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Hi Rich, I have contacted you recently by email about Wikimania 2012. It would be great if you could get in touch to discuss further - either talk page or email is fine. daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk Thank you! Daria Cybulska ( talk) 10:16, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Can someone tell them that there's a dab problem with
Ellis Bent.
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"Aunt Jane!" said Tom, hurrying to keep up, "Do you think that one day I could be an Arb Clerk like you?"
"You can be whatever you want, Tom, even an Arb if you put your mind to it." she replied, striding down broad gleaming template namespace.
Tom liked his Aunt Jane, she was never flustered, or too tired to play a game of quick-diff with him, as his father was after a long day at MfD. And today she had taken him out for some new headers and footers. He watched the other editors move out of her path, touching their hats or avoiding her gaze, even the bots making minor edits to the illumination system seemed in awe of her. He was sure the mean boys who had kept reverting him on the school trip to the Commons, every time he tried to stop them making incivil remarks about Mona Mumpkin's bandwidth from the back 16 bits of the bus, would have quailed had they known she was his aunt.
"In here." she said as they came to a very expensive looking templating shop - gnomes were overpainting the signage but Ludwigs and Co was still visible under some blanked versions. While his aunt discussed the finer points of hair shaping with the proprietor, Tom took in the array of meta-templates, each with the distinctive Spork imprint, the shiny CC-by-Sa 17.2 mirrors and the custom python scripts apparently asleep on the floor of their cage.
Tom's mind wandered as the matching headers and footers were attached with a touch of CCS adhesive, adjusted, revised and tweaked until both his aunt and proprietor were satisfied, then, after polite farewells and sigging, back into the busy namespace one more.
"Aunt stop!" he said suddenly realising.
His aunt turned brought her face down to his level "What's the matter?"
"You didn't pay the man..."
She smiled, "Oh no dear, he does my jobs as a favour. You see a few years ago he was caught eating yogurt, and I was able to pull a few strings... avoided a lot of unpleasantness, probably a 1RR at least... for templater that would have been his livelihood."
"Yoghurt" Tom looked puzzled, then remembered his history lessons. ".. oh yogurt.." he said quietly, then quickly reverted himself before anyone else could watch.
"Anyway we are nearly there." Tom brightened, his aunt had taken him on a number of unusual outings recently, so it seemed there was another destination this morning, and while he was proud of his new gear, he was a more practical boy then fashion conscious. There had been the Harvard Hall where editors known as referrers were sitting trance-like, their neural nets linked by superconducting mono-filaments to the world library, abstracting and cross referencing for portals and projects. The trip to the wreck of the Esperanza had been the best, but he knew that the riskiest had been the back rooms of the sock-puppet centre, where in a large factory millions of socks were being attached to the heads of animated camels. He had been puzzled, but his aunt had refused to explain, telling him to think about it, and not to breathe a word to anyone.
The boy and his mentor crossed through a small, unlit, and rather insalubrious sub-namespace labelled Bjaodnally, and to his surprise came out right next to the Bot Museum. "Never go that way without me" she said "there are all sorts hanging around there, survivors form the old times, revert warriors, truthers even maybe sangeristas." The boy nodded, a delicious chill passing through him at the forbidden words, but nonetheless a little disappointed to be at the Bot Museum, which he had visited so many times before, often on a Saturday morning when his parents gave him a few electro-groats and hung a merge tag outside their user page.
They wandered down the vast echoing halls, past the hulking Cydebot and SmackBot - twin behemoths dwarfed in their turn by thousand armed Siebot, the steam powered Rambot - due to be powered up for a day at Easter, the sleek darting forms of HagermanBot and SineBot, the serried ranks of the py-bots facing the rows of slightly more customised awb-bots, like armies of pawns across a gigantic chess board. Skipping the policy room, where talking headsets would guide you through the dry and convoluted history of the documents framed around the walls (an urban legend said that every millionth visitor was taken over by the headset and changed into a bot) they arrived at the hands-on-section.
Here children of all ages, but mostly younger than Tom, operated simple revert bots, played some messy games, while in the sandbox two older boys with obvious competence problems were building a massive history tower. Tom admitted to himself that, deep down, this was his favourite room. Despite his age he liked playing with the toys and making them go further than they were designed to, getting them to interact with each other, the younger children's disruptive games simply adding to the challenge of controlling the devices without upsetting them, and at the end of the session, he liked to operate the sandbox cleaner to reset the unoccupied parts of the room to their initial state or "pre-set" as the controls described it.
Tom moved, almost automatically towards the stub builder, seeing some spare space where he could lay down a nice pattern, but his aunt took his hand and turned him to face a small triangular man in a curator's uniform. "This is my nephew, Tom. Tom this is.." she paused a heartbeat "...old Nab." The man's mouth twitched as she introduced him, as if a smiley had almost occurred.
"Very pleased to met you Tom, this way" - Old Nab opened a door marked Project staff only rollbacking the lock quicker than Tom could follow. Down a short, brightly lit corridor was a workshop, one wall was a large one-way watchlist where the children could be seen playing in the hands-on centre "just in case" as Old Nab later explained, the rest of the room, apart from the two doors, was crammed with junk, all sorts of glorious junk. Everything from almost complete robot carcases, to big tubs of mis-matched parentheses were scattered across the floor, over the workbenches, on shelves, and the ceiling was festooned with templates and meta-templates - not the burnished Spork imprinted tools of the high street, but hand made, custom templates, some possibly made for one job, then never used again, or not without further customization. Tom gaped, staring around, then his eyes fell on a regular expression lying, disassembled, on the bench next to him.
Before he could stop himself, he had re-arranged a couple of greedy wild-cards, and had just picked up a glowing delimiter, when Old Nab gently said "Here, I'll take that, my lad" relieving him of the object, which he now saw had intricate involuted methods running through it. "You're right Jane, he certainly does have an eye for these things. And I have been keeping an eye on him, here, from time to time" Old Nab glanced up at the watchlist, and Tom blushed at the thought of Nab applying intricate filters to his childish experiments and games. "I've put together the items you wanted." Half turning to Tom, "You're a lucky boy, to have an aunt like that."
Tom nodded "I know sir." he said, a little confused, watching, his hand still tingling from the delimiter, as Old Nab zipped, compressed and tar'ed a collection of components into a package small enough for Tom to carry.
"You know how to unpack, boy?" Nab said, and without waiting for an answer linked the package, with dual calling conventions for safety, to Tom's back. "Now I have to get on... the exit is over there. Nice to see you again Jane, Tom." Nab sigged and turned back to the workbench, muttering about vowel shifts and serial verbs, apparently oblivious to them as they sigged and left through the talk page.
Once again Jane set her rapid pace back towards the Project where Tom lived. Tom, carrying his load and hurrying to keep up, still managed enough breath to ask "Aunt? Um.. what is it?"
His aunt smiled enigmatically "You'll know once you unpack it - or if you don't then it's not for you."
And so half an hour later Tom found himself in his freshly archived home, carefully opening and unpacking the somewhat convoluted module the old man had created so effortlessly. As he extracted the components he added them to the growing collection, his mind putting together the puzzle "This links here - maybe if I glued that on there - oh I didn't see he'd added one, no two of those!" until finally all that was left was some stub code which he G6'd.
Tom looked at the tangled pile of metal, conduits and rulebases in the corner of his sub page. A bot of his very own. One day, one day soon, he and his bot would visit a real article.
Rich
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21:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC).
Target, at least 180 points.
Rich
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Kindly fix Pixie bot to NOT interfere with clearly marked tags saying that they're undergoing major edits, such as Brabourne Stadium which was tagged with the {{ Template:GOCEinuse}} template. I now need to unnecessarily merge my edits with that crappy bot's maintenance edits. Easwarno1 ( talk) 01:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Is this collegiate editing or someone being a
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Wait, are you still blocked? I'll ask for the AFD to be put on hold if you are.
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Bug number: 101 System: Component: perl source Blocks: none Blocked by: none
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Dating maintenance tags and associated clean up.
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Instead of adding this to hundreds of pages, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to add it to Template:Monthly clean-up category directly? Fram ( talk) 08:56, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
You should already be more than familiar with WP:BOTPOL, especially when there's an ongoing ARBCOM case about you and your bots. This is probably an accident, but in case you forgot, please read WP:BOTACC again and edit from your own account when making BRFAs, rather than from Femto Bot's account, as you did here. And also, while we're on the topic, please use the preview button / at least make sure the links you give work ( WP:Bot requests#faulty names correction in HPB 52, http://www.orchidspecies.com [which, BTW, is not a link to a previous discussion] in HPB 51). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:34, 1 May 2012 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:38, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm glad to see the shackles have been removed.
Given your years of faithful service to Wikipedia, I feel the decision to block for a whole month was excessive and made a bit hastily.
Your dedication to the project, indicated by your patience through all of this, I find inspiring.
Many under your circumstances would have simply quit. Thank you for not doing so.
I hope our arbitrators will allow you to continue applying your rare skill set to improving Wikipedia. The project will suffer otherwise.
Good luck. The Transhumanist 22:47, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Turns out Grutness left in 2011, and Fastily a few days back. Both cite persecution. Both were incredibly productive.
Rich
Farmbrough,
04:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
ISBN format please. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:38, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Rich
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15:21, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)| isbn = ISBN 1-68983-601-5 {{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (5) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}
. Previously I have deleted the template request after "confirming" the flagged number (no hyphens) with some source. Now I infer that the algorithm is more reliable than the source ... Today in this case I revised initial '1' to '0' per LCC; that catalog entry does not hyphenate this one (0689836015) so I retained your hyphenation. Do you hyphenate reliably and in a way editors might do manually? I have been using 1-3-5-1. --
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template to the article and the bot will come along in 18 minutes or so, and fix them up/check them.Hello Rich, the current ISBN run is only picking up the first ISBN of consecutive pairs [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. Hope it helps, — Sladen ( talk) 19:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC) (BTW, the bot flag is not set too.)
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thank you. i will behave. :D - badmachine 03:49, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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You are changing "deos" to "does " instead of to "does", as far as I can see. Not really a major issue of course... Fram ( talk) 09:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, Missed an isbn. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 22:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBN hyphentation
Skips one ISBN
Fixed in build 644.
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
Rich, I have repeatedly googled the Gozdak book and keep coming up with the ISBN 0738507972 Parameter error in {{ ISBN}}: checksum. This is the number that is in the article, and which pixiebot thinks is wrong. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 03:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Edits like
[7] (and the similar ones you have made today) are technically a violation of your editing restriction (they don't change anything in the output of the page, nor in how it works) and are very unlikely to ever make a difference (e.g. in this case only if the page
Ford Mustang would be moved would it possibly make any difference). If you take the trouble of explicitly changing this, wouldn't it be more useful to put the actual destination in, instead of a redirect like
here?
Fram (
talk)
12:59, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I notice you've put back the ISBN hyphens I've been leaving out, I didn't think it mattered but I'll start adding them now. Thanks, Keith-264 ( talk) 08:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Don't forget that if you create an article like this which needs a disambiguation, you need to provide an access route via a dab page entry or a hatnote. I've done the hatnote while stub-sorting, but please do it yourself another time! Thanks. Pam D 17:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, please slow down. Going at it like John Henry taking on the steam shovel is resulting in you making errors at an even faster rate. All you are doing is nailing down your own coffin lid at this rate. For Pete's sake stop for a bit, and show that you understand the concerns that people are raising. If the task doesn't get done, it doesn't get done, but if you keep this up they are going to decide that you'll never abide by any editing restriction, and they'll just ban you. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 14:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
While " The Rise of Warnings to New Editors on English Wikipedia" caused consternation back in May 2011 - "40% of all initial edits to new user talk pages in our sample were negative templates" - but the previous research blog " How much do new editors actually improve Wikipedia?" showed that over 40% (42.6%) of first edits were either vandalism (about 25%) or unacceptably low quality. The level of warning therefore, seems pretty much on the nail. Why was this not picked up in the blog? I suspect it is because the "take out" from the previous research was
The key thing to note in comparing the two samples is that the percent of acceptable edits made by newbies did not dramatically decrease from 2004 to 2011.
This is a strange item to identify as key, since the changes are far more important than what remained the same. The percent of excellent edits fell roughly from 25% to 10%, while vandalism rose from a couple of percent to about a quarter of all new user edits.
Given this analysis, we need to look harder for the reasons for lower new editor retention, and certainly not assume that there is good evidence that templating is the cause, at least at present.
Rich
Farmbrough,
03:47, 22 April 2012 (UTC).
I would feel honored if you joined the Perl WikiProject. The Transhumanist 22:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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I feel that I should inform you that it looks like you will be facing a one year minimum ban, administrator rights revoked for a minimum of one year, and indefinitely restricted from using any automation tool including assistance scripts and bots.— cyberpower ChatOnline 20:25, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Looks like you're losing your adminstrator privileges and rights to automation so, enjoy them while you still got them. You are also 2 votes away from being banned for a minimum of one year. At this point I would get ready to expect the worst to come and already start doing necessary before leaving Wikipedia in my honest opinion.— cyberpower ChatOnline 19:47, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Help Rich! We have a consensus to rename WikiProject Thoroughbred racing to Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse racing. However, moving and renaming everything is getting complicated, especially the template that is on 1000s of articles. Froggerlaura did the basics and then I took a shot at some of the technical stuff, but may have screwed up everything, so could you be so kind as o help us all out and make everything that now is part of the TB racing into just "horse racing" instead? Help! (talk on project talk page) Montanabw (talk) 20:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Is every post you make partially automated? If so, how? Are you perhaps an artificially intelligent robot? ;)— cyberpower ChatOnline 23:04, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Could you look at template:Monthly clean up category as used inc categories like Category:Articles needing cleanup from February 2008, please? It is displaying oddly and seems to be adding a redlink category at the bottom. Is it just that an update hasn't taken affect yet due to a backed up queue? RJFJR ( talk) 12:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm having a reference format problem. See the discography. If I try to put the label as publisher it is invisible. If I include it in title, it ends up in quotes (see first two examples) Can you tell me what my error is and how to correct? Cheers, -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 04:35, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing!-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:18, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
BTW, see the following from my Talk page where you were referenced-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs
The ISBN here has been marked for checking, with the reason that it was invalidly hyphenated. The problem is that not only does the ISBN match the one given on the first three pages I checked from a Google search, but while two of them don't hyphenate the ISBN, the third one is on the publisher's website and does - giving precisely the hyphenation that Helpful Pixie Bot is querying.
This may, of course, not be a bug. Even Springer is presumably capable of not only wrongly hyphenating their own ISBNs, but then including them in the URL for the page for the book concerned - and one can't criticise an editor who assumes that a publisher would know how to hyphenate their own ISBNs. But it might be worth double-checking this one. PWilkinson ( talk) 19:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Fixed A working nicely now, thanks for the notification.
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:45, 9 May 2012 (UTC).
Just a heads up: HPB has been blocked by Elen of the Roads ( Special:Log/Elen_of_the_Roads). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Thanks so much for participating in the Teahouse - it's always great when experienced editors come by and help out. I encourage you to consider being an "official" (for lack of a better word!) Teahouse host! If you'd like to learn more about that, and the basics about how the Teahouse is proceeding during this pilot period, then I encourage you to take a look at this page! It has tips and can inform interested participants seeking to help new (and experienced!) editors on how the Teahouse works differently than other help places on Wikipedia. Thanks Rich, and see you at the Teahouse :) Sarah ( talk) 14:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
At the moment ISBN fixes.
Howdy. I wasn't sure if this was the right place to put this, but your bot appears to be editing quite fast. For example, at the 0257 time, there were 33 edits. The number does appear to fluctuate a bit minute to minute, but 33 edits seems a bit much. The bot policy shows 1 edit every ten seconds for non-urgent tasks. If I'm missing something, I apologize.-- Rockfang ( talk) 03:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with one or some of your recent edits:
These redirects are incorrect (the part between the @signs is the problem, probably). Furthermore, a minor problem with as far as I have checked all the redirects you created is that the section element of it (the part after the "#") doesn't work, because the page doesn't have sections but is composed from transcluded subpages (which I tried to get rid off but which was rejected by you...). Fram ( talk) 13:17, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason why you delete the other, informative categories from these redirects? Wouldn't it be more useful to let things like Category:Asteroids named for people, Category:Discoveries by Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Category:Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1988 (all from 48416 Carmelita) stand? It seems like useful information, even for a redirect. Fram ( talk) 13:52, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have additional search suggestions at User talk:Tedder's talk page. Maile66 ( talk) 18:09, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
You were WP:INVOLVED as the proposer for the change, so you should not have taken administrative action. Please reverse yourself. Imzadi 1979 → 02:07, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. When HelpfulPixieBot is adding {{ Please check ISBN}} templates, I think the template needs to added outside the {{ Cite book}} template, to avoid corrupting the display of the ISBN, as occurred here (look at the second book listed in the References section). Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:20, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you unreffed tagged my new translation. The ref, which I've inlined, states that the text is based on (taken from) the Brockhaus-Efron pd dictionary. On the ru.wiki page for Alexander Turgenev at the bottom the tag
"При написании этой статьи использовался материал из Энциклопедического словаря Брокгауза и Ефрона (1890—1907)"
indicates this. Do you know where I can find the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary tag or template for the bottom of the Alexander Turgenev page to indicate pd here in this translation? INeverCry 00:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build J9)
Adding {{ Please check ISBN}} inside a {{ cite book}} seems to break the latter – see refs 4 and 5 in the first of the example links. And there's a typo in the output, "deos" instead of "does". BTW, the ISBN the bot flagged is actually in the book. What should be done in such cases? -- ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 06:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug closed since I am "automation banned".
Rich
Farmbrough,
15:25, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Why on my watchlist are there green stars beside articles you have recently edited? No objections, I'm just curious. Smallchief ( talk) 21:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
From WP:WATCHLIST
When viewing a page, click the star sign between the 'View history' tab and the search box at the very top of the page (for the default appearance: in some other versions, click on the "watch" or "unwatch" tab), to respectively add or remove the page from your watchlist
Rich, you mentioned a couple weeks ago that it might be possible to bot-tag a series of articles, yes? Say, for example, the swimming event pages for Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics (i.e. men's 50 free, women's 50 free, men's 100 free... women's 4x100 Medley Relay): all 32 event pages are missing the preliminary results for those that made it back for finals. Each page has a "Non-Qualifiers" section, that could/should have an expand list tag inserted (and maybe even a note about the finalist prelims times are missing?). Is that something a bot could do? -- Hooperswim ( talk) 02:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
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A tag has been placed on Ernest Sutherland Bates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Ryan Vesey Review me! 01:44, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I have a couple questions about Helpful Pixie Bot in regards to this edit. Why does it change "Image:..." to "File:..."? When it makes this change along side an ISBN change, why does it only mention the ISBN change in the edit summary? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:57, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Here is an example from 19:48 UTC, after your last post [11]. If there are previous versions running (e.g. that edit is labeled KG), they ought to be stopped... — Carl ( CBM · talk) 19:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
The thing to do surely (in all of these cases) is to change policy by consensus, and link to that updated unambiguous policy in the bot edit summary. — Sladen ( talk) 07:43, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
For what it is worth, I would like to add my opinion. I eventually figured out on my own through examples that "File" and "Image" are exactly the same. I prefer "Image" when the file is an image because it makes the source more readable. I don't have a problem using "File" instead of "Image" if the that is either required or recommended by official policy. However, Carl and Sladen have made it clear that neither is the case. By the way, bots should only be making edits that are CLEARLY supported by the community (otherwise we have to have discussions like this!). I agree with Carl and Sladen that these edits need to be officially justified in the MOS simply because they APPEAR stylistic, even if one thinks and tries to argue that they are improvements since they replace "outdated crap". Rich and Kumioko, don't you think there will be less uses of "Image" if you say in the MOS that using "File" is better and why? Kumioko, since the "MOS is a guideline, not the ten commandments", what is stopping someone from making a bot that goes around changing uses of "File" to "Image"? The way I see it, many of your own arguments could be used to justify this. Rich and Kumioko, all Carl, Sladen, and myself are requesting is that the MOS be changed to say "File" is preferable to "Image", then we would agree with you. Is this not an acceptable compromise? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:59, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to link the date to a diff showing the edit that tagged an article. Something like This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: See talk page. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. ( 2007) As far as I can tell Helpful Pixie Bot ( talk · contribs) adds the dates to these tags, so I was hoping it could link to the diffs at the same time. There was a discussion started at the clean-up tag talk page about doing this for that tag, but it could possible be useful on all all the tags in Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. As you run Pixiebot I was hoping you would have some ideas on how this could be implimented (it would be good if it could be added to old tags as well as new ones, but even just new tags would be a start) and steps needed to achieve it. AIRcorn (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering if you could code something to copy the lists of municipalities and communes into the articles by Provinces of Morocco from Italian wikipedia like this. Basically its the same format, same source, but just copying the lists?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I created this as I believed we needed a template like Bare URLs to encourage editors to add full citations not to just the websites. Can you improve this properly and sort out the documentation and take care of adding it to some articles where the refs need filling out like Alogia (band)? I'm thinking of organizing a bot to add this tag to all articles on wikipedia which needs refs filling out properly as in browsing it makes a big difference if sources are adequately filled out with details consistently.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Well??♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:42, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)#duc to Duke. There are about 230 page moves that have to be reversed. Is there a way to [semi]automate page moves? -- PBS ( talk:ye4s) 17:28, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
If I may; one question for you about the articles slated for redirection to List of minor planets:
Speaking totally theoretically now, let's take no action yet, would it be possible to somehow swipe the infoboxes from all those articles, and then somehow store the infoboxes into List of minor planets, and how difficult or complicated would that be?
I ask because have a hunch if we did that, it would help to overcome resistence to Helpful Pixie Bot 50.
So whaddaya think? Would it entail a long and tendious overhaul of the entire List of minor planetsto get it ready to accept the infobox information? Chrisrus ( talk) 04:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Yobot is blocked again. Check User_talk:Yobot#Blocked. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:01, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I hope you remember me... ;) Would you please take a look at the question I filed at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:As of and let me know whether there's anything preventing a merge of these two templates? Kind regards, Osiris ( talk) 12:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't think that thread is likely to garner any other responses. Would you do the honours? I'm not sure whether you'd like to sort to both categories or just the one {{
when}}
generates.
Osiris (
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06:48, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed that a user who complained about your bot has not bothered to notify you about it (see WP:BON). It seems that the ISBN fixing code may be editing at an excessively high rate, so could that perhaps be slowed down to once every 5-10 seconds? Thanks! Reaper Eternal ( talk) 01:56, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Are you still willing to bot the language templates? I've removed the request for a ref section, which was the sticking point.
Hope things go well with ArbCom. — kwami ( talk) 02:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
It looks like Helpful Pixie Bot has not run Category:Pages with missing references list in quite a while. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
(ISBNs (Build KE))
Matthew Hopkins in popular cultureas well as Mathew Hopkins are two examples.
it queries the zero at the start if the isbn but [12] shows that it does start with a zero - 0 - Thanks Edmund Patrick – confer 16:04, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs.
An example is the last edit in this bunch.
This is only a minor bug, but the bot destroyed the existing hyphernation in the ISBN. That is to say, it replaced "|isbn=978-0-670-02053" with "|isbn=978067002053". The problem with this particular ISBN (now fixed) was a missing check digit. The hyphenation information was therefore good, and it would have been better had the bot preserved it. I appreciate that another task of the bot is to add hyphenation so that, eventually, this loss will be corrected. This is why the bug is only a minor bug. HairyWombat 17:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
You're placing a template to check the ISBN number ... inside a template which is not going to show the template at all. See the output. This is the third time this bot has done this... needs fixing. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
And another here ... Ealdgyth - Talk 18:06, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
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cite book}}
or outside. --
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How does HelpfulPixieBot know how to parse ISBNs? -- Evertype· ✆ 19:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
As it stands I'm not sure how accurate corrections to ISBN-13 code formatting made using HelpfulPixieBot can be? Of the five elements, (Prefix, Registration Group, Registrant, Publication and Check Digit), only the first and last elements are of fixed length while the other three are variable. The Registration Group can be up to five digits. The Registrant element can be up to 7 digits and the Publication element up to 6 digits, both varying in direct relationship to the anticipated output of the publisher. Consequently for elements two to four, surely the Bot can only really be used to check that the upper limits for each of them and the sum total of the number of digits used for all of them aren't exceeded. I've seen examples of the Bot re-formatting ISBN-13 codes which were already 'legal' in terms of permissible element length, to produce a result other than that found in catalogs and printed on the publication itself. I'm not sure that's helpful. 85.210.176.104 ( talk) 16:44, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - there are two invalid ISBNs there, but only the first one was marked as invalid (
ISBN
0-86095-050-5 Parameter error in {{
ISBN}}: checksum should have been
ISBN
0-86093-050-5). The second one, ISBN 090288-12-9, was one digit short (it should have been
ISBN
0-90288-812-9) but Pixie didn't give it a {{
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. --
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Dated Expand section. (Build KF)
The bot changed "|3=date=May 2012" to "|3=date=May 2012|date=May 2012". i.e it added a date when there was already one present. There are three valid date formats in the Template:Expand section documentation. I suspect that the bot does not yet know about the second date format.
I wonder what the article would look like in a few year's time. (:-)> Peter Loader ( talk) 21:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Will Helpful Pixie Bot recognize and ignore ISBNs tagged with {{ Listed Invalid ISBN}}, as I have done at D.M. Ananda ( diff)? Regards -- ShelfSkewed Talk 14:18, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
You should know that I added a Table of Contents template to your Category:Commons category template with no category set. That way it'll make it easier for users to fix the commons tags. ---- DanTD ( talk) 00:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. When you have Helpful Pixie Bot make edits like this one please don't forget to have the bot add the phrase "and other fixes" to the edit summary. Cheers, Unforgettableid ( talk) 03:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Purely out of idle curiosity, how does the bot determine what order to deal with articles in? In my watchlist recently, it's done Appleby Frodingham Railway, Lad in the Lane, Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station and Malton railway station in that order. It doesn't seem to be alphabetical, or by category, so how are they picked? Or is it simply jumping to random article? Whatever it is, keep up the good work! An optimist on the run! 21:05, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, your bot converted two ISBNs that were followed by years into invalid ISBNs. Could you fix the problem, and go back through your bot's edits to find and fix other places where it made the same mistake? -- Carnildo ( talk) 01:58, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I was wondering if it would be possible for Helpful Pixie Bot to indicate in the edit summary whether it found any problems when checking the ISBNs. At the moment, I need to visually inspect each change the bot makes to see if there was a bad ISBN that I could possibly fix. If the edit summary said something like "ISBN check-no problems found" when all it needed to do was reformatting, but something like "ISBN check-issues detected" when problems were found, then I could safely ignore all the "no problems found" edits and only examine the "issues detected" ones. Just an idea, anyway. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
|reason=
might be absent from {{
Please check ISBN}}
, then detection of any error will cause an increase of 21 characters at the very least. Thus, I assume that where the increase is 20 or less, it's merely a reformatting. --
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talk)
14:33, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Several articles use the 1995 Formula One season review video as a reference, specifying an ISBN of "5-017559-034955", which matches the information specified here. Helpful Pixie Bot identifies this number as an invalid ISBN, as it did here. If it's not an ISBN, do you happen to know what kind of number it is? Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 08:14, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite video}}
template supports the |id=
parameter, my suggestion is to use that instead, i.e. replace |isbn=5017559034955 {{
Please check ISBN|reason=13 digit ISBN should start with 978 or 979.}}
with |id=[[EAN-13]] 5 017559 034955
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:07, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 111 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: perl source Blocks: Blocked by:
Resolution: {{#switch:fixed
|fixed=
Fixed
|not a bug=
Not a bug
|closed=Closed
|outdated=Outdated
||pending=pending
Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build KH)
When validating ISBNs, the bot changed {{Closed_stations_Northamptonshire}}
(with two underscores) into {{Closed_stations Northamptonshire}}
(with one underscore and one space). The bot should either have changed both into spaces, or left both alone. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
09:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 112 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
Resolution: {{#switch:closed
|fixed=
Fixed
|not a bug=
Not a bug
|closed=Closed
|outdated=Outdated
||pending=pending
Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Adding a duplicate second 'please check this ISBN' notice immediately before an existing one, previously and only seven weeks ago added by HPB: [16]. JohnBlackburne words deeds 13:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I found an error in the article (see photo). Copernicus was not a German, he was from Poland. -- Top811 my talk —Preceding undated comment added 13:50, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 113 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
Resolution: {{#switch:closed
|fixed=
Fixed
|not a bug=
Not a bug
|closed=Closed
|outdated=Outdated
||pending=pending
Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
In the edit of British boys' magazines the ISBN number has been altered to extend the publisher/series part by one digit so that the book number is now -4 instead of -44. I have checked the actual printed book and it is definitely -44. In addition the second reference (The 30's Scrapbook) refers to it both by title & ISBN
DonJay ( talk) 15:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Here's the hyphenation table for the English area codes:
Area code |
Publisher range |
Digit 2nd hyphen comes after |
---|---|---|
0 | 00-19 | 3rd |
0 | 200-699 | 4th |
0 | 7000-8499 | 5th |
0 | 85000-89999 | 6th |
0 | 900000-949999 | 7th |
0 | 9500000-9999999 | 8th |
1 | 55000-86979 | 6th |
1 | 869800-998999 | 7th |
1 | 9990000-9999999 | 8th |
ISBN
0-9547954-4-X falls under the 9500000-9999999 range, and hence should be hyphenated as shown.
Rich
Farmbrough,
17:44, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 114 (Duplicates 103 System: templates Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
Resolution: {{#switch:
|fixed=
Fixed
|not a bug=
Not a bug
|closed=Closed
|outdated=Outdated
||pending=pending
Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with a template:
{{
Please check ISBN}}
This HPB change introduced it: [17]; the change looks OK but it broke the rendering of Death#References, No. 6.
The 1-4495-9420-6 appears as [[Special:BookSources/1-4495-9420-6|1-4495-9420-6]], i.e. as if it's no longer interpreting it as a link. It was working fine in the version before HPB's change. I've tried purging the page to no effect.
JohnBlackburne words deeds 17:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Talk re our efforts over there. Maile66 ( talk) 15:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Thanks for asking about this. The proposal did not receive any comments. It is now archived here. I was a bit discouraged, so I haven't yet done anything to follow up on it. Should we try to take it to Bugzilla anyway or just let it drop? -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 16:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
This may have been mentioned already, but Fempto bot does not seem to be using a bot flag; all the other bots on my watchlist do, buut femptobot does not.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 21:02, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
You added the plot template to Bade Achhe Lagte Hain but Wikiproject Soap Opera says that the plot may be just 700-800 words and in the mentioned article it is so. So I think that the template is not needed. Please give a reason that why do you think that it is too long, as it is not so. When you are replying please leave me a Tb template. -- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 08:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
The case against you is about to close, with you losing your sysop bit and being prevented from using automation. There's quite a bit of talk on the PD page along the lines of last chance, being on the edge of a cliff, etc.
There are people out there who will look for whatever means they can to find a way to nudge you off of that cliff. You can't give them even a millimeter of rope with which to hang you. I strongly, strongly urge you to shut down any and all bots you have, any sort of automation you have, any sort of edit assisting scripts RIGHT NOW, before the final decision is posted. Do everything (and I mean everything) manually, by hand. Delete any .js subpages you have in your userspace. Wipe it all out. If this means you go from a million edits a week to 1 edit a month, so be it. If you want to be part of this project for the foreseeable future, you have got to do this. Otherwise, you will be shoved off of that cliff.
Decisions in this community are hate based. If enough heat is generated, it doesn't matter one iota if the target of the heat has done absolutely nothing wrong. It doesn't matter if the target is perfectly, 10000000000% in line with policy, with prior consensus supporting them. Generate enough heat, and a target will go down. That is how 'justice' works around here. I'll give you a speculative example; people have been criticizing you for changing the capitalization of templates in use on an article. If, from this day forward, you do that again...even if you use one finger to hunt and peck around the keyboard to conduct every detail of the edit...you will be found at fault for doing it. It does not matter that plenty of people are doing exactly the same thing, without anyone saying peep. It does not matter that changing the case is right, or wrong, or indifferent. If you do it, you will be found at fault for it. People will demand you link them to the consensus that permits you to do this. People will insist you are using some undeclared tool to assist you in making the edit. People will insist you are doing it to bait the people watching your every twitch, and are thus being disruptive. Since you are the subject of the heat, it will be you who is found at fault.
You are going to have to change the entire nature and style of the editor you are on this project in order to remain here. It is a monumental, probably impossible task. I wish you the best of luck, and hope for the best. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 14:07, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
For what its worth I also think that you withdrawing from editing is exactly what the Arbcom wants. They couldn't get enough support to ban you from the pedia so the next best thing is to tell you that you can't edit. Kumioko ( talk) 11:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. :) You have a response at my talk page on Meta. Thanks! -- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 14:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Good tigings to you from a believer in One Creator of the Heavens and the Earth!
i see that you have edited the page Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib on Wikipedia, i must say to you that in Islam it is not allowed to put nor draw nor see the picture of a man
i strongly encourage you o remove the picture from the page of Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib
if you have any queries or questions on that please e-mail me asap, my email is saken_k@hotmail.com
With warmest regards, Saken ibn Amankeldi
(Not including redirects). The Transhumanist 11:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Namespace | Count |
---|---|
Main | 9,375,576 |
Talk | 4,540,406 |
User | 1,457,343 |
User talk | 7,775,605 |
Wikipedia | 721,450 |
Wikipedia talk | 144,174 |
File | 810,359 |
File talk | 138,924 |
MediaWiki | 1,608 |
MediaWiki talk | 937 |
Template | 424,551 |
Template talk | 177,834 |
Help | 956 |
Help talk | 463 |
Category | 852,775 |
Category talk | 587,880 |
Portal | 109,930 |
Portal talk | 25,669 |
Book | 3,113 |
Book talk | 2,904 |
Total | 27,152,457 |
Basically a tad over 1/3 of Wikipedia is actual article pages, and more than half of those are redirects.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:35, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Here is a graphical representation of the change of emphasis as the encyclopedia has grown. The namespaces are numbered from the bottom.
Rich
Farmbrough,
01:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
The same general trends, user talk is the growth area, the big difference here is Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk - substantial, and the category and template namespaces become very small components.
Rich
Farmbrough,
18:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey Rich! Thanks for helping out at the Teahouse. Just an FYI, we created a lovely little talkback template that is Teahouse specific. You can find a link to it here. It's pretty valuable when letting folks know that you answered their question, since not everyone watches the Teahouse question page. Thanks again for all your contributions - Teahouse and beyond! Sarah ( talk) 19:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me improve Generation time Trashbird1240 ( talk) 14:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC) |
If WP bans you its a case of them shooting themselves in the foot. I really mean that.
...William
20:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Do you have time to do some adjusting at User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensHistory? It's better, but still needs to be narrowed. And most of the articles this time don't seem to be about women. Maile66 ( talk) 23:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Rich Farmbrough has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above.
The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Guerillero | My Talk 19:27, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Anyone who had made tens of thousands of edits is always going to have a few edits that someone, somewhere won't agree with or like, just as they will have also made a number of edits that someone else will really, really like. It is the balance that is important here, and it seems that a minority within the community seems to think that everything must be perfect and be in accordance with their own personal preferences.
Any edits that certain people don't like will always become a major focus during any sort of community discussion or ArbCom case simply because every editor has at some point attracted the attention of someone who doesn't like something they've done, and what better way to "get back at" someone then try to dig up any dirt they can find during such a discussion? This often results in collateral damage to other parts of the project however when such individuals take things even further.
My own message to the larger community is thus: Take what a highly vocal minority within our community has to say with a grain of salt, but do not ignore them entirely, otherwise they will grow even louder and their party will gain even more dissenters. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Clearly quite a number of people have absolutely no idea what it takes to make regular expressions and substitutions work. I give it two to three weeks tops before the backlog piles up and questions begin to arise as to "What happened to Helpful Pixie Bot and Femto Bot?" and "How do we now handle all the housekeeping work that these two bots previously took care of?"
I personally see this similarly to what would happen if we were to shut down ClueBot.
While there have been edits Rich has made that I've not agreed with, Rich appears to have always had Wikipedia's best interests in mind when he made changes, and I do not feel that this was considered at all during his ArbCom case. It would have been far far different if Rich had a history of attempting to cause problems, was a known troll, vandal, etc, but this is far from the case.
From my own point of view, it was clearly wrong of ArbCom to go full-out and heavy handed sanction a long term valued contributor who has been instrumental in standardizing and automating so many tedious and pain-in-the-ass tasks as Rich has. The very idea that Rich should be indefinitely banned from using any sort of automation is simply absurd. It could also be that ArbCom doesn't really know what all Rich has done for us here on the English Wikipedia since so much of his work has involved changes to things that work behind the scenes, yet have a very widely felt effect. For that fact, perhaps a large portion of the community doesn't know either.
The way I see it, Wikipedia is just about at a fork in the road. Many of the people with the technical know-how and knowledge of how and why things work the way they work have become disillusioned with the direction the English Wikipedia has been heading. Many of these individuals have left or slowed down in terms of their contributions, and/or have ended up sanctioned like Rich has. If things continue in this direction, the English Wikipedia is going to find itself without the technical backing that has allowed it to grow in the first place, and it's growth will stop and/or it will begin to regress (we are already beginning to see signs of both such scenarios).
From that point, if people don't decide to step up and work towards changing these trends, one or two things will ultimately happen. The first is that Wikipedia will begin to be seen as irrelevant in the eyes of the general public. The other is that those technical minded individuals who have felt alienated will organize, possibly leading to either a fracture within the community or even a new form of "Wikipedia" that will make the current "Wikipedia" entirely irrelevant and obsolete.
For those who don't think what has happened to Rich here can't happen to you or really has little long term impact on Wikipedia itself, think again. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:18, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
You need this more than I do – Lionel ( talk) 05:37, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for the comments. I checked and it is these ISBN numbers are in the publications.-- Despotović ( talk) 14:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
--
My B'day Cake | |
Hi!! Today is my b'day and I though of sharing this sweet gift with you!! Arnesh( ২০১২) 16:09, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
The We Couldn't-A-Done-It-Without-Ya Award | |
Thanks for stepping up to the plate and helping get this off the ground. Good luck with that you have on your shoulders right now. Maile66 ( talk) 17:14, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'm glad you're still here It's a silly accident that you and I have been mentioned in the same breath a lot lately and the two of us have hardly interacted in the past, but once I found out about your ArbCom issues I started to pay attention. Everyone on the English-language Wikipedia has benefited from your work and although it might be prudent for you to have a break in your administrator and bot-running responsibilities, you have doubtlessly been a real asset to the project and I'm glad that the members of ArbCom did not see fit to block or ban you outright. This tacitly acknowledges that your years of service have made this a better encyclopedia and I think that's inarguable, irrespective of any further issues with your methods or style.
I look forward to the time when you've proven to all your accusers and interlocutors that you're a responsible user, having made irrefutably good edits for several months, then apply again at RfA, make new bot requests, and get back to doing what you've been doing but without any associated drama.
For what it's worth, I'd like to ask you to reconsider whether or not you want someone else to run or curate User:Helpful Pixie Bot and User:Femto Bot.
By the way, welcome to the club ( 2,308 edits ago.) — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The Resilient Barnstar | |
You are handling this situation very well. Don't let this get you down. — cyberpower ChatOnline 21:41, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
The Arbfail Award | ||
For being one of the most helpful (former) bot-ops, and then fucked by Arbcom, I award you the Arbfail award. |
Frood! Ohai What did I break now? 23:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The Torch and pitchfork Award | |||
As someone who has also been pursued by the mob (in this case also sometimes referred to as "the Community" and/or "Arbcom") I present you with this time honored Torch and Pitchfork award.
|
I also just wanted to say congrats on making the millionaires club. Only 2 editors in the history of Wikipedia have hit a million edits, you being the second. Kumioko ( talk) 01:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I found out on reddit that you had your privileges taken. I wasn't aware of the situation. Anyway, you have my support, so if there is anything I can do to help you, let me know. Be well. Greg Bard ( talk) 02:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Category:Think Fast! Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Are you going to stay with us? Wether you have your tools and bots or not, you're still a valuable asset to this project. I hope you stay. MrLittleIrish (talk) 申 13:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, you were involved in this conversation a few months ago, so may be you want to take a look at the updates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#.27Jaguar.2FSandbox.2F3.27_edits Azylber ( talk) 15:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
For being only the second ever person to get to a million edits, especially under the circumstances. Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 18:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC) |
The Brilliantly Weathered Barnstar | |
A real-world barnstar that has seen countless seasons, complete with barn, for a brilliant milestone and for braving the weather in style. – SJ + 06:06, 22 May 2012 (UTC) |
I see you've been given the rollbacker userright, but I would advise you not to use it (just asked at the AC talk page and apparently that counts as automation). On a more important note, hope the decision hasn't hit you too hard – btw, your self-control is amazing, if it were me I think I would have absolutely lost it at some of the arbs who clearly hadn't even bothered to read all the information. Best, Jenks24 ( talk) 22:23, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich — Dirk and the others are correct, your detractors are going to try to find absolutely anything they can to use against you. Having had that done to me while under a different sort of edit restriction (that the individuals involved attempted to game over and over again while trying desperately to have me banned), the best advice I can give you is to refocus the majority of your time on something else (even a different wiki-project) until you can get this mess resolved. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 07:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see here I think you mixed up two separate CfDs. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:00, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I happened across this in the archives! — Sladen ( talk) 11:11, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Celan-up. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Celan-up redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bulwersator ( talk) 18:28, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
You were recently removed from the administrator class. I do not know enough about that situation to be able to comment on it, but I am familiar enough with your non-controversial work to be able to thank you for everything non-controversial you have done for the Wikipedia project.
I am sorry to have to qualify my thanks, but I simply do not understand enough to be able to say more. I appreciate what seems to be your stated intent to continue to support the Wikipedia project. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:52, 19 May 2012 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request_to_amend_prior_case:_Rich_Farmbrough Nobody Ent 15:31, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
I have also made a request in the same thread - see Amendment 2. Ncmvocalist ( talk) 10:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
You recently unprotected the page User:Badmachine. That page now reads "FOREVER DEATH TO TH3J35T3R", a reference to The Jester, who, although unidentified, is a living person. The comment was added on 17 May. This is only the latest in a series of incidents relating to the user page - perhaps it is time to say enough? Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 18:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Toynbee tiles, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. SummerPhD ( talk) 23:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
to the uncited part of the sentence, not to remove the cite for the second part. And you can also use the template {{
Ze}}
if you wish, it will render gender according to the editor upon who's page it is used, or the user name given as an argument. So it refers to me as "ze" for instance, but Elen of the Roads as "she" and you as "ze". I have even set my gender preferences so that this works.
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:48, 22 May 2012 (UTC).Welcome to wikipedia??? One of the dumbest messages I've ever seen on wikipedia..♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, can any of your former bot work be ported to the toolserver? Viriditas ( talk) 07:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
There are those of us (many) who would like to see you get your adminship and bot status back.
Once the concerns in the ArbCom case have been remedied by you, and you have reformed your ways (in the eyes of those critical of your previous approach) for a healthy period of time, restoration of your bot privileges should take place in due course.
My guess is that a year would be enough. I think you can and should go for it.
But how? I have some suggestions...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Join who? The bot department for one. The AWB team for another. Participate in the discussions there.
Many areas concerning Wikipedia automation have been neglected...
You could help with programming bots. And making code examples available to help others learn how to program bots.
Wikipedia should have an army of expert AWB users, but as of yet, it does not. You could help build and lead a corps of AWB volunteers.
You could help build Wikipedia's script resources:
Many editors would like to make suggestions for MediaWiki features, but they do not understand Bugzilla. My guess is that most feature suggestions made at the Village Pump never find their way to Bugzilla, despite the referrals. How can you remedy these situations?
You are the expert on Wikipedia automation. Share your expertise. Help others get automated. And most importantly, help them avoid making the same mistakes you did.
If you can do this, productively in a cheerful and cordial manner, over the next year, I would be very surprised if ArbCom did not overcome its nervousness concerning you and welcome you back with open arms.
Wikipedia needs you. I look forward to seeing you rise to the occasion.
Good luck.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about that mate "Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from using any automation whatsoever on Wikipedia. For the purposes of this remedy, any edits that reasonably appear to be automated shall be assumed to be so. Rich Farmbrough's administrator status is revoked. At any time after the closing of this case, Rich Farmbrough may request that his administrator status be restored by filing a request for adminship." Just when you think the atmosphere is improving things happen all at once which makes you seriously question others users on here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I saw your request to let Femto Bot continue to archive your talk page. I know you'd rather run it yourself, but if you're willing to send me the code I'd be happy to drop that into my bot's task list. If you'd rather not, no worries, I understand, but the offer's there if you're interested. Cheers, 28bytes ( talk) 07:29, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Can you not use User:MiszaBot III to archive your talk page as many users do? JRSpriggs ( talk) 04:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
They are trying to delete Lake Washington (Melbourne) article. Can you help? Student7 ( talk) 12:58, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your comments on Template talk:Unsigned and thought you might be able to help with this. Thanks. -- xensyria T 19:25, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Using Perl, I've slurped an article.
I need to match the first sentence of the article, but intervening references with a period in them create an ambiguity so the script does not find the period at end of the sentence (it finds the period in the embedded reference instead).
So, I'd like to be able to save references off, and put them back again into the first sentence after I've extracted and processed it.
How can this be done?
This message is a copy. Please reply to the original at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:02, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: Rich, I'd like to shove all the references in the article off into an array or something, replace the references with XXXXX or some other code, and then after processing, substitute the codes with the original references. Those references not in or trailing the first sentence can just go bye-bye. The Transhumanist 22:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.P.S.: I've run into problems having regex strings inside array elements, as they don't seem to be interpreted literally in the regex. Unescaped special characters seem to be wreaking havoc. The Transhumanist 22:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I have answered in general at VP(T). Since I know the background I can answer more specifically here.
/^(([^\.]|<ref[^>]*\/\s*>|<ref[^>]*[^<]*<\/\s*ref>|)*\.)/
will probably match what you want.
Rich
Farmbrough,
13:17, 26 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey, Rich, I haven't been following that Arbcom stuff closely (certainly not enough to express an opinion either way about its justness), but I've heard of it a few times. I just wanted to say thanks that, despite all the negativity and assorted crap you seem to be going through, you can still find the time to complete my answer at the Teahouse a bit. So, thanks! :) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 21:10, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I don't think we've ever interacted, but I've seen you around for years. I've always found you to be thoughtful, considerate and helpful. My perception has always been that you've gone out of your way to help others. At least that's what I've seen. And your generous help is all over the template namespace, which I am very thankful for. I followed the ArbCom case and was disappointed with the result. I'm sure it's not fun, but you've hung in there and that's commendable. I just wanted to let you know that there are a lot of people that appreciate all you've done for the project. I personally want to thank you for all your template work, but even more for hanging in there and staying with the project. It's actually an inspiration to me. So thanks for everything. Best of luck to you. 64.40.54.186 ( talk) 09:11, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just a small clarification: I'm no longer a clerk. I stepped down when I was appointed to the AUSC. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:53, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
As I see you have a 'Things that stayed too long' section on your userpage: Evan Schwenger (and subsequently Mr. E) was a Captain Regent of San Marino (replacing Orbello di Vita Giannini) for a considerable amount of time due to this edit [22] from December 2010. The articles could do with a bit of work, but this is hilarious nonetheless. Royal Mate1 21:58, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
I've replied at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. The Transhumanist 11:49, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Resolved by motion that:
FoF 8 (Unblocking of SmackBot) changed to:
Rich Farmbrough has on many occasions, after another administrator has placed a block on his bot account, used his administrative tools to unblock his own bot without first remedying the underlying issue to the blocking admin's satisfaction or otherwise achieving consensus for such unblock (see block logs of SmackBot, Helpful Pixie Bot).
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
This is a courtesy notification that the request for amendment you are involved in or are a named party to has been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:21, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Your recent edits to WT:AC/N could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. Making this edit in light of the previous counsel about Wikipedia:NLT#Perceived legal threats is inappropriate. Please do not reintroduce terms that assert or imply legal wrongdoing unless you intend it as a legal threat. Jclemens ( talk) 19:35, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
hello, i will look and see what i can do. would you mind linking me to them plz?
by the way, i didn't know you were interested in that wikiproject. i have serious concerns about the logo used in the furry wikiproject and portal, and have started a discussion here. i hope my asking you about this is not canvassing, but nobody else seems to give a shit about subtle advertising on wikipedia, or perhaps i posted my concerns in the wrong place, and i couldnt help but notice that you have 983,000+ edits, so you know the place better than i do. - badmachine 23:52, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 12, 2012, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Lord Roem ( talk) 01:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm bored. I shall have to go to sleep.
Rich
Farmbrough,
03:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC).
At Spiny turtle, you changed the correct bluelink Testudines to the incorrect redlink Testudinesa( [23]). And here ninteenth should be nineteenth. Please check your edits more carefully. Fram ( talk) 13:38, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason that you changed all instances of 6th century, 5th century, 19th century, ... to sixth century, fifth century, nineteenth century, ...? According to WP:ORDINAL, both are acceptable, and the general rule on Wikipedia is that when two methods are acceptable, we shouldn't change articles from one system to the other without good reason. Of course, if there is such a reason in this case, no problem, but otherwise such edits can best be avoided. Fram ( talk) 14:23, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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help)Rich, I don't think we've ever crossed paths on Wikipedia before, but I have noticed a great many contributions of yours pop up on my watchlist in the past few hours. While I understand that you feel hurt and wronged by what has happened to you in the recent past, I am concerned that your present actions will not lead to the resolution you desire, but rather to further sanction and further hurt. Good luck and take care. N419 BH 03:48, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Emotion is not in the equation, I compute the logical outcome and it is always the same regardless.
I like bot armies :), I only have one, and his hamster doesn't count for anything really, not even a 1/2, and doesn't annoy but a few people. (I guess loading him into some kind of mechanism that uses him as a projectile would change that, bah!)
So are you interested in making the changeover to the replacement when it arrives ? It is important to try to collect everyone, just to stay in touch for that new bright morning which inevitably follows the night. A new site would be fresh air to suffocating lungs.
Hey, are any of your dead bots easy enough for a moron like me to operate in the meantime ? I can't imagine for a moment that operating a bot to improve wikipedia completely within guidelines and community expectations wouldn't shit the living daylights out of some of your critics, and I'm just the editor to do it too. I lost all heart to turn wikigreen, but making positive edits solely out of spite seems right up my alley right now. Penyulap ☏ 20:21, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Re: this But what happens when we get to a billion, Rich? Keep your chin up, mate. Be seeing you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:43, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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- but even then I will not be a number.
Rich
Farmbrough,
01:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC).
For anyone half-following this sorry tale, the current situation is:
So much for independent committee of trusted and wise users.
“ | I'm in the process of answering all my questions, and setting aside about an hour per day to do so. I submitted my candidature early in the election, so I am not attempting to answer them all at once; as a result, there may be a small delay. If you have posted a question, I will respond soon, and thank you for your patience. | ” |
This from the arb that said:
“ | For my own part, I cannot agree that it could reasonably take you a fortnight to respond to the past few days' edits to the proposed decision. Frankly, I am at something of a loss as to why you have been regularly participating at the proposed decision talk page, but only now have much more to say. Perhaps you might explain this to me. Perhaps my colleagues will look less dimly on your request, in which case we will be in touch. | ” |
This is a courtesy notification that two amendment requests filed by you have been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 19:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
I just wanted to let you know I have moved yours, as well as Isarra's in a moment or two, evidence submission to the workshop page. Given the lack of diff's or supplementary links to evidence, the workshop page is a more appropriate place for what you posted.
Many Thanks
Seddon
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22:16, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Commons I just spent several minutes doing this at Commons--it seems like something that would be perfect work for a bot. Are you interested in it? — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:06, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
This has been decided and is pretty clear...what you and I know as "Arbcom" is really the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. Their dispute resolution jurisdiction is the English Wikipedia only. They have no jurisdiction in this area over any other wiki, hence their remedies apply to English Wikipedia only. However, they can and do take known behavior, positive or negative, on other wikis (and other sites for that matter) into account when making decisions. For Rich, this means that he is free to operate a bot on any wiki he desires (obviously excluding English Wikipedia) provided of course he complies with that wiki's local bot policy. If he performs this task well, it can be presented as evidence to Arbcom as to why an automation restriction is no longer necessary. N419 BH 17:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! It's great that you're having a go at editing but we notice that you've made a few edits that have angered the crosspatches here at Wikipedia. As you've only been here eight years, perhaps if you'd like to try the Wikipedia paddling pool you can experiment all you want without actually making improvements. We feel this would be best for all concerned.
Congratulations on your million! I would give you a barn star if I knew what one was. In the meantime, please accept this satirical patronising message as a reward for your hard work :-) DavidFarmbrough ( talk) 08:36, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
After just renaming an user (I have requested for mine) will all my edit counts and contributions be moved in the new account? And, what will happen to my signature? After renaming I may be able to log in with my new username and old password..right?-- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 14:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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For helping out by adding turtle synonyms! Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 18:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'd like to, I really would, but considering that some of my inclusions add like 1GB for every 1k of article space, are you like looking at this the right way? I have serious doubts if I'd be the right person to do anything but set off avalanches.
Mmmmm the snow-covered mountain of stupidity Penyulap ☏ 19:52, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I've arrived here via the 'talk' bit for 'Helpful Pixie Bot' on the '
Rowhedge' page. The reason I am here is its edit summary, i.e."ISBNs Build KC". I know what an 'ISBN' is, but what does 'KC' mean? The nearest I have come is "Knights Cross", but I don't think that is the answer. And what does 'Build' in this context mean? Do you know?
Thanks in advance.
RASAM ( talk) 21:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Rich, I'm wondering what happened in this edit and which tools, if any, you used to make that edit. Thanks. Courcelles 22:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
I suppose I'll have to wait for more information. This sucks big time.
Rich
Farmbrough,
00:07, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
(Note I knew there were 5 possibilities, I forgot to write down mistake.)
Ah.. I can I think relax. He is not claiming that I have edited with AWB - well he is, becasue he assumes I am faking the user agent - but he has no evidence for that, since it is untrue. He is just claiming that I have used AWB to make lists and the like, which I would have thought is perfectly OK. I will have to wait for confirmation of this. Of course the edits he is claiming are "masked AWB" will turn up clean because they were made by browser, and therefore will show up with a normal URL, whereas an AWB edit would show up with an api URl.
The gotchas are if:
Also an edit which fixed a typo was referred to as "only changing white-space" when I asked for details it was "apart for the typo, only fixing white-space".
Rich
Farmbrough,
00:35, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
I've sent you an e-mail. AGK [•] 23:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Courtesy notification: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions#Motion to ban Rich Farmbrough. AGK [•] 23:51, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hm.. not sure how that saves any face.
Rich
Farmbrough,
23:59, 31 May 2012 (UTC).
Is a great song for funerals. Either that or
The Day Thou Gavest.
Stay Another Day might be more honest though.
Rich
Farmbrough,
23:27, 31 May 2012 (UTC).
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Hi Rich, I have contacted you recently by email about Wikimania 2012. It would be great if you could get in touch to discuss further - either talk page or email is fine. daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk Thank you! Daria Cybulska ( talk) 10:16, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Can someone tell them that there's a dab problem with
Ellis Bent.
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"Aunt Jane!" said Tom, hurrying to keep up, "Do you think that one day I could be an Arb Clerk like you?"
"You can be whatever you want, Tom, even an Arb if you put your mind to it." she replied, striding down broad gleaming template namespace.
Tom liked his Aunt Jane, she was never flustered, or too tired to play a game of quick-diff with him, as his father was after a long day at MfD. And today she had taken him out for some new headers and footers. He watched the other editors move out of her path, touching their hats or avoiding her gaze, even the bots making minor edits to the illumination system seemed in awe of her. He was sure the mean boys who had kept reverting him on the school trip to the Commons, every time he tried to stop them making incivil remarks about Mona Mumpkin's bandwidth from the back 16 bits of the bus, would have quailed had they known she was his aunt.
"In here." she said as they came to a very expensive looking templating shop - gnomes were overpainting the signage but Ludwigs and Co was still visible under some blanked versions. While his aunt discussed the finer points of hair shaping with the proprietor, Tom took in the array of meta-templates, each with the distinctive Spork imprint, the shiny CC-by-Sa 17.2 mirrors and the custom python scripts apparently asleep on the floor of their cage.
Tom's mind wandered as the matching headers and footers were attached with a touch of CCS adhesive, adjusted, revised and tweaked until both his aunt and proprietor were satisfied, then, after polite farewells and sigging, back into the busy namespace one more.
"Aunt stop!" he said suddenly realising.
His aunt turned brought her face down to his level "What's the matter?"
"You didn't pay the man..."
She smiled, "Oh no dear, he does my jobs as a favour. You see a few years ago he was caught eating yogurt, and I was able to pull a few strings... avoided a lot of unpleasantness, probably a 1RR at least... for templater that would have been his livelihood."
"Yoghurt" Tom looked puzzled, then remembered his history lessons. ".. oh yogurt.." he said quietly, then quickly reverted himself before anyone else could watch.
"Anyway we are nearly there." Tom brightened, his aunt had taken him on a number of unusual outings recently, so it seemed there was another destination this morning, and while he was proud of his new gear, he was a more practical boy then fashion conscious. There had been the Harvard Hall where editors known as referrers were sitting trance-like, their neural nets linked by superconducting mono-filaments to the world library, abstracting and cross referencing for portals and projects. The trip to the wreck of the Esperanza had been the best, but he knew that the riskiest had been the back rooms of the sock-puppet centre, where in a large factory millions of socks were being attached to the heads of animated camels. He had been puzzled, but his aunt had refused to explain, telling him to think about it, and not to breathe a word to anyone.
The boy and his mentor crossed through a small, unlit, and rather insalubrious sub-namespace labelled Bjaodnally, and to his surprise came out right next to the Bot Museum. "Never go that way without me" she said "there are all sorts hanging around there, survivors form the old times, revert warriors, truthers even maybe sangeristas." The boy nodded, a delicious chill passing through him at the forbidden words, but nonetheless a little disappointed to be at the Bot Museum, which he had visited so many times before, often on a Saturday morning when his parents gave him a few electro-groats and hung a merge tag outside their user page.
They wandered down the vast echoing halls, past the hulking Cydebot and SmackBot - twin behemoths dwarfed in their turn by thousand armed Siebot, the steam powered Rambot - due to be powered up for a day at Easter, the sleek darting forms of HagermanBot and SineBot, the serried ranks of the py-bots facing the rows of slightly more customised awb-bots, like armies of pawns across a gigantic chess board. Skipping the policy room, where talking headsets would guide you through the dry and convoluted history of the documents framed around the walls (an urban legend said that every millionth visitor was taken over by the headset and changed into a bot) they arrived at the hands-on-section.
Here children of all ages, but mostly younger than Tom, operated simple revert bots, played some messy games, while in the sandbox two older boys with obvious competence problems were building a massive history tower. Tom admitted to himself that, deep down, this was his favourite room. Despite his age he liked playing with the toys and making them go further than they were designed to, getting them to interact with each other, the younger children's disruptive games simply adding to the challenge of controlling the devices without upsetting them, and at the end of the session, he liked to operate the sandbox cleaner to reset the unoccupied parts of the room to their initial state or "pre-set" as the controls described it.
Tom moved, almost automatically towards the stub builder, seeing some spare space where he could lay down a nice pattern, but his aunt took his hand and turned him to face a small triangular man in a curator's uniform. "This is my nephew, Tom. Tom this is.." she paused a heartbeat "...old Nab." The man's mouth twitched as she introduced him, as if a smiley had almost occurred.
"Very pleased to met you Tom, this way" - Old Nab opened a door marked Project staff only rollbacking the lock quicker than Tom could follow. Down a short, brightly lit corridor was a workshop, one wall was a large one-way watchlist where the children could be seen playing in the hands-on centre "just in case" as Old Nab later explained, the rest of the room, apart from the two doors, was crammed with junk, all sorts of glorious junk. Everything from almost complete robot carcases, to big tubs of mis-matched parentheses were scattered across the floor, over the workbenches, on shelves, and the ceiling was festooned with templates and meta-templates - not the burnished Spork imprinted tools of the high street, but hand made, custom templates, some possibly made for one job, then never used again, or not without further customization. Tom gaped, staring around, then his eyes fell on a regular expression lying, disassembled, on the bench next to him.
Before he could stop himself, he had re-arranged a couple of greedy wild-cards, and had just picked up a glowing delimiter, when Old Nab gently said "Here, I'll take that, my lad" relieving him of the object, which he now saw had intricate involuted methods running through it. "You're right Jane, he certainly does have an eye for these things. And I have been keeping an eye on him, here, from time to time" Old Nab glanced up at the watchlist, and Tom blushed at the thought of Nab applying intricate filters to his childish experiments and games. "I've put together the items you wanted." Half turning to Tom, "You're a lucky boy, to have an aunt like that."
Tom nodded "I know sir." he said, a little confused, watching, his hand still tingling from the delimiter, as Old Nab zipped, compressed and tar'ed a collection of components into a package small enough for Tom to carry.
"You know how to unpack, boy?" Nab said, and without waiting for an answer linked the package, with dual calling conventions for safety, to Tom's back. "Now I have to get on... the exit is over there. Nice to see you again Jane, Tom." Nab sigged and turned back to the workbench, muttering about vowel shifts and serial verbs, apparently oblivious to them as they sigged and left through the talk page.
Once again Jane set her rapid pace back towards the Project where Tom lived. Tom, carrying his load and hurrying to keep up, still managed enough breath to ask "Aunt? Um.. what is it?"
His aunt smiled enigmatically "You'll know once you unpack it - or if you don't then it's not for you."
And so half an hour later Tom found himself in his freshly archived home, carefully opening and unpacking the somewhat convoluted module the old man had created so effortlessly. As he extracted the components he added them to the growing collection, his mind putting together the puzzle "This links here - maybe if I glued that on there - oh I didn't see he'd added one, no two of those!" until finally all that was left was some stub code which he G6'd.
Tom looked at the tangled pile of metal, conduits and rulebases in the corner of his sub page. A bot of his very own. One day, one day soon, he and his bot would visit a real article.
Rich
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21:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC).
Target, at least 180 points.
Rich
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Kindly fix Pixie bot to NOT interfere with clearly marked tags saying that they're undergoing major edits, such as Brabourne Stadium which was tagged with the {{ Template:GOCEinuse}} template. I now need to unnecessarily merge my edits with that crappy bot's maintenance edits. Easwarno1 ( talk) 01:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Wait, are you still blocked? I'll ask for the AFD to be put on hold if you are.
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Instead of adding this to hundreds of pages, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to add it to Template:Monthly clean-up category directly? Fram ( talk) 08:56, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
You should already be more than familiar with WP:BOTPOL, especially when there's an ongoing ARBCOM case about you and your bots. This is probably an accident, but in case you forgot, please read WP:BOTACC again and edit from your own account when making BRFAs, rather than from Femto Bot's account, as you did here. And also, while we're on the topic, please use the preview button / at least make sure the links you give work ( WP:Bot requests#faulty names correction in HPB 52, http://www.orchidspecies.com [which, BTW, is not a link to a previous discussion] in HPB 51). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:34, 1 May 2012 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:38, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm glad to see the shackles have been removed.
Given your years of faithful service to Wikipedia, I feel the decision to block for a whole month was excessive and made a bit hastily.
Your dedication to the project, indicated by your patience through all of this, I find inspiring.
Many under your circumstances would have simply quit. Thank you for not doing so.
I hope our arbitrators will allow you to continue applying your rare skill set to improving Wikipedia. The project will suffer otherwise.
Good luck. The Transhumanist 22:47, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Turns out Grutness left in 2011, and Fastily a few days back. Both cite persecution. Both were incredibly productive.
Rich
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ISBN format please. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:38, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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15:21, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)| isbn = ISBN 1-68983-601-5 {{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (5) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}
. Previously I have deleted the template request after "confirming" the flagged number (no hyphens) with some source. Now I infer that the algorithm is more reliable than the source ... Today in this case I revised initial '1' to '0' per LCC; that catalog entry does not hyphenate this one (0689836015) so I retained your hyphenation. Do you hyphenate reliably and in a way editors might do manually? I have been using 1-3-5-1. --
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template to the article and the bot will come along in 18 minutes or so, and fix them up/check them.Hello Rich, the current ISBN run is only picking up the first ISBN of consecutive pairs [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. Hope it helps, — Sladen ( talk) 19:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC) (BTW, the bot flag is not set too.)
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thank you. i will behave. :D - badmachine 03:49, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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You are changing "deos" to "does " instead of to "does", as far as I can see. Not really a major issue of course... Fram ( talk) 09:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, Missed an isbn. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 22:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBN hyphentation
Skips one ISBN
Fixed in build 644.
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
Rich, I have repeatedly googled the Gozdak book and keep coming up with the ISBN 0738507972 Parameter error in {{ ISBN}}: checksum. This is the number that is in the article, and which pixiebot thinks is wrong. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 03:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Edits like
[7] (and the similar ones you have made today) are technically a violation of your editing restriction (they don't change anything in the output of the page, nor in how it works) and are very unlikely to ever make a difference (e.g. in this case only if the page
Ford Mustang would be moved would it possibly make any difference). If you take the trouble of explicitly changing this, wouldn't it be more useful to put the actual destination in, instead of a redirect like
here?
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I notice you've put back the ISBN hyphens I've been leaving out, I didn't think it mattered but I'll start adding them now. Thanks, Keith-264 ( talk) 08:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Don't forget that if you create an article like this which needs a disambiguation, you need to provide an access route via a dab page entry or a hatnote. I've done the hatnote while stub-sorting, but please do it yourself another time! Thanks. Pam D 17:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, please slow down. Going at it like John Henry taking on the steam shovel is resulting in you making errors at an even faster rate. All you are doing is nailing down your own coffin lid at this rate. For Pete's sake stop for a bit, and show that you understand the concerns that people are raising. If the task doesn't get done, it doesn't get done, but if you keep this up they are going to decide that you'll never abide by any editing restriction, and they'll just ban you. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 14:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
While " The Rise of Warnings to New Editors on English Wikipedia" caused consternation back in May 2011 - "40% of all initial edits to new user talk pages in our sample were negative templates" - but the previous research blog " How much do new editors actually improve Wikipedia?" showed that over 40% (42.6%) of first edits were either vandalism (about 25%) or unacceptably low quality. The level of warning therefore, seems pretty much on the nail. Why was this not picked up in the blog? I suspect it is because the "take out" from the previous research was
The key thing to note in comparing the two samples is that the percent of acceptable edits made by newbies did not dramatically decrease from 2004 to 2011.
This is a strange item to identify as key, since the changes are far more important than what remained the same. The percent of excellent edits fell roughly from 25% to 10%, while vandalism rose from a couple of percent to about a quarter of all new user edits.
Given this analysis, we need to look harder for the reasons for lower new editor retention, and certainly not assume that there is good evidence that templating is the cause, at least at present.
Rich
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03:47, 22 April 2012 (UTC).
I would feel honored if you joined the Perl WikiProject. The Transhumanist 22:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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I feel that I should inform you that it looks like you will be facing a one year minimum ban, administrator rights revoked for a minimum of one year, and indefinitely restricted from using any automation tool including assistance scripts and bots.— cyberpower ChatOnline 20:25, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Looks like you're losing your adminstrator privileges and rights to automation so, enjoy them while you still got them. You are also 2 votes away from being banned for a minimum of one year. At this point I would get ready to expect the worst to come and already start doing necessary before leaving Wikipedia in my honest opinion.— cyberpower ChatOnline 19:47, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Help Rich! We have a consensus to rename WikiProject Thoroughbred racing to Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse racing. However, moving and renaming everything is getting complicated, especially the template that is on 1000s of articles. Froggerlaura did the basics and then I took a shot at some of the technical stuff, but may have screwed up everything, so could you be so kind as o help us all out and make everything that now is part of the TB racing into just "horse racing" instead? Help! (talk on project talk page) Montanabw (talk) 20:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Is every post you make partially automated? If so, how? Are you perhaps an artificially intelligent robot? ;)— cyberpower ChatOnline 23:04, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Could you look at template:Monthly clean up category as used inc categories like Category:Articles needing cleanup from February 2008, please? It is displaying oddly and seems to be adding a redlink category at the bottom. Is it just that an update hasn't taken affect yet due to a backed up queue? RJFJR ( talk) 12:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm having a reference format problem. See the discography. If I try to put the label as publisher it is invisible. If I include it in title, it ends up in quotes (see first two examples) Can you tell me what my error is and how to correct? Cheers, -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 04:35, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing!-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:18, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
BTW, see the following from my Talk page where you were referenced-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs
The ISBN here has been marked for checking, with the reason that it was invalidly hyphenated. The problem is that not only does the ISBN match the one given on the first three pages I checked from a Google search, but while two of them don't hyphenate the ISBN, the third one is on the publisher's website and does - giving precisely the hyphenation that Helpful Pixie Bot is querying.
This may, of course, not be a bug. Even Springer is presumably capable of not only wrongly hyphenating their own ISBNs, but then including them in the URL for the page for the book concerned - and one can't criticise an editor who assumes that a publisher would know how to hyphenate their own ISBNs. But it might be worth double-checking this one. PWilkinson ( talk) 19:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Fixed A working nicely now, thanks for the notification.
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:45, 9 May 2012 (UTC).
Just a heads up: HPB has been blocked by Elen of the Roads ( Special:Log/Elen_of_the_Roads). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Thanks so much for participating in the Teahouse - it's always great when experienced editors come by and help out. I encourage you to consider being an "official" (for lack of a better word!) Teahouse host! If you'd like to learn more about that, and the basics about how the Teahouse is proceeding during this pilot period, then I encourage you to take a look at this page! It has tips and can inform interested participants seeking to help new (and experienced!) editors on how the Teahouse works differently than other help places on Wikipedia. Thanks Rich, and see you at the Teahouse :) Sarah ( talk) 14:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
At the moment ISBN fixes.
Howdy. I wasn't sure if this was the right place to put this, but your bot appears to be editing quite fast. For example, at the 0257 time, there were 33 edits. The number does appear to fluctuate a bit minute to minute, but 33 edits seems a bit much. The bot policy shows 1 edit every ten seconds for non-urgent tasks. If I'm missing something, I apologize.-- Rockfang ( talk) 03:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with one or some of your recent edits:
These redirects are incorrect (the part between the @signs is the problem, probably). Furthermore, a minor problem with as far as I have checked all the redirects you created is that the section element of it (the part after the "#") doesn't work, because the page doesn't have sections but is composed from transcluded subpages (which I tried to get rid off but which was rejected by you...). Fram ( talk) 13:17, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason why you delete the other, informative categories from these redirects? Wouldn't it be more useful to let things like Category:Asteroids named for people, Category:Discoveries by Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Category:Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1988 (all from 48416 Carmelita) stand? It seems like useful information, even for a redirect. Fram ( talk) 13:52, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have additional search suggestions at User talk:Tedder's talk page. Maile66 ( talk) 18:09, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
You were WP:INVOLVED as the proposer for the change, so you should not have taken administrative action. Please reverse yourself. Imzadi 1979 → 02:07, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. When HelpfulPixieBot is adding {{ Please check ISBN}} templates, I think the template needs to added outside the {{ Cite book}} template, to avoid corrupting the display of the ISBN, as occurred here (look at the second book listed in the References section). Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:20, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you unreffed tagged my new translation. The ref, which I've inlined, states that the text is based on (taken from) the Brockhaus-Efron pd dictionary. On the ru.wiki page for Alexander Turgenev at the bottom the tag
"При написании этой статьи использовался материал из Энциклопедического словаря Брокгауза и Ефрона (1890—1907)"
indicates this. Do you know where I can find the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary tag or template for the bottom of the Alexander Turgenev page to indicate pd here in this translation? INeverCry 00:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build J9)
Adding {{ Please check ISBN}} inside a {{ cite book}} seems to break the latter – see refs 4 and 5 in the first of the example links. And there's a typo in the output, "deos" instead of "does". BTW, the ISBN the bot flagged is actually in the book. What should be done in such cases? -- ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 06:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug closed since I am "automation banned".
Rich
Farmbrough,
15:25, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Why on my watchlist are there green stars beside articles you have recently edited? No objections, I'm just curious. Smallchief ( talk) 21:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Rich, you mentioned a couple weeks ago that it might be possible to bot-tag a series of articles, yes? Say, for example, the swimming event pages for Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics (i.e. men's 50 free, women's 50 free, men's 100 free... women's 4x100 Medley Relay): all 32 event pages are missing the preliminary results for those that made it back for finals. Each page has a "Non-Qualifiers" section, that could/should have an expand list tag inserted (and maybe even a note about the finalist prelims times are missing?). Is that something a bot could do? -- Hooperswim ( talk) 02:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
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A tag has been placed on Ernest Sutherland Bates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
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Hello,
I have a couple questions about Helpful Pixie Bot in regards to this edit. Why does it change "Image:..." to "File:..."? When it makes this change along side an ISBN change, why does it only mention the ISBN change in the edit summary? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:57, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Here is an example from 19:48 UTC, after your last post [11]. If there are previous versions running (e.g. that edit is labeled KG), they ought to be stopped... — Carl ( CBM · talk) 19:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
The thing to do surely (in all of these cases) is to change policy by consensus, and link to that updated unambiguous policy in the bot edit summary. — Sladen ( talk) 07:43, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
For what it is worth, I would like to add my opinion. I eventually figured out on my own through examples that "File" and "Image" are exactly the same. I prefer "Image" when the file is an image because it makes the source more readable. I don't have a problem using "File" instead of "Image" if the that is either required or recommended by official policy. However, Carl and Sladen have made it clear that neither is the case. By the way, bots should only be making edits that are CLEARLY supported by the community (otherwise we have to have discussions like this!). I agree with Carl and Sladen that these edits need to be officially justified in the MOS simply because they APPEAR stylistic, even if one thinks and tries to argue that they are improvements since they replace "outdated crap". Rich and Kumioko, don't you think there will be less uses of "Image" if you say in the MOS that using "File" is better and why? Kumioko, since the "MOS is a guideline, not the ten commandments", what is stopping someone from making a bot that goes around changing uses of "File" to "Image"? The way I see it, many of your own arguments could be used to justify this. Rich and Kumioko, all Carl, Sladen, and myself are requesting is that the MOS be changed to say "File" is preferable to "Image", then we would agree with you. Is this not an acceptable compromise? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:59, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to link the date to a diff showing the edit that tagged an article. Something like This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: See talk page. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. ( 2007) As far as I can tell Helpful Pixie Bot ( talk · contribs) adds the dates to these tags, so I was hoping it could link to the diffs at the same time. There was a discussion started at the clean-up tag talk page about doing this for that tag, but it could possible be useful on all all the tags in Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. As you run Pixiebot I was hoping you would have some ideas on how this could be implimented (it would be good if it could be added to old tags as well as new ones, but even just new tags would be a start) and steps needed to achieve it. AIRcorn (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering if you could code something to copy the lists of municipalities and communes into the articles by Provinces of Morocco from Italian wikipedia like this. Basically its the same format, same source, but just copying the lists?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I created this as I believed we needed a template like Bare URLs to encourage editors to add full citations not to just the websites. Can you improve this properly and sort out the documentation and take care of adding it to some articles where the refs need filling out like Alogia (band)? I'm thinking of organizing a bot to add this tag to all articles on wikipedia which needs refs filling out properly as in browsing it makes a big difference if sources are adequately filled out with details consistently.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Well??♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:42, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)#duc to Duke. There are about 230 page moves that have to be reversed. Is there a way to [semi]automate page moves? -- PBS ( talk:ye4s) 17:28, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
If I may; one question for you about the articles slated for redirection to List of minor planets:
Speaking totally theoretically now, let's take no action yet, would it be possible to somehow swipe the infoboxes from all those articles, and then somehow store the infoboxes into List of minor planets, and how difficult or complicated would that be?
I ask because have a hunch if we did that, it would help to overcome resistence to Helpful Pixie Bot 50.
So whaddaya think? Would it entail a long and tendious overhaul of the entire List of minor planetsto get it ready to accept the infobox information? Chrisrus ( talk) 04:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Yobot is blocked again. Check User_talk:Yobot#Blocked. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:01, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I hope you remember me... ;) Would you please take a look at the question I filed at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:As of and let me know whether there's anything preventing a merge of these two templates? Kind regards, Osiris ( talk) 12:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't think that thread is likely to garner any other responses. Would you do the honours? I'm not sure whether you'd like to sort to both categories or just the one {{
when}}
generates.
Osiris (
talk)
06:48, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed that a user who complained about your bot has not bothered to notify you about it (see WP:BON). It seems that the ISBN fixing code may be editing at an excessively high rate, so could that perhaps be slowed down to once every 5-10 seconds? Thanks! Reaper Eternal ( talk) 01:56, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Are you still willing to bot the language templates? I've removed the request for a ref section, which was the sticking point.
Hope things go well with ArbCom. — kwami ( talk) 02:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
It looks like Helpful Pixie Bot has not run Category:Pages with missing references list in quite a while. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Template: A user has requested the attention of a member of the
Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{
t|BAG assistance needed}}
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Edits by:
Last edit by
BAGGER was by Headbomb at 14:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by me at 05:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Chrisrus at
14:53, 8 May 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Chrisrus at
14:53, 8 May 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world)
15:35, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 104 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
(ISBNs (Build KE))
Matthew Hopkins in popular cultureas well as Mathew Hopkins are two examples.
it queries the zero at the start if the isbn but [12] shows that it does start with a zero - 0 - Thanks Edmund Patrick – confer 16:04, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 105 System: Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs.
An example is the last edit in this bunch.
This is only a minor bug, but the bot destroyed the existing hyphernation in the ISBN. That is to say, it replaced "|isbn=978-0-670-02053" with "|isbn=978067002053". The problem with this particular ISBN (now fixed) was a missing check digit. The hyphenation information was therefore good, and it would have been better had the bot preserved it. I appreciate that another task of the bot is to add hyphenation so that, eventually, this loss will be corrected. This is why the bug is only a minor bug. HairyWombat 17:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2012 May/bug technical details
Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
You're placing a template to check the ISBN number ... inside a template which is not going to show the template at all. See the output. This is the third time this bot has done this... needs fixing. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
And another here ... Ealdgyth - Talk 18:06, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
Please check ISBN}}
is inside a {{
cite book}}
or outside. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:02, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
How does HelpfulPixieBot know how to parse ISBNs? -- Evertype· ✆ 19:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
As it stands I'm not sure how accurate corrections to ISBN-13 code formatting made using HelpfulPixieBot can be? Of the five elements, (Prefix, Registration Group, Registrant, Publication and Check Digit), only the first and last elements are of fixed length while the other three are variable. The Registration Group can be up to five digits. The Registrant element can be up to 7 digits and the Publication element up to 6 digits, both varying in direct relationship to the anticipated output of the publisher. Consequently for elements two to four, surely the Bot can only really be used to check that the upper limits for each of them and the sum total of the number of digits used for all of them aren't exceeded. I've seen examples of the Bot re-formatting ISBN-13 codes which were already 'legal' in terms of permissible element length, to produce a result other than that found in catalogs and printed on the publication itself. I'm not sure that's helpful. 85.210.176.104 ( talk) 16:44, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - there are two invalid ISBNs there, but only the first one was marked as invalid (
ISBN
0-86095-050-5 Parameter error in {{
ISBN}}: checksum should have been
ISBN
0-86093-050-5). The second one, ISBN 090288-12-9, was one digit short (it should have been
ISBN
0-90288-812-9) but Pixie didn't give it a {{
Please check ISBN|reason=Invalid length.}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:05, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 108 System: templates Component: Wikipedia documentation Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Dated Expand section. (Build KF)
The bot changed "|3=date=May 2012" to "|3=date=May 2012|date=May 2012". i.e it added a date when there was already one present. There are three valid date formats in the Template:Expand section documentation. I suspect that the bot does not yet know about the second date format.
I wonder what the article would look like in a few year's time. (:-)> Peter Loader ( talk) 21:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Will Helpful Pixie Bot recognize and ignore ISBNs tagged with {{ Listed Invalid ISBN}}, as I have done at D.M. Ananda ( diff)? Regards -- ShelfSkewed Talk 14:18, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
You should know that I added a Table of Contents template to your Category:Commons category template with no category set. That way it'll make it easier for users to fix the commons tags. ---- DanTD ( talk) 00:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. When you have Helpful Pixie Bot make edits like this one please don't forget to have the bot add the phrase "and other fixes" to the edit summary. Cheers, Unforgettableid ( talk) 03:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Purely out of idle curiosity, how does the bot determine what order to deal with articles in? In my watchlist recently, it's done Appleby Frodingham Railway, Lad in the Lane, Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station and Malton railway station in that order. It doesn't seem to be alphabetical, or by category, so how are they picked? Or is it simply jumping to random article? Whatever it is, keep up the good work! An optimist on the run! 21:05, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, your bot converted two ISBNs that were followed by years into invalid ISBNs. Could you fix the problem, and go back through your bot's edits to find and fix other places where it made the same mistake? -- Carnildo ( talk) 01:58, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I was wondering if it would be possible for Helpful Pixie Bot to indicate in the edit summary whether it found any problems when checking the ISBNs. At the moment, I need to visually inspect each change the bot makes to see if there was a bad ISBN that I could possibly fix. If the edit summary said something like "ISBN check-no problems found" when all it needed to do was reformatting, but something like "ISBN check-issues detected" when problems were found, then I could safely ignore all the "no problems found" edits and only examine the "issues detected" ones. Just an idea, anyway. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
|reason=
might be absent from {{
Please check ISBN}}
, then detection of any error will cause an increase of 21 characters at the very least. Thus, I assume that where the increase is 20 or less, it's merely a reformatting. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
14:33, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Several articles use the 1995 Formula One season review video as a reference, specifying an ISBN of "5-017559-034955", which matches the information specified here. Helpful Pixie Bot identifies this number as an invalid ISBN, as it did here. If it's not an ISBN, do you happen to know what kind of number it is? Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 08:14, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite video}}
template supports the |id=
parameter, my suggestion is to use that instead, i.e. replace |isbn=5017559034955 {{
Please check ISBN|reason=13 digit ISBN should start with 978 or 979.}}
with |id=[[EAN-13]] 5 017559 034955
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:07, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 111 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: perl source Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build KH)
When validating ISBNs, the bot changed {{Closed_stations_Northamptonshire}}
(with two underscores) into {{Closed_stations Northamptonshire}}
(with one underscore and one space). The bot should either have changed both into spaces, or left both alone. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
09:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 112 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Adding a duplicate second 'please check this ISBN' notice immediately before an existing one, previously and only seven weeks ago added by HPB: [16]. JohnBlackburne words deeds 13:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I found an error in the article (see photo). Copernicus was not a German, he was from Poland. -- Top811 my talk —Preceding undated comment added 13:50, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 113 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
In the edit of British boys' magazines the ISBN number has been altered to extend the publisher/series part by one digit so that the book number is now -4 instead of -44. I have checked the actual printed book and it is definitely -44. In addition the second reference (The 30's Scrapbook) refers to it both by title & ISBN
DonJay ( talk) 15:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Here's the hyphenation table for the English area codes:
Area code |
Publisher range |
Digit 2nd hyphen comes after |
---|---|---|
0 | 00-19 | 3rd |
0 | 200-699 | 4th |
0 | 7000-8499 | 5th |
0 | 85000-89999 | 6th |
0 | 900000-949999 | 7th |
0 | 9500000-9999999 | 8th |
1 | 55000-86979 | 6th |
1 | 869800-998999 | 7th |
1 | 9990000-9999999 | 8th |
ISBN
0-9547954-4-X falls under the 9500000-9999999 range, and hence should be hyphenated as shown.
Rich
Farmbrough,
17:44, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 114 (Duplicates 103 System: templates Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with a template:
{{
Please check ISBN}}
This HPB change introduced it: [17]; the change looks OK but it broke the rendering of Death#References, No. 6.
The 1-4495-9420-6 appears as [[Special:BookSources/1-4495-9420-6|1-4495-9420-6]], i.e. as if it's no longer interpreting it as a link. It was working fine in the version before HPB's change. I've tried purging the page to no effect.
JohnBlackburne words deeds 17:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Talk re our efforts over there. Maile66 ( talk) 15:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Thanks for asking about this. The proposal did not receive any comments. It is now archived here. I was a bit discouraged, so I haven't yet done anything to follow up on it. Should we try to take it to Bugzilla anyway or just let it drop? -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 16:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
This may have been mentioned already, but Fempto bot does not seem to be using a bot flag; all the other bots on my watchlist do, buut femptobot does not.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 21:02, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
You added the plot template to Bade Achhe Lagte Hain but Wikiproject Soap Opera says that the plot may be just 700-800 words and in the mentioned article it is so. So I think that the template is not needed. Please give a reason that why do you think that it is too long, as it is not so. When you are replying please leave me a Tb template. -- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 08:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
The case against you is about to close, with you losing your sysop bit and being prevented from using automation. There's quite a bit of talk on the PD page along the lines of last chance, being on the edge of a cliff, etc.
There are people out there who will look for whatever means they can to find a way to nudge you off of that cliff. You can't give them even a millimeter of rope with which to hang you. I strongly, strongly urge you to shut down any and all bots you have, any sort of automation you have, any sort of edit assisting scripts RIGHT NOW, before the final decision is posted. Do everything (and I mean everything) manually, by hand. Delete any .js subpages you have in your userspace. Wipe it all out. If this means you go from a million edits a week to 1 edit a month, so be it. If you want to be part of this project for the foreseeable future, you have got to do this. Otherwise, you will be shoved off of that cliff.
Decisions in this community are hate based. If enough heat is generated, it doesn't matter one iota if the target of the heat has done absolutely nothing wrong. It doesn't matter if the target is perfectly, 10000000000% in line with policy, with prior consensus supporting them. Generate enough heat, and a target will go down. That is how 'justice' works around here. I'll give you a speculative example; people have been criticizing you for changing the capitalization of templates in use on an article. If, from this day forward, you do that again...even if you use one finger to hunt and peck around the keyboard to conduct every detail of the edit...you will be found at fault for doing it. It does not matter that plenty of people are doing exactly the same thing, without anyone saying peep. It does not matter that changing the case is right, or wrong, or indifferent. If you do it, you will be found at fault for it. People will demand you link them to the consensus that permits you to do this. People will insist you are using some undeclared tool to assist you in making the edit. People will insist you are doing it to bait the people watching your every twitch, and are thus being disruptive. Since you are the subject of the heat, it will be you who is found at fault.
You are going to have to change the entire nature and style of the editor you are on this project in order to remain here. It is a monumental, probably impossible task. I wish you the best of luck, and hope for the best. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 14:07, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
For what its worth I also think that you withdrawing from editing is exactly what the Arbcom wants. They couldn't get enough support to ban you from the pedia so the next best thing is to tell you that you can't edit. Kumioko ( talk) 11:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. :) You have a response at my talk page on Meta. Thanks! -- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 14:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Good tigings to you from a believer in One Creator of the Heavens and the Earth!
i see that you have edited the page Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib on Wikipedia, i must say to you that in Islam it is not allowed to put nor draw nor see the picture of a man
i strongly encourage you o remove the picture from the page of Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib
if you have any queries or questions on that please e-mail me asap, my email is saken_k@hotmail.com
With warmest regards, Saken ibn Amankeldi
(Not including redirects). The Transhumanist 11:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Namespace | Count |
---|---|
Main | 9,375,576 |
Talk | 4,540,406 |
User | 1,457,343 |
User talk | 7,775,605 |
Wikipedia | 721,450 |
Wikipedia talk | 144,174 |
File | 810,359 |
File talk | 138,924 |
MediaWiki | 1,608 |
MediaWiki talk | 937 |
Template | 424,551 |
Template talk | 177,834 |
Help | 956 |
Help talk | 463 |
Category | 852,775 |
Category talk | 587,880 |
Portal | 109,930 |
Portal talk | 25,669 |
Book | 3,113 |
Book talk | 2,904 |
Total | 27,152,457 |
Basically a tad over 1/3 of Wikipedia is actual article pages, and more than half of those are redirects.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:35, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Here is a graphical representation of the change of emphasis as the encyclopedia has grown. The namespaces are numbered from the bottom.
Rich
Farmbrough,
01:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
The same general trends, user talk is the growth area, the big difference here is Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk - substantial, and the category and template namespaces become very small components.
Rich
Farmbrough,
18:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey Rich! Thanks for helping out at the Teahouse. Just an FYI, we created a lovely little talkback template that is Teahouse specific. You can find a link to it here. It's pretty valuable when letting folks know that you answered their question, since not everyone watches the Teahouse question page. Thanks again for all your contributions - Teahouse and beyond! Sarah ( talk) 19:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me improve Generation time Trashbird1240 ( talk) 14:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC) |
If WP bans you its a case of them shooting themselves in the foot. I really mean that.
...William
20:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Do you have time to do some adjusting at User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensHistory? It's better, but still needs to be narrowed. And most of the articles this time don't seem to be about women. Maile66 ( talk) 23:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Rich Farmbrough has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above.
The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Guerillero | My Talk 19:27, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Anyone who had made tens of thousands of edits is always going to have a few edits that someone, somewhere won't agree with or like, just as they will have also made a number of edits that someone else will really, really like. It is the balance that is important here, and it seems that a minority within the community seems to think that everything must be perfect and be in accordance with their own personal preferences.
Any edits that certain people don't like will always become a major focus during any sort of community discussion or ArbCom case simply because every editor has at some point attracted the attention of someone who doesn't like something they've done, and what better way to "get back at" someone then try to dig up any dirt they can find during such a discussion? This often results in collateral damage to other parts of the project however when such individuals take things even further.
My own message to the larger community is thus: Take what a highly vocal minority within our community has to say with a grain of salt, but do not ignore them entirely, otherwise they will grow even louder and their party will gain even more dissenters. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Clearly quite a number of people have absolutely no idea what it takes to make regular expressions and substitutions work. I give it two to three weeks tops before the backlog piles up and questions begin to arise as to "What happened to Helpful Pixie Bot and Femto Bot?" and "How do we now handle all the housekeeping work that these two bots previously took care of?"
I personally see this similarly to what would happen if we were to shut down ClueBot.
While there have been edits Rich has made that I've not agreed with, Rich appears to have always had Wikipedia's best interests in mind when he made changes, and I do not feel that this was considered at all during his ArbCom case. It would have been far far different if Rich had a history of attempting to cause problems, was a known troll, vandal, etc, but this is far from the case.
From my own point of view, it was clearly wrong of ArbCom to go full-out and heavy handed sanction a long term valued contributor who has been instrumental in standardizing and automating so many tedious and pain-in-the-ass tasks as Rich has. The very idea that Rich should be indefinitely banned from using any sort of automation is simply absurd. It could also be that ArbCom doesn't really know what all Rich has done for us here on the English Wikipedia since so much of his work has involved changes to things that work behind the scenes, yet have a very widely felt effect. For that fact, perhaps a large portion of the community doesn't know either.
The way I see it, Wikipedia is just about at a fork in the road. Many of the people with the technical know-how and knowledge of how and why things work the way they work have become disillusioned with the direction the English Wikipedia has been heading. Many of these individuals have left or slowed down in terms of their contributions, and/or have ended up sanctioned like Rich has. If things continue in this direction, the English Wikipedia is going to find itself without the technical backing that has allowed it to grow in the first place, and it's growth will stop and/or it will begin to regress (we are already beginning to see signs of both such scenarios).
From that point, if people don't decide to step up and work towards changing these trends, one or two things will ultimately happen. The first is that Wikipedia will begin to be seen as irrelevant in the eyes of the general public. The other is that those technical minded individuals who have felt alienated will organize, possibly leading to either a fracture within the community or even a new form of "Wikipedia" that will make the current "Wikipedia" entirely irrelevant and obsolete.
For those who don't think what has happened to Rich here can't happen to you or really has little long term impact on Wikipedia itself, think again. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:18, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
You need this more than I do – Lionel ( talk) 05:37, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for the comments. I checked and it is these ISBN numbers are in the publications.-- Despotović ( talk) 14:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
--
My B'day Cake | |
Hi!! Today is my b'day and I though of sharing this sweet gift with you!! Arnesh( ২০১২) 16:09, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
The We Couldn't-A-Done-It-Without-Ya Award | |
Thanks for stepping up to the plate and helping get this off the ground. Good luck with that you have on your shoulders right now. Maile66 ( talk) 17:14, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'm glad you're still here It's a silly accident that you and I have been mentioned in the same breath a lot lately and the two of us have hardly interacted in the past, but once I found out about your ArbCom issues I started to pay attention. Everyone on the English-language Wikipedia has benefited from your work and although it might be prudent for you to have a break in your administrator and bot-running responsibilities, you have doubtlessly been a real asset to the project and I'm glad that the members of ArbCom did not see fit to block or ban you outright. This tacitly acknowledges that your years of service have made this a better encyclopedia and I think that's inarguable, irrespective of any further issues with your methods or style.
I look forward to the time when you've proven to all your accusers and interlocutors that you're a responsible user, having made irrefutably good edits for several months, then apply again at RfA, make new bot requests, and get back to doing what you've been doing but without any associated drama.
For what it's worth, I'd like to ask you to reconsider whether or not you want someone else to run or curate User:Helpful Pixie Bot and User:Femto Bot.
By the way, welcome to the club ( 2,308 edits ago.) — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The Resilient Barnstar | |
You are handling this situation very well. Don't let this get you down. — cyberpower ChatOnline 21:41, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
The Arbfail Award | ||
For being one of the most helpful (former) bot-ops, and then fucked by Arbcom, I award you the Arbfail award. |
Frood! Ohai What did I break now? 23:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The Torch and pitchfork Award | |||
As someone who has also been pursued by the mob (in this case also sometimes referred to as "the Community" and/or "Arbcom") I present you with this time honored Torch and Pitchfork award.
|
I also just wanted to say congrats on making the millionaires club. Only 2 editors in the history of Wikipedia have hit a million edits, you being the second. Kumioko ( talk) 01:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I found out on reddit that you had your privileges taken. I wasn't aware of the situation. Anyway, you have my support, so if there is anything I can do to help you, let me know. Be well. Greg Bard ( talk) 02:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Category:Think Fast! Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Are you going to stay with us? Wether you have your tools and bots or not, you're still a valuable asset to this project. I hope you stay. MrLittleIrish (talk) 申 13:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, you were involved in this conversation a few months ago, so may be you want to take a look at the updates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#.27Jaguar.2FSandbox.2F3.27_edits Azylber ( talk) 15:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
For being only the second ever person to get to a million edits, especially under the circumstances. Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 18:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC) |
The Brilliantly Weathered Barnstar | |
A real-world barnstar that has seen countless seasons, complete with barn, for a brilliant milestone and for braving the weather in style. – SJ + 06:06, 22 May 2012 (UTC) |
I see you've been given the rollbacker userright, but I would advise you not to use it (just asked at the AC talk page and apparently that counts as automation). On a more important note, hope the decision hasn't hit you too hard – btw, your self-control is amazing, if it were me I think I would have absolutely lost it at some of the arbs who clearly hadn't even bothered to read all the information. Best, Jenks24 ( talk) 22:23, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich — Dirk and the others are correct, your detractors are going to try to find absolutely anything they can to use against you. Having had that done to me while under a different sort of edit restriction (that the individuals involved attempted to game over and over again while trying desperately to have me banned), the best advice I can give you is to refocus the majority of your time on something else (even a different wiki-project) until you can get this mess resolved. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 07:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see here I think you mixed up two separate CfDs. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:00, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I happened across this in the archives! — Sladen ( talk) 11:11, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Celan-up. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Celan-up redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bulwersator ( talk) 18:28, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
You were recently removed from the administrator class. I do not know enough about that situation to be able to comment on it, but I am familiar enough with your non-controversial work to be able to thank you for everything non-controversial you have done for the Wikipedia project.
I am sorry to have to qualify my thanks, but I simply do not understand enough to be able to say more. I appreciate what seems to be your stated intent to continue to support the Wikipedia project. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:52, 19 May 2012 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request_to_amend_prior_case:_Rich_Farmbrough Nobody Ent 15:31, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
I have also made a request in the same thread - see Amendment 2. Ncmvocalist ( talk) 10:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
You recently unprotected the page User:Badmachine. That page now reads "FOREVER DEATH TO TH3J35T3R", a reference to The Jester, who, although unidentified, is a living person. The comment was added on 17 May. This is only the latest in a series of incidents relating to the user page - perhaps it is time to say enough? Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 18:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Toynbee tiles, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. SummerPhD ( talk) 23:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
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to the uncited part of the sentence, not to remove the cite for the second part. And you can also use the template {{
Ze}}
if you wish, it will render gender according to the editor upon who's page it is used, or the user name given as an argument. So it refers to me as "ze" for instance, but Elen of the Roads as "she" and you as "ze". I have even set my gender preferences so that this works.
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:48, 22 May 2012 (UTC).Welcome to wikipedia??? One of the dumbest messages I've ever seen on wikipedia..♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, can any of your former bot work be ported to the toolserver? Viriditas ( talk) 07:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
There are those of us (many) who would like to see you get your adminship and bot status back.
Once the concerns in the ArbCom case have been remedied by you, and you have reformed your ways (in the eyes of those critical of your previous approach) for a healthy period of time, restoration of your bot privileges should take place in due course.
My guess is that a year would be enough. I think you can and should go for it.
But how? I have some suggestions...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Join who? The bot department for one. The AWB team for another. Participate in the discussions there.
Many areas concerning Wikipedia automation have been neglected...
You could help with programming bots. And making code examples available to help others learn how to program bots.
Wikipedia should have an army of expert AWB users, but as of yet, it does not. You could help build and lead a corps of AWB volunteers.
You could help build Wikipedia's script resources:
Many editors would like to make suggestions for MediaWiki features, but they do not understand Bugzilla. My guess is that most feature suggestions made at the Village Pump never find their way to Bugzilla, despite the referrals. How can you remedy these situations?
You are the expert on Wikipedia automation. Share your expertise. Help others get automated. And most importantly, help them avoid making the same mistakes you did.
If you can do this, productively in a cheerful and cordial manner, over the next year, I would be very surprised if ArbCom did not overcome its nervousness concerning you and welcome you back with open arms.
Wikipedia needs you. I look forward to seeing you rise to the occasion.
Good luck.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about that mate "Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from using any automation whatsoever on Wikipedia. For the purposes of this remedy, any edits that reasonably appear to be automated shall be assumed to be so. Rich Farmbrough's administrator status is revoked. At any time after the closing of this case, Rich Farmbrough may request that his administrator status be restored by filing a request for adminship." Just when you think the atmosphere is improving things happen all at once which makes you seriously question others users on here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I saw your request to let Femto Bot continue to archive your talk page. I know you'd rather run it yourself, but if you're willing to send me the code I'd be happy to drop that into my bot's task list. If you'd rather not, no worries, I understand, but the offer's there if you're interested. Cheers, 28bytes ( talk) 07:29, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Can you not use User:MiszaBot III to archive your talk page as many users do? JRSpriggs ( talk) 04:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
They are trying to delete Lake Washington (Melbourne) article. Can you help? Student7 ( talk) 12:58, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your comments on Template talk:Unsigned and thought you might be able to help with this. Thanks. -- xensyria T 19:25, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Using Perl, I've slurped an article.
I need to match the first sentence of the article, but intervening references with a period in them create an ambiguity so the script does not find the period at end of the sentence (it finds the period in the embedded reference instead).
So, I'd like to be able to save references off, and put them back again into the first sentence after I've extracted and processed it.
How can this be done?
This message is a copy. Please reply to the original at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:02, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: Rich, I'd like to shove all the references in the article off into an array or something, replace the references with XXXXX or some other code, and then after processing, substitute the codes with the original references. Those references not in or trailing the first sentence can just go bye-bye. The Transhumanist 22:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.P.S.: I've run into problems having regex strings inside array elements, as they don't seem to be interpreted literally in the regex. Unescaped special characters seem to be wreaking havoc. The Transhumanist 22:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I have answered in general at VP(T). Since I know the background I can answer more specifically here.
/^(([^\.]|<ref[^>]*\/\s*>|<ref[^>]*[^<]*<\/\s*ref>|)*\.)/
will probably match what you want.
Rich
Farmbrough,
13:17, 26 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey, Rich, I haven't been following that Arbcom stuff closely (certainly not enough to express an opinion either way about its justness), but I've heard of it a few times. I just wanted to say thanks that, despite all the negativity and assorted crap you seem to be going through, you can still find the time to complete my answer at the Teahouse a bit. So, thanks! :) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 21:10, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I don't think we've ever interacted, but I've seen you around for years. I've always found you to be thoughtful, considerate and helpful. My perception has always been that you've gone out of your way to help others. At least that's what I've seen. And your generous help is all over the template namespace, which I am very thankful for. I followed the ArbCom case and was disappointed with the result. I'm sure it's not fun, but you've hung in there and that's commendable. I just wanted to let you know that there are a lot of people that appreciate all you've done for the project. I personally want to thank you for all your template work, but even more for hanging in there and staying with the project. It's actually an inspiration to me. So thanks for everything. Best of luck to you. 64.40.54.186 ( talk) 09:11, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just a small clarification: I'm no longer a clerk. I stepped down when I was appointed to the AUSC. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:53, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
As I see you have a 'Things that stayed too long' section on your userpage: Evan Schwenger (and subsequently Mr. E) was a Captain Regent of San Marino (replacing Orbello di Vita Giannini) for a considerable amount of time due to this edit [22] from December 2010. The articles could do with a bit of work, but this is hilarious nonetheless. Royal Mate1 21:58, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
I've replied at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. The Transhumanist 11:49, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Resolved by motion that:
FoF 8 (Unblocking of SmackBot) changed to:
Rich Farmbrough has on many occasions, after another administrator has placed a block on his bot account, used his administrative tools to unblock his own bot without first remedying the underlying issue to the blocking admin's satisfaction or otherwise achieving consensus for such unblock (see block logs of SmackBot, Helpful Pixie Bot).
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
This is a courtesy notification that the request for amendment you are involved in or are a named party to has been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:21, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Your recent edits to WT:AC/N could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. Making this edit in light of the previous counsel about Wikipedia:NLT#Perceived legal threats is inappropriate. Please do not reintroduce terms that assert or imply legal wrongdoing unless you intend it as a legal threat. Jclemens ( talk) 19:35, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
hello, i will look and see what i can do. would you mind linking me to them plz?
by the way, i didn't know you were interested in that wikiproject. i have serious concerns about the logo used in the furry wikiproject and portal, and have started a discussion here. i hope my asking you about this is not canvassing, but nobody else seems to give a shit about subtle advertising on wikipedia, or perhaps i posted my concerns in the wrong place, and i couldnt help but notice that you have 983,000+ edits, so you know the place better than i do. - badmachine 23:52, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 12, 2012, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Lord Roem ( talk) 01:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm bored. I shall have to go to sleep.
Rich
Farmbrough,
03:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC).
At Spiny turtle, you changed the correct bluelink Testudines to the incorrect redlink Testudinesa( [23]). And here ninteenth should be nineteenth. Please check your edits more carefully. Fram ( talk) 13:38, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason that you changed all instances of 6th century, 5th century, 19th century, ... to sixth century, fifth century, nineteenth century, ...? According to WP:ORDINAL, both are acceptable, and the general rule on Wikipedia is that when two methods are acceptable, we shouldn't change articles from one system to the other without good reason. Of course, if there is such a reason in this case, no problem, but otherwise such edits can best be avoided. Fram ( talk) 14:23, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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help)Rich, I don't think we've ever crossed paths on Wikipedia before, but I have noticed a great many contributions of yours pop up on my watchlist in the past few hours. While I understand that you feel hurt and wronged by what has happened to you in the recent past, I am concerned that your present actions will not lead to the resolution you desire, but rather to further sanction and further hurt. Good luck and take care. N419 BH 03:48, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Emotion is not in the equation, I compute the logical outcome and it is always the same regardless.
I like bot armies :), I only have one, and his hamster doesn't count for anything really, not even a 1/2, and doesn't annoy but a few people. (I guess loading him into some kind of mechanism that uses him as a projectile would change that, bah!)
So are you interested in making the changeover to the replacement when it arrives ? It is important to try to collect everyone, just to stay in touch for that new bright morning which inevitably follows the night. A new site would be fresh air to suffocating lungs.
Hey, are any of your dead bots easy enough for a moron like me to operate in the meantime ? I can't imagine for a moment that operating a bot to improve wikipedia completely within guidelines and community expectations wouldn't shit the living daylights out of some of your critics, and I'm just the editor to do it too. I lost all heart to turn wikigreen, but making positive edits solely out of spite seems right up my alley right now. Penyulap ☏ 20:21, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Re: this But what happens when we get to a billion, Rich? Keep your chin up, mate. Be seeing you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:43, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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- but even then I will not be a number.
Rich
Farmbrough,
01:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC).
For anyone half-following this sorry tale, the current situation is:
So much for independent committee of trusted and wise users.
“ | I'm in the process of answering all my questions, and setting aside about an hour per day to do so. I submitted my candidature early in the election, so I am not attempting to answer them all at once; as a result, there may be a small delay. If you have posted a question, I will respond soon, and thank you for your patience. | ” |
This from the arb that said:
“ | For my own part, I cannot agree that it could reasonably take you a fortnight to respond to the past few days' edits to the proposed decision. Frankly, I am at something of a loss as to why you have been regularly participating at the proposed decision talk page, but only now have much more to say. Perhaps you might explain this to me. Perhaps my colleagues will look less dimly on your request, in which case we will be in touch. | ” |
This is a courtesy notification that two amendment requests filed by you have been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 19:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
I just wanted to let you know I have moved yours, as well as Isarra's in a moment or two, evidence submission to the workshop page. Given the lack of diff's or supplementary links to evidence, the workshop page is a more appropriate place for what you posted.
Many Thanks
Seddon
talk
22:16, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Commons I just spent several minutes doing this at Commons--it seems like something that would be perfect work for a bot. Are you interested in it? — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:06, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
This has been decided and is pretty clear...what you and I know as "Arbcom" is really the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. Their dispute resolution jurisdiction is the English Wikipedia only. They have no jurisdiction in this area over any other wiki, hence their remedies apply to English Wikipedia only. However, they can and do take known behavior, positive or negative, on other wikis (and other sites for that matter) into account when making decisions. For Rich, this means that he is free to operate a bot on any wiki he desires (obviously excluding English Wikipedia) provided of course he complies with that wiki's local bot policy. If he performs this task well, it can be presented as evidence to Arbcom as to why an automation restriction is no longer necessary. N419 BH 17:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! It's great that you're having a go at editing but we notice that you've made a few edits that have angered the crosspatches here at Wikipedia. As you've only been here eight years, perhaps if you'd like to try the Wikipedia paddling pool you can experiment all you want without actually making improvements. We feel this would be best for all concerned.
Congratulations on your million! I would give you a barn star if I knew what one was. In the meantime, please accept this satirical patronising message as a reward for your hard work :-) DavidFarmbrough ( talk) 08:36, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
After just renaming an user (I have requested for mine) will all my edit counts and contributions be moved in the new account? And, what will happen to my signature? After renaming I may be able to log in with my new username and old password..right?-- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 14:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar | ||
For helping out by adding turtle synonyms! Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 18:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'd like to, I really would, but considering that some of my inclusions add like 1GB for every 1k of article space, are you like looking at this the right way? I have serious doubts if I'd be the right person to do anything but set off avalanches.
Mmmmm the snow-covered mountain of stupidity Penyulap ☏ 19:52, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I've arrived here via the 'talk' bit for 'Helpful Pixie Bot' on the '
Rowhedge' page. The reason I am here is its edit summary, i.e."ISBNs Build KC". I know what an 'ISBN' is, but what does 'KC' mean? The nearest I have come is "Knights Cross", but I don't think that is the answer. And what does 'Build' in this context mean? Do you know?
Thanks in advance.
RASAM ( talk) 21:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Rich, I'm wondering what happened in this edit and which tools, if any, you used to make that edit. Thanks. Courcelles 22:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
I suppose I'll have to wait for more information. This sucks big time.
Rich
Farmbrough,
00:07, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
(Note I knew there were 5 possibilities, I forgot to write down mistake.)
Ah.. I can I think relax. He is not claiming that I have edited with AWB - well he is, becasue he assumes I am faking the user agent - but he has no evidence for that, since it is untrue. He is just claiming that I have used AWB to make lists and the like, which I would have thought is perfectly OK. I will have to wait for confirmation of this. Of course the edits he is claiming are "masked AWB" will turn up clean because they were made by browser, and therefore will show up with a normal URL, whereas an AWB edit would show up with an api URl.
The gotchas are if:
Also an edit which fixed a typo was referred to as "only changing white-space" when I asked for details it was "apart for the typo, only fixing white-space".
Rich
Farmbrough,
00:35, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
I've sent you an e-mail. AGK [•] 23:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Courtesy notification: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions#Motion to ban Rich Farmbrough. AGK [•] 23:51, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hm.. not sure how that saves any face.
Rich
Farmbrough,
23:59, 31 May 2012 (UTC).
Is a great song for funerals. Either that or
The Day Thou Gavest.
Stay Another Day might be more honest though.
Rich
Farmbrough,
23:27, 31 May 2012 (UTC).