User talk:Chris G/Archives/2011/September

The Signpost: 05 September 2011

• News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive

• In the news: Britannica and Wikipedia like "apples and chairs"; should anyone who's anyone get an article?; and why fighting and barriers to editing may be useful after all

• WikiProject report: Riding with WikiProject London Transport

• Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments 2011

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Opinion essay: The copyright crisis, and why we should care

• Arbitration report: BLP case closed; Cirt-Jayen466 nearly there; AUSC reshuffle

• Technology report: Pencils down in Google Summer of Code, August analysed and integrated HTTPS support in action

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The Signpost: 12 September 2011

• News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canada, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked

• In the news: 9/11 coverage, Wikimedia hypothetically rebranded and Wikipedia golf 2.0

• WikiProject report: Politics in the Pacific: WikiProject Australian Politics

• Featured content: Wikipedians explain two new featured pictures

• Arbitration report: Ohconfucius sanctions removed, Cirt desysopped 6:5 and a call for CU/OS applications

• Technology report: What is: agile development? and new mobile site goes live

• Opinion essay: The Walrus and the Carpenter

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The Signpost: 19 September 2011

• From the editor: Changes to The Signpost

• News and notes: Ushahidi research tool announced, Citizendium five years on: success or failure?, and Wikimedia DC officially recognised

• In the news: Wikipedia: yesterday's news? Calls for women, doctors, and scholars of humanities; Wales makes Wikimedia work "look easy"

• Sister projects: On the Wikinews fork

• WikiProject report: Back to school

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: ArbCom narrowly rejects application to open new case

• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.18 deployment begins, the alleged "injustice" of WMF engineering policy, and Wikimedians warned of imminent fix to magic word

• Popular pages: Article stats for the English Wikipedia in the last year

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RFC bot failing to list an RFC

When you turned RFC bot back on it removed the listing for Wikipedia talk:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people#Nominating articles with unreliable sources for BLPPROD from both Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies. For some reason the bot is confusing the BLPPROD RFC with an RFC in the village pump that is supposed to be listed as unsorted. Can you look into getting it listed? (I had manually added it when the bot was blocked/disabled, but now it is removing my addition again) Monty₈₄₅ 14:20, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Problem solved :) (long story short, it had to do with the idea lab RFC not being recognised correctly as unsorted, which caused a bit of a waterfall effect). Thank you for bringing that to my attention, and if there are any other problems with the bot (or heck, even features you'd like to see), please feel free to contact me. --Chris 04:04, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting it out. Monty₈₄₅ 05:15, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

File:Iudaea_capta_reverse_of_Vespasian_sestertius.jpg

Hi. Appreciate your message about the copyright issue. This image was copied from Commons and cropped (see file there) The original image showed both sides of the coin, and only one was relevant to illustrate the particular article I used it for. I just copied the permissions template from Commons, so I don't know why that doesn't work. Since you have a command of copyright law, could you take a moment to look at the Commons permission, and either tell me what's wrong or fix it? Thanks. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:14, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I've update the permissions to reflect those on Commons. Thanks. --Chris 13:32, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

One bot

Why did One bot move the MfD for Book:Food to the heading "January 1, 1970" at the bottom of WP:MFD? (diff) Dynamic|cimanyD contact me ⁞ my edits 15:41, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Looks like because it had no date stamp upon creation: [1]. –xeno^talk 15:46, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Yet another reason to sign your posts... but maybe in that situation the bot should just leave it where it is. Dynamic|cimanyD contact me ⁞ my edits 15:58, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Xeno's right (Why January 1st, 1970 you ask? Because, that is the Unix epoch). I will look into improving how the bot handles situations like that. --Chris 00:20, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2011

• Opinion essay: The global mission, the image filter and the "German question"

• Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews

• News and notes: WMF strikes down enwiki consensus, academic journal partnerships, and eyebrows raised over minors editing porn-related content

• In the news: Sockpuppeting journalist recants, search dominance threatened, new novels replete with Wikipedia references

• WikiProject report: A project in overdrive: WikiProject Automobiles

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: "Broadly construed" explained, voting begins on Senkaku Islands case, invitation to comment on CU/OS candidates

• Technology report: 1.18 deployment on track, "mythical" Git migration scheduled, editor decline statistics improved

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CHU clerk does not seem to be warning when SUL conflicts exist

Here, the bot should have warned about the SUL conflict rather than indicating no problems. I previously wrote about this here. Please advise, –xeno^talk 15:45, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have looked into addressing that problem earlier. I've updated the bots code to use a slightly different method of detecting conflicts. It should be working properly now. Thanks for drawing my attention to this. --Chris 10:38, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Question on RfC bot

Please see question here. Thanks. --Noleander (talk) 19:25, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

GA bot

How can I stop GA bot from making edits like this? Background: TonyTheTiger created the GAR for Antone Davis to make a comment, but declared that he would not be reviewing it. I deleted the subpage to help the bot out, and now the bot keeps saying the Antone Davis article is being reviewed by "???" Eagles 24/7 (C) 21:06, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Nevermind, I think I've fixed it. Eagles 24/7 (C) 21:20, 30 September 2011 (UTC)