Archive for June 2008 InformationWP:PW newsletterThe next issue is ready to be delivered here. Thanks! ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 20:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC) WP:Pro Wrestling NewsletterHey there. I am having a problem with your bot that delivers the WP:PW Newsletter. My name is on the No Spam list, but I'm still getting the newsletter. Can you help? Thanks! -- Me Holla! 23:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Grawp-botDoes your block-bot (kudos for having the skill to write it, and the balls to run it, btw!) also handle clearing up the pagemove mess afterwards? Because having edits like these in a user's page history honestly makes me sick. Since you're running an adminbot already, would it be reasonable to do poor-man's-oversight on each page replaced; deleting the page and then restoring everything but the revisions with the ugly page title? Being able to make such horrible vandalism disappear would go a long way towards fulfilling the I in WP:RBI. Just a thought - and if your bot doesn't do the cleanup, ignore the above (although perhaps it would be a sensible addition... you use pywiki, right?). Happy‑ melon 21:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Odd image deletionHi, Misza13. I notice you deleted Image:Terror of MechaGodzilla 1975.jpg because it was not used. And, indeed, the deleted image shows no article-links. However the image actually was in used at the article on the film Terror of Mechagodzilla. Perhaps the image description was not done correctly? If you could restore the image, I will provide a description/justification for it. Thanks. Dekkappai ( talk) 22:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, man.Could you please whitelist my alt. account or something? See [1]. I'm trying to help train an AV bot, and, getting blocked for it every couple mins is starting to get annoying :) (tho, at least I do get to do the rogue unblocks!) SQL Query me! 05:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Deleted imageHi, is their anyway I can view this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Image:Dirtykuffar2.JPG&action=edit&redlink=1 thanks User:Arthur Warrington Thomas ( talk) 15:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Page movesMisza, the reason why Grawp is able to move so many pages so quickly - and tends to go for archives these days - is that there's now a "Move all subpages, if applicable" tickbox for moving pages. So it's one click to get a page (and all its subpages) moved at the same time. WjB scribe 13:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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Iraq War archiving of discussionI'd like to request that Miszabot II change the archiving schedule from 30 days to 60 or 90 days--the discussion page isn't getting the traffic it used to so there's less of a need for such frequent archiving. Thanks Publicus 20:02, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
My talk page achivingHope you can understand this (I'm not sure I do!): Is it possible to make the bot start a new archive for each month, so that all the messages I get in June are archived to one page, all the messages I get in July are archived to another, etc etc. Currently my archive page is really big, and it's getting annoying when I'm looking for something specific. If it's not possible, would you be able to edit my talk page and make it make a new archive page sooner than it is doing? Thanks! Matthewedwards ( talk · contribs · count · email) 07:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
MedcabBot is malfunctioningSee this. The bot just randomly removed 15 cases that are not closed, I had to revert it. Just letting you know. Happy editing! Atyndall93 | talk 10:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
MiszaBot III setup an archive at Wikipedia: Wikiproject:Video games/Newsletter, check the page to make sure I did it right and tell me when the bot will start archiving, thankyou. Gears Of War 13:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC) MiszaBot IIMiszaBot II has an error. It doesn't occur often, but there have been examples in Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources where the <pre> tag has been used to enclose example code - see for example here - here the example code contains a section heading == Notes ==. MiszaBot II seems to read this as a real section heading. It makes a mess of its archiving of the section as a result. MiszaBot II logic needs to be changed so as not to treat section headings contained within <pre> tags as real. Thank you. -- SallyScot ( talk) 17:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Maybe rare, but, since it's been pointed out, I don't really see the difficulty in fixing. For the purposes of determining where the next talk section really begins, ignore everything enclosed within HTML comment tags, because next talk section heading won't occur within them; ignore everything enclosed within nowiki tags, because next talk section heading won't occur within them; and ignore everything enclosed within pre tags, because the next talk section heading won't occur within them. -- SallyScot ( talk) 18:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
So, the bot will fail also if a section heading is within nowiki tags? -- SallyScot ( talk) 22:31, 14 June 2008 (UTC) 2007-Jul-28Why did you delete 'Airlines Reporting Corporation'? Don't you know that this is the main reporting entity for airlines and an industry trade group? [2] I'm going to recreate the article. Please note that I am asserting notability. Thanks. -- Inetpup ( talk) 06:52, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
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MiszaBot IIIHi there: MiszaBot III seems to want to archive material on my talk page that I consider current -- as well, it's archiving the material to the third page of nine, which is not going to help me find material in the future. Is there a way that the bot can be programmed to avoid my talk page? Your assistance would be appreciated. Accounting4Taste: talk 14:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
problem using the MiszaBot IHello, I placed text on the Talk:Al Gore article for MiszaBot. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Could you possibly take a look and see what I did incorrectly? I did copy it from another article where it seems to be working fine. Thank you in advance for your help.- Classicfilms ( talk) 13:34, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Quick question!Firstly, forgive me if there is a blindingly obvious solution to this - I'm not the most aware of people! My question is, is it possible for there to be content to remain on a talk page when the bot archives the threads? I ask because there are a few bits and bobs at the top of my user talk page that I'd like to see staying when the bot does its business! Thanks! - Erebus555 ( talk) 15:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Coren's talk archiveHi Misza, more so I can understand archiving than anything else, wrt User talk:Coren, your bot is archiving away per its spec's - but when I look at the talk page and click to the archive index, nothing since mid-January shows up. There's some interplay between Werdnabot and Shadowbot3 that I don't particularly understand, presumably your archivebot took over somewhere. Coren is MIA right now, else I'd ask directly. So, questions:
Thanks for your help! Franamax ( talk) 03:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Bot doesn't seem to like collapsed configNot sure if you were aware, but I tried to collapse the bot config into a single line, and it archived all threads older than 24 hours to /dev/null. Unless I messed something else up. xenocidic ( talk) 15:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
SummerAll I hope of your questions have been answered. Chubb enna itor 18:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC) Forgot to/didn't mentionYou either forgot to or didn't mention on your userpage, under "accounts on other wikis" that you are, like, THE GOD of The Test Wiki. Cool... just thought I'd let you know. Iamzork ( talk) 02:42, 21 June 2008 (UTC) WP:PW newsletterThe next issue is ready for delivery here, Thanks! ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 23:15, 22 June 2008 (UTC) QuestionOk. I have read the artcile, How to set-up auto archives. I just have a question. How do I insert all of this auto mated stuff if I alread have archives? I have been updating my archives manually. How do I turn the job over to your bot? Tm93 ( talk) 03:50, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Talk page of MOSFILMHello, I was looking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines, and I noticed that the talk page had discussions leading back to February 2008, despite the apparent setup of automatic archiving by MiszaBot II every 20 days. I was wondering if anything needed to be adjusted to restore the automatic archiving for this particular talk page. — Erik ( talk • contrib) - 16:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC) Talk page of Rotary InternationalI think I have set it correctly but it is not working. I have read and considered the FAQ! Please have a look. Do I need to manually create the first Archive??? Thanks, Ariconte ( talk) 02:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
statusChanger.jsI have recently added this script to my monobook.js. I also added the status list ( view) to my monobook. I have the links at the top of the page next to the log out button, but when I click the link it only takes me to the status page. It doesn't update automatically, I have to click "edit this page" and type in the code manually. I would appreciate it if I didn't have to input the code manually. Do you have any thoughts on why this is happening. - Tm93 ( talk) 06:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Another question for you...Hi there - thanks for your previous help for the Talk:Al Gore page. The bot seems to be working fine now and it has archived old posts twice. I do have one more question - on the right hand side is a small template that states: "This talk page is automatically archived by MiszaBot I. Any sections older than 5 days are automatically archived. An archive index is available here." However, the index is still blank. I assumed that the bot would create the index - is there something else I need to do to set it up? - Classicfilms ( talk) 03:07, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
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Bot III ArchivingMisza, this diff scares me a little... ;). Any idea what's gone on? Was it the recent change I made to my talk page header (which I just undid)? I haven't blocked seeing as it only seems to have affected me. Cheers, Alex Muller 13:54, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Bot III Archiving not Working{{User:MiszaBot/config |algo = old(7d) |archive = User talk:ilikepie2221/Archive %(counter)d |counter = 3 |maxarchivesize = 15K |minthreadsleft = 3 |minthreadstoarchive = 1 }} Currently, my oldest thread is 20:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC), shoulda been archived a long time ago. You have any idea why its not working? TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 23:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC) |
Archive for June 2008 InformationWP:PW newsletterThe next issue is ready to be delivered here. Thanks! ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 20:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC) WP:Pro Wrestling NewsletterHey there. I am having a problem with your bot that delivers the WP:PW Newsletter. My name is on the No Spam list, but I'm still getting the newsletter. Can you help? Thanks! -- Me Holla! 23:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Grawp-botDoes your block-bot (kudos for having the skill to write it, and the balls to run it, btw!) also handle clearing up the pagemove mess afterwards? Because having edits like these in a user's page history honestly makes me sick. Since you're running an adminbot already, would it be reasonable to do poor-man's-oversight on each page replaced; deleting the page and then restoring everything but the revisions with the ugly page title? Being able to make such horrible vandalism disappear would go a long way towards fulfilling the I in WP:RBI. Just a thought - and if your bot doesn't do the cleanup, ignore the above (although perhaps it would be a sensible addition... you use pywiki, right?). Happy‑ melon 21:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Odd image deletionHi, Misza13. I notice you deleted Image:Terror of MechaGodzilla 1975.jpg because it was not used. And, indeed, the deleted image shows no article-links. However the image actually was in used at the article on the film Terror of Mechagodzilla. Perhaps the image description was not done correctly? If you could restore the image, I will provide a description/justification for it. Thanks. Dekkappai ( talk) 22:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, man.Could you please whitelist my alt. account or something? See [1]. I'm trying to help train an AV bot, and, getting blocked for it every couple mins is starting to get annoying :) (tho, at least I do get to do the rogue unblocks!) SQL Query me! 05:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Deleted imageHi, is their anyway I can view this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Image:Dirtykuffar2.JPG&action=edit&redlink=1 thanks User:Arthur Warrington Thomas ( talk) 15:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Page movesMisza, the reason why Grawp is able to move so many pages so quickly - and tends to go for archives these days - is that there's now a "Move all subpages, if applicable" tickbox for moving pages. So it's one click to get a page (and all its subpages) moved at the same time. WjB scribe 13:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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Talk page not being archivedCan you see why my talk page is not being archived? -- PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 00:36, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Iraq War archiving of discussionI'd like to request that Miszabot II change the archiving schedule from 30 days to 60 or 90 days--the discussion page isn't getting the traffic it used to so there's less of a need for such frequent archiving. Thanks Publicus 20:02, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
My talk page achivingHope you can understand this (I'm not sure I do!): Is it possible to make the bot start a new archive for each month, so that all the messages I get in June are archived to one page, all the messages I get in July are archived to another, etc etc. Currently my archive page is really big, and it's getting annoying when I'm looking for something specific. If it's not possible, would you be able to edit my talk page and make it make a new archive page sooner than it is doing? Thanks! Matthewedwards ( talk · contribs · count · email) 07:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
MedcabBot is malfunctioningSee this. The bot just randomly removed 15 cases that are not closed, I had to revert it. Just letting you know. Happy editing! Atyndall93 | talk 10:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
MiszaBot III setup an archive at Wikipedia: Wikiproject:Video games/Newsletter, check the page to make sure I did it right and tell me when the bot will start archiving, thankyou. Gears Of War 13:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC) MiszaBot IIMiszaBot II has an error. It doesn't occur often, but there have been examples in Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources where the <pre> tag has been used to enclose example code - see for example here - here the example code contains a section heading == Notes ==. MiszaBot II seems to read this as a real section heading. It makes a mess of its archiving of the section as a result. MiszaBot II logic needs to be changed so as not to treat section headings contained within <pre> tags as real. Thank you. -- SallyScot ( talk) 17:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Maybe rare, but, since it's been pointed out, I don't really see the difficulty in fixing. For the purposes of determining where the next talk section really begins, ignore everything enclosed within HTML comment tags, because next talk section heading won't occur within them; ignore everything enclosed within nowiki tags, because next talk section heading won't occur within them; and ignore everything enclosed within pre tags, because the next talk section heading won't occur within them. -- SallyScot ( talk) 18:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
So, the bot will fail also if a section heading is within nowiki tags? -- SallyScot ( talk) 22:31, 14 June 2008 (UTC) 2007-Jul-28Why did you delete 'Airlines Reporting Corporation'? Don't you know that this is the main reporting entity for airlines and an industry trade group? [2] I'm going to recreate the article. Please note that I am asserting notability. Thanks. -- Inetpup ( talk) 06:52, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
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You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 06:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC) Heads upPlease fix this false positive. Thanks, Spellcast ( talk) 06:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC) BotHello. I'm StewieGriffin!. I am interested in making a bot, and was wondering if you could give me some advice. How did you do it? What did you read? After making a bot, what then? StewieGriffin! • Talk Sign 07:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
WPF1 Newsletter deliveryThis may seem rude but the WPF1 Newsletter needs a bot to deliver the Newsletter. The last Bot was blocked on account of it not being needed. (I disagree). Please contact if interested for your bot to help. (I think it's rude not to ask you on your talk page instead of your bots talk page.) Chubb enna itor 16:24, 16 June 2008 (UTC) How would the bot handle this?Just curious, I sometimes copy a diff of my reply back to my talk page and do not sign it. How would the bot handle a thread like this? The last line looks like this:
See for example: User_talk:Xenocidic#How.27s_it_hangin.27.3F. Thanks for your time! xenocidic ( talk) 15:38, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
MiszaBot IIIHi there: MiszaBot III seems to want to archive material on my talk page that I consider current -- as well, it's archiving the material to the third page of nine, which is not going to help me find material in the future. Is there a way that the bot can be programmed to avoid my talk page? Your assistance would be appreciated. Accounting4Taste: talk 14:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
problem using the MiszaBot IHello, I placed text on the Talk:Al Gore article for MiszaBot. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Could you possibly take a look and see what I did incorrectly? I did copy it from another article where it seems to be working fine. Thank you in advance for your help.- Classicfilms ( talk) 13:34, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Quick question!Firstly, forgive me if there is a blindingly obvious solution to this - I'm not the most aware of people! My question is, is it possible for there to be content to remain on a talk page when the bot archives the threads? I ask because there are a few bits and bobs at the top of my user talk page that I'd like to see staying when the bot does its business! Thanks! - Erebus555 ( talk) 15:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Coren's talk archiveHi Misza, more so I can understand archiving than anything else, wrt User talk:Coren, your bot is archiving away per its spec's - but when I look at the talk page and click to the archive index, nothing since mid-January shows up. There's some interplay between Werdnabot and Shadowbot3 that I don't particularly understand, presumably your archivebot took over somewhere. Coren is MIA right now, else I'd ask directly. So, questions:
Thanks for your help! Franamax ( talk) 03:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Bot doesn't seem to like collapsed configNot sure if you were aware, but I tried to collapse the bot config into a single line, and it archived all threads older than 24 hours to /dev/null. Unless I messed something else up. xenocidic ( talk) 15:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
SummerAll I hope of your questions have been answered. Chubb enna itor 18:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC) Forgot to/didn't mentionYou either forgot to or didn't mention on your userpage, under "accounts on other wikis" that you are, like, THE GOD of The Test Wiki. Cool... just thought I'd let you know. Iamzork ( talk) 02:42, 21 June 2008 (UTC) WP:PW newsletterThe next issue is ready for delivery here, Thanks! ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 23:15, 22 June 2008 (UTC) QuestionOk. I have read the artcile, How to set-up auto archives. I just have a question. How do I insert all of this auto mated stuff if I alread have archives? I have been updating my archives manually. How do I turn the job over to your bot? Tm93 ( talk) 03:50, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Talk page of MOSFILMHello, I was looking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines, and I noticed that the talk page had discussions leading back to February 2008, despite the apparent setup of automatic archiving by MiszaBot II every 20 days. I was wondering if anything needed to be adjusted to restore the automatic archiving for this particular talk page. — Erik ( talk • contrib) - 16:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC) Talk page of Rotary InternationalI think I have set it correctly but it is not working. I have read and considered the FAQ! Please have a look. Do I need to manually create the first Archive??? Thanks, Ariconte ( talk) 02:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
statusChanger.jsI have recently added this script to my monobook.js. I also added the status list ( view) to my monobook. I have the links at the top of the page next to the log out button, but when I click the link it only takes me to the status page. It doesn't update automatically, I have to click "edit this page" and type in the code manually. I would appreciate it if I didn't have to input the code manually. Do you have any thoughts on why this is happening. - Tm93 ( talk) 06:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Another question for you...Hi there - thanks for your previous help for the Talk:Al Gore page. The bot seems to be working fine now and it has archived old posts twice. I do have one more question - on the right hand side is a small template that states: "This talk page is automatically archived by MiszaBot I. Any sections older than 5 days are automatically archived. An archive index is available here." However, the index is still blank. I assumed that the bot would create the index - is there something else I need to do to set it up? - Classicfilms ( talk) 03:07, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
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Bot III ArchivingMisza, this diff scares me a little... ;). Any idea what's gone on? Was it the recent change I made to my talk page header (which I just undid)? I haven't blocked seeing as it only seems to have affected me. Cheers, Alex Muller 13:54, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Bot III Archiving not Working{{User:MiszaBot/config |algo = old(7d) |archive = User talk:ilikepie2221/Archive %(counter)d |counter = 3 |maxarchivesize = 15K |minthreadsleft = 3 |minthreadstoarchive = 1 }} Currently, my oldest thread is 20:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC), shoulda been archived a long time ago. You have any idea why its not working? TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 23:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC) |