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I have nominated you for BAG membership at Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/The Earwig, please review the nomination and if you accept, notify the appropriate pages and transclude the nomination to WT:BAG. Best. MBisanz talk 06:12, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Could you please contact me on IRC soon as possible about your second bot, it is malfunctioning, but not causing problems at the moment. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 21:09, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
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You have made some great contribs to the team. Especially with your bot. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 02:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC) |
I also would like to give you the honour of this companion ribbon. -- /
MWOAP|
Notify Me\
02:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey, just letting you know that your BAG nomination has succeeded, and you are now a member. Congrats. -- Pak aran 03:34, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Could you please take another look at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar? I wasn't the one who created it, but I made some improvements and then another editor improved it even more. - Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 10:05, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Did you actually read this article before moving it to mainspace? I assume that you acted in good faith, but I have reverted it to being a redirect to the parent article. In addition, I have reported the author, White uk ( talk · contribs), for having an offensive username. Please discuss on the EDL talk page if you so wish. Verbal chat 08:10, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
The '''Scottish Defence league''' is an offshoot of the English Defence League.<ref>]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8359336.stm Clashes after rival city marches], BBC</ref>
No problem, best Verbal chat 21:42, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I agree and propose that you add your code to Template:Expand.
By the way, how are you doing? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:07, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:30, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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For creating yet another (soon to be) very useful bot for AfC. Keep up the good work! Gosox( 55)( 55) 22:34, 6 March 2010 (UTC) |
A couple of things I'd suggest: delinking interwikis and skipping DEFAULTSORT (as it's a magicword, not a template... sort of... but regardless, isn't going to add categories) Josh Parris 15:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
With this edit, your bot placed the DYK template inside the article history, but I cannot see anything about the DYK now. Thoughts? Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:35, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Woah! I looked at my image. I saved it as a jpg, but I remembered that I just put JPG on my computer (when I saved the picture on paint, not on Wikipedia, well actually on both). Then I remembered it was still in the BMP file type thing. I think this bot is pretty well-programmed since it can tell the difference between a non-jpg picture and a jpg picture without the file-name saying it's a bmp! -- Ha dg er 03:54, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Earwig,
You said on 7 March that the permission would expire in two weeks, yet you withdrew permission two days later. What gives? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:32, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the bot had a problems integrating {{ DYK talk}} into {{ ArticleHistory}} in the following cases:
|num=
parameter caused the bot to misinterpret the parameters.|dykdate=
ended up with the value "13 February|2010".Any idea why? I've reverted the changes. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
He Earwig. Great work with the tagging of all the incorrect mime types. However, perhaps while you are doing, we can also tag file types that we don't really support ? like anything not gif/jpg/png/ogg etc ? Some of that material needs to be converted and it would really help if they were all in one category. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 13:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM image WHERE img_major_mime = "audio" AND img_minor_mime = "wav";
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 180 |
+----------+
1 row in set (42.63 sec)
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM image WHERE img_major_mime = "audio" AND img_minor_mime = "mp3";
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 13 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.78 sec)
mysql> SELECT DISTINCT(CONCAT(img_major_mime, "/", img_minor_mime)) FROM image ORDER BY CONCAT(img_major_mime, "/", img_minor_mime) ASC;
+-----------------------------------------------+
| (CONCAT(img_major_mime, "/", img_minor_mime)) |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| application/ogg |
| application/pdf |
| application/photoshop |
| application/vnd.ms-excel |
| application/x-bzip |
| application/x-chess-pgn |
| application/x-tcl |
| application/xml |
| audio/mid |
| audio/midi |
| audio/mp3 |
| audio/wav |
| image/gif |
| image/jpeg |
| image/png |
| image/svg+xml |
| image/tiff |
| image/vnd.djvu |
| image/x-bmp |
| image/x-ms-bmp |
| image/x-photoshop |
| image/x-xcf |
| model/vrml |
| text/plain |
| unknown/unknown |
| video/quicktime |
+-----------------------------------------------+
26 rows in set (1.78 sec)
mysql> SELECT img_name FROM image WHERE img_major_mime = "image" AND img_minor_mime = "tiff" LIMIT 10;
+-----------------------+
| img_name |
+-----------------------+
| Jack_and_Sam_Farr.jpg |
| Lucyalone.jpeg |
| Onlibertyowc.jpg |
| Phil_Short.jpg |
| RCM_x2.jpg |
+-----------------------+
5 rows in set (0.79 sec)
Something like {{ Unsupported media requiring review}} might work I guess. I thought it could be handy to add the currentmime to the template params, we might want to do some secondary filtering/categorizing on that later on (cat with only bmps for instance). — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 02:18, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
RE: [1]
" User:EarwigBot: "The bot assists WikiProject Presidential Elections by tagging certain articles that are within the scope of the project with {{ WikiProject United States presidential elections}}.""
Is this correct? Can you tag new projects on request? If you are willing to help tag new wikiprojects on request, please change the description of your bot at Category talk:WikiProject tagging bots Okip 03:10, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello The Earwig, I noticed that EarwigBot does not appear to check for "blp=Yes" (uppercase Y) when it performs task 12; please see Talk:Steve_Arneil, where it added "blp=yes" despite "blp=Yes" already being present. Just bringing this to your attention. Thank you. Janggeom ( talk) 00:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I was daydreaming about possible tools, and it was suggested to me that I should just ask you whether my dream tool is possible or perhaps even easy to make. If it is, I may be humbly requesting that you make us one or suggest somebody else who might. If it isn't, I'll stop dreaming. :D
Is it possible to make a variation of the copyvio tool that directly compares two URLS, whether that is two permanent links to Wikipedia articles (sometimes useful to see if an old copyvio has been restored) or to a Wikipedia article and another URL? Something like that would be a major time-saver for copyright work at CP (where we often have to read both article and identified source to even see where duplication begins) and especially at CCI with those contributors who do cite the sources they are copying from. We would need, though, something to let us know explicitly whether there were no similarities found or if for some reason the tool couldn't complete the request, so we don't clear material that actually does have duplicated content.
Anyway, I am technologically completely clueless, but if you could let me know if you can help with that, if somebody else could help with that or if it is in the realm of flying monkeys, I'd appreciate it. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:52, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Since I'm the crackpot behind MRG's first request, and noticed you already have a prototype up, some feedback:
article name&oldid=xxx
(no underscores in article names) quite well but when you click on the reconstructed article's fullurl from the result page, it gives funky results. Doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but if you're a perfectionist, you may want to look into it (and document this feature on the tool's page)I mention yahoo! above because I think I once had a peek at CSB's code in relation to your initial BRfA for EarwigBot and I dimly remember yahoo being active while google was commented out. Of course, if that assumption is no longer correct (or you also query MS Bing), by all means the more search engines the merrier (but since I can't code python, that's easy for me to say:) ).
At any rate, thanks for the terrific services the detector has already rendered me. It's become an invaluable tool for me, and I don't believe I have ever done you the credit you deserve for that. MLauba ( talk) 23:01, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I am looking into ways to get published the page I wrote on John E Cherubini, the yacht designer. I understand that there was not much on this page that is verifiable under the Wiki policy. However, how do I improve that?
For example-- what types of sources would be considered verifiable? Would mentions in magazines help? --page numbers in hard-copy books? --newspaper obituaries or other mentions?
Can you please tell me what types of sources are acceptable for a subject who does not have a current Wikipedia presence but, in the minds of his many fans and admirers, should? This man has been a modest though important influence on the world of yacht design and one has only yo Google-search his name to come up with many references made by a variety of people that do not include family and longtime personal friends. How can I use this wealth of notoriety to include him under Wikipedia (and get myself started in writing for the encylopedia as well!)?
I appreciate all constructive contributions; and I'll try to check back with this page more frequently in future. Thanks for all that you do.
JC
Jcomet ( talk) 08:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
OR
OR
As you have recently edited Andy Martin (American politician), I am writing to request your input at the article talk page, sections Vexed and disputed are the ones which outline the current issue. Many thanks in advance for your time. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 21:37, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Would it be possible to use your copyright bot to check what may be a hoax article? To save duplicating a complex message the details are on LessHeard vanU's talk page Here. Many thanks. Richard Harvey ( talk) 01:23, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Editors: Please be advised that the texts in question were written by me and used by others: 1. the first reference is from text on the Adelaida Cellars web site that I wrote. 2 and 3. The next two references at virtualslo were either copied from the Adelaida Cellars web site, or from the Adelaida Cellars press kit that I wrote some time ago. 4. The last reference is from the Central Coast skin of Wine Country This Week (July 2008); I wrote the article in that magazine verbatim. Joe A. Gargiulo 23:31, 31 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jagpr ( talk • contribs)
Hi Earwig, could you do something about the bot tagging bmp files for renaming ? Almost all those files should be converted to PNG, so there is no real point in moving them. Thank you. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 12:16, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
{{ User:IBen/TB|Mono}} mono 22:11, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
You deleted Ramon Magsaysay High School, Manila as a copyvio. I was working on the article at the same time (although I wasn't the one who created the article), and had just cut the article down to a harmless stub in order to eliminate the copyvio. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 03:48, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I tagged the page as blurt site as patent nonsense, as its an 'underground movement' that happened to start today, and appeared to be created by synthesising a range of topics. Since there have been precedents to social science terms being used to obfuscate nonsense eg the Sokal affair, and none of the references were related to the topic, I tagged the page as nonsense. At best the page is a neologism that exists only in wikipedia and is synthesis / original research, so I'll put it up for a deletion discussion. Cheers, Clovis Sangrail ( talk) 15:53, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your bot work on {{ Infobox criminal}}. Is that complete, now? If so, I can complete the template changes. Also, there's a very similar request at Infobox journalist parameter rename, which you might kindly like to handle. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 08:33, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
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For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Earwig, I would like your User:EarwigBot (task 14) to run for all Category items under the Category:Canadian music for the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canadian_music. If the Canadian music category page does not have the [[WikiProject Canada]] template on the talk page put: {{WikiProject Canada|class=Cat|importance=???|music=yes}}. I'm guessing there are about 300 Canadian music categories? Your bot will not be modifing any article pages. What do I need to do to make this happen? Thanks. Argolin ( talk) 01:28, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
|importance=???
. Do you think it would be better to leave the parameter blank? —
The Earwig
(talk)
10:28, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
To answer your question, a blank importance will assign it to NA. Eventually, yes. That is what I will assign. Please look at this category: Category:Canadian music templates. This item was not on the stats page Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Canadian music articles by quality statistics until I added the banner template. I added all the namespace templates and nav templates on the main category page. I also added Category:Canadian pop singers templates. The person who created the pop templates only assigned it to Category:pop singers templates. As a big bonus, I even linked Category:Canadian music templates to Category:Music templates.
All of the maintenance noted directly above is typical. I need a way to differentiate the categories between ones I've already look at and are ok (ie the 98 in the NA), and all the new ones which the bot will pick up. With all that said, I leaning towards an importance=low. Would it be too much to ask for a list I can review before the bot executes? I don't even know how many new categories I'm going to see and how much work I will have. Thank-you again for your time. Argolin ( talk) 22:32, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Please explain this; you appear to have given no reason. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:57, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot has erroneously flagged copyright issues. Upon examination, the flags consist of material of the current, or previous iterations of the Jiddu Krishnamurti article, of which I'm a contributor. The proposed AfC is actually a split from that article; obviously some bot would mistakenly flag it anyway. Thank you. 65.88.88.127 ( talk) 18:35, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot erroneously flagged coyright violations. The flagged material that appears in various external links is actually part of the current or previous versions of Jiddu Krishnamurti of which the proposed AfC is a split. I have been editing Jiddu Krishnamurti for the past several months. Thank you. 65.88.88.126 ( talk) 00:23, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
The blogcatalog article is written by Pritesh Gupta himself and the Blog Wptat.com also belongs to Pritesh Gupta, Thus there are no copyright problems. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.84.65 ( talk) 07:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I can't move the page to afc because it already exists, and due to a stupid typo on my behalf, the article is now located at WikipWikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Audio Secrecy. Help ! :) Acather96 ( talk) 06:18, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
hi, i am trying to put a new article on Wikipedia about mobile application development but its being rejected by stating that it looks more like an advertisement. does citing the name of any company makes the article an advirtisement???
mrinal ( talk) 07:32, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've been working at Afc for a few months, and today saw a submission that was recently created and the template was still there. I preloaded the talk and informed the author. I then, by accident clicked on Page History and noticed something: the user who created the page - Richard.darren- was the same one who accepted it! Is there some kind of rule preventing this and what action should I take? Thanks, Acather96 ( talk) 14:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, the dust is settling, and it appears that the previous decision to delete {{ Expand}} has been overturned. I just checked the page and the Appeals template has been removed, but now, again, I cannot see the template on the page. I think the code you put there before that allows it to be seen on its own page even though protected is still there, but the template does not appear. Is there more code needed?
Also, I put it on my Talk page to see if I could see it there, and it didn't show up.
— Paine (
Ellsworth's
Climax)
17:00, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Update. The Expand template now shows up on my Talk page because an editor inquired about it on the template's Talk page, and editor Amalthea restored the visibility. So you might want to check if your previous edit still makes the template invisible on protected pages. Other than that, everything looks copacetic.
— Paine (
Ellsworth's
Climax)
20:27, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I am curious why you have this page listed for deletion. Adriana is a published author and noted magazine editor. Can you please clarify the deletion and spam notes. Regards - KR Allen —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adriss24 ( talk • contribs) 15:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I tried using your IRC tool at
[2] and it will not load, it just has a blank white screen with no log on screen. It worked yesterday. Is this a local error or is the tool disabled. Thanks --
Alpha Quadrant (
talk)
00:37, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Heads up, your bot on IRC went down at 22:17 UTC 25-May-10. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 22:35, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Dear The Earwig,
I recently went to the Wikipedia live help IRC channel to ask for some bot advice. Chzz referred me to you. I am about to begin a research study on the histories and life cycles of Wikipedia policies. In particular, I will be looking into the discussions associated with these histories and life cycles. For this purpose, I need to collect massive amounts of data about each of the policies, guidelines, and essays in Wikipedia. Basically I need to somehow extract all of the discussions that relate to the policy/guideline/essay, so that I can put together the story of how each item came to be what it is. From what I understand, sources of data include, but are not limited to:
From what I understand, there are 2 ways I can go about about collecting my data:
I'm not sure which of these two method I should use. What I do know is that I would like to use Python whenever possible. Which tool(s) do you recommend? Also, how would I go about learning how to use these tools?
Thank you for your time.
--
Benjamin James Bush (
talk)
17:34, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
# my dump-processing script
import wikipedia
from xmlreader import *
dump = XmlDump("pages-meta-history.xml", allrevisions=True) # load the xml dump
gen = dump.parse() # create a generator to handle all pages in the dump
dump = XmlDump("pages-meta-history.xml", allrevisions=False) # load the xml dump
gen = dump.parse() # create a generator to handle all pages in the dump
for rev in gen: # Returns every page, I'd think? Would be XmlEntry() objects.
if rev.title.startswith("Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view"): # includes archives and the main page
print rev.text
# my api-processing script
import json, urllib
params = {'action':'query', 'prop':'revisions', 'rvlimit':1, 'rvprop':'content', 'format':'json'}
params'titles' = "Wikipedia_talk:Neutral_point_of_view"
data = urllib.urlencode(params)
raw = urllib.urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php", data)
res = json.loads(raw.read())
pageid = res'query']['pages'.keys()[0
content = res'query']['pages'][pageid]['revisions'][0]['*'
print content
I remember agreeing to the wording in User:Chzz/test, but if I signed up for carrying out such notices, I missed it. Great job on cleaning up what was a mess, but I do think that if an article is moved to AfC, the original editor should get a notice. I think that is best done by whomever does the moving. (I'll copy Earwig.) I haven't checked all the example, but I did check one example, and I don't see that User:Acklis was notified.-- SPhilbrick T 16:08, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi ! I am trying to modify the conflict names. There are more KENDUA name exist in different area (District, Country). So I want to link all of them from the list in below: Kendua (Bengali: কেন্দুয়া) may refer to the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendua where
Bangladesh
* [ Kendua Netrokona]
India
* [ Kendua, West Bengal]
please help for it Moshiur Rahman Khan 20:20, 5 June 2010 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moshiur Rahman Khan ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for your help. It is working now smoothly but each country should required to define as different part. However, it is okay.Moshiur Rahman Khan 20:35, 5 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moshiur Rahman Khan ( talk • contribs)
Hi The Earwig
I'm sorry for the page, I didnt mean for it to bo nothing on it. I have edited it again, and I hope you find it okay this time
Sorry, i'm new here so I don't know so mutch yet
Zika-star ( talk) 20:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
On June 3-4, 4 users requested use of AWB. You acted on 3. Just wondering why you didn't do anything with mine. I did look at going to WP:AN, since it has been well more than 48 hours, but I didn't see any obvious place to raise the question. Any help/suggestions would be nice. PS. I'm watching this page, so you can reply here. Thanks. David V Houston ( talk) 19:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Earwig
Thanks for your review of my contribution titled "Application of Cluster Analysis in Educational Research". You commented that my article appeared like a school essay rather than an encyclopedia writing, which I agree. But after reading several wiki articles and tip pages, I am still clueless on how exactly I can make my page less essay like. Would you mind giving me some concrete comments, for example, on the organization or information quantity?
Thanks Jucypsycho ( talk) 06:35, 10 June 2010 (UTC)Jucypsycho
When EarwigBot says it is delinking mainspace categories in declined Articles for creation submissions, it puts a colon before the word category. But the delinked page still appears in the category page. I was told one has to nowiki out the categories. What does the colon do? Abductive ( reasoning) 00:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I was the same writer for the contribution cited in the Calgary wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hnovilla ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, have two articles for creation submitted. But I prefer to keep the So-Cal (Southern Calgary) page. I've mistakenly used the wrong title but they have the same content. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hnovilla ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
this- I've AGFed about the reliability of the sources, but I'd like a second opinion on accepting it. Thanks, {{ Sonia| ping| enlist}} 06:36, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ Talk! or Diannaa TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support! -- Diannaa TALK 01:38, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
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I have nominated you for BAG membership at Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/The Earwig, please review the nomination and if you accept, notify the appropriate pages and transclude the nomination to WT:BAG. Best. MBisanz talk 06:12, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Could you please contact me on IRC soon as possible about your second bot, it is malfunctioning, but not causing problems at the moment. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 21:09, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
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The Articles for Creation barnstar | |
You have made some great contribs to the team. Especially with your bot. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 02:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC) |
I also would like to give you the honour of this companion ribbon. -- /
MWOAP|
Notify Me\
02:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey, just letting you know that your BAG nomination has succeeded, and you are now a member. Congrats. -- Pak aran 03:34, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Could you please take another look at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar? I wasn't the one who created it, but I made some improvements and then another editor improved it even more. - Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 10:05, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Did you actually read this article before moving it to mainspace? I assume that you acted in good faith, but I have reverted it to being a redirect to the parent article. In addition, I have reported the author, White uk ( talk · contribs), for having an offensive username. Please discuss on the EDL talk page if you so wish. Verbal chat 08:10, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
The '''Scottish Defence league''' is an offshoot of the English Defence League.<ref>]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8359336.stm Clashes after rival city marches], BBC</ref>
No problem, best Verbal chat 21:42, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I agree and propose that you add your code to Template:Expand.
By the way, how are you doing? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:07, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:30, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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The Articles for Creation barnstar | |
For creating yet another (soon to be) very useful bot for AfC. Keep up the good work! Gosox( 55)( 55) 22:34, 6 March 2010 (UTC) |
A couple of things I'd suggest: delinking interwikis and skipping DEFAULTSORT (as it's a magicword, not a template... sort of... but regardless, isn't going to add categories) Josh Parris 15:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
With this edit, your bot placed the DYK template inside the article history, but I cannot see anything about the DYK now. Thoughts? Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:35, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Woah! I looked at my image. I saved it as a jpg, but I remembered that I just put JPG on my computer (when I saved the picture on paint, not on Wikipedia, well actually on both). Then I remembered it was still in the BMP file type thing. I think this bot is pretty well-programmed since it can tell the difference between a non-jpg picture and a jpg picture without the file-name saying it's a bmp! -- Ha dg er 03:54, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Earwig,
You said on 7 March that the permission would expire in two weeks, yet you withdrew permission two days later. What gives? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:32, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the bot had a problems integrating {{ DYK talk}} into {{ ArticleHistory}} in the following cases:
|num=
parameter caused the bot to misinterpret the parameters.|dykdate=
ended up with the value "13 February|2010".Any idea why? I've reverted the changes. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
He Earwig. Great work with the tagging of all the incorrect mime types. However, perhaps while you are doing, we can also tag file types that we don't really support ? like anything not gif/jpg/png/ogg etc ? Some of that material needs to be converted and it would really help if they were all in one category. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 13:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM image WHERE img_major_mime = "audio" AND img_minor_mime = "wav";
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 180 |
+----------+
1 row in set (42.63 sec)
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM image WHERE img_major_mime = "audio" AND img_minor_mime = "mp3";
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 13 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.78 sec)
mysql> SELECT DISTINCT(CONCAT(img_major_mime, "/", img_minor_mime)) FROM image ORDER BY CONCAT(img_major_mime, "/", img_minor_mime) ASC;
+-----------------------------------------------+
| (CONCAT(img_major_mime, "/", img_minor_mime)) |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| application/ogg |
| application/pdf |
| application/photoshop |
| application/vnd.ms-excel |
| application/x-bzip |
| application/x-chess-pgn |
| application/x-tcl |
| application/xml |
| audio/mid |
| audio/midi |
| audio/mp3 |
| audio/wav |
| image/gif |
| image/jpeg |
| image/png |
| image/svg+xml |
| image/tiff |
| image/vnd.djvu |
| image/x-bmp |
| image/x-ms-bmp |
| image/x-photoshop |
| image/x-xcf |
| model/vrml |
| text/plain |
| unknown/unknown |
| video/quicktime |
+-----------------------------------------------+
26 rows in set (1.78 sec)
mysql> SELECT img_name FROM image WHERE img_major_mime = "image" AND img_minor_mime = "tiff" LIMIT 10;
+-----------------------+
| img_name |
+-----------------------+
| Jack_and_Sam_Farr.jpg |
| Lucyalone.jpeg |
| Onlibertyowc.jpg |
| Phil_Short.jpg |
| RCM_x2.jpg |
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5 rows in set (0.79 sec)
Something like {{ Unsupported media requiring review}} might work I guess. I thought it could be handy to add the currentmime to the template params, we might want to do some secondary filtering/categorizing on that later on (cat with only bmps for instance). — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 02:18, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
RE: [1]
" User:EarwigBot: "The bot assists WikiProject Presidential Elections by tagging certain articles that are within the scope of the project with {{ WikiProject United States presidential elections}}.""
Is this correct? Can you tag new projects on request? If you are willing to help tag new wikiprojects on request, please change the description of your bot at Category talk:WikiProject tagging bots Okip 03:10, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello The Earwig, I noticed that EarwigBot does not appear to check for "blp=Yes" (uppercase Y) when it performs task 12; please see Talk:Steve_Arneil, where it added "blp=yes" despite "blp=Yes" already being present. Just bringing this to your attention. Thank you. Janggeom ( talk) 00:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I was daydreaming about possible tools, and it was suggested to me that I should just ask you whether my dream tool is possible or perhaps even easy to make. If it is, I may be humbly requesting that you make us one or suggest somebody else who might. If it isn't, I'll stop dreaming. :D
Is it possible to make a variation of the copyvio tool that directly compares two URLS, whether that is two permanent links to Wikipedia articles (sometimes useful to see if an old copyvio has been restored) or to a Wikipedia article and another URL? Something like that would be a major time-saver for copyright work at CP (where we often have to read both article and identified source to even see where duplication begins) and especially at CCI with those contributors who do cite the sources they are copying from. We would need, though, something to let us know explicitly whether there were no similarities found or if for some reason the tool couldn't complete the request, so we don't clear material that actually does have duplicated content.
Anyway, I am technologically completely clueless, but if you could let me know if you can help with that, if somebody else could help with that or if it is in the realm of flying monkeys, I'd appreciate it. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:52, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Since I'm the crackpot behind MRG's first request, and noticed you already have a prototype up, some feedback:
article name&oldid=xxx
(no underscores in article names) quite well but when you click on the reconstructed article's fullurl from the result page, it gives funky results. Doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but if you're a perfectionist, you may want to look into it (and document this feature on the tool's page)I mention yahoo! above because I think I once had a peek at CSB's code in relation to your initial BRfA for EarwigBot and I dimly remember yahoo being active while google was commented out. Of course, if that assumption is no longer correct (or you also query MS Bing), by all means the more search engines the merrier (but since I can't code python, that's easy for me to say:) ).
At any rate, thanks for the terrific services the detector has already rendered me. It's become an invaluable tool for me, and I don't believe I have ever done you the credit you deserve for that. MLauba ( talk) 23:01, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I am looking into ways to get published the page I wrote on John E Cherubini, the yacht designer. I understand that there was not much on this page that is verifiable under the Wiki policy. However, how do I improve that?
For example-- what types of sources would be considered verifiable? Would mentions in magazines help? --page numbers in hard-copy books? --newspaper obituaries or other mentions?
Can you please tell me what types of sources are acceptable for a subject who does not have a current Wikipedia presence but, in the minds of his many fans and admirers, should? This man has been a modest though important influence on the world of yacht design and one has only yo Google-search his name to come up with many references made by a variety of people that do not include family and longtime personal friends. How can I use this wealth of notoriety to include him under Wikipedia (and get myself started in writing for the encylopedia as well!)?
I appreciate all constructive contributions; and I'll try to check back with this page more frequently in future. Thanks for all that you do.
JC
Jcomet ( talk) 08:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
OR
OR
As you have recently edited Andy Martin (American politician), I am writing to request your input at the article talk page, sections Vexed and disputed are the ones which outline the current issue. Many thanks in advance for your time. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 21:37, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Would it be possible to use your copyright bot to check what may be a hoax article? To save duplicating a complex message the details are on LessHeard vanU's talk page Here. Many thanks. Richard Harvey ( talk) 01:23, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Editors: Please be advised that the texts in question were written by me and used by others: 1. the first reference is from text on the Adelaida Cellars web site that I wrote. 2 and 3. The next two references at virtualslo were either copied from the Adelaida Cellars web site, or from the Adelaida Cellars press kit that I wrote some time ago. 4. The last reference is from the Central Coast skin of Wine Country This Week (July 2008); I wrote the article in that magazine verbatim. Joe A. Gargiulo 23:31, 31 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jagpr ( talk • contribs)
Hi Earwig, could you do something about the bot tagging bmp files for renaming ? Almost all those files should be converted to PNG, so there is no real point in moving them. Thank you. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 12:16, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
{{ User:IBen/TB|Mono}} mono 22:11, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
You deleted Ramon Magsaysay High School, Manila as a copyvio. I was working on the article at the same time (although I wasn't the one who created the article), and had just cut the article down to a harmless stub in order to eliminate the copyvio. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 03:48, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I tagged the page as blurt site as patent nonsense, as its an 'underground movement' that happened to start today, and appeared to be created by synthesising a range of topics. Since there have been precedents to social science terms being used to obfuscate nonsense eg the Sokal affair, and none of the references were related to the topic, I tagged the page as nonsense. At best the page is a neologism that exists only in wikipedia and is synthesis / original research, so I'll put it up for a deletion discussion. Cheers, Clovis Sangrail ( talk) 15:53, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your bot work on {{ Infobox criminal}}. Is that complete, now? If so, I can complete the template changes. Also, there's a very similar request at Infobox journalist parameter rename, which you might kindly like to handle. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 08:33, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
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User:The Earwig has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, Peace, A record of your Day will always be kept here. |
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Earwig, I would like your User:EarwigBot (task 14) to run for all Category items under the Category:Canadian music for the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canadian_music. If the Canadian music category page does not have the [[WikiProject Canada]] template on the talk page put: {{WikiProject Canada|class=Cat|importance=???|music=yes}}. I'm guessing there are about 300 Canadian music categories? Your bot will not be modifing any article pages. What do I need to do to make this happen? Thanks. Argolin ( talk) 01:28, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
|importance=???
. Do you think it would be better to leave the parameter blank? —
The Earwig
(talk)
10:28, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
To answer your question, a blank importance will assign it to NA. Eventually, yes. That is what I will assign. Please look at this category: Category:Canadian music templates. This item was not on the stats page Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Canadian music articles by quality statistics until I added the banner template. I added all the namespace templates and nav templates on the main category page. I also added Category:Canadian pop singers templates. The person who created the pop templates only assigned it to Category:pop singers templates. As a big bonus, I even linked Category:Canadian music templates to Category:Music templates.
All of the maintenance noted directly above is typical. I need a way to differentiate the categories between ones I've already look at and are ok (ie the 98 in the NA), and all the new ones which the bot will pick up. With all that said, I leaning towards an importance=low. Would it be too much to ask for a list I can review before the bot executes? I don't even know how many new categories I'm going to see and how much work I will have. Thank-you again for your time. Argolin ( talk) 22:32, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Please explain this; you appear to have given no reason. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:57, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot has erroneously flagged copyright issues. Upon examination, the flags consist of material of the current, or previous iterations of the Jiddu Krishnamurti article, of which I'm a contributor. The proposed AfC is actually a split from that article; obviously some bot would mistakenly flag it anyway. Thank you. 65.88.88.127 ( talk) 18:35, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot erroneously flagged coyright violations. The flagged material that appears in various external links is actually part of the current or previous versions of Jiddu Krishnamurti of which the proposed AfC is a split. I have been editing Jiddu Krishnamurti for the past several months. Thank you. 65.88.88.126 ( talk) 00:23, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
The blogcatalog article is written by Pritesh Gupta himself and the Blog Wptat.com also belongs to Pritesh Gupta, Thus there are no copyright problems. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.84.65 ( talk) 07:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I can't move the page to afc because it already exists, and due to a stupid typo on my behalf, the article is now located at WikipWikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Audio Secrecy. Help ! :) Acather96 ( talk) 06:18, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
hi, i am trying to put a new article on Wikipedia about mobile application development but its being rejected by stating that it looks more like an advertisement. does citing the name of any company makes the article an advirtisement???
mrinal ( talk) 07:32, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've been working at Afc for a few months, and today saw a submission that was recently created and the template was still there. I preloaded the talk and informed the author. I then, by accident clicked on Page History and noticed something: the user who created the page - Richard.darren- was the same one who accepted it! Is there some kind of rule preventing this and what action should I take? Thanks, Acather96 ( talk) 14:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, the dust is settling, and it appears that the previous decision to delete {{ Expand}} has been overturned. I just checked the page and the Appeals template has been removed, but now, again, I cannot see the template on the page. I think the code you put there before that allows it to be seen on its own page even though protected is still there, but the template does not appear. Is there more code needed?
Also, I put it on my Talk page to see if I could see it there, and it didn't show up.
— Paine (
Ellsworth's
Climax)
17:00, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Update. The Expand template now shows up on my Talk page because an editor inquired about it on the template's Talk page, and editor Amalthea restored the visibility. So you might want to check if your previous edit still makes the template invisible on protected pages. Other than that, everything looks copacetic.
— Paine (
Ellsworth's
Climax)
20:27, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I am curious why you have this page listed for deletion. Adriana is a published author and noted magazine editor. Can you please clarify the deletion and spam notes. Regards - KR Allen —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adriss24 ( talk • contribs) 15:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I tried using your IRC tool at
[2] and it will not load, it just has a blank white screen with no log on screen. It worked yesterday. Is this a local error or is the tool disabled. Thanks --
Alpha Quadrant (
talk)
00:37, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Heads up, your bot on IRC went down at 22:17 UTC 25-May-10. -- / MWOAP| Notify Me\ 22:35, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Dear The Earwig,
I recently went to the Wikipedia live help IRC channel to ask for some bot advice. Chzz referred me to you. I am about to begin a research study on the histories and life cycles of Wikipedia policies. In particular, I will be looking into the discussions associated with these histories and life cycles. For this purpose, I need to collect massive amounts of data about each of the policies, guidelines, and essays in Wikipedia. Basically I need to somehow extract all of the discussions that relate to the policy/guideline/essay, so that I can put together the story of how each item came to be what it is. From what I understand, sources of data include, but are not limited to:
From what I understand, there are 2 ways I can go about about collecting my data:
I'm not sure which of these two method I should use. What I do know is that I would like to use Python whenever possible. Which tool(s) do you recommend? Also, how would I go about learning how to use these tools?
Thank you for your time.
--
Benjamin James Bush (
talk)
17:34, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
# my dump-processing script
import wikipedia
from xmlreader import *
dump = XmlDump("pages-meta-history.xml", allrevisions=True) # load the xml dump
gen = dump.parse() # create a generator to handle all pages in the dump
dump = XmlDump("pages-meta-history.xml", allrevisions=False) # load the xml dump
gen = dump.parse() # create a generator to handle all pages in the dump
for rev in gen: # Returns every page, I'd think? Would be XmlEntry() objects.
if rev.title.startswith("Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view"): # includes archives and the main page
print rev.text
# my api-processing script
import json, urllib
params = {'action':'query', 'prop':'revisions', 'rvlimit':1, 'rvprop':'content', 'format':'json'}
params'titles' = "Wikipedia_talk:Neutral_point_of_view"
data = urllib.urlencode(params)
raw = urllib.urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php", data)
res = json.loads(raw.read())
pageid = res'query']['pages'.keys()[0
content = res'query']['pages'][pageid]['revisions'][0]['*'
print content
I remember agreeing to the wording in User:Chzz/test, but if I signed up for carrying out such notices, I missed it. Great job on cleaning up what was a mess, but I do think that if an article is moved to AfC, the original editor should get a notice. I think that is best done by whomever does the moving. (I'll copy Earwig.) I haven't checked all the example, but I did check one example, and I don't see that User:Acklis was notified.-- SPhilbrick T 16:08, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi ! I am trying to modify the conflict names. There are more KENDUA name exist in different area (District, Country). So I want to link all of them from the list in below: Kendua (Bengali: কেন্দুয়া) may refer to the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendua where
Bangladesh
* [ Kendua Netrokona]
India
* [ Kendua, West Bengal]
please help for it Moshiur Rahman Khan 20:20, 5 June 2010 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moshiur Rahman Khan ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for your help. It is working now smoothly but each country should required to define as different part. However, it is okay.Moshiur Rahman Khan 20:35, 5 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moshiur Rahman Khan ( talk • contribs)
Hi The Earwig
I'm sorry for the page, I didnt mean for it to bo nothing on it. I have edited it again, and I hope you find it okay this time
Sorry, i'm new here so I don't know so mutch yet
Zika-star ( talk) 20:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
On June 3-4, 4 users requested use of AWB. You acted on 3. Just wondering why you didn't do anything with mine. I did look at going to WP:AN, since it has been well more than 48 hours, but I didn't see any obvious place to raise the question. Any help/suggestions would be nice. PS. I'm watching this page, so you can reply here. Thanks. David V Houston ( talk) 19:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Earwig
Thanks for your review of my contribution titled "Application of Cluster Analysis in Educational Research". You commented that my article appeared like a school essay rather than an encyclopedia writing, which I agree. But after reading several wiki articles and tip pages, I am still clueless on how exactly I can make my page less essay like. Would you mind giving me some concrete comments, for example, on the organization or information quantity?
Thanks Jucypsycho ( talk) 06:35, 10 June 2010 (UTC)Jucypsycho
When EarwigBot says it is delinking mainspace categories in declined Articles for creation submissions, it puts a colon before the word category. But the delinked page still appears in the category page. I was told one has to nowiki out the categories. What does the colon do? Abductive ( reasoning) 00:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I was the same writer for the contribution cited in the Calgary wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hnovilla ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, have two articles for creation submitted. But I prefer to keep the So-Cal (Southern Calgary) page. I've mistakenly used the wrong title but they have the same content. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hnovilla ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
this- I've AGFed about the reliability of the sources, but I'd like a second opinion on accepting it. Thanks, {{ Sonia| ping| enlist}} 06:36, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ Talk! or Diannaa TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support! -- Diannaa TALK 01:38, 22 June 2010 (UTC)