Keep fighting the good fight! I plan to be more active again. Rlink2 ( talk) 01:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi GreenC,
I just want to thank you for all your help you have provided in the past few days on some of my articles. You make some good points about notability and significant coverage. Your assist with my edit requests is also appreciated. You also have a great way with words.
Thanks, Greg Henderson ( talk) 05:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thanks Brokenalarmclock ( talk) 13:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC) |
I forgot to follow-up to the update at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thailand/Archives/2023#Update. File URLs with the prefix http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/, which went dead earlier last year, were brought back, but some I think remain unarchived. What is the procedure for getting the archive bot to cover them? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello GreenC!
Thank you for your consideration. We hope to see you around!
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:20, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I am NanoLuuke from Wookieepedia. I am reaching out to you because our editing community has expressed concern regarding our own reliance on the Wayback Machine. For context, much like Wikipedia, our own policy requires the inclusion of archival links (with around 1/6th to 1/5th of our 188000+ pages using web citation), and we use massively the Wayback Machine in this regard. Concerns have emerged from the earliest stages of the Hachette v. Internet Archive case, and with the publication of a recent article by the Jacobin, I'm seeing more and more editors worried that we could lose access to the Wayback Machine in the future. While I'm personally not currently feeling the same level of concern as my fellow editors, I do recognize that properly assessing the ongoing issue is a reasonable thing to do, at minima to appease the worried editors, and if worse must come, to prepare whatever steps we will need to circumvent the possible loss of the Wayback Machine's archives. That is why I wanted to reach out to you, since you seems one of the most knowledgeable editors on Wikipedia regarding web archives. I'm interested in your personal opinion on the matter, and I would also be interested if you could point me toward relevant talk pages if the Wikipedia's community as started discussing the issue. Thanks. NanoLuuke ( talk) 13:13, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
User:Certes & User:GoingBatty: Since I'm no longer on Toolforge, I put the scripts on GitHub, in case anything ever happened to me, or you want to fork. https://github.com/greencardamom/Bw-userid -- Green C 17:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu ( talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
I'm going through your instructions, since they appear the easiest to get started with a bot. Thanks for creating them! Should I ask questions here or at the yet-to-be-created red-linked User talk:GreenC/BotWikiAwk? I'll ask here for now...
I know that Toolforge recently changed. I'm hoping that won't be a problem. I already observed that the page User:GreenC/BotWikiAwk/Toolforge says:
Fortunately, I am new to Toolforge, so I won't bother with trying out the old system. ;) Questions/comments so far:
(1) I'm at User:GreenC/BotWikiAwk#Setup right now using SSH login to Toolforge. So far so good. One line that confused me was that I thought "/home/adminuser/BotWikiAwk/lib" should be typed exactly, but I believe "adminuser" is my username. It might be helpful to make that clear in the instructions. About to try that.
(2) Where it says:
PATH=$PATH:/home/adminuser/BotWikiAwk/bin
Why does is say to log out and log back in? If I log out, doesn't that clear the variables? I am planning to add it to my .bashrc (or possibly .kshrc or .zshrc [whatever that is]). I haven't used UNIX in about 30 years, so it's only slowly coming back and new features have been added! Oh, I believe I see the problem. I think you mean it should be added to the .bash_profile just like the other one rather than from the command line... If that line was indented, I think it would be less confusing... -- David Tornheim ( talk) 11:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your post on Materialscientist's talk and started tracking this problem yesterday. I've just blocked 2.45.126.120 for a month following an edit they made, and will do the same for any similar edits from the same vandal that I come across. Feel free to ping me if you spot any others. Nice to do something different for a change :) — Small jim 17:46, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey GreenC, about a month ago, I added the template to indicate a user is deceased to my talk page in anticipation of my suicide, which you removed with a fairly insensitive edit summary. I unfortunately survived the attempt, but in the future, please don't assume in bad faith that users would facetiously use that template for "retirement." I understand that you probably run into that situation more often than an actual death, and I also acknowledge that my own edit summary was not very specific (though it should be obvious why I might've wanted to keep the details under wraps), but just remember that there are human beings behind the usernames. I will also do my part and not reuse the template again for future attempts; rest assured I had read the guidelines about using the template beforehand, though it seems I misunderstood something. Anyway I've seen some of your contributions elsewhere on the site and they're always constructive, keep up the good work. -- Nsophiay ( talk) 02:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey GreenC, quick Q - if I look at an old article that has been archived on the Wayback Machine, usually there are many versions over several years. What's the best practice in terms of picking up which link to include in a reference on Wikipedia? I am assuming in this scenario that any version would do for the purposes of providing a reference (i.e. the changes are minimal, if any, from one year to another). Thanks! -- Molochmeditates ( talk) 20:00, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Keep fighting the good fight! I plan to be more active again. Rlink2 ( talk) 01:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi GreenC,
I just want to thank you for all your help you have provided in the past few days on some of my articles. You make some good points about notability and significant coverage. Your assist with my edit requests is also appreciated. You also have a great way with words.
Thanks, Greg Henderson ( talk) 05:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thanks Brokenalarmclock ( talk) 13:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC) |
I forgot to follow-up to the update at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thailand/Archives/2023#Update. File URLs with the prefix http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/, which went dead earlier last year, were brought back, but some I think remain unarchived. What is the procedure for getting the archive bot to cover them? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello GreenC!
Thank you for your consideration. We hope to see you around!
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:20, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I am NanoLuuke from Wookieepedia. I am reaching out to you because our editing community has expressed concern regarding our own reliance on the Wayback Machine. For context, much like Wikipedia, our own policy requires the inclusion of archival links (with around 1/6th to 1/5th of our 188000+ pages using web citation), and we use massively the Wayback Machine in this regard. Concerns have emerged from the earliest stages of the Hachette v. Internet Archive case, and with the publication of a recent article by the Jacobin, I'm seeing more and more editors worried that we could lose access to the Wayback Machine in the future. While I'm personally not currently feeling the same level of concern as my fellow editors, I do recognize that properly assessing the ongoing issue is a reasonable thing to do, at minima to appease the worried editors, and if worse must come, to prepare whatever steps we will need to circumvent the possible loss of the Wayback Machine's archives. That is why I wanted to reach out to you, since you seems one of the most knowledgeable editors on Wikipedia regarding web archives. I'm interested in your personal opinion on the matter, and I would also be interested if you could point me toward relevant talk pages if the Wikipedia's community as started discussing the issue. Thanks. NanoLuuke ( talk) 13:13, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
User:Certes & User:GoingBatty: Since I'm no longer on Toolforge, I put the scripts on GitHub, in case anything ever happened to me, or you want to fork. https://github.com/greencardamom/Bw-userid -- Green C 17:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu ( talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
I'm going through your instructions, since they appear the easiest to get started with a bot. Thanks for creating them! Should I ask questions here or at the yet-to-be-created red-linked User talk:GreenC/BotWikiAwk? I'll ask here for now...
I know that Toolforge recently changed. I'm hoping that won't be a problem. I already observed that the page User:GreenC/BotWikiAwk/Toolforge says:
Fortunately, I am new to Toolforge, so I won't bother with trying out the old system. ;) Questions/comments so far:
(1) I'm at User:GreenC/BotWikiAwk#Setup right now using SSH login to Toolforge. So far so good. One line that confused me was that I thought "/home/adminuser/BotWikiAwk/lib" should be typed exactly, but I believe "adminuser" is my username. It might be helpful to make that clear in the instructions. About to try that.
(2) Where it says:
PATH=$PATH:/home/adminuser/BotWikiAwk/bin
Why does is say to log out and log back in? If I log out, doesn't that clear the variables? I am planning to add it to my .bashrc (or possibly .kshrc or .zshrc [whatever that is]). I haven't used UNIX in about 30 years, so it's only slowly coming back and new features have been added! Oh, I believe I see the problem. I think you mean it should be added to the .bash_profile just like the other one rather than from the command line... If that line was indented, I think it would be less confusing... -- David Tornheim ( talk) 11:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your post on Materialscientist's talk and started tracking this problem yesterday. I've just blocked 2.45.126.120 for a month following an edit they made, and will do the same for any similar edits from the same vandal that I come across. Feel free to ping me if you spot any others. Nice to do something different for a change :) — Small jim 17:46, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey GreenC, about a month ago, I added the template to indicate a user is deceased to my talk page in anticipation of my suicide, which you removed with a fairly insensitive edit summary. I unfortunately survived the attempt, but in the future, please don't assume in bad faith that users would facetiously use that template for "retirement." I understand that you probably run into that situation more often than an actual death, and I also acknowledge that my own edit summary was not very specific (though it should be obvious why I might've wanted to keep the details under wraps), but just remember that there are human beings behind the usernames. I will also do my part and not reuse the template again for future attempts; rest assured I had read the guidelines about using the template beforehand, though it seems I misunderstood something. Anyway I've seen some of your contributions elsewhere on the site and they're always constructive, keep up the good work. -- Nsophiay ( talk) 02:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey GreenC, quick Q - if I look at an old article that has been archived on the Wayback Machine, usually there are many versions over several years. What's the best practice in terms of picking up which link to include in a reference on Wikipedia? I am assuming in this scenario that any version would do for the purposes of providing a reference (i.e. the changes are minimal, if any, from one year to another). Thanks! -- Molochmeditates ( talk) 20:00, 24 April 2024 (UTC)