know at my user page. Thanks:) -- Think Fast 01:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm sure this will tax your coding powers! Include a link to your [7] and/or a one liner about/showing the replicaiton lag (currently 17 hours plus) to help people understand the limitaitons of the toolserver. Rich Farmbrough. 15:48, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you possibly find a spot to place the current lag time on your Edit Counter? It's just an extra step to check the PROD counter for current lag :-P If not, no worries. Cheers! -- light darkness ( talk) 22:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
<iframe src="cgi-bin/replag?text" width=700 height=40 frameborder=0 style="margin-left:5em; margin-top:-1em"></iframe>on the edit count page. -- M @ th wiz 2020 01:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I made a small number of edits today and they are not showing up on the edit counter, can you please fix this? The Eye of Timaeus 23:48, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
If you agree that the revised userbox is OK, as it seems you do at
Template talk:User CDP-USA, then would you please remove the deletion box on the main page. Apparently, I as the creator am not allowed to do so. We all must be WikiLegal.
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Hi. Is it possible to get a list of all articles that have been listed for the PROD process? I'm not technically minded, so I don't have a clue at all. It would be useful in analysing the process. Steve block talk 09:26, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello again Interiot! I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I've currently proposed a bot to maintain a stat page on Wikipedia, and I was planning on getting the edit counts from the toolserver, more specificly your tool. A user has asked if this would cause any stress on the toolserver, I expressed that there would be no more than 1 hit per hour, but if you could possible post on the WT:B page your opinion on the impact, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks. -- light darkness ( talk) 12:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering wether there is something wrong with the server. I've gotten used to checking there to see how long a user has been editing here but for 2 or 3 days now my counter (that's what comes up first) is stuck at the same number. Wasn't sure if you were aware of any problem... -- Mmounties 16:21, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I saw the hit count on the prod log, neat, thank you! But I wonder if you know that Toolserver database replication lag is: 1 day, 20 hours behind real-time! Can something be done? Renata 00:57, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
How much longer is your edit counter not going to be working? Moe ε 01:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
_ _ First let me say that the edit count tool needs nothing more to make it wonderful. And i keep thinking of not-so-stupid ways to make what it already does even more useful. In particular, i think the graphs of when in the day and when in the week the user tends to edit are helpful with vandals, both in ruling out hypotheses about the context the edits are made in, and in at least suggesting whether a specific block is likely to affect the vandal at all.
_ _ (I wonder whether it might be a more powerful tool against IP vandals with the ability to graph by namespace and/or "degrees of separation" from specific articles that have been related to previous vandalism by the same IP. Conceivably these could be part of establishing sonar-like signatures of vandals and of others sharing an IP, and make surveillance for vandalism more efficient.)
_ _ But i write today with what i hope are some much quicker SMOPs. I've gotten reasonably good at relating UTC times to the present moment, but at the other conversion problems (e.g. inferring what time zones are most consistent with an IP's usage pattern, and determining when in my local time i should apply a block that will be effective) i am clumsy enough to make it attractive to get back to editing and leave the enforcement to colleagues. My intuition is that one feature could significantly reduce my frustration level. Namely, i'd like a client-side control -- i think those triangular controls (triangular for my IE at least, and Java-provided, i think) on Recent changes, for hiding or showing the full series of rapid-fire edits by one editor on one page, must be implemented similarly to what i have in mind. The control i have in mind would have 24 settings, or for simplicity maybe just 12 (representing two time adjacent zones, each pair by the average of their offsets). I would try out hypotheses (edits mostly during day, edits mostly in evening) by setting roughly what i think is the editor's time zone, and -- ta-da! -- auxiliary scales below the two graphs would label them with the editor's corresponding local time. Then, having arrived at a theory of where on the graphs their next vandalism is likely, i switch to my own time zone (and the one next door), and see when i should come back to monitor for trouble, or to set up a "pinpoint blocking raid".
_ _ Having said that, its almost pointless to bother mentioning putting a line of text below the day-of-week table with the names of the days. Not a big deal, but a presumably cheap amenity, even if (in order to assure match up) they have to be on a separate graphic of precisely the same width.
_ _ I will continue to venerate you at my desktop virtual Interiot altar even if your priorities are in entirely different directions, so thanks for the opportunity to maybe play a small role in making it better.
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You just deleted the template that I worked very hard on. Please bring it back, or at least let me have the code so I can just keep it on my page! Please, Im having a really bad day already. Weatherman90 17:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)\
Hello. User:Dschor is placed upon temporary probation and restricted from article construction. Despite this, he has made an sandbox in his talkpage for making contributions upon his return ( here). As such, I took the liberty of making them for him, and I was wondering if it possible to add 4 edits to his mainspace edit count beacuse they are rightfully his edits, and I feel he is entitled to it. Please respond on my talkpage. - Zero Talk 17:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to use jaws for windows, a screen reader, to access your edit counting tool. However, it crashes completely on jaws 5.1 (the version I use) and sometimes crashes in a demo of 7.0 (the latest version. The computer completely freezes, so I can't get any error logs. The only thing I could find that seemed unfamiliar or likely to cause jaws to crash were the on-mouse-over and popup links in the months contribution table. I'm not that familiar with advanced html, but it would be easier if the on-mouse-over links to the user's contributions were replaced with normal links that open in a new window, if possible.
Also, I'd like to see stats on the percentage of minor edits made/the number of new articles created. This would be useful for providing a quick overview of a user's style.
Thanks, Graham/pianoman87 talk 12:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
About a month ago I made a (silly) userbox that I noticed your template counter didn't pick up. It's Template:User Shot in Reno. I was amused, wondering how long the little box would survive in the current climate, but I thought, if this demonstrated a bug in your acquisition of templates, you might want to know about it. Regards, JDoorj a m Talk 21:47, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
For what it's worth, it appears that {{ user piano-1}} may be one of the first non-babel and non-directly-wikipedia-related userboxes created on enwiki, by Yummifruitbat on 28 May, 2005, created "to illustrate idea". -- Interiot 19:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Interiot. I've got a couple ideas for tools. Displaying metrics, really. identifying trending and such. I have an idea of what the sql would look like, but I am not familiar enough with what the schema looks like to actually visualize the data. I'm quite accomplished with web-based tools, and I'd love the opportunity to be able to prototype some of the things I would like to put together. I understand that only administrators have access to SQL. Is it possible I could have read-only access to a slave database to mock up tools? I have seen User:Topbanana's page on making a mirror database, but the downloads are fragmented and difficult to reconstruct into a working, "offline" copy. Alternatively, I suppose I could look at the source for the tool(s) you have, and hack in my own sql. The problem with that is I am primarily a perl programmer. What do you think?
Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.
If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
In order to cancel out some of the noise in edit counts I wonder if any of the following suggestions might be implemented:
Thoughts? – Doug Bell talk• contrib 08:38, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
My script has only made 6 queries per day, I don't think that I'm the cause of the increased traffic :P Also, regarding getting someone to run the query on the toolserver, is it even possible to mass get the edit counts of certain usernames? If not, I'd need everyones edit count above 2,500, and then I'd have to filter out those that don't wish to be on the list. -- light darkness ( talk) 17:02, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
The recent inclusion of adminactions :) You are the best, great job / Grön sv 19:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Great addition! But oh man, there are so many possibilities from here—maybe a total admin action count right under edit count, perhaps a green line on the graphs to show the distribution of admin actions through the day and week (maybe on a different scales?), and maybe on the bar chart a distinction in the total count: instead of "Month - Total count - Bar", it could be "Month - Edit count/Admin action count - Bar". -- Spangineer (háblame) 22:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Just an idea, but it was pointed out to me that we should notify the original author about "their" article being proposed. Wondering if it would be possible to make the current PROD system or a PROD bot to auto notify the user? I am unfamilar with bot programming on wikipedia, but if it isn't too hard to pick up (ie if you could point me in the right direction of say a bot howto) I'd try to make something. I am by no means a programmer, but I have wrote hundreds of shell/perl/VDS scripts (VDS is a quick and dirty scripting language for windows).
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Doesn't seem to be updating the edit count I Love Plankton 16:50, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I often see a request of people who want to see which articles they've created because they haven't been tracking their activity and if you forget, it's pretty hard to retrace. Could you write some sort of tool that extracts first edits from an article's history to alow creation counts and easy lists of created pages? Please post a quick note on my talk if you reply here. - Mgm| (talk) 18:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I hereby decree you are now Saint Interiot of the Awesome, Amazing, Kick@$$ Edit Counter, now that you put the admin actions in; you've opened up a can of worms though, since now everytime I think of something new, I'll be running over here to suggest it! :-D Essjay Talk • Contact 07:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
It looks like the average edits/day is low. It should just be the simple calculation (total edits)/(number of days from first edit until now). I've made almost 150 edits in a month and it says that my average edits/day is 1.62, when it should be almost 5. -- Gandalf 07:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
…is brilliant! Would it be possible to include "talk" and "contributions" links next to the user name? Cheers for another excellent tool! — Phil | Talk 09:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
OK, Interiot, please tell me, what are the criteria for deleting an obviously unworthy character - I simply don't know. Crzrussian 15:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Dunno if this is the sort of thing that your tools could conceivably handle, but I'd quite like a "which edit first/last contains a given text string" tool. OTOH an update to the new admin-actions, to show just admin-actions broken down into blocks, protects, etc would be useless but fun :-) William M. Connolley 21:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC).
Each time I check out your edit counter, I say to myself, "Jeff, there is no dag gurn way that this here edit counting contrapulation ken git any better <spit><ptang!>." But then I fire up my old crank-powered computerizer, and what do my eyes behold? A better counter. It's a work of art. A thing of beauty. You've heard this a billion times about your tools, no doubt, but keep up the awesome work. -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The Avg edits/day should be calculated from the day of the first edit to the current day. It seem to use the last day of the current month to determine the number of days. – Doug Bell talk• contrib 15:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have deleted edits on the color-coded bar graph? Cool, if possible. -- Zsinj Talk 20:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Alright! I have an associate in my Mindspillage vandalism! HAHAHAHAHAHA </crazed vandal> :-) Essjay Talk • Contact 01:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
=== code samples of both original Kate's tool and my modded version that works perfectly with yours === //Kate's tool link script // Add a "Kate" link to your monobook "personal menu" list at the very // top of the page. // // Indicate where you would like "Kate" to appear: // pt-userpage, pt-mytalk, pt-preferences, // pt-watchlist, pt-mycontris, pt-logout // gsKateInsertBefore = 'pt-logout'; // leave blank to append after "logout" // function KateLink() { var user = document.getElementById( 'pt-userpage').firstChild.firstChild.data; var li = document.createElement( 'li' ); li.id = 'pt-kate'; var a = document.createElement( 'a' ); a.appendChild( document.createTextNode( 'Kate' ) ); // eh, the css makes the text lowercase a.href = 'http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?dbname=enwiki&user=' + user; li.appendChild( a ); if ( ! gsKateInsertBefore ) // append to end (right) of list { document.getElementById( 'pt-logout' ).parentNode.appendChild( li ); } else { var before = document.getElementById( gsKateInsertBefore ) before.parentNode.appendChild( li, before ); } } if ( window.addEventListener ) window.addEventListener( 'load', KateLink, false ); else if ( window.attachEvent ) window.attachEvent ( 'onload', KateLink );
//Interiot's tool link script // Add a "Interiot" link to your monobook "personal menu" list at the very // top of the page. // // Indicate where you would like "Interiot" to appear: // pt-userpage, pt-mytalk, pt-preferences, // pt-watchlist, pt-mycontris, pt-logout // gsInteriotInsertBefore = 'pt-logout'; // leave blank to append after "logout" // function InteriotLink() { var user = document.getElementById( 'pt-userpage').firstChild.firstChild.data; var li = document.createElement( 'li' ); li.id = 'pt-interiot'; var a = document.createElement( 'a' ); a.appendChild( document.createTextNode( 'Interiot' ) ); // eh, the css makes the text lowercase a.href = 'http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Pegasus1138&dbname=enwiki_p'; li.appendChild( a ); if ( ! gsInteriotInsertBefore ) // append to end (right) of list { document.getElementById( 'pt-logout' ).parentNode.appendChild( li ); } else { var before = document.getElementById( gsInteriotInsertBefore ) before.parentNode.appendChild( li, before ); } } if ( window.addEventListener ) window.addEventListener( 'load', InteriotLink, false ); else if ( window.attachEvent ) window.attachEvent ( 'onload', InteriotLink );
The fact that they use a different format for their strings while not a "problem" causes issues when trying to implement them both in url string sets. Your tool also does not allow for the +user part of the string which Kate's does, granted I do not entirely understand the purpose of it though.
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Hello,
Some time ago I wrote the following about Kate's edit count tool. The same can be said about your tool.
Kate ( http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user= ) might be considered a breach of policy §7 Privacy_policy#User_data which states : Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available via "user contributions" lists, and occasionally in aggregated forms published by other users. Kate is not an other user but a tool displayed on a website owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Kate is not an "occasional" publication, but a systematic tool available 24 hours a day, and providing informations on all users, not a smaller set of users selected on a particular occasion. The "disclaimer" section on Kate's main page seems to be the result of an inaccurate reading of the above mentioned §7. Kate is a controversial tool : see en:Wikipedia:Editcountitis for further reading.-- Theo F 10:36, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
I would not need to make these critics if you provided an "opt in" system instead of "opt out".
Best regards
Teofilo talk 12:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Just to add that teo, on fr:, has very often a point of view shared only by himself ;D Alvaro 13:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I did the undelete. However, it's still an orphan (and I think it still has the CSD tag). I'll leave dispensation to you, though. Geogre 14:52, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't email you, but I would like an edit count graph for me of my edits from my first, to current. Is this possible? --
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Generate the list of articles created for Brian0918, after tweaking the script's output slightly. -- Interiot 05:30, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, I made some fun using your counter, listing how often myself and others have visited our village pump on Dutch wikipedia. (See this if you like). I wonder if it is possible to list the other way around, I mean, a list of contributors whith the number of edits for an individual article. Or does it exist already? (No priority of course, its just for fun). Thanks for the nice counter anyway. Pieter1 18:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to show the user who proposed the article for deletion on Proposed Deletion: current nominations? I think people will (wisely) more carefully review entries if they are made by users they don't know. Cheers, — Ruud 01:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Is it still possible to see deleted contributions using one of your tools, or do you know of one that allows this? I'm trying to track down which article by Dreamzweaver got deleted. - Mgm| (talk) 09:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, There is no article listed under 'Interiot's tool'. Why don't you create a page that links to your tool? - Richardcavell 08:51, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
I seem to be k-lined. Not sure why. I emailed staff@freenode.net, and I haven't heard anything back. Interestingly, I was k-lined while I was sleeping. I'm sure it's an error. IRC isn't required to hack perl, but it helps to be able to talk to your fellow hackers. Harumph. ... aa: talk 03:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. When I look at the edit count, there is a "deleted edits" item. What does this refer to? Thanks! Slowmover 16:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
Your edit counter is really really great, thank you very much for your hard work! Especially useful when examining sysop candidates's edits :-P
I was wondering if you could hack a little something. Knowing how many sysop are needed is kinda difficult now that the usual statistics are not anymore computed, but very important as it determined how picky/pushy we need to be.
Another way to determine that would be to know how much admin edits (the red bar in your tool) are done on a specific wikipedia in one month, divided by the number of sysop (in order to have an idea of the load on one admin. If we find 2,000, we're probably in need for new sysop :) ). As you seem to already compute the sum of admin edits per user, it seems to me it could be determined as well. Could you try to find the time to hack a small report tool that would give a result page once in a while?
Or maybe replace the very active wikipedians counter that was kept up-to-date in the statistics before? It could prove useful for the same task I think.
Thanks for your time spent at reading this!
Eden - Talk 11:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Interiot. First a word of appreciation for your marvellous work in supporting the {{ prod}} process, which I rate a big success and an improvement over the old model of "afd everything"! Can I suggest a small change to the previous nominations list query? Could it show only nominations that have been deleted or deprodded in, say, the last week or so (perhaps with a little cgi form at the top to allow date selection)? Currently it shows all, and this makes the page absolutely enormous, which probably puts some unnecessary strain on the toolserver (not to mention my browser :-)). Just an idea. Thanks. -- RobertG ♬ talk 12:04, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
There's probably a better place to ask this (feel free to redirect me ;-) but I thought maybe you would know this. Do you know if there is a reason a redirect to a subsection in an article will only redirect to the top of the article? (I.e. #REDIRECT [[User talk:Interiot#Redirect to subsection]] as a link will get to this subsection, but as a redirect will get to the top of this page.) I guess I'm wondering if this is something to ask about getting fixed, or if there is a reason it works the way it does. Thanks, – Doug Bell talk• contrib 17:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey there. Your tool indicates i uploaded this photo Image:WORONLDS3.jpg which is Image:WORONLDS3.jpg. Not me, I have never seen that image before. Moriori 20:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
A tool to seperate out the main namespace in the "Whatlinkshere" request. Several people have expressed interest. It will increase productivity.
Hi Interiot, I have an idea for something on the toolserver.
Several people have expressed interest in being able to view just the main namespace when using "Whatlinkshere". These people are doing link repair at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. Currently, "Whatlinkshere" doesn't filter by namespace but we would like to view just the Main namespace.
Bug 4624 (a namespace filter for "Whatlinkshere") has been filed with no response (the feature may induce too much server load, or maybe someone just needs to write a patch for Mediawiki).
The tool would be quite similar to the edit counter. A user enters the page name, and the tool returns a namespace breakdown like the edit counter (or just the Main namespace, since that's what is important). A note of the replication lag would be useful too.
I would expect load to be small, since normal operation would involve submiting a request, spending 20 minutes working through the output and then submiting again. There couldn't be more than a handful of people doing this from around the world at any one time.
I have asked pgk about it, and he said it's on his list but to ask you too.-- Commander Keane 17:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Interiot, sorry to bother you, but I just found that the size of the bars in your edit counter is not proportional to the number of edits. For example, a bar indicating 650 edits can be bigger than one indicating 700. You probably know this or the problem may have another source, for which you are not responsible, if that's the case, just ignore this. Anyway, your tool is very good. Thanks! Afonso Silva 11:00, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer! I found that with my own counting - [15] - I don't know if it is a problem caused by my browser, I use mozilla firefox. Perhaps a print screen will also help - Image:AfonsoSilva_Interiot.PNG - I hope I can upload such image without problem, you may delete it. Regards! Afonso Silva 18:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
My contribution count has stayed the same for the past 3 days, although I have made many edits. Is it just me? Or are other people having trouble. Weatherman90 18:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
woa, the new stats about sysop actions (delete/block/etc.) are really cool... thank you, I've dreamt of something like that for a long time :) ...but the result is kinda scary at the same time : my number of deletion is almost half my number of edits, and I've blocked no less than 500 people ^^; wikiholism is bad.
But, since these stats doesn't reflect on the "Total edits" number, don't you think it may be better to add a small separation (well, it could just be an horizontal line) between the "normal" and "sysopspecial" (since anybody can move a page) stats ? It should prevent people from making any confusion about that, and prevent you from receiving "why does the total edit number show (normal number) instead of (number+move and other special actions) ?" and other similar questions.
Darkoneko 10:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Both yours and Kate's counters have held me at 3893 edits for my past several edits (at least six). What could that be about? -- § Hurricane E RIC § Damages archive 02:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot. User:Kate used to run a list of administrator edit counts [16] [17]. She had a script to update them daily, but unfortunately her lists haven't updated since December. Could you take over that job, please? She provides her SQL query, so it might be very easy to set up (assuming the database scheme hasn't changed since then). Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 10:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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20:17, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi - you may want to deactivate the categories in User:Interiot/Sandbox/Security_engineering, as they're currently showing up in Category:Cryptography and Category:Security. Also: love the editcount tool - very spiffy! Regards, Ziggurat 20:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Can you add a chart for all the edits? It's great to see the charts for every month and I think it would be great to have a chart for all the edits. - nagytibi ! ? 09:33, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Interiot, thank you for your comments on the Luxury vehicles aritcle page. Unfortunately, User:Samstayton has started harassing me on Wikipedia. Please notice this comment he left on User talk:Samstayton which insulted me quite a bit
Also, he added this text after he had already left another comment with that timestamp, so that it would seem he left it almost 5 days ago. This is not the first time he has personally attacked me. I would like for me to use Wikipedia without being harrassed, and Samstayton is not letting that happen. I would be appreciative if you would look into this. I am trying not to respond personally and keep this as "business oriented" as possible. Thanks a lot! -- Zouf 13:47, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Interiot: There's been a WP:RFI placed about this- are you ok dealing with it as I see you've done some work on it already? Feel free to remove and/or archive the request from WP:RFI if you think this situation is over. Cheers, Petros471 18:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
A small remark for the results of your counter for nlwiki_p (example:
[19]): "Unknown namespace 100" = "Portaal" and "Unknown namespace 101" = "Overleg portaal". Keep up the good work! Best regards,
Tdevries
00:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Looking Over this data, there is a significant error in the edits/page category. At the least, the heading is more correctly stated as 'Saved Edits per Day'.
I go out of my way to NOT save until the edit is 'well cooked', so the edits/page number is missing the larger high quality edits I do make. Or is that edits/10 minutes data counting preview looks as well? In other word, what's it counting as an edit? Not a gripe, save as one computer pro to another, I think the heading needs the title I suggest, assuming my inference is correct on the save (vs preview) is the basis of the counter. I'm amazed at a thousand edits, not that I care!
Thanks, great work!
Hi again. Something occured which leads to a longish technical question. Thought I'd keep your talk uncluttered. No particular urgency, but a 'gut feel/knee jerk' answer would be nice! Fra nkB 20:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Welcome back from your holiday. I like your edit count too - here is my page. To me it looks a bit spikey. Have you considered a normal distribution blur, like this? Stephen B Streater 21:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I can't get the edit counter to work. I enter a user name (even my own) and it says "This user does not seem to have any edits, or they don't exist". I've tried different cases, as well as prepending "user:", but I can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong? Bubba73 (talk), 03:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add a "lookup specific edit #"? I see a lot of people posting their 1000, 2000, etc. edits, but I'm quite sure I'll be missing it then. Or is there a trick to this, maybe through "my contributions"? Thanks, dewet| ™ 10:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
First off, nice job with the editcounter! Secondly, not so nice ;-). Your editcounter, along with the whole toolserver stopped working in IE for me a few weeks ago. It works fine in Firefox, but not in IE. Here is what happens:
This happens with any new page on the toolserver. Who should I tell this to, and what should I do about it?
Prodego talk 19:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Still about the edit counter: I went to [20], clicked on the contribs of December 2005, and I got [21], which contains a contrib from July. Maybe something strange with that "999999" in the URL? Best, 151.100.59.2 20:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Your editcounter says that I have one deleted edit. I wanted to ask what deleted edits are and if it's possible for me to find out which edit that is. Can you please enlighten me? Thank you.
P.S. That Zen Master story is brilliant. Loom91 13:16, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Greetings. I like the {{ legend}} additions to the plate articles! I thought you might want to look at some maps I made using MS-Paint. (I know, I know, but it's all I had.)
All the best, – Quadell ( talk) ( bounties) 00:02, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot. First, let me say that your editcount tool is really, really great. Extremely useful for all sorts of things. In light of that, I have a request: as I understand the color scheme you have now, the green color covers both edits made to articles directly, and edits made to Talk:. Is that correct?
If so, would it be possible to make these two different colors? The reason I ask is that these sorts of things always come up in RfA's and similar; people are discussing if a given user has too much Talk: edits, not enough Talk: edits, etc. It would be convenient to see this in the color distribution as well.
Of course, there may be some technical reason why this might be hard to implement, and if so, then don't go through too much trouble. But if it's a quick thing, it would make your incredibly useful tool even more useful. Thanks! -- Deville ( Talk) 16:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The Cantonese Wikipedia (zh-yue) is now open. See if you can add it to the editcount program. -- D e ryc k C. 06:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot,
First, I love your counter. Great tool. (I definitely have editcountitis).
Just one suggestion/request. Could it generate a chart of edits per day (or maybe month) over time? If not, your tool is still awesome, but I think that chart or something like it would make a great addition.
Thanks, - Reuvenk [T] [C] 08:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Interiot; for the edit counter, on the count-per-page type/action, can you make a new column for percentage of total edits? (As in (main) | 377 | 24.5%)? Thanks,
Jjjsixsix (
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01:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
According to me, the list is a valid part of Wikipedia whereas the article is a for-deletion candidate. -- Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 07:59, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Interiot. I was just looking up my edit count and saw all my edits for the month of April was rolling over into March. Is this supposed to be happening? Moe ε 19:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Could you explain me why at my edit count [23] my only contribution displayed for April is my last? -- 81.9.133.60 21:22, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Your wonderful/evil/dealy tool seems to be updating very slowly. It now has a backlog of 1 day, 8 hours. Is everything ok? JoshuaZ 14:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Here [24], it shows "browse) -->" after the deleted edits. I guess this has something to do with the dashes in the username and only commenting out instead of deleting the "browse deleted edits" bit? Anyway, thanks a lot for your tool, I had a lot of fun with it already. Kusma (討論) 00:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
It would be a really cool thing if you added a historical graph to your replication lag display. If there was an easy way to see how the lag has been changing over time, people (like me) wouldn't worry that the toolserver was stuck when it was really just running slow. Hope you enjoyed your trip in March. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
First off, thank you for all your work creating the PROD utility pages on the toolserver! Unfortunately, while the current nominations just suffer from the normal ~1 day replication lag, the previous nominations seem to remain stuck in March. Is this a normal lag effect or another bug altogether? Best, Sandstein 15:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Interiot. Is it possible for you to generate a query for all pages that are on the Wikipedia namespace, that contain "WikiProject", "WikiPortal" or a variant in its name, and to list the number of edits in their history, as well as to determine the last edit on that page? That would be useful for obtaining a list of active WikiProjects for the List of WikiProjects (woefully out of date) and the Work Via WikiProjects lists, as I really wouldn't know where to start if running a database dump query... Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 00:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
This might also be useful within the editcounter to determine where Wikipedians spend their time—whether on WP:AFD, WP:FPC, WP:FAC, WP:FLC, or WP:PR, etc. In most cases, no one posts more than a few times to each of the pages in these sections, but the cumulative edits in these areas can be significant. Maybe incorporate it into the contribution tree? Or set up something that divides the edits to each section by month, not unlike the edit counter? Granted, the alphabetization option of the contribution tree can help a user get a handle on this, so maybe it isn't particularly necessary. — Spangineer [es] (háblame) 00:51, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I really would like you to reconsider the removal of the category on Marshall Teague. Why can't a NASCAR driver who had an impact on Hudson, also qualify as a automotive biography? How does adding his name hurt the category? Stude62 01:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, I have to draw your attention to the sad fact that your formal promise (included in the description of your famous edit counter even im Wikipedia-de) to reshape the size of information about WP-authors, namely the revelation of the days and hours of their contributions, DOESN'T WORK as far as I tested it.
Yes, I got the message You must be logged in and have a valid e-mail address in your preferences to send e-mail to other users. And I tell you honestly I have fulfilled those conditions. Nevertheless it won't set to work what it should do.
I want you to make it work even for those outside the huge english-speaking branch of wikipedia like me. And I tell you that I see it as a menace, to be spied out like that. (In my own nation, Germany, it is even judged as a broken law to spy out personal privacy like that. But in USA they are VERY greedy for data collecting about everybody, I know that.) Now I just want to get rid of those time budget spying and online publication for anybody else. Would you please see to it, that it might be accomplished SOON.
For your instruction, to go out the way of misunderstandings, I have newly made an English-WP second account under the same name but I want your help for my original account Justus Nussbaum at de.wikipedia.org. Thank you in advance for seeing to it quite soon. -- Justus Nussbaum 18:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
This is a not-completely-public tool, but in case anyone is interested... This is a tool that lists long-running queries on the toolserver, because longer queries can definitely increase the replication lag. Queries that are running for an hour or more are usually mistakenly created by the owner, who forgot to kill the long-running query. Queries that run for, say, 10 minutes or more, and which run very frequently (eg. via a public CGI script), are something that hopefully the user can optimize or cache, to limit its impact on the replication lag. -- Interiot 06:35, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
You should now have the ability to query the mysql replication status directly without the need to check the timestamps etc. Try "show slave status\G" next time you are logged on, column Seconds_Behind_Master (duh!). Though I believe Kate has said this can sometimes not match reality. -- pgk( talk) 16:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I saw you advertise your whatlinkshere tool on
Template:High-traffic, and I wanted to let you know it is appreciated. Is it possible for you to add in a feature that will organize the list by the date added (in the date=
parameter)? If you could, that would make the tool a million times more useful. Thanks,
Mysekurity
[m! 21:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Regarding your Wikiproject tool, could something similar be done for Portals? How complicated would it be to do? Steve block talk 09:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Interiot, when using the edit counter for other projects than the english wikipedia, it's always a bit lenghty to scroll through the menu to the right wiki. Duesentrieb's wiki selection is much faster. It would be nice if you could change the interface. greetings and thanks for your great tool :-) -- Elian Talk 09:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Here you go: de_wikiprojects. It'd be nice if you could post the link semi-prominently somewhere, just so people know about it, so the tools work isn't wasted. Also, the existing descriptive text is in English, I can replace any of it with a german translation if you want (though the "Replication lag is 1 minute, 17 seconds" and "476 rows generated in 0.46 seconds" text is auto-generated, and would take more work to swap out). -- Interiot 14:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I understand that deleted edits can no longer be viewed, but how about providing access to a summary of deleted edits by namespace? Cheers! bd2412 T 18:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted to congratulate you for removing the replication lag on the edit counter. Now we can all resume having it open in a second tab and refreshing every minute.
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21:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
So, last night, there was an architectural change to make en.wikipedia.org faster. As a side effect, the toolserver currently no longer receives replication updates from enwiki. Some admin work on the toolserver will be needed to allow the toolserver to receive updates from enwiki again. Kate is the primary admin on the toolserver. I'm not personally able to do anything to fix this, though I'll pass along any status updates I get. Note that the kowiki_p, mswiki_p, thwiki_p, and jawiki_p servers have long been in the same position enwiki_p is now in, and a technical solution hasn't been found for those yet, so it's possible that the toolserver will be down for some time, at least for enwiki.
There are various people who may be able to speed resolution of this issue ( Wikimedia Deutschland owns the server, and have a final say in what happens on it; the core Mediawiki developers, and possibly a few other people, may have some suggestions about possible technical solutions). But it still may be some time before the toolserver is available for enwiki, given how long the asian servers have been unavailable. -- Interiot 13:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC)