Archive for March 2010 InformationSize of archival pagesPlease see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Size of archival pages. -- Wavelength ( talk) 19:36, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
New errorSeveral months ago, an editor accidentally changed the archive line of an article from |archive = Talk:Fox News Channel/Archive %(counter)d }} to |archive = Talk:Fox News Channel/Archive %(counter)d}} And ever since the bot has been "Archiving to [[Talk:Fox News Channel/Archive 23}}]]."
Without actually saving the stuff anywhere, or realizing that the name wasn't right. I don't know if there are any other instances of this; I hope not, as it was a pain to dig up all the lost sections.
Archived postHi, Misza13, I'm wondering why your bot archived a comment and link I left Feb. 15, 2010. This is the log entry:
Most posts on that page are older than 4d, but have not been archived. I will undo this action if it was a robot's mistake. Yopienso ( talk) 22:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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Renaming and archivingI think I broke my archiving by changing my username, and I don't think my fix worked. Would you have the time to take a gander at it?--~ T P W 19:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
General archive bot questionsI've been archiving my talk pages by hand for years. I'm considering switching, but my scheme is that I archive at monthly boundaries (the number increments at the change of the month, see User:Lar/TalkArchivePageListTemplate) I figure the Talk page watchers here will have a good idea... where is a good place to ask general questions? (that is, if this bot can't do it, is there another bot that does, where is the theory of archive bots discussed, etc) I think I can write a formula using magicwords and parser functions that will determine what number the archive will be based on what today's date is, but is there a way to get a particular header, with certain parameter settings already set, embedded into an archive page when it's first set up or do I have to do that manually? For example my archive 63 has this template invocation:
as you can see it has information about the start and end date, as well as the name of the archive itself. Thanks. Sorry if these are kind of clueless questions, I'm not a user of these bots so may be asking badly. ++ Lar: t/ c 16:08, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Just a thank you...Thanks for the wonderful bots!!! Best, Robert RobertMfromLI | User Talk 20:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC) Sticky TopicsHi. The Bot does a terrific job! Is there a way to make it ignore a particular thread even if it otherwise meets the archiving criteria? (There are old threads I would like to keep on my Talk page) Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 19:25, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
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duplication in archivesHi. I just cut two duplicate threads from one of the ANI archives. I don't know quite how this happened; mebbe someone unarchived for a bit, or otherwise confused the bot. And I've seen that this has occurred before. Anyway, I figure you would want to know. Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:25, 11 March 2010 (UTC) Hi, I tried to setup auto-archive for Talk:Ryanair/Archive 1. I think the config is OK and I also went through the FAQ, but the bot seems not to touch the page since more than 48 hours. What I made wrong? Thanks, best regards, -- R.Schuster ( talk) 11:27, 11 March 2010 (UTC) P.S.: The goal is to reorganize the archive by year.
User_talk:Ecw.technoid.dweeb(see this revision for the page with the prev. archive settings) My talk page has not been getting archived until a long time after I set it to do so. I checked the FAQ, but none of them seem to be the issue. (I updated my settings a few minutes ago.) Cheers!☮ — Ecw.Technoid.Dweeb | contributions | talk 13:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
"There are suggestions below for improving the article..."But, actually, no. There are none. This page, after all, is being archived by a very devoted little bot. Is there A) an easy way to get to these suggestions (because archive pages are obnoxiously unhelpful) or B) a way we could convince the bot not to archive longstanding complaints in need of address (because the bot does not seem interested in addressing complaints)? J.M. Archer ( talk) 21:37, 12 March 2010 (UTC) WP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 64, is available for delivery here. Thanks as always, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 14:12, 14 March 2010 (UTC) Misza down on IRCYour bot on the #cvn-wp-en connect is down. Just thought I would give you a heads up. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 14:09, 16 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 15 March 2010
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Asking a big favor...I know this is asking a big favor, but I wonder is there is someone here willing to help out and install a talk page archive script to the talk page over at Talk:Gun laws in the United States (by state)? I looked at the instructions but feel that it is a bit too complex for my abilities. Thanks. If this isn't the right place to ask, could you suggest another place to ask for help? SaltyBoatr ( talk) 14:50, 19 March 2010 (UTC) Quick questionQuestion, is there a way to "force" MiszaBot III to perform a cycle on my page, or is the only way is wait till it wants to ? The reason I'm wondering, it seem to have stopped working. Does changing the values ie. old,count will changing these reset the timing system, I mean after these changes does the bot now think it was just installed ? Mlpearc MESSAGE 16:21, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I have more, the setting you refer to "minthreadstoarchive value" is this the "age=" setting ? And thanks for reminding of the no time stamp I totally forgot that one . Mlpearc MESSAGE 17:37, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Bot stalled?Seemed to have stalled today after SarekOfVulcan ( talk · contribs). FYI. – xeno talk 17:34, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
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Archivebot on cawikiYour archivebot is now running on cawiki. Just to tell you that I have had some problems identifying months with locale catalan. I have had to replace "ago" with "ag", unfortunadly both are correct, and it did not find "març" until I have modified in the line 243 txt.encode('cp1252'). Thanks for your work, it is great. -- Vriullop ( talk) 16:47, 27 March 2010 (UTC) WP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 65, is available for delivery here. Cheers, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 11:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 29 March 2010
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Archive for March 2010 InformationSize of archival pagesPlease see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Size of archival pages. -- Wavelength ( talk) 19:36, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
New errorSeveral months ago, an editor accidentally changed the archive line of an article from |archive = Talk:Fox News Channel/Archive %(counter)d }} to |archive = Talk:Fox News Channel/Archive %(counter)d}} And ever since the bot has been "Archiving to [[Talk:Fox News Channel/Archive 23}}]]."
Without actually saving the stuff anywhere, or realizing that the name wasn't right. I don't know if there are any other instances of this; I hope not, as it was a pain to dig up all the lost sections.
Archived postHi, Misza13, I'm wondering why your bot archived a comment and link I left Feb. 15, 2010. This is the log entry:
Most posts on that page are older than 4d, but have not been archived. I will undo this action if it was a robot's mistake. Yopienso ( talk) 22:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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Renaming and archivingI think I broke my archiving by changing my username, and I don't think my fix worked. Would you have the time to take a gander at it?--~ T P W 19:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
General archive bot questionsI've been archiving my talk pages by hand for years. I'm considering switching, but my scheme is that I archive at monthly boundaries (the number increments at the change of the month, see User:Lar/TalkArchivePageListTemplate) I figure the Talk page watchers here will have a good idea... where is a good place to ask general questions? (that is, if this bot can't do it, is there another bot that does, where is the theory of archive bots discussed, etc) I think I can write a formula using magicwords and parser functions that will determine what number the archive will be based on what today's date is, but is there a way to get a particular header, with certain parameter settings already set, embedded into an archive page when it's first set up or do I have to do that manually? For example my archive 63 has this template invocation:
as you can see it has information about the start and end date, as well as the name of the archive itself. Thanks. Sorry if these are kind of clueless questions, I'm not a user of these bots so may be asking badly. ++ Lar: t/ c 16:08, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Just a thank you...Thanks for the wonderful bots!!! Best, Robert RobertMfromLI | User Talk 20:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC) Sticky TopicsHi. The Bot does a terrific job! Is there a way to make it ignore a particular thread even if it otherwise meets the archiving criteria? (There are old threads I would like to keep on my Talk page) Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 19:25, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
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duplication in archivesHi. I just cut two duplicate threads from one of the ANI archives. I don't know quite how this happened; mebbe someone unarchived for a bit, or otherwise confused the bot. And I've seen that this has occurred before. Anyway, I figure you would want to know. Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:25, 11 March 2010 (UTC) Hi, I tried to setup auto-archive for Talk:Ryanair/Archive 1. I think the config is OK and I also went through the FAQ, but the bot seems not to touch the page since more than 48 hours. What I made wrong? Thanks, best regards, -- R.Schuster ( talk) 11:27, 11 March 2010 (UTC) P.S.: The goal is to reorganize the archive by year.
User_talk:Ecw.technoid.dweeb(see this revision for the page with the prev. archive settings) My talk page has not been getting archived until a long time after I set it to do so. I checked the FAQ, but none of them seem to be the issue. (I updated my settings a few minutes ago.) Cheers!☮ — Ecw.Technoid.Dweeb | contributions | talk 13:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
"There are suggestions below for improving the article..."But, actually, no. There are none. This page, after all, is being archived by a very devoted little bot. Is there A) an easy way to get to these suggestions (because archive pages are obnoxiously unhelpful) or B) a way we could convince the bot not to archive longstanding complaints in need of address (because the bot does not seem interested in addressing complaints)? J.M. Archer ( talk) 21:37, 12 March 2010 (UTC) WP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 64, is available for delivery here. Thanks as always, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 14:12, 14 March 2010 (UTC) Misza down on IRCYour bot on the #cvn-wp-en connect is down. Just thought I would give you a heads up. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 14:09, 16 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 15 March 2010
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Asking a big favor...I know this is asking a big favor, but I wonder is there is someone here willing to help out and install a talk page archive script to the talk page over at Talk:Gun laws in the United States (by state)? I looked at the instructions but feel that it is a bit too complex for my abilities. Thanks. If this isn't the right place to ask, could you suggest another place to ask for help? SaltyBoatr ( talk) 14:50, 19 March 2010 (UTC) Quick questionQuestion, is there a way to "force" MiszaBot III to perform a cycle on my page, or is the only way is wait till it wants to ? The reason I'm wondering, it seem to have stopped working. Does changing the values ie. old,count will changing these reset the timing system, I mean after these changes does the bot now think it was just installed ? Mlpearc MESSAGE 16:21, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I have more, the setting you refer to "minthreadstoarchive value" is this the "age=" setting ? And thanks for reminding of the no time stamp I totally forgot that one . Mlpearc MESSAGE 17:37, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Bot stalled?Seemed to have stalled today after SarekOfVulcan ( talk · contribs). FYI. – xeno talk 17:34, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
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Archivebot on cawikiYour archivebot is now running on cawiki. Just to tell you that I have had some problems identifying months with locale catalan. I have had to replace "ago" with "ag", unfortunadly both are correct, and it did not find "març" until I have modified in the line 243 txt.encode('cp1252'). Thanks for your work, it is great. -- Vriullop ( talk) 16:47, 27 March 2010 (UTC) WP:PW newsletterThe next edition of the WP:PW newsletter, Issue 65, is available for delivery here. Cheers, ♥ Nici♥ Vampire♥ Heart♥ 11:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 29 March 2010
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