User talk:Chris G/Archives/2011/February

The Signpost: 31 January 2011

• News and notes: Executive Director travels; DMCA takedowns; fellowship clarifications; brief news

• In the news: Facebook hack; gender gap; What is the Wikipedia "community"?; brief news

• The Science Hall of Fame: Building a pantheon of scientists from Wikipedia and Google Books

• WikiProject report: WikiWarriors

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Evidence in Shakespeare case moves to a close; Longevity case awaits proposed decision; AUSC RfC

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 7 February 2011

• News and notes: New General Counsel hired; reuse of Google Art Project debated; GLAM newsletter started; news in brief

• In the news: Wikipedia controversies about Mormon topics examined; brief news

• Gender gap: Widespread discussions about the low participation of women in Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: Stargazing aboard WikiProject Spaceflight

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Open cases: Shakespeare authorship – Longevity; Motions on Date delinking, Eastern European mailing list

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Help

Hi Chris G. I'm looking for where SciFi space launch and space propulsion concepts might be talked about/discussed amongst interested Wikipedia editors. I see that your bot is the only entry on the page Category talk:Fictional spacecraft. I work a good bit on the non-fiction side of spaceflight in Wikipedia, but know little about the SciFi side of things. Would you have any idea where I might go to find interested editors so I might ask them a question about an article that crosses over, both non-fiction and SciFi aspects? Cheers. N2e (talk) 09:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, you might want to try Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction --Chris 12:12, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 February 2011

• News and notes: Foundation report; gender statistics; DMCA takedowns; brief news

• In the news: Wikipedia wrongly blamed for Super Bowl gaffe; "digital natives" naive about Wikipedia; brief news

• Accreditation: Gaining accreditation as Wikimedia photographers at sports events

• WikiProject report: Articles for Creation

• Features and admins: RFAs and active admins—concerns expressed over the continuing drought

• Arbitration report: Proposed decisions in Shakespeare and Longevity; two new cases; motions passed, and more

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Request for permission to re-upload AltusGroup_logo_green.gif for use on AltusGroup, Inc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CBarnowsky (talk • contribs) 15:04, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 February 2011

• News and notes: Gender gap and sexual images; India consultant; brief news

• In the news: Egyptian revolution and Wikimania 2008; Jimmy Wales' move to the UK, Africa and systemic bias; brief news

• Versailles: Six-month residence in the Palace of Versailles for a Wikimedian

• WikiProject report: More than numbers: WikiProject Mathematics

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Longevity and Shakespeare cases close; what do these decisions tell us?

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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CHUS clerking

I notice that Chris G Bot 3 has the (at the moment disabled) functionality to also clerk the pages. When enabled does it/can it check for other languages accounts, the way that AnomieBOT does at WP:USURP? –xeno^talk 14:36, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

No, but that functionality can be added if need be. I added it as a backup when SoxBot went awol hence it only does the same checks SoxBot does. --Chris 04:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Would you mind working on it, since X! hasn't responded to my query? Doesn't make sense to have two bots operating on that page anyway. –xeno^talk 19:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I've been playing around with the bot a bit, and it should work. Just switch User:Chris G Bot 3/clerk to true once SoxBot is disabled (we don't want them to fight now do we ;) --Chris 11:22, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Cool - I've done the needful. Just to confirm, will it also detect where global account doesn't exist but unattached accounts exist with edits? –xeno^talk 18:13, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, except it ignores edit count. I can add that in if you like. --Chris 09:23, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

← Hm, doesn't seem to be working? –xeno^talk 18:27, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

It is, it just doesn't put notes on the requests that don't have problems. I've never really seen the point in that. --Chris 09:23, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

It would save the bureaucrats having to check the sulutil themselves. Why didn't it detect problems with [1] ? –xeno^talk 16:46, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Or [2]; it should have warned that accounts exist in other projects. –xeno^talk 17:20, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hm, I just remembered this is because of a known issue (deficiency in the API) [3]. –xeno^talk 17:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the other-account detection mechanism. Is the source code published anywhere?

I would like to disable SoxBot as it is currently somewhat redundant, but I think some bureaucrats will miss the "No problems found" botnote - without it, we wonder if the bot has crashed and end up doing all the checks ourselves anyway. Could you add that functionality in, so SoxBot can be disabled? Thanks, –xeno^talk 17:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, been a tad busy IRL. Is this better? Also the source code is here --Chris 12:10, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Much obliged. No worries about the delay. –xeno^talk 14:30, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

• Here, the bot did not detect that it was someone other-than-the-user who filed the request. –xeno^talk 20:22, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
  •  Fixed --Chris 09:43, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

• There is some parserFunction magic which detects when users have not replaced, but merely appended onto, the "CURRENT" and "NEW", so the bot sometimes makes remarks suchlike: [4]. Can the bot also strip the "CURRENT" and "NEW" before evaluating? (Maybe only when both are still present, just in case a user requests a name to "New and Improved" or something) [Alternatively, I think we could probably have the CURRENT and NEW properly stripped during substitution, but I'll have to roll up my sleeves to look into that] –xeno^talk 13:43, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Done. It's cases sensitive, so I doubt there will be many false positives. --Chris 13:57, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
    • Cool. Not sure what went wrong here: [5]. –xeno^talk 15:11, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
      • Sorry, I missed a line when updating some code, it should be fixed now. --Chris 10:56, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
• Minor gripe: could the bot use an edit summary when clerking? –xeno^talk 18:18, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
  •  Fixed --Chris 09:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

• Multiple problems should have been detected for here (target username exists; request filed by IP). –xeno^talk 16:11, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
  • fixed --Chris 10:11, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I want to change my username and have made a mistake in the process and now its all gone wrong...please help.ætheling1125 00:55, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

• Do you think you could make it check for illegal characters? ($,#,&, etc) Not necessary, but it would be a nice feature I think. demize (t · c) 03:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
  • I've added "#" and "@", but last time I checked $ and & weren't illegal (see user:(&) and user:Ne$ToR) --Chris 10:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

RE: Orphaned image deletion bot - File:Riscos rool logo cog svgedit fitcanvastocontent.svg

RE: File:Riscos rool logo cog svgedit fitcanvastocontent.svg, the relevant article, RISC OS Open, is now finally in namespace. I'm in a position to upload the file again, but was warned to discuss it first, as I'm proposing to upload again using the same filename. As this situation is new to me, it would be helpful if I could be directed to a policy/procedure or similar. Thanks. --trevj (talk) 09:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Feel free to reupload. Since it no longer meets the criteria for deletion (i.e. is no longer an orphan) you should be fine. --Chris 09:31, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you --trevj (talk) 11:19, 28 February 2011 (UTC)