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reg my articles on TN villages

Hai,Mr.Ganeshk. This is karthik hope u remember me. As my BOT request was denied because of my manual editing, i wish to start writing articles again. Before that i like to consult with u regarding the same. since iam going to write articles based on the sources, for example for villages in Ariyalur i will be refering links such as official website, its District hand book and also the Tamilnadu official map page. Since a few district got these details i think i can start with them first. coming back to the issue 'speed' as i said earlier i pretyped those article on word so it was too fast. Since u adviced not to do that i assure u that i will be conscious this time. i decided to create less than 50 pages per day and i request u to supervise them.--Jenakarthik (talk) 03:50, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ganesh, please take a look at Karthik's proposals and see if they are ok and if he can restart his article creations.--Sodabottle (talk) 05:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to help assess Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods

Hi. I am inviting members of some WikiProjects to take part in evaluating their projects in order to help the Wikimedia Foundation better understand such projects from the inside, to encourage reflection on best practices, and to compile a list of best practices as recommended by a number of projects. I am contacting you because you are listed as an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods. Having witnessed that project's work in the past in my volunteer capacity, I'd very much like to include it. I hope that you will have time and interest in participating. As much or as little as you would like to supply would be gratefully received. The assessment questions are posted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Self-assessment. I will myself steer clear of the page until after any discussion seems to have become dormant, at which point I will ask questions to make sure that I am developing a good overview of opinions. Thanks. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 13:03, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Loader

I've downloaded it, and it has a lot of potential (it could save some of the separating of the main list text files into smaller files that I had been doing). I've been experimenting with it, and it is loading the pagename lists correctly, but not appending, so I need to figure out what to do differently so that it will do that. (By the way, "seperater" should be spelled "separator") Thanks very much for letting me know about it, and I hope it will prove useful. Koumz (talk) 05:16, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Here is a sample of the first few lines from the list file:

Drosophila_tristis, Fallen, 1823
Drosophila_histrio, Meigen, 1830
Drosophila_littoralis, Meigen, 1830
Drosophila_melanogaster, Meigen, 1830
Drosophila_phalerata, Meigen, 1830
Drosophila_ingrata, Haliday, 1833
Drosophila_nigriceps, Meigen, 1838
Drosophila_limbata, Roser, 1840
Drosophila_testacea, Roser, 1840

and here is a screenshot:

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

It looks to me like the "More" tab of AWB is taking priority over the Loader plugin in terms of what gets appended. Koumz (talk) 18:10, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

• You will need to check the Skip tab - Page on the AWB screen; set that option to Skip if Page exists.
• You can remove underscore character from the article name (optional)
• You use ##article## in the place of {{BASEPAGENAME}} (optional)
• You can use ##article## in the edit summary (optional)
• Here is a screenshot:

• I have created the articles here:

• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila histrio
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila ingrata
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila limbata
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila littoralis
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila melanogaster
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila nigriceps
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila phalerata
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila testacea
• User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila tristis

— Ganeshk (talk) 21:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Please do check out this generic template that I use to create gastropods. See Alvania aspera for a bot-created article. — Ganeshk (talk) 21:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Since it works fine for you, I must have a setting wrong in AWB somewhere, but I can't figure out where it is. I guess it's just my problem, then. Koumz (talk) 01:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

You will need check the AWB setting to skip if the page exists. It is on the Skip tab on the main AWB window. The default setting is to skip if the article does not exist. Change it to Skip if page exists. Have you set this up correctly? — Ganeshk (talk) 02:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I have this set up correctly. I have created many pages using AWB already without the loader, so I usually have this set to Skip if the page exists. It's not skipping pages, it's just not populating anything into the edit box (The edit screen says "No changes"). Koumz (talk) 02:44, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

I looked at the screenshot again. You had used the Make list option to build the article list. You should let the Loader plugin load the article list. Here are the steps:

1. Start AWB
2. Login with account
3. Start CSVLoader

Please follow the above steps and let me know. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:09, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

I have used "Make list" for previous projects. For this project (the Drosophila list) I used the loader to build the list. Koumz (talk) 03:14, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

I have uploaded the settings file here. See if that works. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:23, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Input file:

Drosophila tristis, Fallen, 1823
Drosophila histrio, Meigen, 1830

The only change I made in the settings was to switch from Wikipedia to Wikispecies. I wonder if there's something different about Wikispecies, where I am trying to use it, that makes it not work well there, since it works perfectly for you on Wikipedia. Can you put me on the AWB check page so I can test in my userspace here? Wikispecies does not have a check page, so you can test in your user space there if you want to. Koumz (talk) 03:48, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Please request yourself to be added to the CheckPage here. I will test running this on Wikispecies. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:13, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Section break 1

I was able to create the articles on the Wikispecies:

• species:User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila tristis
• species:User:Ganeshk/sandbox/Drosophila histrio

— Ganeshk (talk) 11:51, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

I just noticed your AWB access has been approved. — Ganeshk (talk) 11:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

I tested on the English Wikipedia also, with the same results as before, so it must be some problem with my computer (maybe my antivirus software is blocking it from functioning or something like that) that causes it to load the page list correctly, but then not put anything into the edit box. I tried re-downloading both AWB and the loader, but nothing changed. It looks like it's not a problem you can do anything about, so I apologize for wasting your time and thank you for trying to fix it anyway. I'm very disappointed that I can't get my machine to run it properly, because it would have been a big help. Thanks very much, Koumz (talk) 15:21, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

You will need to click Start button for it to load into the edit box? Are you doing that? — Ganeshk (talk) 16:56, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes. I am sure it's a problem with my computer and/or OS and/or other software that you don't have. Koumz (talk) 16:58, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Can you post screenshots of each step until it stops loading the text? I am also thinking of using a free trial of gotomeeting to dial into your PC. — Ganeshk (talk) 17:41, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

The dial-in idea should work as long as I would be able to watch whatever goes on. Screenshots in a few minutes. Koumz (talk) 17:52, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Screenshots here (once uploaded):

On AWB startup:

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

After opening "Drosophila loader settings" file from you (using File menu,Open settings... in AWB):

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

After logging in to English Wikipedia for trial:

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

Starting CSV loader:

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

Loader settings dialog box:

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

After the list has loaded from Drosophila list 3atest.txt: The first few lines of the file are: User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_tristis,Fallen,1823
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_histrio,Meigen,1830
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_littoralis,Meigen,1830
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_melanogaster,Meigen,1830
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_phalerata,Meigen,1830
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_ingrata,Haliday,1833
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_nigriceps,Meigen,1838
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_limbata,Roser,1840
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_testacea,Roser,1840
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_analis,Macquart,1843
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_mexicana,Macquart,1843
User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila_reaumurii,Dufour,1845

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

Ready to press start:

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

Start pressed:

(Screenshot removed: Function completed.)

Koumz (talk) 19:13, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Section break 2

I found the problem. Please replace all underscore characters on the input file with a space and try again. Like this:

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila tristis,Fallen,1823

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila histrio,Meigen,1830

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila littoralis,Meigen,1830

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila melanogaster,Meigen,1830

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila phalerata,Meigen,1830

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila ingrata,Haliday,1833

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila nigriceps,Meigen,1838

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila limbata,Roser,1840

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila testacea,Roser,1840

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila analis,Macquart,1843

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila mexicana,Macquart,1843

User:Koumz/Test/Drosophila reaumurii,Dufour,1845

One more thing, I did not see the screenshot for the Skip tab. Please make sure it is set to not exists. — Ganeshk (talk) 19:49, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

The underscore is indeed the problem, and it now works perfectly. I was actually hoping it would be a dumb mistake of mine because those are easier to fix. I did not change the underscore before because you had the change marked "optional". Thanks very, very much for your time to fix my silly mistake on this. I will tag the screenshots for deletion and you can wipe them out. Koumz (talk) 20:05, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

No problem, Koumz. I will have the program replace the underscores in the next release. Glad to hear the issue is resolved. Sure, I can delete those screenshots once you tag them. — Ganeshk (talk) 20:12, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Ganeshk, thank you for helping me with the Acanthotrophon page. I wanted to add another species photo but did not know how to do it without putting it in a taxobox. Are there simple "Cheat sheets" for the computer language or syntax needed to do most of the editing, inserting photos, citations, etc? Invertzoo has been HUGELY helpful to me so far, and your recent "clean up" of my stumbling was also very helpful. Let me know on "my talk" page if you have any helpful hints. Shellnut (talk) 00:03, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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		Thanks for helping me with the CSVLoader. You truly deserve this barnstar. PhnomPencil (talk) 20:39, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar. Glad to be of help. — Ganeshk (talk) 01:27, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

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At present AWB will not work from setting behind proxy? or is there any way out...! Rahuldeshmukh101 (talk) 05:04, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks Rahuldeshmukh101 (talk) 05:01, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Ganesh, you might want to put {{Userspace draft}} on your sandbox pages. That way, Google won't find them. :-) (I noticed this when I was looking for interlanguage links for Aartsenia arctica.) Cheers, Melchoir (talk) 03:32, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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Eulimella

Hello Ganesh. I've been going though the new Ganeshbot articles and I noticed that in Eulimella the locality for the genus is given simply as "Bango". This comes verbatim from WoRMS as Bango (province)

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138404

and it appears to be located in Angola.

There is a Bengo Province in Angola that is on the ocean, which I think may be what is meant since this is a marine genus. According to a Google search there is also a Bango in the Huambo region of Angola, but that is well inland and above 4000 feet.

I am also not clear if WoRMS means to suggest that all the species in this genus occur in the Bango/Bengo area. That seems unlikely.

This is in no way a Ganeshbot issue, it's a WoRMS issue, and because JoJan communicates often with the folks at WoRMS I will tell him about this too.

Best, Invertzoo (talk) 15:41, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Help?

Hi Ganesh, I am wondering how to make my Archives box on my talk page take up less room. I thought I would ask you if you have an idea. Can I hide most of the contents perhaps? Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 13:55, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks so much Ganesh! I used Collapsible, which seems fine. I appreciate your kind help on this. Invertzoo (talk) 12:19, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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Shellnut (talk) 16:28, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Question about needed genus articles

Hello Ganesh. Thanks for all your excellent work! Recently I have been making up some genus stubs from our needed genus list here that you created for us in 2010, thanks so much! I figured that making needed genus stubs is a relatively simple thing for me to do while I am still recovering from my knee injury and still in pain so I can't tackle anything too mentally challenging. I did want to ask you however if you think this is a good use of my time, because while I have been doing it I find myself wondering whether a bot could do it in a tiny fraction of the time that it takes me to do it. Of course sometimes I am adding small things, small improvements that a bot would not do, but still I wanted to ask you that. Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 13:31, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

OK, no problem, I just wanted to check with you first to make sure it made sense what I was doing. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 23:56, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Snail slime

Help again Ganesh. The image you found on Flickr of snail slime is pretty good! [1] Thanks for searching! I don't actually know how to weigh the "some rights reserved" status in order to ascertain if we can use the image or not, and, I am also not clear how to upload it from Flickr assuming it is available for us to use. If there are help pages that make those things clear, would you direct me to them so I can learn how (?). On the other hand, if there are not any good clear instructions, would you be nice enough to upload this new image for us, assuming that is OK to do so? The species is indeed Cochlicella barbara. We have two other images (from the same series by BotheredByBees) currently illustrating the article on that species. Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 15:30, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Terrific! Thanks so much Ganesh! Invertzoo (talk) 23:59, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

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Working with a template

Ah, Anna already answered this question for me, so please disregard this message, OK? Thanks Ganesh, Invertzoo (talk) 01:48, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello Ganesh, I am currently working on expanding a National Lampoon template. The template was created by someone now blocked who may have have been a COI hired gun working for a company, so it had all kinds of POV. I am enlarging the template so that it contains all of the notable products from the original company as well as all of the more recent (mostly less notable) productions. I am busy writing stubs for all the redlinks right now. However I wanted to ask you this: is there a way I can divide the template so that there is one major part for all the productions of National Lampoon (magazine) from 1970 to 1998, and then a separate part for National Lampoon, Incorporated a modern company dating from 2002? The first part would contain radio, theatre, books, recordings and films, the second part would contain radio recordings films (including direct-to-video). If there is not a good way of doing this then it may end up that there have to be two templates, but we want to try having it all in one template first. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 16:32, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. — Ganeshk (talk) 04:11, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Meetup

I'm glad we met today! While it was a small group, I think it was good. LadyofShalott 01:54, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you, Ashlin. Thanks to Sodabottle and Tinu for nominating me. — Ganeshk (talk) 20:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations Ganesh! Invertzoo (talk) 20:27, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Two questions

Hello again Ganesh. Can I ask your opinion? Do you think this template has already grow to be too big? It will end up a bit bigger still because maybe 6 or 8 more links will need to be added to it. I believe that it can be split into two templates if necessary. Or reduced to only the items that relate to the magazine.

Also I wanted to ask a software question: is it possible to put a # into the title of an article? I tried and could not get it to work. I ask because on the cover of two special editions, the title is written "National Lampoon The Best of # 4" and "National Lampoon The Best of # 5"

I had to put "National Lampoon The Best of No. 4" and "National Lampoon The Best of No. 5"

Thanks for your help, Invertzoo (talk) 20:22, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

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There are more :) -- Tinu Cherian - 08:18, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Help needed on Kingbotk /India plugin

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Proposed deletion of Gudalur (Coimbatore district)

Hello, Ganeshk, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia!

I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you worked on, Gudalur (Coimbatore district), for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

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Bot task?

Hello Ganeshk, I has seen the excellent work your bot is doing with the Gastropod articles and I was wondering if your bot would be able to help me out. The site http://www.taxapad.com/ has taxonomic info on various groups of insects down to species level. I am only interested in Lepidoptera though. I was wondering if your bot could make pages or a single large page (in user space) with the genera and species of certain families. We have articles on a lot of genera on wikipedia, but a lot of them are incomplete. I have been working on expanding them manually, but there are thousands. To give you an idea of what I am looking for, something like this: User:Ruigeroeland/SandboxCOL would do, but you might a better idea. I could manually add the species to the relevant articles. Just having all species in wiki format would be a tremendous help. Navigation on that site is pretty difficult, so I will give some links so you can have a look: the starting point for Macro (large) moths and butterflies: http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=83886081, the starting point for Micro moths: http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=83886083 and the starting point for Noctoid moths: http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=86007701 Is this a site your bot could work with somehow? Cheers and thanks for looking into it..! Ruigeroeland (talk) 08:51, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

I guess that should work, but it is not working for me, I get a "Table 'taxapad.index_' doesn't exist" when I try to search using that tool... Thanks again for looking into it! Ruigeroeland (talk) 07:44, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah yes, it works now..! Anyway: it is still split in the three groups I mentioned above. See the top of the screen of the Taxonomic Index, it reads: "Taxonomic Index of MICROLEPIDOPTERA" and thus does not include the other two groups of Macrolepidoptera. I'm not sure if the index would be the way to go though, since the genera are not grouped in families. I think it would be easier to go to (in the case of the Micro Leps) http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=83886081 and click on the two groups "Frenatae" and "Jugatae"? These contains the Superfamilies. Further clicking would take you to the families, subfamilies, etc. If your bot can extract the species names and wikify them, I would need them to be grouped at at least family level to be useful. Hope this helps..! Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:07, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I noticed I screwed up the links to the three groups before. They should be: Macrolepidoptera - others: http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82837505, Macrolepidoptera - Noctuidae: http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=85983233 and Microlepidoptera: http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=83886081 Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:15, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

No worries, take your time. I am glad you are willing to look into it. Let me know if you have figured out how to extract the species. There are some families which are already done on wikipedia, so these can be skipped. Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:12, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

RE: Donation message

Thanks alot. -- Karthik Nadar (talk) 18:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Ya I saw. Happy that I could even contribute to Wikipedia offline to0 :). -- Karthik Nadar (talk) 05:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, you some how made my mood alright :) -- Karthik Nadar (talk) 15:44, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Improved translation of Jimmy's letter not published for a long time

Hi Ganesh,

I improved the translation for Jimmy's letter 002 and 003(URL is given below) in the language Tamil and changed the status to 'proofreading'.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Jimmy_Letter_002/ta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Jimmy_Letter_003/ta

Can u pls proof read and publish it?

This is as per the guidelines I've got from the help desk (as in the following URL).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Improved_translation_not_published

I've tried to get help from Wiki Raja; but no response from him since Friday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wiki_Raja

It would be a great help if you can do something about the translation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gpgarun (talk • contribs) 05:40, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: Wikimedia India

I am already a subscriber to the mailing list. And, Lynch is right, I didn't attend Wikimedia India conference in November as was busy those days, but ya, will surely make it next time. -- Karthik Nadar (talk) 05:44, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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Category:Revenue Blocks of Tamil Nadu

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Project Gastropods - see page for notes

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Conilithidae

Thank you for moving the edits over to show Invertzoo's work on this article. However, somehow I lost credit for creating the article on the counter. Just curious about that.Shellnut (talk) 17:34, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Ganeshk for the big fix!!! Happy New Year!Shellnut (talk) 00:34, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

CSVloader

Hi! I have a problem with this step: File:Wpcsv-5-6-10-1.JPG, when I run bot, all setting (all rows) are lost, and bot can't replace any data. Could you check this? Additionaly it will be difficult to do add "Advanced settings" to this function? Best regards, Karol007 (talk) 19:50, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm so sorry, it was false alarm. When I preparing screenshots step by step, I found my mistake... I forgot about save settings, and I lost regexp in every time, when I started the bot. Sometimes the fast working hasn't recommended. :-) Return to my additional question. It is possible, that I will be use with "Adwanced settings" to actualisation data from csv file, becouse sometimes, I would like do very difficult changes. It is not necessery, but in few cases this possibility will be very helpfull. Very simple example: [2]. Beast regards, Karol007 (talk) 03:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

List of needed genus articles?

Hello Ganesh and Happy New Year! I changed all of the red links into blue links on the list of needed genus articles here: [3]. I imagine there are more species articles out there that need a genus article (??) so perhaps I can ask you to run the bot and generate a new list for me? Many thanks to you for all your help, Invertzoo (talk) 23:26, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh boy that really is good news! Thanks so much Ganesh! Invertzoo (talk) 23:49, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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There's a message for you (from me) on the talk page of the new bivalve project. Thanks for all your work Ganesh. Invertzoo (talk) 22:39, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Importance rating on bivalves

Hi Ganesh. I have a question for you. At the moment there are 839 articles on bivalves that do not currently have an importance rating, but I wanted to point out that importance ratings can actually be added by a bot, at least to all of the taxon articles, because the system we use is this: taxa higher than superfamily have top importance. Family level and superfamily articles have high importance; genus articles have mid importance; and species articles have low importance. There may possibly be a very few exceptions to this, but if so, they can be altered by hand subsequently as needed. Is there any chance you can get a bot to do this for us so I don't have to add importance manually to 839 articles, which would take days and be very boring and repetitive? Many thanks and best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:53, 2 January 2012 (UTC))

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Welcome! A big Welcome to WikiProject Bivalves for you, Ganesh, the founder member of the Bivalves Project! We are delighted that you decided to start the Project, and we can really benefit from having an admin and a software person as a member. Thank you and welcome, Invertzoo (talk) 14:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to Shellnut and your efforts, the project is starting to make a difference already. Thanks for the welcome. — Ganeshk (talk) 11:37, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Kevmin is also being very helpful. It's great to have a paleontologist in the project, I hope he sticks around. Invertzoo (talk) 15:27, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Need your Opinion

Hi, I am a member of WikiProject Chennai and I noticed your name in the participants list there.

I have been editing the Neighbourhoods of Chennai articles. There are around 100 of them. I have finished cleanup (grammar correction and removal of spam) in all these 100 articles. Next, I intend to do copyediting for all these 100 articles (and article expansion for some of them). Some of the issues I noticed are mentioned below. I kindly request your opinion and guidance on these issues.

1) In most of the articles, names of all the schools available in the neighbourhood is listed. Apart from schools, there are also lists of Banks, Restaurants, supermarkets, hospitals, temples in many of the articles like this: Adambakkam. Although it does not seem promotional, it looks very odd to have these long lists in the articles. I have read in one of the policy guidelines that 'Wikipedia is not a directory'. Should I go ahead and remove these lists? On removal, should everything be removed or should the important and famous ones be retained?

2) In many of these articles, I have noticed a list of sub-localities of the neighbourhood like this: Nerkundram. Other than sub localities, some articles have a list of major roads passing the neighbourhood. Should these be removed?

3) In some of the articles, I have noticed a list of Buses (bus numbers) connecting to the neighbourhood like this: Sithalapakkam. Should these be removed?

4) In some of the articles, I have noticed a list of IT companies situated in the locality. Should these be removed even if they are referenced?

It would be helpful if you could direct me to a well written article about a locality or neighbourhood (India or abroad) for benchmarking.

Thank you

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Re: Timestamp

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Yes, but he added the original message at 04:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)]. I agree though ... on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate the importance of this as a -2. Graham87 16:13, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

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MiszaBotII not archiving?

Hello Ganesh. MiszaBotII used to archive any gastropod talk page messages that were older than 30 days. Currently that is not happening. I wondered if you could work out what the problem is? Thanks so much, Invertzoo (talk) 21:43, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I see the bot did do some archiving now. Invertzoo (talk) 19:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

NewArtBot and bivalve articles etc

Hi Ganesh, If I recall correctly you already set it up so that NewArtBot would find new bivalve articles for us? And yet I can't find where the message was where you told me about that... Duh! I am not too clear-headed today. I wanted to add the NewArtBot results page link to my page under the article statistics chart and to the project page in the same place. Am I just overlooking something...?

And could we maybe set up a "random bivalve article" link too? And maybe can we set up a "Popular pages" link for the bivalve project also, like we have for the gastropods?

Many thanks! Invertzoo (talk) 17:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks Mlpearc. — Ganeshk (talk) 05:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. Let me know if you need any help. Cheers Mlpearc (powwow) 22:52, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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Removing your bot's sandbox articles in ta wiki

Hi Ganesh, found some sandbox articles in ta wiki created by your bot. Can we remove them or do you need them for some purpose? They are coming first in the related category here. Please leave your reply in my ta wiki user page. Thanks--Ravishankar (talk) 11:55, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: Bot task? (Part 2)

Wow! Nice work! It is indeed a long list, but imagin having to wikify all of that! I think the list is compiled based on number on the source site, based on what I saw at a quick glance? I will take the lists and will group everything based on genus and use it to update and/or create genus pages. Thanks a lot for these! Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

If you could change one thing in your next run: could you add a space behind the comma? It now reads Prout,1928. It would be great if it could be made into Prout, 1928.Ruigeroeland (talk) 19:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and I noticed one more thing: you mentioned you pulled the letter "A", but it seems a lot of other letters were also (partly?) pulled. of the 18.000 species, about 8000 start with other letters. Do you know if these are complete genera or just random species? Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 19:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

The lists look great now! Thanks, I can just copy/paste the species now. Thanks! I will gradually pick some out of the lists and add them to our genus pages. I am planning to do a manual check for most genera, so it is going to take a lot of time. I will probably do some from time inbetween other projects. Thanks! P.s. Let me know when you have done the micro-moths, I will check them too. There will be a lot more blue links amongst these, since I have been working mostly on them for a time now. Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:06, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

One thing: do you prefer I leave the list as they are, or can I delete species I have checked and added? Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:07, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Oops, and one more thing: it seems all brackets have gone... Is this intentionally or was this hard to program the bot to do? About 80% of the authorities should probably be in brackets, i.e. (Prout, 1928) and not Prout, 1928. These brackets are important, because they indicate a species has been moved to another genus. Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

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Importance ratings for bivalve articles

Hello Ganesh, We have approximately 830 bivalve articles that currently do not have an importance rating. All of the species articles in that list can be rated "low", all of the genus articles "mid", and all of the family articles or higher, can be rated "high". What is the best way to do this? I don't think it makes sense to do it by hand as it is a perfect example of the tedious and repetitive work that bots do so well. Or perhaps I could ask Anna if she could do it using AWB? What do you think? Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 18:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much Ganesh, it would be great when you have a chance to do that. Invertzoo (talk) 01:12, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Greetings,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

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Admin help required for amending Template:WikiProject_India

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Thanks for the chocolate bar list edit, and BUNNY!!!!

The "soft bunny" of happiness and tranquility.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Anna Frodesiak (talk • contribs) 12:40, 16 February 2012‎ (UTC)

Thanks for the cute bunny. :) — Ganeshk (talk) 23:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

About the automatic taxoboxes documentation

Hello Ganesh. I wanted to say I am still in favor of the idea of automatic taxoboxes for Project Gastropods and Project Bivalves, if the documentation can be made really user-friendly so that even newbies can use it. Six months ago when I looked at the documentation I have to say I found it completely impenetrable (!)... but maybe it is a bit better now. You asked me how it could be improved, but it was hard for me to tell you specifically what needed fixing, as I thought the whole thing was really not well thought out and was more like notes for insiders rather than a take-you-by-the-hand explanation. I don't know if this strikes you as out of date, butthis Project Plant page is more the kind of writing I would like to see in order for people to understand how to use the automatic taxoboxes. I much prefer continuous prose for a general introduction rather than a concise bullet point list that does not really explain things and uses too much insider jargon. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 13:24, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ganesh, I once ran into automatic taxoboxes and it was not a happy encounter. I had to move an article and suddenly the taxobox became a mess. Little did I know I had to change also the template of the taxobox and didn't know to how to do it properly. Furthermore the link to the template in the taxobox didn't show up in my browser (Firefox). I don't know if improvements have been made to this procedure, but moving an article with an automatic taxobox doubles, even triples the workload. Look at your "Unaccepted list" with more than 700 moves to be made and imagine what this entails. Unless this problem can be solved, no automatic taxoboxes for me. JoJan (talk) 15:25, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps we should start a subpage on the Gastropods project that is similar to the Plants one and provide some examples. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:54, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

AfD and PROD notifications

Hi Ganesh. Back in November, you got either an AfD or PROD notification, and it was during one of the template testing project's experiments. If you could go here and leave us some feedback about what you think about the new versions of the templates we tested (there are links on the page), that would be very useful. (You can also email me at swallingwikimedia.org if you want.) Thanks! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 22:24, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012

Hi folks. The students are going to become active soon. We could use some input in these areas:

• Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012#Universal banner

(Input)

• Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012/Article management

(Your ticks)

• Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012/Article template

(Improvements)

Many thanks. (For those up to speed, pls consider this post just a CC) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:13, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Mangalore

Hi, i have created a Wiki-project for Mangalore. Would you please add Wiki-Project Mangalore to this list? Thanks. Joyson Prabhu ^{Holla at me!} 16:52, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ganeshk, can you add it there? Since you seem to be maintaining it, I guess you should add the new projects there. Lynch7 18:55, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Replied here. — Ganeshk (talk) 19:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Could do with some Tamil help, please

Hi, I wonder if you could help me at User_talk:Rajanaicker#Language problems ? The conversation drifts down the page from that section but I am really concerned regarding the user's appreciation of our copyright policies and their English language comprehension. That they mean well is clear but some input from a Tamil speaker might be beneficial. Usually, I would approach Sodabottle in situations such as this but he is not often around at en-WP at present due to work being done at ta-WP. - Sitush (talk) 15:44, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Sitush. I saw your request on my talk page. The same user's edits were problematic in Tamil Wikipedia as well and we had to protect the article. I haven't followed his claims, but usually such cases are due to a lack of understanding of our policies. Also, a number of such people have got the lore of their communities from unreliable sources and are quite convinced of their history. Sadly, I don't have much wikitime to spend on this. I don't have particular knowledge about the subject too. Will try to pitch in if and when possible. Sorry for not being able to help. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 15:36, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks very much for responding. Oddly, after leaving the note above things became a (bit) more clear on that user's en-WP Talk Page. I had mentioned that my usual port of call would be Sodabottle but that I was aware that Sodabottle was heavily involved with ta-WP at the moment. There then followed a response which gave me cause for considerable concern. I am tempted to seek admin intervention on en-WP for deletion of the various articles on the grounds of apparent non-notability and lack of competence. But that is a pretty strong step to take. Obviously, the first bit has to go through WP:AfD but, honestly, the revelation that this person has had problems even on their native language WP does not bode well. I will have a think. Again, many thanks for your comments. - Sitush (talk) 00:11, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for fixing it up. I must have been half asleep when I put that together. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:52, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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Your bot

Hi Ganeshk, thank you for your message regarding the bot. Sorry it took me a couple of days to get back to you, I have been busy at work since the weekend with no time for Wiki. Did you program your bot? I must say it is very impressive. I have seen you around since you got involved in the gastropods project, although we haven't spoken directly until now, and the bot has done some great work. Your proposal is an interesting one with obvious advantages, however one of the benefits of going through them all manually one-by-one is that I can check on the taxonomy of each species as I go as there are quite a few that are incorrect and need removing, and quite a few more that are not actually listed. Going through manually genus by genus gives me a methodical way to check all of them as I go. Also I quite enjoy it.　It doesn't actually take all that long either. Would you mind holding off just for the time being while I continue and see how I get on manually? If it proves to be a much larger task that I think it is, and takes way too long, then perhaps we could unleash the bot! Does that sound reasonable? Thanks again for contacting me, I'll report back to you again once I have had another go. Antarctic-adventurer (talk) 11:47, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

How to add authority and date

...to a family article with an Automatic taxobox? This is the family article Plagiothyridae, and here is the info and reference to use for the authority and date: info from Paleobiology database Thanks! Invertzoo (talk) 22:25, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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WikiProject India template

Hi Ganeshk,

Can you please explain me how auto parameter is supposed to work on WikiProject India template.

BTW I'm preparing an easy to understand guide on the WikiProject template at :

• • Guide (Part 1) - To learn the minimum about how to evaluate.
  • Guide (Part 2) - To learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template.

Your participation would be appreciated. AshLin (talk) 03:13, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

{{tb}} AshLin (talk) 14:38, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

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union Territory

Mr Ganesh.

Kindly let me know is Delhi is a union territory,,

and the total no of union territories at present.

Thanking you kala — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.181.151.226 (talk) 06:39, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes, Delhi is a union territory. See Union Territory. There are 7 union territories in India. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:39, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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I tried to use CSVLoader to create articles just now. However, AWB showed "Restarting in (seconds)" when I click the "Save" button. Do you know what's the problem? Thanks, --Makecat_Talk 14:27, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

data file:

##article##,##a##,##b##
User:Makecat/1,1,1
User:Makecat/2,2,2
User:Makecat/3,3,3

column headers:

##article##,##a##,##b##

Append... Text

##a## is ##b##

[[Category:Test]]

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Sorry to reply late. It doesn't work.--Makecat_Talk 01:51, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

I have done it before. Maybe I should check my computer. Thank you anyway.--Makecat_Talk 03:52, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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Okay, thanks. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:21, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Your help would be appreciated

Your help would be appreciated

Hi Ganesh. I've written a report at the Village Pump Technical Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Problems when editing wikipedia relating with the stalling of my computer when I want to edit in en.wikipedia. Perhaps you can bring fresh ideas to get me out of this mess. In the mean time, control and editing of your bot has become practically impossible. I can hardly advance. Thanks anyway. JoJan (talk) 21:58, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, could you please tell me why I cannot see the entire page of the AWB on my computer (the bottom part is invisible)? You see, I need to choose Don't care/Exist in "skip options", while they unluckily appear at the bottom of the page. Should be the problem of the version of AWB I downloaded? Thank you very much.--敢為天下先 (talk) 14:01, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Replied at your talk. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, it works now. I still have a small question, please: cannot the AWB run by itself? I tried creating a list of pages, but I had to keep on clicking "start" and then "save" over and over again.--敢為天下先 (talk) 11:44, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much

Ganesh, thanks so much for doing the importance ratings on the bivalve articles, that's really a big help for the bivalve project. I am currently going through the listing of articles which have "mollusk stub" on them, cleaning all of them up a bit, and also changing "mollusk stub" to "bivalve stub" where appropriate. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 13:39, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again Ganesh. I just now finished going through the list of articles that Ganeshbot was unable to rate for importance. Your work is invaluable to both the gastropod project and the bivalve project. I think we don't thank you often enough! Invertzoo (talk) 21:45, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	To Ganesh, whom we do not recognize often enough for his extraordinary contributions, primarily but not exclusively via his bot, to the Gastropod project and the Bivalve project. Without your work we would still be stumbling around in the Dark Ages! You certainly deserve the Barnstar of Diligence! Invertzoo (talk) 21:49, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, you are kind. I am glad to be of help. — Ganeshk (talk) 11:03, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Any idea?

The bivalve project statistics table still shows 822 articles as being unrated for importance, but in fact, thanks to your efforts and my efforts, the articles are actually all rated for importance now. Ganesh do you have any idea why that would be? I have updated the statistics twice, without any change in that. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 14:17, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Ah OK, thanks for finding that out for me. Invertzoo (talk) 00:29, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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WikiProject India template

Ganesh, WikiProject India template needs tweaking. Can you help? AshLin (talk) 19:19, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Replied. — Ganeshk (talk) 01:42, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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MAP FOR VILLAGE DURGAPUR(PIN CODE- 759127)

SUJITKUMARPRADHAN (talk) 04:38, 8 April 2012 (UTC)Ganeshji, I am Sujit Kumar Pradhan from Village: Durgapur. I need your help to add/create a map for the page "Durgapur, Anugul" in ENGLISH-WIKIPEDIA. The postal identification of the village is; VILLAGE/PO: DURGAPUR, VIA: KISHOREGANJ, DIST: ANGUL/ANUGUL, PIN CODE: 759127. Major contribution to create the page is, User talk: ansumang with me as well as the WIKIPEDIA. The newly created page/village has eight sections, but it misses the map which will be take the great advantage for the good-look of the page. FORESTS/CENSUS/CULTIVATION/CULTURE in the map may improvise the VILLAGE/PAGE. But keep in the mind that, there is another village in the same name in the same district which comes under Talcher subdivision and the another village is only for your information. So expecting your contribution/help I remain. 'Yours sujit'.SUJITKUMARPRADHAN (talk) 08:08, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thankfulness

Mr Ganesh,
I am thankful to you for the quick respond to my message, regarding inclusion of ODISHA(ORISSA) map and village Durgapur there in. Thanking you. 'Sujit'.SUJITKUMARPRADHAN (talk) 15:51, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Message

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Is this place for real? I tried to google it, came up with nothing

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Tamil Wiki Essay

In ur Thondi tamil essay u state that, //தொண்டியின் வரலாறு மிகவும் சிறப்பு வாய்ந்தது. பாண்டிய மன்னன் இறந்த பிறகு அரியணைகாக அவரது மகன்கள் குலசேகர பாண்டியனும் பராக்கிரம பாண்டியனும் போர் புரிந்தனர். அதில் பராக்கிரம பாண்டியன் கொல்லபட்டன். இதை கேள்விபட்ட் இலங்கை மன்னன் பராக்கிரம பாபு என்பவன் தன் பெயர் கொண்டவனை கொன்ற பாண்டியனை கொல்லுவதற்கு படை எடுத்து வந்தான். பாண்டிய நாட்டின் பல இடங்களை பிடித்து விட்டான். பாண்டியன் சோழர்களின் உதவியை நாடினான்.//

சோழர் 13ஆம் நூற்றாண்டிலேயே அழிக்கப்பட்டனர். பாண்டியனின் மகன்கள் உள்நாட்டுச் சண்டை நடந்தது 14ஆம் நூற்றாண்டில். அதனால் அப்போது பாண்டியன் சோழர் உதவியை நாடினான் என்பது வரலாற்றுப் பிழையாகும். மாற்ற வேண்டுகிறேன்.--Tenkasi Subramanian (talk) 04:46, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

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You have an email. Regards, Thine Antique Pen (talk • contributions) 11:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

About new bivalve article listing

Hello Ganesh. I have noticed that our new bivalve article listings only rarely have actual bivalve articles in them. I think it would be good to get NewArtBot to leave "pearl" out of the search terms. That would really help a lot I think to eliminate the extra listings that we don't need. Is it OK if I ask you to deal with this? Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 20:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much Ganesh, you are very kind. Invertzoo (talk) 13:24, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

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{{you've got mail}} Can you check this ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Assessment_Satatistics naveenpf (talk) 14:42, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

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for all your kindness and thoughtfulness. Invertzoo (talk) 01:48, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

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Is there such a page? I'm guessing it could make communication easier, or a group perhaps? --Harsh ^{Mujhse baat kijiye}(Talk)(Contribs) 18:08, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

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		For your very helpful participation in the Winter 2012 Nanjing Normal University Class Project, I hereby present to you this lovely Barnstar. As usual, you were a big help. I am very grateful. On behalf of all of the students and Josh the instructor, thank you very, very much. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
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Great American Wiknic for Atlanta in June

Hi Ganesh. I would like to invite you to again join the Great American Wiknic this June (you could update Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta) :) Also, please confirm any preliminary details at Wikipedia:Wiknic#2012 Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 19:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I've also posted something at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta 2 Let's be bold and get this moving soon!--Pharos (talk) 17:27, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

If you could help in just suggesting a public park and time for the Atlanta Wiknic, that would be quite helpful in itself to get conversation started, even if you're not sure if you'll be able to "host" in person.--Pharos (talk) 15:56, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Sounds good, can you post your suggestions to Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta 2?--Pharos (talk) 17:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta 3 - SudoGhost 01:31, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

If you could help finalize the location and time (just pick something!), that would be awesome.--Pharos (talk) 01:27, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Feel free to postpone the Atlanta Wiknic date a week if you like, but please finalize things today if you can; the notice is going out to our quite large pool of anonymous readers now.--Pharos (talk) 17:52, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

At this point you might want to delay it a week, not just for LadyofShallot, but also because things haven't been finalized till a very late stage yet.--Pharos (talk) 19:25, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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Featured images of gastropods

Hello Ganesh. I noticed that in our article statistics for the Gastropods Project we currently have one "Featured Media" or FM, a photo of a gastropod, here: [4]. However, if you look on this page [5], you will see that there are already quite a lot of other gastropod images that we can claim as FMs. What I wanted to ask is: do all of those images need to be also placed on Wikipedia in order for us to put the project template on them, and thus have them listed in our article statistics as FMs? And if so, is it a lot of work to get them to be up on WP as well as on Commons? And do you think we should do the transfers, or ask the author of the images to do that? He is in Project Gastropods by the way, User:Llez, here [6]. Thanks Ganesh, Invertzoo (talk) 18:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Search terms for bivalves

Me again Ganesh. If you don't mind, I think we should also remove the term "oyster" from the bivalve search terms, because we are still getting too many irrelevant articles in the new article listings. In fact if you could give me a link to a page that has the search terms listed on it I could try to decide whether we should eliminate one or two more terms? Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 18:17, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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Non-free rationale for File:Tamil Nadu Assembly Constituencies 2006.jpg

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Atlanta Wiknic Sat June 30

Be there as detailed at Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta 3, or be unencyclopedic!--Pharos (talk) 20:05, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Great American Wiknic Barnstar

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Hi Ganesh. Thanks for the barnstar. You may continue with the Ganeshbot. I'll check the new articles for their accuracy, but won't find the time to add more data (even if I have lots of data available), because the number of daily changes in WoRMS is so huge that I can hardly keep up the pace. And this has priority. Cheers. JoJan (talk) 13:14, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

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	Making User:Ganeshbot/Animalia/Gastropoda/Heterobranchia/Opisthobranchia/Nudibranchia/Dexiarchia/Aeolidida/Flabellinoidea/Flabellinidae/Flabellina was a Brilliant and helpful idea. Thank you so much. Cheers, Riley Huntley talk No talkback needed; I'll temporarily watch here. 01:31, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

I am glad to hear that family tree pages were helpful. Thanks for creating the new stubs. — Ganeshk (talk) 17:35, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Bivalvia

The article Bivalvia is currently a Featured Article candidate. It has been a long process because I am unused to the procedure and its requirements but we are nearly there. There is one more bit of information I need.

I am looking for someone who has a copy of Marcus Huber's "Compendium of Bivalves" or who has access to one. The information I need is the number of the page or pages on which he states that the "total number of living bivalve species is about 9,200 combined in 106 families." This is the information in the Bivalvia article where it is accompanied by a table showing the number of families, genera and species in each order.

So, all I need is the page number. Can you help? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:43, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

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Hello Ganesh. I have a question (entitled "Alternate editing mode is buggy) on this page about something technical that you may be able to shed some light on? It may be WikEd that I have been using, I am not sure. Is my only alternative to turn it off? Invertzoo (talk) 00:30, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

By the way, my web brower is Safari 5.1.7 Invertzoo (talk) 20:11, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

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Awesome! Have you arranged this with the library folks already? And are they interested in being an active part of it?--Pharos (talk) 19:28, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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Ganeshbot

You may continue with the Ganeshbot. I'll check the new articles for their accuracy, but won't find the time to add more data (even if I have lots of data available), because the number of daily changes in WoRMS is so huge that I can hardly keep pace with WoRMS. And this has priority. JoJan (talk) 15:54, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

My Account

I have found out that my account has been accessed by others and I am changing my password. Electric Catfish 23:26, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Do you know if there is a way to log others out automatically from my account? Electric Catfish 23:28, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Sure, please change your password. I did not post any warning since this was an exception in your contribution history.

If you log out once and log back in, it will log out all other sessions. — Ganeshk (talk) 23:31, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Also, should I request it to be rev-deleted? Electric Catfish 23:32, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

I've logged out and changed my password. Thank you again for not posting a warning. Electric Catfish 23:33, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

It is no big deal; just leave the revision as it is. If someone questions it, point them to this conversation. No problem. Happy editing. — Ganeshk (talk) 23:34, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Revisions are usually deleted if they are disclosing any personal information. — Ganeshk (talk) 23:35, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Electric Catfish 00:05, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

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FM gastropods

Hi Ganesh. A month or more ago I went through the Wikipedia Featured Images of gastropods, and gave them all the right gastropod project template on their talk pages, see the list here and yet they still do not appear on our article statistics. Can you maybe work out why? Thanks for all your help. Invertzoo (talk) 17:00, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes that might be the answer, although I think it might be longer ago than that problem. I put all the templates up on the 1st and 2nd of August. Invertzoo (talk) 22:06, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, great! Thanks Ganesh. Do you also happen to know how I can find out if any bivalve images have WIkipedia Featured Image status, other than the one we have listed? Invertzoo (talk) 02:03, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again Ganesh for your help. Actually the ones that were Featured Images on Wikipedia I had already found and templated about a month ago although why only one is showing up in our articles statistics for Bivalves I don't know! Do you understand why? As for the images that are Featured on Commons, I can't do anything with those right now... although the scallop image, if it is indeed considered an extinct subspecies, probably should be nominated for FM on WIkipedia. However I will have to make an article for it first. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 05:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Terrific, thanks so much Ganesh! I look forward to seeing them on the article stats. Invertzoo (talk) 16:38, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for patience with Taxobox changes

I see you also contacted Smith609, and as expected, just too busy to spend so much more time on the Taxobox wp:expansion depth limit. So much effort had already been made to optimize the taxonomy depth, and it must be very frustrating that it still gets "Page exceeded...depth". This past month, when attempting new, quick fixes, I tried to change Template:Speciesbox, and Template:T^8, but there appear to be multiple causes of exceeding the limit, so changing only 1 subtemplate is not enough. I will try to find all the major causes of the exceeded depth, but meanwhile, note that the limit of "40 levels" is so restrictive, so miserly, in terms of what the markup language could do, that is like "trying to sweep a sidewalk with a toothbrush". The pathetic little 40 levels need to be 60, 80 or 200, and that can cause intelligent people to think, "Who has time to grope with this pitiful, limited language???". So, I thank you for your patience in trying to help with these trivial little expansion limits. However, I think there is hope that we can find a way around them, because "40" is a big number when seeking to redo a 10-level algorithm with some faster method. I have been reducing the template-nesting levels for years (in Template:Convert and other templates), so I think we can succeed with this one as well. Thanks. -Wikid77 (talk) 18:34, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

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I alluded to you and your past inability to understand bot approval in regards to your failure to respond to my question. WP:BAG/Ignored question slam approval You have done this in the past, failed to get the community approval necessary to operate the bot, and you have failed to understand what the approval was for. I do object to your being granted a speedy approval for this bot, as your request makes no sense without explanation. Please respond at Bot Owners' Noticeboard.

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Error from WoRMS

I noticed just now that GaneshBot had created a stub for " Turbo Modelia " and thought that was odd, because no species name takes a capital letter. And so I looked it up on WoRMS and found out that they have now deleted that page because of an "input error":

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=590657

So I think we also need to delete that stub?

Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 19:03, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Great, Thanks to you Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles! That was clearly an error by WoRMS, not the bot's error, and yes it was fixed by them quite fast. Invertzoo (talk) 12:12, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 17:22, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 20:18, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Species in the genus Trabecula (gastropod)

The automatic taxobox for Trabecula jeffreysiana has the genus name linked to the wrong article: the article Trabecula rather than the article Trabecula (gastropod). The other 4 species in the genus have taxoboxes that are not automatic and have the correct link in them. I am not sure how to fix this, so I can I ask you if you would do it? Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 23:00, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Done. I had to disambiguate the genus link on the taxonomy page. — Ganeshk (talk) 23:10, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Ganesh. I figured that was what needed doing, but I was not confident to do it myself. Invertzoo (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 20:59, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

A new list of needed genus articles?

Hello Ganesh, I wonder if it would be possible for you to run the bot to generate a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Needed genus list? I did all the ones on the old list already (that was finished at the end of 2011) but I think there are some more now. Many thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 23:48, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Susan, I ran the bot and have found only one that was needed, Tragula. — Ganeshk (talk) 11:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Wow, that's pretty amazing, only one! Thanks so much Ganesh! Invertzoo (talk) 14:22, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 07:57, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Fix for Template:Taxobox/taxonomy

I have tested a reduced-depth update for {Taxobox/taxonomy} used by {Taxobox/core}, with expansion depth as only 30/40 levels to display all taxons. It is ready to be installed. See:

• Template_talk:Taxobox/taxonomy#Update for expansion depth

As the improved design, I finally realized we need to just directly list the upper-level taxons, such as above Chordata. The fix also allows showing every taxon, so people could understand all the data in those {taxonomy/<taxon>} templates. For example, to show all taxons for elephants (Loxodonta), now we can use:

• {{taxobox/taxonomy/sandbox |Loxodonta|55}}

Result:
{{taxobox/taxonomy/sandbox|Loxodonta|55}}

Note, there are still other subtemplates of {Taxobox} which push the expansion-depth levels to 39/40. However, we need to fix each problem, along the way, to determine how many articles have other depth problems. We started with over 16,000 articles exceeding the depth, and now there are only 4,500 there, so progress is being made. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:38, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Mattheus Marinus Schepman

New article. Totally beyond my ken. Please take a look. This could easily be a WP:DYK with a little bit of work. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:40, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Now to fix Template:Automatic_taxobox

The next fix, when you have time, is to update Template:Automatic_taxobox (from the /sandbox) to default {{{taxon}}} as {{PAGENAME}}. See the linked edit-request below, where you are probably the only admin who will update it:

• Template_talk:Automatic_taxobox#Fix_Automatic_taxobox_PAGENAME_depth

That should fix over 2,000 more taxobox articles to not have "exceeded depth". Currently, the prior fix is slowly being reformatted into the "8,348" articles using {Taxobox/taxonomy}. Normally those 8,000 pages could be reformatted within 1 hour, but Wikipedia's reformat job queue has a huge, huge backlog, needing a while longer. -Wikid77 (talk) 19:24, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 03:51, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Ganesh

Wikipedia:WikiProject India/New articles is not working for last several days. Can you please arrange to fix the problem if any. Thanks Shyamsunder (talk) 19:32, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Chennai Collaboration of the Month

I noticed that you removed the busy tag from your talkpage. I cordially invite you to WikiProject Chennai Collaboration of the Month - an offshoot of your brainchild. --Anbu121 (talk me) 16:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite. Having a localized COTM is a neat idea. Will pitch in when I get a chance. — Ganeshk (talk) 01:11, 24 November 2012 (UTC)