Archive for August 2009 InformationWP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newslatter, Issue 48, is avaiable for delivery here. Thanks, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 07:11, 2 August 2009 (UTC) Did I do it right?On multiple "[X] Amendment to the United States Constitution" article talk pages I installed MiszaBot I yesterday. No archiving has occurred on any of them. I know MiszaBot I archives once a day, but I'd still like to know if did the installation correctly. Can someone look at one of those article talk pages (here's a link to one of them). Thanks. SMP0328. ( talk) 21:50, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 05:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC) Request archiving helpHi. I've been working on an article that's been generating an enormous amount of posts on the talkpage at Talk:IB Diploma Programme. Spent most of June/July manually archiving but would like to give MiszaBot a try. I've added the markup to the top of the page in "nowiki" tags. Would you mind having a look to see whether I've done it correctly. The biggest concern is the page already has seven archives, so I'm not certain about how to set the counter, and whether the counter increments itself automatically as necessary. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 14:18, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
MiszaBot IIIMizsaBot III is archiving my talkpage, but isn't archiving newsletters from a few months ago, is there something wrong? - Presidentman ( talk) Random Picture of the Day 20:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
You forgot to archive a thread from April. Its set to 4 weeks. Please take a look at it again. TomCat4680 ( talk) 08:43, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Talk:PhilippinesCan anyone see why the bot isn't working on
Talk:Philippines?
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 04:36, 11 August 2009 (UTC) Feature request for MiszaBotHi, over at the Simple English Wikipedia, we regularly have simple:Wikipedia:Simple talk overflowing. Thus, would it be possible to introduce a new configuration option that allows users to specify the maximum size for a page (not archive)? It would override the algo and minthreadsleft settings, so would still archive a bloated page with (relatively) new threads. Chenzw Talk 12:49, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
What did I do wrong this time?Hi, my talkpage and Wikipedia talk:Paid editing and Talk: Adam Lambert all seem to be not archiving, did I mess something up again or is a conspiracy? -- Banjeboi 13:49, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
MiszaBot II + ClueBot III = ?Your bots don't seem to get along too well: [2] [3]. — Ruud 01:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Anomaly in first archive actionPlease see this diff : I set the bot config to archive threads older than three days, but it archived the thread "Strike out votes" which had a comment from yesterday (directly above the next archived section, "== The split vote problem =="). Is there something you can see in the diff that caused this? Every other thread archived was in fact older than three days. Sswonk ( talk) 15:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Unarchiving a sectionTalk:Human/Archive 29, created by MiszaBot several days ago, contains material related to an RFC that is still open. The only material in Archive 29 is a single section. I want to restore the content to Talk:Human so that the discussion, which had moved on to a new section, will be all in one place, but I'm worried about pitfalls. Should I:
Concerns [ have been raised] about screwing up future archiving, which apparently happened before. Thanks for any advice. Also, for future reference, is there any way (without entirely stopping archiving a page) to make MiszaBot ignore specific sections? Null edits? Secret code :) ? Rivertorch ( talk) 07:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
WP:PW NewsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 49, is available for delivery here. Thanks, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 09:00, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC) Two questions on MiszaBotFirst, the maxarchivesize parameter, properly used it should read 128K, 256K, 512K, etc... With the capitol "K", correct? I've tried to use that param a couple of times now and have run into problems where MiszaBot would create a new page for every individual section archived (suggesting that it thought that maxarchivesize was immediately being passed). Also, is there a list available of what articles each MiszaBot is archiving, somewhere? I'm guessing that it just uses a hidden category based on the template or something, but being able to locate that might be helpful occasionally. The actual reason that I'm asking though is that I was just trying to figure out if MiszaBot I skipped an article which was recently added to be archived. The page might be moved soon (probably will), so I tried using the {{TALKPAGE}} magic word for the archive param. I think that it skipped over the page because of this instead of archiving it though, since the text name differed from the page name and there's no "key" given for the page (and none is actually needed), but somehow getting confirmation on that would be nice. (PS.:Feel free to reply here, as I have your page on my watchlist for now. I prefer to keep conversations in one place.)
Page structure changes causing problemsWould you be able to advise on how best to sort out what happened at Template:Arbitration talk archive navbox? When the arbitration page structure was changed in May, I don't think the archive bot instructions were considered or changed (but I might be wrong). The move took place here. Before the move, as best I can make out, the bot was happily archiving to pages 22 and 23 of the "Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration" archive subpages (apart from a few squeals about full archives). It then switched to archiving to archive subpages 21 and 23 of the new "Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests" page structure. My first question (though not that important) is why it seems to have skipped page 22? The other point is that Kirill move the arbitration enforcement archives to archive subpages pages 25 and 26 of the new page structure. Will this mess the bot up when it gets to those pages, or will it skip them? I'll drop Kirill a note as well and see if he knows what to do, as this may have happened on other archive pages as well. Carcharoth ( talk) 15:13, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Archiving new commentsCould you tell me why MiszaBot archived my new comments, here? I've seen the bot do this several times before, and I would like to know why. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 22:38, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
WP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 50, is available for delivery here. Thanks, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 09:53, 30 August 2009 (UTC) MedcabBotHi. We at the portuguese Mediation Cabal would like to use the MedcabBot or similar at Wiki-pt. Any possibility for this? Cheers, GoEThe ( talk) 14:57, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:11, 31 August 2009 (UTC) |
Archive for August 2009 InformationWP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newslatter, Issue 48, is avaiable for delivery here. Thanks, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 07:11, 2 August 2009 (UTC) Did I do it right?On multiple "[X] Amendment to the United States Constitution" article talk pages I installed MiszaBot I yesterday. No archiving has occurred on any of them. I know MiszaBot I archives once a day, but I'd still like to know if did the installation correctly. Can someone look at one of those article talk pages (here's a link to one of them). Thanks. SMP0328. ( talk) 21:50, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 05:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC) Request archiving helpHi. I've been working on an article that's been generating an enormous amount of posts on the talkpage at Talk:IB Diploma Programme. Spent most of June/July manually archiving but would like to give MiszaBot a try. I've added the markup to the top of the page in "nowiki" tags. Would you mind having a look to see whether I've done it correctly. The biggest concern is the page already has seven archives, so I'm not certain about how to set the counter, and whether the counter increments itself automatically as necessary. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 14:18, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
MiszaBot IIIMizsaBot III is archiving my talkpage, but isn't archiving newsletters from a few months ago, is there something wrong? - Presidentman ( talk) Random Picture of the Day 20:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
You forgot to archive a thread from April. Its set to 4 weeks. Please take a look at it again. TomCat4680 ( talk) 08:43, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Talk:PhilippinesCan anyone see why the bot isn't working on
Talk:Philippines?
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 04:36, 11 August 2009 (UTC) Feature request for MiszaBotHi, over at the Simple English Wikipedia, we regularly have simple:Wikipedia:Simple talk overflowing. Thus, would it be possible to introduce a new configuration option that allows users to specify the maximum size for a page (not archive)? It would override the algo and minthreadsleft settings, so would still archive a bloated page with (relatively) new threads. Chenzw Talk 12:49, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
What did I do wrong this time?Hi, my talkpage and Wikipedia talk:Paid editing and Talk: Adam Lambert all seem to be not archiving, did I mess something up again or is a conspiracy? -- Banjeboi 13:49, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
MiszaBot II + ClueBot III = ?Your bots don't seem to get along too well: [2] [3]. — Ruud 01:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Anomaly in first archive actionPlease see this diff : I set the bot config to archive threads older than three days, but it archived the thread "Strike out votes" which had a comment from yesterday (directly above the next archived section, "== The split vote problem =="). Is there something you can see in the diff that caused this? Every other thread archived was in fact older than three days. Sswonk ( talk) 15:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Unarchiving a sectionTalk:Human/Archive 29, created by MiszaBot several days ago, contains material related to an RFC that is still open. The only material in Archive 29 is a single section. I want to restore the content to Talk:Human so that the discussion, which had moved on to a new section, will be all in one place, but I'm worried about pitfalls. Should I:
Concerns [ have been raised] about screwing up future archiving, which apparently happened before. Thanks for any advice. Also, for future reference, is there any way (without entirely stopping archiving a page) to make MiszaBot ignore specific sections? Null edits? Secret code :) ? Rivertorch ( talk) 07:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
WP:PW NewsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 49, is available for delivery here. Thanks, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 09:00, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC) Two questions on MiszaBotFirst, the maxarchivesize parameter, properly used it should read 128K, 256K, 512K, etc... With the capitol "K", correct? I've tried to use that param a couple of times now and have run into problems where MiszaBot would create a new page for every individual section archived (suggesting that it thought that maxarchivesize was immediately being passed). Also, is there a list available of what articles each MiszaBot is archiving, somewhere? I'm guessing that it just uses a hidden category based on the template or something, but being able to locate that might be helpful occasionally. The actual reason that I'm asking though is that I was just trying to figure out if MiszaBot I skipped an article which was recently added to be archived. The page might be moved soon (probably will), so I tried using the {{TALKPAGE}} magic word for the archive param. I think that it skipped over the page because of this instead of archiving it though, since the text name differed from the page name and there's no "key" given for the page (and none is actually needed), but somehow getting confirmation on that would be nice. (PS.:Feel free to reply here, as I have your page on my watchlist for now. I prefer to keep conversations in one place.)
Page structure changes causing problemsWould you be able to advise on how best to sort out what happened at Template:Arbitration talk archive navbox? When the arbitration page structure was changed in May, I don't think the archive bot instructions were considered or changed (but I might be wrong). The move took place here. Before the move, as best I can make out, the bot was happily archiving to pages 22 and 23 of the "Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration" archive subpages (apart from a few squeals about full archives). It then switched to archiving to archive subpages 21 and 23 of the new "Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests" page structure. My first question (though not that important) is why it seems to have skipped page 22? The other point is that Kirill move the arbitration enforcement archives to archive subpages pages 25 and 26 of the new page structure. Will this mess the bot up when it gets to those pages, or will it skip them? I'll drop Kirill a note as well and see if he knows what to do, as this may have happened on other archive pages as well. Carcharoth ( talk) 15:13, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Archiving new commentsCould you tell me why MiszaBot archived my new comments, here? I've seen the bot do this several times before, and I would like to know why. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 22:38, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
WP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 50, is available for delivery here. Thanks, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 09:53, 30 August 2009 (UTC) MedcabBotHi. We at the portuguese Mediation Cabal would like to use the MedcabBot or similar at Wiki-pt. Any possibility for this? Cheers, GoEThe ( talk) 14:57, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:11, 31 August 2009 (UTC) |