User talk:Misza13/Archives/2011/11

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Archive Map Special RfA-thanks Year 2005 Year 2006 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2007 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2008 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2009 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2010 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2011 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2012 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2013 I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Year 2014 I IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI Year 2015 I II III IV VI VII VIII IX XI XII Archive for November 2011 The Signpost: 31 October 2011 Opinion essay: The monster under the rug Recent research: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified News and notes: German Wikipedia continues image filter protest In the news: Citizendium on the rocks, Shankbone celebrated, and the week in vandalism Discussion report: Proposal to return this section from hiatus is successful WikiProject report: 'In touch' with WikiProject Rugby union Featured content: The best of the week Arbitration report: Abortion case stalls, request for clarification on Δ, discretionary sanctions streamlined Technology report: Wikipedia Zero announced; New Orleans successfully hacked Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 17:42, 1 November 2011 (UTC) MiszaBot is blocked Per Special:Contributions/MiszaBot MiszaBot has been blocked for three weeks. The administrator who did this left a message at /Archives/2011/10#Malfunctioning? but apparently the issue has not been researched and resolved. --Marc Kupper|talk 06:22, 3 November 2011 (UTC) Archiving bot - default values Thank you for the good work. One question: is there a default value for "maxarchivesize"? It's not clear to me from the article whether I need to set this to my preferred value, or if there is e.g. 256k used as default. Thank you. --Chire (talk) 07:02, 4 November 2011 (UTC) Without a maxarchivesize, your archive will grow indefinitely so set it to your preference. 150-200K are common. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 05:03, 10 November 2011 (UTC) Archive user sub pages? Would it be possible to enable the bot to archive User subpages? WP:TW now has the option of saving logs of CSDs and PRODs - these pages can get rather long too quickly (and it seems to me to get slower as the log gets bigger) - e.g. User:Ronhjones/CSD log - every entry is time/date stamped so I think the bot should work well.  Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC) I'm not sure this will work correctly but I'm willing to help try. Left a note for you on your talk page. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 05:37, 10 November 2011 (UTC) The Signpost: 7 November2011 Special report: A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot News and notes: Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised In the news: The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges. Discussion report: Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC WikiProject report: Booting up with WikiProject Computer Science Featured content: Slow week for Featured content Arbitration report: Δ saga returns to arbitration, while the Abortion case stalls for another week Technology report: Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 12:46, 8 November 2011 (UTC) Nikola Tesla Hi. Though I know the general rule for archiving is to do with how old the discussion is, could you pop over to Nikola Tesla discussion page and consider archiving at least the older half of the posts? With the discussions about Tesla's nationality it is getting hard to read/post there. Many thanks! Djathinkimacowboy 17:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC) The bot is blocked, and its operator has not edited since May. You can archive it manually easily enough, see WP:ARCHIVE. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:04, 9 November 2011 (UTC) No...one of the Miszabots is blocked but there are several and the one that would work for article talk pages works fine. I'll take a look. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 03:53, 10 November 2011 (UTC) The bot worked yesterday but the length was 120 days which I have shortened to 30 to help. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 05:39, 10 November 2011 (UTC) The Signpost: 14 November 2011 News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released In the news: Fundraising vs ads redux, WikiConference India nigh, a world lit up with articles WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India Featured content: Writing featured content: Advice from Sturmvogel 66; Sports, sports, sports! Arbitration report: Abortion and Betacommand 3 in evidence phase, three case requests outstanding Technology report: Coding Challenge results; Wikimedians to wait and see if Athena really does represent "wisdom, courage and inspiration" Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 22:54, 14 November 2011 (UTC) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration Can anyone else see why the bot isn't working on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration? —WWoods (talk) 16:28, 20 November 2011 (UTC) I'll try. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 23:26, 20 November 2011 (UTC) It worked. I have moved the threads afterward to consolidate archive 29 and reset the counter to that number. If it doesn't work then there is something wrong with that target page. The bot may not like the {{cot}} & {{cob}} templates in use on that page. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 14:57, 21 November 2011 (UTC) Thanks! Target, huh; don't think I've heard of that before. —WWoods (talk) 16:24, 21 November 2011 (UTC) Talk:Paragliding Here's another puzzler: Why hasn't the first section on Talk:Paragliding been archived. The bot is working, but it keeps skipping that one. —WWoods (talk) 16:24, 21 November 2011 (UTC) The Signpost: 21 November 2011 News and notes: Last-minute candidates for ArbCom, the Sue Gardner European Tour hits London In the news: Indian wikiconference heralds expansion, fundraiser in Silicon Valley major donor coup, import of Wikipedia reconsidered Discussion report: Much ado about censorship WikiProject report: Working on a term paper with WikiProject Academic Journals Featured content: The best of the week Arbitration report: End in sight for Abortion case, nominations in 2011 elections Technology report: Mumbai and Brighton hacked; horizontal lists have got class Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 01:17, 22 November 2011 (UTC) Not everything needs to be archived In a low-activity talk page such as Talk:Pacific Ocean, I don't see the point of archiving discussions, like was done here: [1] 1. The page is not too large, or the thread too long. 2. It is not difficult to find threads, as there was a total of only 8 topics. 3. Threads with no signature and no date were left alone, and some of these are from 2006 or earlier. 4. One thread which had its last signed post in 2006 was left untouched. Is it really necessary to archive talk pages this short? Ufwuct (talk) 20:29, 22 November 2011 (UTC) Well, this is controlled by the settings on the page. The bot did leave the correct number of sections. Also the bot does not archive any sections that have no dates or bad dates since it can not be sure that those sections should be archived. So your issue seems to be that too few current sections are left because of the bad dated ones. I'll manually archive the old ones which anyone can do. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:01, 22 November 2011 (UTC) Importing news Do you know if it's possible for a bot to import news (headlines w/ links) from sites other than wikinews:? I'd like to have automatically-updating news for Portal:Iowa, as discussed here, but the portal's current source, Wikinews (currently imported via your bot), has very little on Iowa, so I was wondering if you know of a way to import news from another source. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:34, 23 November 2011 (UTC) The Signpost: 28 November 2011 News and notes: Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar In the news: The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars Recent research: Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Bugle Featured content: The best of the week Arbitration report: Voting underway in the elections, finally a final decision on Abortion, scant movement on requests Technology report: Foundation appears correct to back improved smartphone support; and how a Reddit slip meant no-one could read anything for thirty minutes Read this Signpost in full Single-page Unsubscribe EdwardsBot (talk) 07:06, 29 November 2011 (UTC) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration Any idea what is stopping the archiving of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration ? Mtking (edits) 21:18, 27 November 2011 (UTC) I believe the hat templates used by Moxy in archive 29 may be the thing that the bot didn't like. It is working again after the archive number was incremented. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 15:19, 30 November 2011 (UTC) Making archives obvious to the casual reader Is it possible for the bot to leave something on the talk page that clearly notifies readers where the archive is? I notice for instance that Erhard Seminars Training's talk archives have been moved by this bot to Talk:Erhard Seminars Training/Archive 2, but I was only able to figure that out because I'm a relatively sophisticated Wikipedia user and spent some time drilling into the talk page history trying to figure out why the page was so empty. To a casual user it would appear that there's almost no discussion. (I did think of editing the talk page to add a link to the archive, but I assume the bot would just archive that link, too.) I question the utility of this, at least for this particular page, and I'm tempted to remove the bot template and copy all the archives back to the main talk page. Thoughts? Chronodm (talk) 23:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC) The archives had links to them in the talk page headers but I have added an archive box which makes it easier to see. This is something that needs to be done by a human as there are many different templates/presentations for this. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 15:33, 30 November 2011 (UTC)