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That looked gibberish to me. Well, even knowing that it is Romanian it is still... Thanks for fixing the CSD to be the proper category-- ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(talk) 01:31, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Could you check what has happened with your bot? It hasn't reduced any files for some time. -- Stefan2 ( talk) 10:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
I reached 5k edits today, and also had my user page vandalized for the tenth time, so I guess I'm doing something right :) how you doing? Dan653 ( talk) 01:47, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that you just received the protected template editor userright. Are there any full protected templates that you'd like to edit? Let me know and I'll downgrade the protection so you can do so. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 15:09, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
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As you previously participated in related discussions you are invited to comment at the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC for AfC reviewer permission criteria. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:07, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Did you ever get that list generated that I requested in Bot Requests? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 01:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
[[Current title]] → [[New title without parentheses]]
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Theopolisme (
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You seem to be the guy to ask. I signed up for the Backlog Drive, enabled the Buddy script and created the subpage, but only my first ten reviews are showing up in the review count. Can you help? I want a brownie! Thank you! Appreciate your time as always. JSFarman ( talk) 21:27, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
If you have a moment, please check this out. It's a clone as you'll see but It's been looked over already and copyedited by Technical 13 and if you and he, and perhaps Theonesean think it's ready to go I'll think about moving it. It has a talk page for any comments. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 16:07, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi resident bot expert, Theopolisme. It's been a while since we've interacted, but I remember your expertise in bots, and wanted your take on the feasibility of a bot to fill in roster templates (like the one in my sandbox) from a website like this one? Or at least an assisted way? It's extraordinarily tedious to do manually, so I thought there may be a way to automate (preferably one to automate roster templates for all sports). Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Go Phightins ! 20:01, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script/archive%%0#Option to not watch talk pages inspired me to ask if you could write a script or off-Wiki tool that would take my watchlist (perhaps pasted-in as text if it's an off-wiki tool) and a "number of days ago" then split the list into two sections: Those pages in which EITHER I have edited the page or its talk page in the past X days OR which either the page (if it's a discussion page) or its talk page have a section that has been edited in the last X days which I have also edited, ever.
The idea being if I haven't edited a non-discussion page in X days or nobody has responded in the last X days to something I said on the related discussion page, then I may want to remove the page and its associated talk page from my watchlist. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:23, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013
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“ | Would a mouse by any other name smell as ... rodent-like? | ” |
A mouse can be many things. Perhaps these can help:
davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 22:15, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Could you check what your bot is doing here? It reduced the file but kept the {{ non-free reduce}} tag, and then on the next day it was removed without adding {{ non-free reduced}}. It also happened with a couple of other files. -- Stefan2 ( talk) 16:33, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Northamerica1000 (talk) 13:09, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Theopolisme, please see my responses over here, and correct any goofs or mischaracterizations I may have caused. Thanks. User_talk:West.andrew.g#User_permissions
p.s. Actually, I'm assuming you are interested in this discussion about securing the AfC gadget, since you're one of the main gadget-hackers at the moment. If that's an incorrect assumption, my apologies, please just ping me back that you are not interested. Appreciate it. Thanks for improving wikipedia. 74.192.84.101 ( talk) 14:46, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Legoktm ( talk) 23:09, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Why not going to Wikia for a long time? I'm on here to me. ( What? | Changes to you.) 11:26, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Theo! I'm a bit hesitant to ask you this because of your note saying that you are somewhat busy right now, but it has been a fair amount of time since your last RfA and I was wondering when you might consider running again? Also, if you have the time, please take a look at this new project that I've opened up. Thanks and have a great day, Automatic Strikeout ( ₵) 20:24, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Hey Theopolisme! I am Petrb, one of core developers of Huggle, the antivandalism tool, which you are beta testing (according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers). I am happy to announce that Huggle 3 is ready for some testing. You can read more about it at WP:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta. Please keep in mind that this is a development version and it is not ready for regular use. That means you must:
If you find any problem with a feature that is supposed to work perfectly, please let us know. Some features are not ready yet, it is listed in known problems on Huggle3 beta page, you don't need to report these - we know it! So, that's it. Have fun testing and please let us know about any problems, either using bugzilla @ http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or #huggle connect. Please respond to my talk page, I am not going to watch your talk page. Thank you Petrb ( talk) 10:57, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. This is a brief note to let you know about an update to the Main FAQ (the addition of a large table of Components of the discussion system), and also to specifically request your feedback on two items: our sandbox release plan, and a draft of the new contributors survey. We look forward to reading your input on these or other topics - Flow can only get better with your ideas! – Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 19:50, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Theo, how are things?
I just tried to reduce File:Dog Trouble poster.jpg using your tool ( this is the link provided by the template) and it threw up an internal server error. It might just be toolserver, or not. This is the info:
Regards, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 04:32, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Not really. It looks like there's some underlying encoding issue with the files.
traceback details
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "resizer_auto.py", line 182, in <module> main() File "resizer_auto.py", line 178, in main image_routine(flub) File "resizer_auto.py", line 94, in image_routine file = littleimage.gimme_image(filename,compound_site,pxl,theimage) File "/data/project/theoslittlebot/cgi-bin/theobot/NonFreeImageResizer/littleimage.py", line 77, in gimme_image img = img.resize((int(basewidth),int(hsize)), Image.ANTIALIAS) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1290, in resize self.load() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 201, in load raise IOError("image file is truncated (%d bytes not processed)" % len(b)) IOError: image file is truncated (11 bytes not processed) |
Theopolisme ( talk) 23:18, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
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Is this running right now? It was recently approved :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 10:47, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Hey Theopolisme, how are you? I am Petrb, one of huggle developers, and you are currently subscribed as a beta tester of huggle on meta ( meta:Huggle/Members. You may not have noticed, but this week I released first beta precompiled installers for ubuntu and microsoft windows! Wikipedia:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta has all the links you need. So if you can, please download it, test it and report all bugs that is really what we need now. Don't forgot that as it's just a beta it's unstable and there are some known issues. Be carefull! Thank you for helping us with huggle Petrb ( talk) 16:26, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Theopolisme:
WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long
Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from December 1st, 2013 – January 31st, 2014.
Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 2800 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the
drive's page and help out!
I've added you. The name of the tool is Scottytools. Everything you need is loaded in there. There are some toolserver specific things that need to be rewritten. Ideally they should be rewritten to use the API instead. They should have a FIXME tag on them.— cyberpower ChatOnline 23:10, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Callan, will do. Cyber, I'm a little concerned -- I've been looking through your past projects and talking to some other developers, and it seems like you have a history of proprietary -- as opposed to open -- source code, which runs counter to everything the Wikimedia movements stand for. I'd like to verify that the source of Scotty's tools will be publicly available and open to patches/etc, probably by creating a GitHub repo. If not, I'm afraid I can't work with you (and I'll just create another fork that abides by Wikimedia principles). Theopolisme ( talk) 16:45, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Re: auto-archiving of nominations with User:Theo's Little Bot Northamerica1000 (talk) 01:36, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Your bot keeps changing my adopter status to available [1], when I would like it to show me as unavailable at the moment. Is there any way you can stop it edit warring with me? Bellerophon talk to me 22:26, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Please see this gross diff where the bot places its message(s) in the midst of a prior conversation. Fiddle Faddle 11:26, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, Theopolisme:
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection. Posted by: Northamerica1000 (talk) 18:11, 5 December 2013 (UTC) |
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Hi Theo! I was just looking over
Module:Interval and
Module:Countdown - very nice work. :) I noticed that you were calling the #time parser function, but actually there is already a Scribunto equivalent that you can use,
mw.language:formatDate. Also, beware of blank arguments - in Lua, the blank string evaluates to true, so code like if args.duration then x end
will be triggered if your module is called like {{countdown|duration=}}
. I'll try and have a more detailed look later as well. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 22:04, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
if args.duration && #args.duration
? Thanks for bearing with me as I learn the quirks of this new language,
Theopolisme (
talk) 23:05, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
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evaluates to true as well. The only things in Lua that evaluate to false are false
and nil
. I usually work around this by having a function specially for #invoke that trims the arguments and removes the blank ones. (The exact ones you need to remove can vary depending on what template you are converting.) This means that you can just use if args.duration then x end
, and it also means you don't have to have a frame object available if you call the module directly from another Lua module. It also means that the code will work whether called directly from #invoke or from a wrapper template. See
Module:Toolbar for a typical example of the kind of code I would use. I've also just finished writing
Module:Arguments, which does a similar thing with metatables, but I haven't written the documentation up yet - I'll go and do that now. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 02:00, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Q-go#Notability. -- Trevj ( talk • contribs) 12:37, 10 December 2013 (UTC) -- Trevj ( talk • contribs) 12:37, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Theo, I love your bot's listing of unnecessary disambiguation. There are a lot of good cases for moves and disambiguation there. I was using this as a workpage when it occurred to me that I might be screwing something up by doing so. Should I leave it to the bot to update the listing? -- BDD ( talk) 21:10, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Just a quick question regarding User:WP 1.0 Bot: Would it be possible to get the bot to run a bit more often during the month of December? There is currently a lot of article assessing going on right now, in large part associated with the WP:Stub Contest. The contest appears to be having the effect of motivating a bunch of editors to work on all of the assessment backlogs, not just stubs :) This is a good thing, but means that things have become more than a bit out-of-date, as the bot has not run in a week. This results in all of the tables being way out-of-whack with the actual numbers in the categories, and makes it very hard to discern at a glance how much work has been done. I realize it takes several thousand edits to update every table and log for the entire 'pedia, so am not asking for every day, but could we have it be more often than a week? Every other day or every third day or so? (Addendum: it looks like it last ran on Dec 7, and prior to that was Dec 5...is the week-long wait thing a fluke/bug?) Thanks in advance, and thanks in general for all of the work that this bot does! Dana boomer ( talk) 01:50, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=File:Ultimate_One.jpg#filehistory Can you help me , here.It's violating copyright as it contains the channel logo -- Winchetan ( talk) 05:21, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. See WT:AFC#Moving article to WT:AFC after it is declined breaks the link from the user page message. Could this be connected with the change you made to {{ Afc decline}} in October? JohnCD ( talk) 20:41, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey. :) I just had a look at
Template:Countdown/testcases, and I see a few cases that aren't quite doing what they're supposed to. You're missing a few refresh links, and we could do with including the weeks in the countdown rather than just the years and days. Also, it's advisable to avoid generating script errors where possible, as editors tend to view them as mistakes, don't know that they can be clicked on to find the error message, etc. etc. Instead you can just output an html error with <strong class="error">Error: some error message</strong>
. Although if you have an error that is meant to be seen by other module writers and not by editors, it is probably better to use a proper error as they are easier to debug. But other than that it is looking good - thank you again for your work. :) Also, while I am here, it is possible to call the mbox templates directly from
Module:Message box - take a look at the instructions on the module page. Have a nice weekend! —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 08:22, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
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for the holidays and 2014 from a warmer place than where you probably are ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 11:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC) |
December Notes from the
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The December blitz ran from December 8–14. The theme for this blitz was articles tied in some way to religion. Seven editors knocked out 20 articles over the course of the week. Our next blitz will be in February, with a theme to be determined. Feel free to make theme suggestions at the Guild talk page! The January 2014 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in October and November 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2013. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in October and November 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! Coordinator election: Voting is open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January through 30 June 2014. Voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Merry Christmas, Theopolisme! I, knowing nothing about bots, wanted to inquire on the feasibility of one that could search some text of an unreferenced article, and compile a list of possible references on the talk page. Wikipedia has hundreds of thousands of unsourced pages, and if a bot could at least suggest possible sources, we would at least have somewhere for an interested reader to go when our article falls woefully short of their expectations. I don't know how it would work, which is why I came to you, to see if you had any thoughts. Thanks, and Merry Christmas! Go Phightins ! 13:37, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
See User:Jimbo Wales#You can edit this page!, where Mr. Wales encourages people to add things that may make him smile, inform him, etc. Cheers, Northamerica1000 (talk) 05:35, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
This is a very interesting list, with some clear patterns emerging. Can you also generate a (hopefully much shorter) list of pages for which Page foo does not exist, but for which there are multiple iterations of Page foo (bar 1) and Page foo (bar 2)? Cheers! bd2412 T 17:09, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Theopolisme: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Northamerica1000 (talk) 04:31, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for the notice. I did create the file, then uploaded it to wikipedia, I've checked the changes made by your bot and applaud the improvement. Good work. shaidar cuebiyar ( talk) 12:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. I am not sure why this revert happened. WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:53, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Theopolisme. I posted an indefblock template on User:RupalDel six minutes before you invited them to the Teahouse. [3] Just sayin'. It may be a little confusing for the user. I don't know if you'd like to revert the bot? Up to you, of course. Regards, Bishonen | talk 20:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC).
It's running, but can I make a suggestion?
I'm finding with some media it generates, that a description can be found by looking at the usage of the image, and pulling a caption from the relevant pages? Would it be possible to amend the bot task so it can do caption pulling?
The suggestion is to pull the caption from the page and then put something like Caption on : {article name}{caption}
Sfan00 IMG (
talk) 11:39, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
It looks like Theo's Little Bot may have stalled on Task 22, or at least is running slower than expected. I added {{ Rotten Tomatoes score}} to Micmacs (film) almost an hour ago, but it's still saying "refresh in a few minutes" as I write this.
If you could take a look and work out what's gone wrong I'd be grateful.
Cheers!
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