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I might reply here or on your page, I'm a bit crazy like that.
When I, for the french wiki, google the word "Economie", all the page with accentued names are "broken", the accentued letter vanish.
And I find that the regular expressions are very complex to use with this program. That isn't easy Perl regexes !
See you soon !
Hello Bluemoose, and thanks for voting in my recent RfA, which passed with a tally of (68/19/3). I appreciated your comments, which I hope to take on board in order to gain your respect in my work as an administrator. Sam Vimes 19:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
The template used for original albums is currently orange (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums#Colors for more information on the range used for different albums). This colour has generated a fair amount of complaints: some of them are aesthetic, others a wee bit more serious than that.
Could you possibly automate a process of changing this colour throughout the encyclopaedia? It would be rather tedious to implement manually. Perhaps teal or some other shade of blue would be appropriate.
Please let me know if you are available to help with this effort. --Folajimi 01:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
As you're one of more active admins on adding approved users, I would like to ask you for a small correction. My account (Klemen Kocjancic) and my bot's account (KocjoBot) were both approved and are on the list for a while. But someone accidently placed KocjoBot between users and not bots. Could you please correct this? Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 20:38, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I am collecting lots of code to make a .NET library of useful wiki stuff, see the sourceforge cvs page for the actual code. So far I have got lots of code for formatting articles, getting lists of articles (e.g. from categories, whatLinksHere etc.) code for scanning the database dumps and more. Anyway, I was wondering if you wanted to contribute your bot code? If I remember correctly you didnt want to freely distribute it for risk of vandals using it, but I guess this doesnt matter now, as there is already another .NET bot framework available (I just prefer yours though). Anyway, see what you think, I think the components would all complement extremely well. thanks Martin 20:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Great, I've added you now. Feel free to upload your code, or I can do it if you like, but bear in mind that there is already comprehensive code for creating lists of articles (in file getLists.cs), and a function to get the html of a page (file tools.cs), so this won't need to be duplicated, thanks! Martin 13:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I miss you =( --mboverload@ 08:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
When editing userpages with a silly practical joke "new messages" bar, AWB still reports this as new messages and doesn't let you edit the page. I assume that AWB checks for the present of the CSS classname as the new messages check. Perhaps it could do a regex on the link as well, to see whether it matches http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:*&redirect=no (I don't know regex syntax!) Many thanks. haz (user talk) 12:15, 28 June 2006
Another Bug - please do not use AWB to "fix" dates in date articles. [1] It's creating unwanted changes. Rklawton 13:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
This is correct:
This is not:
The note above these lines explains why:
All 367 date articles are coded this way. Is it your intention to revise them all?Rklawton 15:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Whichever way you all want to go ahead with this is fine by me. However, I recommend uniformity for all 367 articles. Without uniformity, two (or more) editors might end up reverting each other citing non-uniform date artices by way of example. Rklawton 15:45, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin. I just stumbled once again over User:Yurik/Query API. Could we explore that for use on AWB? Especially the what links here for templates smells like a nice candidate (example query for cite book, listing the first 500 entries). We could use the XML format of the output. I might give it a try on MWB once I'm finished/bored with my Special Replace zoo. Cheers! --Ligulem 08:43, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
This is mainly just a question. You removed my name from the AWB requests for registration page, but didn't add me to the check page. Does this mean that I was refused registration? Thanks --Richard0612 14:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
OK, thanks for clearing it up. --Richard0612 16:36, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin. I'm really interested in using AWB on Wikia. I realise that you made it specifically for Wikipedia and don't provide support for it elsewhere, but I wondered if you would consider helping out anyway? Jude helped me by adapting it to run on Wikia, and with the set-up, but for some reason it won't work for me. It worked just fine there for Jude, but when I try it freezes at "loading changes". Do you have any idea why it might do that, and would you be willing to help me get it going? I understand if you don't have the time or inclination of course :) Thanks -- sannse (talk) 11:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
It clearly states on my userpage that I used to do editing under the IP address 24.59.115.54. And as such, you just asserted something that is not true. I think you should be more careful when you make statements in the future. Cheers, HalfDome 15:06, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
hey martin! i know you're on a wiki-break, well deserved too, but might you have time to run my new regex with the new dump? the searcher still doesn't quite work for me (crashes), and i just got this new widescreen monitor and i'm excited to be able to run two copies of AWB in the same viewing space! :D plus, i think this is the first time i'll be using the '/s/b' action around each instance, so it should all be very parsimonious. JoeSmack Talk 19:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
p.s. i recently broke 20,000 spelling fixes. yay! i'm trying to make it to 30k before wikimania. ;) JoeSmack Talk 19:41, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin. Sannse now asked me for AWB support for Wikia. I hope you don't mind if I try tweaking MWB for that. I just started thinking how to handle that zoo of wikis.
While thinking, I had the following idea I'd like to share with you:
I was thinking about the question: How can we find out the names of the namespaces of a given wiki automatically?
Then I found this algorithm (examples in paranteses):
The URL seems to be redirected to the correct name for the special page for exporting pages in all wikis and tries to export the page 0 (it doesn't matter if that page exists or not). For the fi wikipedia this gives an interesting xml output that contains:
<namespaces> <namespace key="-2">Media</namespace> <namespace key="-1">Toiminnot</namespace> <namespace key="0"/> <namespace key="1">Keskustelu</namespace> <namespace key="2">Käyttäjä</namespace> <namespace key="3">Keskustelu käyttäjästä</namespace> <namespace key="4">Wikipedia</namespace> <namespace key="5">Keskustelu Wikipediasta</namespace> <namespace key="6">Kuva</namespace> <namespace key="7">Keskustelu kuvasta</namespace> <namespace key="8">MediaWiki</namespace> <namespace key="9">MediaWiki talk</namespace> <namespace key="10">Malline</namespace> <namespace key="11">Keskustelu mallineesta</namespace> <namespace key="12">Ohje</namespace> <namespace key="13">Keskustelu ohjeesta</namespace> <namespace key="14">Luokka</namespace> <namespace key="15">Keskustelu luokasta</namespace> </namespaces>
And the url (redirected) is http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toiminnot:Export/0.
Just a wild idea. I will see if I can do something with that on MWB. Sorry for abusing your talk page ;) --Ligulem 22:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
1) I can't see how it matters much if one quickly catches the mistake.
2) Saying that my writing on a topic that I am quite familiar with and very fond of, that I tried to carefully create for the benefit of anyone honestly wanting to learn about the topic, is a "mess", I consider to be a personal attack. I try to be very careful to not start making personal attacks in Wikipedia, because, yeah, they do not serve the community. But, I absolutely *love* a personal attack war, and once someone starts, I feel fully justified in responding in kind, and, man, it is fun for me.
3) If you have a reference for this, then I'll believe you, and I'll completely defer to your preferences for "different from" accordingly, but neither of you two have been able to offer me such a reference, which makes me doubt one's existence (especially since you have referenced other things.)
Best, 24.59.124.238 13:23, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
1) Hm, okay. I'm not going to claim for a second that I didn't make a mistake, and I obviously knew that long before you said anything. I think that I fully rectified the mistake, including with my edit summary. I think it is ridiculous to claim that this is a "serious thing". The only possible value I can see for you to even bring this up is you desparately needing something to attack me with.
2) Honestly, I think you are going to be quite hard pressed to claim that "clean up your mess" is not a personal attack.
3) Oh my... "pushing this point"? "argue"? I asked you to reference something that you claimed. How is that in any way a "point" or even "argumentative"? BUT, since you did give me your reference, I can look it over and note the following: You left out the rest of that sentence. The full sentence reads, "If all else fails, consider following the spelling style preferred by the first major contributor (that is, not a stub) to the article." Before I got to the article, it was quite short and even had a stub note on it. I tried to respect as much of the pre-existing content as I could when I started editing, but at least 90% of the final product had to be mine. And you can note that in the four months since, the only change to my writing (aside from the "different from" stuff) has been your spelling correction. It seems to me that I would fit the description of being the first major contributor.
I usually browse with cookies disabled, and it makes logging in be somewhat of an inconvenience. That is why, for a long time, I didn't use an account. However, once my ISP stated changing my IP address, I found that it was harder to keep track of what I had done, so I started logging in for changes I wanted to keep track of. This quick little revert wasn't worth the effort, though, and since you started communicating to me with my IP address, it seemed that for consistency sake I should stick with it.
Cheers, 24.59.124.238 15:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Okay, fair enough. Consider it done. 24.59.124.238 17:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Thought I'd drop by and say hi. I have a lot of Real Life stuff going on still but will be back soon.
GREAT work - I love that it shows the replacements in the edit summary now! F..... AWESOME WORK! However, you need to use [WP:AWB|AWB] as the new text can cut off the link to AWB, as here. I have tons of edits using this new feature if you want to see some real-world testing. Thanks! --mboverload@ 04:13, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Addon: Remove the \b from the edit summaries as well, pretty useless I think. THX! --mboverload@ 04:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Lets just talk on my page. --mboverload@ 10:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Use more descriptive SVN change logs =D --mboverload@ 08:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I just re-restored this page you speedily deleted. The prior speedy delete of this page was overturned on WP:DRV with the requirements that it be relisted on WP:RFD (Where it is now). One of the major complaints in the DRV was that the deletions were out of process speedy deletes/premature RFD closures. If you object with this reasoning, please talk page me. Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 19:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I noticed in the histories that you are familiar with both Template:Goodtypes and Template:Good (economics). I'm wondering if the one can be transcluded into the other and some other connotations covered as well. Please the discussion ... never mind CQ 12:46, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for putting back the categories. I accidentally deleted them. Mowens35 14:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
The IP 72.130.18.78 (talk · contribs) seems to have made an edit using AWB. I thought that AWB could not be used by anonymous users? The IP has only made one edit so far. --Ixfd64 18:16, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
How do I get this in that postition (near Wikimania registration) on my user page? The one and only Cliff 02:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Try something like:
<span id="coordinates">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anybody can edit, including idiots.</span>
Martin 07:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
No, you're wrong. Look CAREFULLY at the section numbering. Without that header, it numbers a subsection as if it were a main section. Michael Hardy 15:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
"Convolution identity" can be considered an appropriate subsection of "Definition" because it introduces another characterization of the Bell polynomials, and, at least from the point of view of deductive logic, either of the two equivalent characterizations could be taken to be the definition. I'm going to think about how to edit the article to make this clear. Michael Hardy 17:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I cleaned the last of the list out. Will there be another dump at some point or will the page disappear? Cheers! Stormbay 16:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed some slow down on my computer when using this program, why does it take so much CPU? FullMetal Falcon 01:59, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Can you allow older versions to be used please? Re-downloading new versions day after day can get a bit annoying.
Other than that keep up the good work.--Andeh 19:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
===>A trifling matter, really But annoying nonetheless. I was directed to you from here. If you can help me out, please respond there or my talk page. Thanks. -Justin (koavf), talk, mail 01:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
THREE barnstars!
These are all in a bunch because I have been thinking about these for a long time, so please don't consider it me just dumping a bunch of awards on you. It's like getting your paycheck held for 3 months, but without the having to eat ramen from a tin can over a hobo fire part.
--mboverload@ 11:02, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, just in case you don't have it on your watchlist. User:Bluemoose/Uncategorised lists is finished. Please don't make a new one, cause I am starting to really hate lists. :) Garion96 (talk) 20:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Revision 105 is the last working version. I couldn't find your email listed anywhere, sorry. --mboverload@ 20:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I sent you a few emails, one of which has an urgent dev bug. --mboverload@ 08:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Your email address in wikipedia must be broken, I haven't gotten any email responses. --mboverload@ 01:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC) pssssst, get on IRC if you can, thx =D --mboverload@ 08:11, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
What's your timeline for the next release with the new find and replace system? As you know (hehe) it uses a new settings file syntax, and I develop on your dev versions, so if you have any idea of a release date that would be great. As you know the older versions of AWB won't read my new file.
Also, if you need me to put up regextypofix on a static page (e.g. www.mboverloadspage.com/regextypofix.xml) I can do that for the new framework. I also have an idea. Let me put a message into the file. AWB will read that message whenever it updates and then display it. =P I'm really proud that you're at least throwing around the idea of incorporating RegExTypoFix =D --mboverload@ 04:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
\b
to each end --mboverload@ 04:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
RETF isn't working in the latest dev version, thought I should let you know. --mboverload@ 21:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
IRC --mboverload@ 08:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Where should this go, if you think it should be included? Feel free to do anything to it, I'm really not sure where it should go, if it should be included. --mboverload@ 20:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Tell me if it already acts this way somehow: When you select "Skip article when no replacement made" or "Skip when no typo made", how can I make it so it doesn't skip if only one of those makes a replacement? I'm scared to edit and burn though result lists if I'm skipping some. --mboverload@ 13:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello Bluemoose,
I'm hopping that I could get your opinion or suggestions on the pages I've listed in the heading. Some weeks ago, I copyedited the New Trier High School article. During this process, I decided to move the List of notable alumni to it's own page because it was very long and begining to dominate the article. In the school's main article, I simply left a link to list of alumni. Now, a large number of pictures of alumni have been added to the two articles and I'm concerned about whether or not they should be there. My gut feeling tells me that they are unnecessary and perhaps detrimental to the two articles, and may not be appropriate since all are copyrighted images already on other articles. However, I didn't feel comfortable just removing them for some reason. So, I decided to seek out a more experienced Wikipedian for advice. I'm happy to do whatever cleanup myself, I'm just looking for a second opinion before I do anything. What do you think? Thank you for any help you can give me.--Dekkanar 12:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
In the last few weeks/days I went through the A-K list of dead-end pages and finished it today. In my opinion, it certainly would be worthwhile to update the lists because I encountered A LOT of articles that were no longer dead-ends (estimate: 40% during the last few days). And some of them had been wikified quite some time ago. I have no clue as to what is involved in updating the list, but I expect the same (a lot of wikified pages) will be true for L-Z.
This was also posted at Wikipedia_talk:Dead-end_pages#Updating_this_list. Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin, I actually had another question for you regarding the number of links in an article. As a reseacher, I would be interested in obtaining an overview of how many articles have a given number of links. Meaning a list like this:
Do you have any suggestion on how to generate such a list or can you help me with that? Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Regards, --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 09:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin - I've made a proposal that would put some of your projects out of business, so I'm inviting your views on it. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:29, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry =( I just commited what I hope is a fix, can you check it for me? --mboverload@ 19:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Do you have a timeline on the next release? I'm not concerned or anything (I have the latest build all the time, lol). If you don't tha's fine, I'd just like to know before so I can stick in the latest fixes and additions before you compile and upload. --mboverload@ 00:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
It says Typo xml does not exist in current directory
when I attempt to turn RETF on using a settings file. Try it yourself.
And you will not be able to ever turn on RETF until you restart AWB. Even File > Reset settings doesn't work. --mboverload@ 06:55, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Ok I have committed my chages to SVN. I'm too sleepy to push the version number back to an enabled version, so please give it a quick test. Thanks =D --mboverload@ 13:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, there is a discussion here about using a bot to tag all uncategorised articles with the ((uncat)) tag. It seems to be too much work for a bot searching through the million+ articles. But would it work if a list of articles is taken from the datebase dump and that list will be feed into a bot? A bit like your uncategorised good articles list. And related, if you're interested, please look at this proposol here. Wikipedia:Enforce inclusion of categories. Also, if you are still on wikibreak, ignore this message. :) Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 11:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. There is a motion afoot to delete the article on Phil Farrand's website, Nitcentral, as you can see here. If you have an opinion on it, can you chime in? Thanks. Nightscream 17:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Could you create a template which if added to an article AWB automatically ignores it or gives a warning? For example ((noawb|ask permission before editing with AWB please - Andeh)) gives the custom warning to the user using AWB?
AWB is getting used by a lot of Wikipedians so it could come across any user space or something you just don't want AWB editing for whatever reason. What do you think? Thanks.--Andeh 21:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and is duplicate articles on articles list a known bug? :| --Andeh 21:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Try converting a user page to talk page and you'll see what happens. Talk:User:Mboverload
--mboverload@ 01:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Can you give me a quick overview of the new changes, and what I should do now? --mboverload@ 22:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I have been getting a few times where AWB will just stop after Saving, and I will have to "start the process" again. This is pretty minor, just wanted to give you a headsup. --mboverload@ 10:49, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Typos are case sensitive, right? I'm sure they are, but I need to make sure - please respond on my talk page/get on IRC. thx --mboverload@ 07:46, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, as RegExTypoFix is growing in popularity it starts taking up the recent changes list. The current edit summary is
Could it possibly be reduced down to
or
What do you think? I guess you were the right person to ask instead of mboverload, but i'm sure he'll respond anyway. :P --Andeh 11:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Brilliant! --mboverload@ 10:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
No longer lets me go below 150% --mboverload@ 02:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for working on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, i noticed on a few occasions you have added a ";" to various parts of the find+replace, such as here, having that exrta character will stop the regex working, so be careful not to add it! thanks Martin 13:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to report a AWB bug. Even if "add all to watchlist" option is unmarked it adds all edited articles to watchlist. However AWB is great help for me. Thanks! - Darwinek 21:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I'll use this section to converse for a bit =D
Is the word attribute for the word, or the misspelling of a word? I think it would be valuable to have it the misspelling of the word. --mboverload@ 12:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
With the letter headings, how am I going to sort the list alphabetically? I have a massive addition of new words coming up. --mboverload@ 12:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
A couple of months ago, you used Bluebot to prepend ((Architecture)) to the top of all the talk pages in Category:Architects. I recently got a request over on Bot requests saying that bluebot had missed the subcategories when prepending the message and requesting another bot finish the job. Would it be easy to do this with Bluebot? I was trying to do it using AWB, and I was having some difficulty. Thanks, alphaChimp laudare 14:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, regarding your message here. I put up a link in the village pump and some other places. The response, as you can see, was overwhelming... Personally I don't think many people would care about such a massive job. It only helps the encyclopedia. But of course, I am not the one with the bot. :) Also, the consensus in the proposal Wikipedia:Enforce inclusion of categories seems to be going towards automatically adding the uncat tag. Perhaps those two jobs could go together. Garion96 (talk) 01:40, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
I was looking over your userpage and contributions, and I'm amazed you don't have this one yet xD So, in recognition of your many, many, many great edits, here it is – one more for the barn. Cheers! — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 06:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC) |
Greetings; maybe an odd question here. I have the need to replace about a thousand transcluded templates (Lady Aleena requested I assist in moving some WinXP userboxes to a new format); a very simple task, but without automation, it'll still take forever, even with AWB. For such cases, is it possible for a regular user account (such as mine) be allowed auto-save bot capabilities? Thanks for your help. -- Huntster T • @ • C 10:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm still trying to figure out how to format it without messing up the rest of your page! Lawilkin 20:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Well deserved. However, technically this is the Golden Wiki. I consider it a bigger honor than any particular barnstar... well done. Now fix my bugs, eh? ++Lar: t/c 19:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on Bluebot - it really helps to have an automated process for standardising Wikipedia entries! Is there a guide to creating bots? Autarch 17:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Your bot just did this. The little changes are certainly for the better. However, this not-so-short article is a stub. Routh has a certain degree of different kinds of notability. In Britain (where I don't live), he seems best known (or remembered) as somebody on TV. At present, the article covers in some detail one small part of his career -- the part that I happen to know something about. Routh is no Mozart (he's not even a musician, as far as I know), but I think his article is now a bit like an article on Mozart that covers Idomeneo, mentions that he wrote something called Don Giovanni, and is mum about the rest. Cheers -- Hoary 04:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
The Launderette meets wikipedia's guidelines, yet has been nominated for deletion after months of existence. Why is this? Evrenosogullari 20:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I suppose you are right to shorten the title. I can't think of a way of getting what I wanted without my previous cumbersome effort. I was trying to show that gliding is something that famous, successful people do. Consequently I wanted to avoid listing people who were just famous as glider pilots. However let's give your way a try. JMcC 12:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for starting the reference section. I will try to expand it, but much is common knowledge among glider pilots so the references will probably have to be to a few specific events that are on the internet. I think we should leave leave some sentences about methods of launch and staying up in the Glider article. A summary of this information helps explain how a glider is used and helps the article stand on its own. However some of the sub-titles would help break up the large section in Gliding and I will do this soon, but not after midnight as now. Give me a week or so and I will ask, if I may, if it is getting it up to scratch as a potential featured article. JMcC 23:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Would you have another look at the Gliding article to see what else has to be done to get it up to the standard of a featured article? I would be most grateful of your expert opinion. JMcC 14:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Can you give me the AWB regex for subsuting ((lifetime))? thanks for your assistance. Betacommand 23:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Martin. I've done a name change per [2]. Can you please update my access for AWB if it doesn't happen automatically? Thanks. --After Midnight 0001 11:29, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar | ||
For developing and fixing AWB at lightning-fast speed, this Working Man's Barnstar for you, Bluemoose :) Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 11:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC) |
Hi, just wondering if you could implement a spam removing tool into AWB. Like, if line contains somespamlink.com, remove entire line. I've been trying to remove spam with it but as the links have different descriptions AWB won't allow it. Thanks.--Andeh 15:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I created a bot for the oc: wiki! Can you valid it, please? With regards! Cedric31 20:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Dear Martin. I shouldn't have given you a golden wiki before, as now you've excelled yourself once again there's no higher honour to bestow (unless I propose you for a Knighthood, I suppose :)).
Thanks ever so much for implementing my casually suggested plugins idea - it works an absolute treat and is quite wonderful. Enjoy your wiki break! --kingboyk 12:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Public Sub ReadXML(ByVal Reader As System.Xml.XmlTextReader) Implements WikiFunctions.Plugin.IAWBPlugin.ReadXML MessageBox.Show("ReadXML") End Sub Public Sub Reset() Implements WikiFunctions.Plugin.IAWBPlugin.Reset MessageBox.Show("Reset") End Sub Public Sub WriteXML(ByVal Writer As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter) Implements WikiFunctions.Plugin.IAWBPlugin.WriteXML 'MessageBox.Show("WriteXML") Writer.WriteValue("Test") End Sub
If I save the settings, the XML file gets this block added to it:
<plugins> <Living_People_Biographies_Plugin>Test</Living_People_Biographies_Plugin> </plugins>
...which is all fine and dandy. However, load that same XML file back into AWB (with or without restarting AWB first) and I'm just not getting that messagebox popping up saying "ReadXML". Am I - as I suspect - being a total idiot? --kingboyk 19:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for participating in my RFA, which closed successfully today with a result of (62/18/3). I will go very carefully at first, trying to make sure I don't mess up too badly using the tools, and will begin by re-reading all the high-quality feedback I received during the process, not least from those who opposed me. Any further advice/guidance will be gratefully accepted. I hope I will live up to your trust! Guinnog 14:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)} |
Thanks a lot for the barnstar. Garion96 (talk) 22:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you had created the uncat-date template today and I noticed your robot had applied it an article I had edited. It has been marked for deletion. Should we use it or was it a test template? --- Skapur 01:04, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin, I've hit a snag which is driving me mad, and Google just isn't helping. It's not really an AWB issue but perhaps you might be able to help?
I want to add a tabpage to AWB's tab control. Since I'd prefer to use the visual designer than create everything programatically, I tried inheriting from tabpage but that didn't work.
Now I'm trying to use a usercontrol, which looks like this:
Namespace AWB.Plugins.SDKSoftware.Kingbotk.Components Public Class WPBioSettings Inherits Windows.Forms.UserControl Private Sub InitializeComponent() Me.CheckBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox Me.SuspendLayout() ' 'CheckBox1 ' Me.CheckBox1.AutoSize = True Me.CheckBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(3, 14) Me.CheckBox1.Name = "CheckBox1" ...
I have the following object declarations:
Private WithEvents ourtab As New TabPage("WPBiography") Private WithEvents oursettingscontrol As New Components.WPBioSettings
and the code looks like this:
Protected Overrides Sub ShowHideOurObjects(ByVal Visible As Boolean) If Visible Then tabcontrol.TabPages.Add(ourtab) ' DirectCast(ourtab, TabPage)) Else tabcontrol.TabPages.Remove(ourtab) '(DirectCast(ourtab, TabPage)) End If End Sub Public Shadows Sub Initialise(ByVal list As WikiFunctions.Lists.ListMaker, _ ByVal web As WikiFunctions.Browser.WebControl, ByVal tsmi As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem, _ ByVal cms As System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip, ByVal tab As System.Windows.Forms.TabControl) _ Implements WikiFunctions.Plugin.IAWBPlugin.Initialise MyBase.Initialise(list, web, tsmi, cms, tab) ourtab.Controls.Add(oursettingscontrol) End Sub
When I enable the plugin in AWB, the tabpage gets added, but no controls are visible on it. The same thing happens if I use this code in a form and compile to an .exe. In other words, it's not an AWB issue rather I'm probably doing something wrong in my code. Any idea what the problem might be? Please help save the little hair I have left! --kingboyk 15:43, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Woot woot! You sir are a genius :) --kingboyk 18:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
I just realised that all source code formatting on the generic programming page was destroyed by this edit of yours. Since multiple edits have been made since it is not recommendable to simply revert the article. Would you mind cleaning up your mess? Mikademus 10:14, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
after your edit on the wikify_date template, it no longer seems to work right. Should I no longer be using that template? Also, the (([[Wikify]])) template now appears to use the first optional parameter for two things, the date and whether the template is being used on an article or section. Thanks! Schwael 19:01, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin, How would you advise doing the following?
I want to put a "manual assessments" mode into my plugin. ProcessArticle() receives an article, ticks the cleanup and relevant boxes, and returns the text to AWB unaltered. The user then previews the changes and decides on the assessment. That bit should all be simple enough (but not tested yet). What I then want to do though is add the talk page as the next item in the list so that the assessment template can be added. I can see a method in the listmaker to add an article by string but not to add it as the next item. What can I do? I'd rather not add the talk pages in bulk at the start although if that's the only way I can do it. --kingboyk 10:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
I notice that recently all the categories of Military people were moved to Militory personnel. It seems to me that Military people is a broader concept than Military personnel. I likes to reestablish the category of military people to cover the categories such as Category:Military writers, Category:Military engineers, etc. I am pleased if you can give me your suggestions. --Neo-Jay 16:17, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I will use the new format from now on. But I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by "it's best to update all the by-date tags at once". Is this something I'm not doing, but should? I'm using AWB so if it does that automatically, it should be doing it, right? --W.marsh 23:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which was successful with a an overwhelmingly flattering and deeply humbling total of 138/2/2 (putting me #10 on the RfA WP:100). I guess infinite monkey theorem has been officially proven. Chimps really can get somewhere on Wikipedia.
With new buttons come great responsibility, and I'll try my best to live up to your expectations. If you need assistance with something, don't hesitate to swing by my talk page or email me (trust me, I do respond :)). The same goes for any complaints or comments in regard to my administrative actions. Remember, I'm here for you. (Thanks go to Blnguyen for the incredible photo to the right.) alphaChimp laudare 01:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC) |
Here's a red moose for you! Red mooses somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others using Template:smile! Happy editing! --TBCTaLk?!? 02:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Get it? A red moose for bluemoose? Sorry if the moose isn't technically red, since I don't have Photoshop, only Microsoft Paint. Anyhow keep up the good work, as you've contributed a lot to Wikipedia! :D (another ackward attempt at comedy by ☆TBC☆)
Actually, yes, that edit was mine. (I didn't bother to take the time to log in on that machine.) I thought that that category was removed by mistake. Thanks for clarifying. Cheers, HalfDome 00:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for doing so much tagging, just thought I'd mention that the template inserts the category as well, so there is no need to manually add the category as well. thanks. Martin 08:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[[Category
"), but how do I say, "Skip if contains (([[Category
) or (stub))
)} ? --Elonka 03:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)Hi Martin. Your sandbox is hard-coded into debug builds of AWB. I was wondering if you might change this to an AWB sandbox or at least let me know it's OK to run tests in your sandbox. It's a bit of a pain having to load my own file list each time and I don't want to change the AWB code each time I download a new version :) --kingboyk 11:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
What's the namespace argument in ProcessArticle() for Martin? I've just got to testing stage, and was expecting User talk:Kingboyk/Sandbox to have a NS value of 3 and an ArticleTitle of "Kingboyk/Sandbox" but it's NS 0, title "User talk:Kingboyk/Sandbox". I don't really understand that because 0 namespace is main. --kingboyk 12:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm definitely getting 0 values Martin, but it doesn't matter - it's not much of a change to work out the namespace as I have to convert it to an enumerated value anyway.
I'm having a lot more trouble working out when AWB is running and when it's not. The listmaker.listfinished event doesn't work (it raises when I click the Stop button, but not when the list has emptied after processing). I've also tried catching the enabled/disabled events of the start button (figuring that when the start button gets enabled, AWB isn't running, and when it gets disabled AWB is running), but I've found that you're changing the enabled state on/off quite often. As a result I just can't get a decent notification of when AWB is starting and finishing. (I want this info to log, and also so I know when to stop and start my timer).
Could you please tell me how I can get these events reliably or better still (pretty please! :)) could you add to the interface subs which gets called when AWB is starting a run and when it's finished? --kingboyk 17:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
File:AWB in debug mode.jpg --kingboyk 18:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Main.cs, very bottom:
foreach (IAWBPlugin a in AWBPlugins) { a.Start += Start; a.Save += Save; a.Skip += SkipPage; a.Stop += Stop; a.Diff += GetDiff; a.Preview += GetDiff;
last line should be: a.Preview += GetPreview;
While I'm at it, any chance of having the webcontrol or processarticle() (probably the former) exposing two new boolean properties, one for article is new, and one for (when a talk page) attached article doesn't exist? --kingboyk 22:23, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you tweak your bot to keep it from swapping ((surname)) to ((hndis))? ((surname)) no longer redirects to ((hndis)) (as of yesterday). Thanks! -- JHunterJ 13:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
A user added these comments to Bluebot's userpage, so I'm just moving them here. Cheers, Master of Puppets The Walrus! 17:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for you tag and advice Bluebot. I will try to wikify - and I hope other editrors will help. I am new at this.
Njamesdebien 11:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bluebot - am I getting the wikifying thing better on Dr Patrick Fahey?
Njamesdebien 03:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I gave Vacht Nacht the same categories found at Bris Milah, except it's a Yiddish word, not Hebrew. Bris is virtually universal among Jews and a requirement, whereas Vacht Nacht is at best a custom observed by some (I had never heard about it until my brother-in-law asked if I was doing one, whereupon I hit the books!); but I guess the closest categories we have would be the Bris stuff, so hope that's alright. Thanks! TLMD13 21:23, 9 September 2006 (UTC)TLMD13
Hey there. It is normally not conventonal for someone to edit a userpage that doesn't belong to them. But I have edited your sandboz to remove the Wikify category, because your userpage shows up on Category:Articles that need to be wikified. I hope I did not interfere with your experimenting. -- Reaper X 18:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, can you update your bot so it uses the new format of by-date templates, as they now have optional parameters, e.g. ((Wikify|September 2006)) rather than ((Wikify-date|September 2006)), though the old ones do still work of course. Also, (maybe you do this already but...) it's best to update all the by-date tags at once, this saves editting each article multiple times to update each by-date template. thanks in advance. Martin 23:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
On the David Cameron page, when I tried to revert to the previous "destructive binges" wording about the Bullingdon Club - which I would point out (a) was the settled position for some months and (b) is backed up by the citation, you said I was "adding nonsense to Wikipedia". How dare you! Just because something doesn't agree with your own political viewpoint you shouldn't be rude and dismissive of new user of this site. I will be keeping an eye on this and won't back down to your bullying - any objective person will see I am not "adding nonsense" so if you want a dispute over this, please do keep reverting my edits and being an offensive bully --213.121.207.34 10:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I've made available a first version of my plugin (User:Kingbotk/Plugin). It's a bit of a nervous time though as I had to make some internal changes today to stop my new templates going to the top of the page (damned stupid ((talkheader))!), so wish me luck :) I've tested on the sandbox and out in the wild but I just think it's sod law that a stupid bug will have been introduced just before the first launch!
Anyrode, I've only let a couple of WPBiography activists know so hopefully I'll get some feedback from them and can continue adding features and testing. Also hopefully other people will see this and latch onto the idea. I want to thank you again Martin for implementing the plugin model, it's terrific. --kingboyk 21:15, 11 September 2006 (UTC) PS Not had a chance to look at your AWB changes yet, I'll download from SVN and have a play tommorow.
Hi Martin, Unfortunately the BusyChanged() event isn't always firing, whether from AWB buttons or my own buttons (which raise the Start and Stop events). Sometimes it fires, sometimes it doesn't.
Private Sub webcontrol_BusyChanged() Handles webcontrol.BusyChanged MessageBox.Show("Webcontrol Busy: " & webcontrol.Busy.ToString, _ "BusyChanged", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information) End Sub
Could you investigate please? It's not urgent. --kingboyk 13:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi martin - I hope all is going well! I noticed the copyvio tag on subgame perfection. I suspect you are exactly right in your diagnosis. It's also possible it was copied from here. Either way, I think the easiest thing to do will be for me to rewrite the intro (which I can easily do from memory). I will do that and remove your original edits from the history, so no one gets upset about it. I hope that's cool with you. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 03:53, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin, Just a quick question: If I receive a diffed() event is there any way of telling if there any changes in the diff? I see IsDiff but I imagine that's True even if there's no changes?
What I want to achieve is: AWB loads page and does cleanup. If there's no changes I want to go straight to Preview (or better still just show the article) so that the user can read it. I'll then trap the skip or save event and load the talk page so they can add the WikiProject banner and assessment. --kingboyk 10:47, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
public string Status { get { return strStatus; } private set { strStatus = value; this.StatusChanged();
Any idea? Is there anything I need to initialise before using a new webcontrol object? --kingboyk 19:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm already taking care of that per discussion, at Category:Computer and video game bosses. Thanks. -Shannernanner 16:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey, you remember my mentioning project: and project talk: namespaces? Well here's a new one on me: I just found a template call using a msg: prefix. And whaddya know? It works! Kingboyk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
I hope there aren't too many about as my regular expressions don't currently catch them. --kingboyk 17:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
where did Champs-Élysées go? --Espoo 19:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin, I know this is none of your concern but given how expertly you found my last little bug, I wonder if you might know what's up here or be willing to help find it?:
Assessments are handled by a seperate class, an instance of which is created when the manual assessments box is checked. This instance - and it should be the only instance of the class - is supposed to be destroyed when the manual assessments box is unchecked. I've tested this with breakpoints and the object does indeed get set to null. However, when a webcontrol BusyChanged() event is fired I've observed that an instance of this class is responding. (see picture of tab)
Since I wrote that I've implemented IDisposable on the offending class, and in Dispose() I remove the only event handler created with addhandler(), and explicitly set all owned objects to Nothing (null). Nonetheless I've observed that the class is still receiving events, even after disposal.
Any idea? If not, would you be willing to have a look at the code? --kingboyk 16:14, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi there,
Just wanted to say thanks so much for heliping out on the Bongo (antelope) article I'm working on. I'm new to this so please help out as much as you can!
Thanks so much again,
Black Stripe 20:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin. Is there a way of programatically having AWB load a settings file? (I couldn't find one). If there isn't, would you consider adding a method to the Plugin namespace to do this?
I want to have a menu item to put the AWB settings to sensible settings for plugin use, and I figured that it would be much easier (and safer) to do this by telling AWB to load settings from XML than to change the values of each control. --kingboyk 16:26, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Just a headsup mate - SVN version is broken. Hits an error (with no plugin installed) when loading an XML file, here:
foreach (RadioButton rd in gbOptions.Controls) { *** if (rd.Tag.ToString() == value) *** { rd.Checked = true; return; } } rdoNone.Checked = true;
--kingboyk 22:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bluemoose. I am currently working on helping to categorize afrikaans wiki to the best of my ablility. However, help is needed to do a little automation. Both the administrator af:User:Alias and I, af:User:Heiko, want to see the af:Kategorie:Voëls populated with the articles in af:Kategorie:Voël. Afterwards, I will turn Kategorie:Voël into a redirct. The naming convention is to use plural titles for categories. Could you help us out please? Thanks. - GilliamJF 10:37, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
On the page of Galatasaray i saw a mistake but i cannot revert it becauce the page is under protection , in the Managerial area Yılmaz Gökdel was the manager in 1974-1975 season could you fix this?
Johnny200 21 September 2006 (UTC)
The Technology Barnstar | ||
For giving us AWB. It's an awesome tool! Awesome does not start to describe it. :) - Ganeshk (talk) 19:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC) |
Mansell was coach for the 75-76 season not the 74-75 you can check this on galatasaray.com
thank you for your time :)
Johnny200 , 21 September 2006 (UTC
Article Jane Hutcheon was placed under semi-protect after vandalism by an anonymous person on September 15. Again, on September 20 2006, the "Personal Life" paragraph was deleted by Actionperson without a reasonable cause. A check on his editing record shows he has done only one edit, ie the Jane Hutcheon deletion.
Thanks for reversing the deletion Bluemoose. I wasn't 100% sure of how to deal with it at first and had asked for assistance (above) from both Bluebot and Girltiger. Yet before they were able to answer, you had done it already. Thanks again. What can be done retrospectively to Actionperson? In other words, what do we do about Actionperson? Though without a shred of evidence, it is highly probable that 218.186.9.3 and Actionperson are one of the same person.Wilfred Pau 11:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
(kindly referred here by Kingboyk) Hi, I'm developing a plugin in C# (which I've not used before), modifying the example on the plugins page. It wraps a call to an external script (I'm a perl coder so in my case it's a call to wperl.exe), writes the existing page content to STDIN, and reads the new page out of STDOUT (along with a flag that says whether a change was made). I'm having some problems with charsets - I can't work out why, but non-Latin chars seem to get mangled whatever I do. I've played around a bit with Encoding.UTF8 / Encoding.UTF16 stuff, considered passing the data as Base64, and so on, but drawn a blank - while I suspect the problem is C# using different charsets for the page text and the StandardInput, I can't really tell. If you could give me some advice or know who could, that'd really be great. Thanks! Pseudomonas 13:55, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
psi.StandardOutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8; psi.StandardErrorEncoding = Encoding.UTF8; System.IO.StreamWriter myInput = new System.IO.StreamWriter(perlProcess.StandardInput.BaseStream,Encoding.UTF8);
seems to fix it. Now I can get on with the fun perl bits :) Pseudomonas 21:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, recently, you've granted me acces to use AWB, however, I get a error message saying "You're not allowed to use this". What's wrong? -- Selmo (talk) 00:42, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
bluebot just modified Template:Infobox musical artist 2/color selector, with a message "Unicodifying". Unfortunately, the result was that the parent template, Template:Infobox musical artist (which is widely used), stopped working properly. I reverted the change, but you might want to look into the problem before it does it to other tricky templates like that one. -- Xtifr tälk 16:18, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Martin, as per subject line :)
(My Start and Stop buttons raise the AWB events Start and Stop, of course. Note that my webcontrol object reference is acquired in Initialise() and doesn't ever go out of scope.)
--kingboyk 22:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
(bump)
I presume for XML settings you mean this routine:
private void loadSettings(string filename)
which is still private.
Also, perhaps that could be split into 2 methods, with the code that actually parses the settings being perhaps an overload of loadSettings() which takes an xmlreader stream argument? --kingboyk 23:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC) --kingboyk 10:18, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I would like to use AWB on another wiki project is it possible to configure it for something other than the wikipedia and associated wikis? --— KaiserB 19:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I had started reading a few econ pages when I discovered this little graph - may I know the name of the program you used to draw it and whether or not there is a guide out there I can refer to while creating my own graphs? Thanks. --Yuyudevil 19:44, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I'm not too familiar with how to write bots on Wikipedia, but I ventured over to WP:BOT and I saw lots of posts from you. Wikipedians at the WP:RD are increasingly in need of a bot to help with archivals. Would you be able to help us out? --HappyCamper 03:38, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I see that you cleared the names for new registered users for the AWB (Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage) but I wasn't authorised. Is there a reason for that? I know I have just under 500 edits on the Main space but I have been registered for a long time (since April) and I've never shown any signs of being a vandal. The reason I'm interested in using AWB is to do some repetitive macronisation of some Japanese language articles per WP:MOS-JP, as we've been talking about here. It's very tiring doing it all "by hand" so to speak! Bobo12345 14:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
There are valid reasons to use the ArB template, especially when the arabic is the title, and should be bolded. -- Jeff3000 18:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bluemoose,
Was wondering why you felt that a "Ats in Norwich" link to Norwich Arts Centre http://www.norwichartscentre.co.uk/ is a spammy link.