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Hi Z-man,
I've never figured out what gets served by what for logged-in users, but you know these things I believe: Scripts are normally loaded through URLs like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js and are, I presume, cached server-side. Would it be a bad idea to do attempt script versioning using &oldid=
parameters?
Thanks, Amalthea 11:23, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey there Mr. Z Bot. I saw task number six, and I believe you are under-killing the job a bit. 10 times in 5 minutes seems like a bit to much before the bot reports. Is there anything to stop you from changing it to 5 times in 10 minutes? Tim1357 talk 05:58, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Popular pages, your bot listed Gas constant and Hubble Ultra Deep Field as stubs, but they are assessed as start-class in the templates on the talk pages. ― ___A._di_M. (formerly Army1987) 14:21, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure about this one, but I am trying to get the popular pages report for Wikipedia:WikiProject Paintball/Popular pages going correctly, but I don't know if it's set up right. Can it be confirmed how this one is processing? Jwoodger (talk) 23:51, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Mr. Z.
I have been trying to activate your script for patrolling on commons. I am generally helpless with scripts and I can't get it to work. Could you give me a hand or a hint? Thanks! Amada44 (talk) 08:14, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation to let you know of some upcoming changes to Wikipedia. On May 13, we will be changing the the default skin on the English Wikipedia to Vector instead of Monobook. This change may affect some gadgets and extensions, so I wanted to let you know as you appear to be the author of/involved with one of the most widely used gadgets on the English Wikipedia. For further details, please check out the post on Village Pump.
Thanks!
Howief (talk) 21:45, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Why did this edit [1] trigger an edit filter and a report to AIV? Looks OK to me. DuncanHill (talk) 15:27, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
This [2] also generated a report to AIV, and looks wrong too. DuncanHill (talk) 15:54, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, the Australian and New Zealand taskforces have been merged recently to the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force and as such the popular pages for the other two are now redundant. Would it be possible to cancel the old two popular page requests and update a new popular pages page for the new taskforce? Thanks, Woody (talk) 00:15, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to be a pain but after looking into it a bit more I realised we haven't updated any of the recent mergers in terms of the popular pages lists:
Thanks, Woody (talk) 00:26, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
--Funandtrvl (talk)
You are receiving this note because of your participation in WT:Revision deletion#Community consultation, which is referred to in Wikipedia:VPR#Proposal to turn on revision deletion immediately (despite some lingering concerns). –xenotalk 14:15, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to ask your help over how to add Mr.Z-Bot tool to Azerbaijani WikiProject?--NovaSkola (talk) 11:13, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#MediaWiki extension that supports "Harvard" references. X-romix (talk) 09:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
We are currently working on a paper for publication. We are wondering if it is possible to figure out the sum of the pages views for all article pages that are part of Wikiproject medicine for a given month? One static number for a given month would be good. If we could look back in time and get a graph of the changing influence of WPMED on health care that would be incredible. Many thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Month | Hits |
---|---|
July 2009 | 142598369 |
August 2009 | 147795383 |
September 2009 | 155748923 |
October 2009 | 2333119 |
November 2009 | 156086120 |
December 2009 | 132352902 |
January 2010 | 127366430 |
February 2010 | 140750494 |
March 2010 | 162087808 |
April 2010 | 157343696 |
I'm not sure why October is so low, there was probably some problem with the data. January is probably lower than it should be as well, as there was an issue with how the script handled redirects that wasn't fixed until February (I don't think it affected December though). Mr.Z-man 22:10, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Obviously I remember your hard work on the Mackinac Island article's FA-status in 2007. After queueing for 2 3/4 years the article was honored yesterday as the day's featured article, as you saw. Bigturtle (talk) 21:38, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'm interested in why there is so much resistance to my proposals regarding hard spaces (nbsp), and wonder – do you have the time and inclination for some direct, one-on-one discussion? - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 19:41, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
So my understanding that you have no objection to representing hard-spaces with (say) sdot characters, but only to methods of input. So that I can better understand your particular editing context perhaps you could tell me about it. E.g., do you type text directly into the edit box, do you prepare text off-line then cut-and-paste it into the edit box, or what? Also, what kind of editor and OS do you use? - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your opinion on this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 04:08, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I think this attempted refToolbar configuration, based on User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar 2.0#Sample code, leads to problems. The citeTemplate object from base.js will (possibly depending on the javascript engine) usually not be defined. I can reproduce it on my Firefox 3.6.3/Windows. I would recommend that you trigger a custom jQuery event once all refTools scripts are loaded, which can then be used in people's skin scripts to execute their configuration?.
Cheers, Amalthea 08:20, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Can you extend the Tool server for Telugu language wikipedia? Arjunaraoc (talk) 09:37, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Wondering if we could get ongoing total at WP:MED such as are found in the table at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Popular pages? --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:21, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to request popular pages listings for Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology and Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics - but I cannot find the right place to do so :) I hope bugging you about it here is ok :) Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
A user commented on the Vector bugs page that your gsearch.js script doesn't work with the new vector skin. I think changing document.getElementById('searchBody').innerHTML
to
document.getElementById('searchform').parentNode.innerHTML
will fix the issue. Shubinator (talk) 05:13, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I made a request to add this project on May 11. I see the project in the projects list but the bot did not seem to generate the popular pages for the month of May. RedWolf (talk) 22:27, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Apparently there is a problem with reftoolbar and IE8 still. It say "$j('head').trigger('reftoolbarbase'); @line 198, Object expected" according to a report. Not sure why. 23:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
First off - thanks for the Geotagged articles needing images tool, it's a terrific little gizmo. One request though, could you save settings to a cookie? My standard way of using it seems to involve changing almost every one of the default settings! More seriously it seems to be missing articles such as Artillery Ground (geotagged since April 2007) and St John Clerkenwell (geotagged since September, no edits this year). There doesn't seem to be anything obviously wrong with the tags, do you have any ideas what's happening? Although I'm not sure I want you to fix it, I've taken on the job of cleaning out the map of central London and there's plenty to work on already without adding more articles without images!!! TIA Le Deluge (talk) 13:13, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
(outdent) Ach, I just can't get on with the MiniAtlas, I prefer Google/Bing maps with the wiki layer on, even if they're somewhat out of date. Thanks for Locatecoord, it's what I was thinking of, I had a feeling I'd seen something like that somewhere. It's more useful for these purposes because it gives me a list of articles that I can save to a text file. I can throw code at a text file.... :-) But it's not as user-friendly as Gani, I guess I need to start learning KML or something. And of course I'd rather get you to make Gani good enough than do the work myself to produce a gold-plated version! :-) Any thoughts on excluding certain JPGs? In the meantime, perhaps there could be a note on the Gani page, explaining that it doesn't catch many of the articles that a user might expect it to? Cheers Le Deluge (talk) 12:46, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm using the monobook skin, and get the following errors:
Webpage error details
Timestamp: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:04:20 UTC
Message: Object expected
Line: 198
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar_2.0/base.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Error: $j is not defined
Source File: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar_2.0/base.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Line: 198
ReferenceError: Can't find variable: $j /w/index.php?title=User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar_2.0/base.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:198
Uncaught ReferenceError: $j is not defined /w/index.php?title=User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar_2.0/base.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:198
Any ideas? -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:19, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
That is working now! Thanks - just need to try with all my other scripts back in place! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:39, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks so much, this is very helpful information for us to have and we really appreciate it! Invertzoo (talk)
Mr. Z-man - I don't know why you felt it necessary to change Curtis Lofton's wikipedia, his middle name is Tremayne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.53.58 (talk) 03:07, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
((rfctag))
What should our policy be on articles that contain lists related to television? You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists (television). Taric25 (talk) 06:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC) (Using ((Please see)))
Hi, I'm interested on running your afreporter.py on eswiki, ¿how can I do it? When I try to run it, it ask me for a "setting" module
Traceback (most recent call last): File "afreporter.py", line 5, in <module> import settings ImportError: No module named settings
Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm a newbie with this... Regards --by Màñü飆¹5 talk 01:45, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Z-man,
Would you please assist with my request for help on Xeno's talk page? I'm doing something wrong with the url variable in a short JS script. Many thanks for looking,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 23:37, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Wondering if we could get the total page views for the entire medicine project in the last two months added here [3]? It look like it may be going up. Many thanks.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:29, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Recently, I started the page Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject, which I then made a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia. Also, I added a link to the new category to the bottom of each of more than 170 of the lists of popular pages, placing those pages into the new category. Now the new monthly data have replaced the old monthly data, and the category link has been removed from most of those pages. I have read the following question and answer on the FAQ page.
Are you able to revise the software so that it will leave the category link on each page that has it? Would it be better if I added the category link to the header area?—Wavelength (talk) 06:52, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Great stuff on the Gani update, that's a big help. Even if it does mean I've now got a whole load of new work to do, I had just about finished taking the photos needed to clean out central London on the old view.... However I've got over 3GB of photos to process and add to articles, so it'll take a while for it to show up on the map. Anyway, one minor issue. The code seems to be ignoring JPEGs with a space in their name, so articles such as Exmouth Market appear on the list when they shouldn't. Is this easy to fix? TIA Le Deluge (talk) 10:58, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I try to port the script as a gadget at greek wikipedia. I followed your guide but it doesn't work. The corresponding pages are el:MediaWiki:Gadget-refToolbar.js and el:MediaWiki:RefToolbarLocal.js (I didn't finish translating it but I guess it doesn't matter). I also couldn't manage to get it working as a personal script in meta. The older script (for the old toolbar) was working great. Can you check it? --geraki TL 08:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
{"field": "work", , "label":"Έργο", "tooltip": "Αν είναι μέρος ενός ευρύτερου έργου"},
"field": "work"
. Mr.Z-man 22:32, 8 July 2010 (UTC)You are right. You are great! Thanks for an excellent tool. --geraki TL 17:36, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you still planning to add redirect following to the closeAFD script? At times, someone will move a page during an AfD discussion even though it is discouraged. An example of what can happen as a result: tagging the original name of a moved page with ((afd-mergeto)) and likewise tagging the talk page of the redirect rather than the article's talk page. PleaseStand (talk) 02:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Running r359 of wikitools, here's a test script:
#! /usr/bin/env python
import wikitools
wiki = wikitools.Wiki('http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php')
Traceback:
mzmcbride@bert:misc$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
wiki = wikitools.Wiki('http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php')
File "/home/mzmcbride/scripts/wikitools/wiki.py", line 71, in __init__
self.setSiteinfo()
File "/home/mzmcbride/scripts/wikitools/wiki.py", line 101, in setSiteinfo
setattr(self, attr, Namespace(ns))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 3-9: ordinal not in range(128)
I haven't had a chance to investigate. Thought I'd throw it here in case you knew off-hand. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
It was a few days ago, but SineBot got reported by Mr.Z-bot to AIV/TB2. I know there's no way to prevent users from getting filtered, but is there any way to make an opt-out list? mechamind90 15:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Mr.Z-man. Because of your interest in Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination and because you're a highly experienced Wikipedian, I wanted to invite you to apply for the Wikipedia Online Ambassadors program. It's part of a project the Wikimedia Foundation is doing to get professors and students more involved with editing, and Online Ambassadors will be helping coordinate assignments and help students who are assigned to edit. Cheers! --Sage Ross - Online Faciliator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:42, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible when you do your unref BLP runs that you could not only convert unref to BLPunref, but also check for < ref > tags? this edit for example, is incorrect, as there are two references in the article. At best it should be a BLPrefimprove now, not BLPunref. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 02:51, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, when u going to update results for July?--NovaSkola (talk) 04:07, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, just dropping you a note to thank you for adding Human rights and African diaspora projects, thanks again - Wikignome0530 (talk) 02:11, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
You are being contacted because you have in the past participated in the Valued Picture project. The VPC project is suffering from a chronic lack of participation to the point that the project is at an impasse. A discussion is currently taking place about the future of this project and how to revitalize the project and participation. If you're interested in this project or have an idea of how to improve it please stop by and participate in the discussion. |
— raekyT 23:47, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Z-man. In mid-July I put in a request for the popular pages service for Psychology, but it's no longer in the queue. Happy to make another, improved request if I got something wrong the first time: could you give me feedback on why the first one was not accepted? Thanks in advance, MartinPoulter (talk) 12:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
In User talk:Mr.Z-man/Archive 12#Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject, I did not receive a definite reply as to whether you were going to add the category to each list. I waited until the end of July had passed, to see whether you had done so, but it was again missing from most of the lists. (Maybe you forgot, or maybe there was a syntax error in the program.) I am willing to add them again, this time to the header area, but, as before, only to about half of them of my choosing. (Other editors may wish to add it to the others.) If you do not wish that I do so, please let me know.
—Wavelength (talk) 01:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
I have started a conversation regarding a block of an ISP for low income users that was initiated two and a half years ago and was recently lifted. You were one of the people that helped review the initial block or helped review it when it was lifted. I am cordially inviting you to join in the conversation.
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Two and a half year block of ISP for low-income users
Thank you very much for you thoughtful consideration. - Hydroxonium (talk | contribs) 03:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
I got your name from the Wikimedia:Meetup/Ohio 1 page. I will be in Columbus Aug 8-11 and was wondering if any Wikimedians would be interested in meeting up then. If so, I started Wikipedia:Meetup/Ohio 2 for quick planning :) best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:30, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey Z. Many thanks great tool. It will help keep our editors motivated to know that the work is watching what we do. :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:29, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because of your participation in this discussion, now continued at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Microformats. –xenotalk 13:44, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Z-man,
I'm working on a tool much like User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar_2.0.js. What I need to achieve is for each of the tool buttons, to run a function (for example, if one of them is clicked, a set of regular expression find and replaces should be performed.) I don't know how to achieve this. Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards, huji—TALK 12:43, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Mr.Z-man! Just letting you know that by when updating WikiProject Indonesia/Popular pages, Mr.Z-bot is removing Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject. Would it be technically possible to fix this? --Elekhh (talk) 05:14, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Do you think it would be possible to get a list of popular WikiProjects, based on talk page activity (either number of page views or number of edits)? That is, you'd compare projects listed in Category:WikiProjects based on either page views or number of edits this year (or something similar) and produce a list of the "most popular" projects? WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:42, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
The project I have in mind aims to facilitate the translation process of Wikipedia articles written in English to other languages. The basic idea is develop a small web application that finds all titles (of English Wikipedia articles) that don't have equivalent article in x language. Then, this list will be arranged into categories (as they do in Wikipedia). The end user will have a table of all articles that need to be translated in her preferred language. The end user can search by a title or a category. Another cool idea is to rank those titles based on number of view per article which will give the translator an idea of what is currently a hot topic and need to be translated.
I think for such job, the Wikipedia API may not appropriate as this will search more than 3 million titles. I believe I might need to download the whole database and work from there but I thought it is better to hear your opinion about this project and to get some advice of what would be the best way to do it is a good idea in the first place.
Thank you in advance for you help,
Salturki (talk) 23:02, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Pages like Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Popular pages give results only for the last month, right? Would it be possible to see yearly or "total" (for however many months/years the data has been collected) aggregates? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
#! /usr/bin/env python
import wikitools
wiki = wikitools.Wiki('http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php')
wiki.login('MZMcBride', '8=========D')
page = wikitools.Page(wiki, 'User:MZMcBride/Sandbox')
page.edit(newtext='test')
Any actions to Commons keep returning a "Server lag, sleeping for 120 seconds" error, even with "wiki.setMaxlag(-1)". I peeked at api.py, but didn't have time to investigate. It's very possible it's an issue with Commons itself and not wikitools, but it's rather annoying! If you have a chance to look at it before I do, I'd appreciate it. --MZMcBride (talk) 07:15, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Unrelated to the above, bugzilla:24837. I'm trying to poke some people about it. For now, I put a live-hack into wiki.py (a try/except KeyError). Bahhh. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:42, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I happen to stumble on this particular discussion: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stub_sorting#How_stub_templates_interfere_with_a_certain_script. Is it still an issue for you? If so, do you mind I take a look at your code? --AllyUnion (talk) 23:06, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
The tool thinks that Herne Hill Velodrome needs an image - I'm guessing it's confused by the use of |center| or more likely |frame| in the image that's been on the article since June 2007. Not a biggy, it's the first one I can remember coming across and I know |frame| is deprecated these days but I thought you'd like to know. Le Deluge (talk) 15:26, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, i want to use your popularity3.py script on the french wikipedia, but where are mysql table structure ? Thanks. Myst (talk) 19:38, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Mr.Z-man,
Thanks a lot for this tool. Myst is creating it for fr.wp. Ludo29 (talk) 09:10, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Last month I changed the WikiProject rating of several articles yet the Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia/Popular pages update still shows the old ratings. For instance I rated Talk:Orangutan C-class, yet in the September 1 table it still appears as start-class. Also many thanks for including WikiProject Architecture. --Elekhh (talk) 04:24, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a bump regarding your Popular pages bot :) ResMar 17:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
May I cordially suggest that Z-Bot retain the date from the unref tag? Since the article has been an unreferenced BLP at least that long, it makes sense. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 12:38, 2 September 2010 (UTC).
It would be useful for data mining if your tool archived past results instead of simply overwriting them. Please implement this feature, thanks. SharkD Talk 05:34, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Yo Z-man - I've listed 10 ugliest ducklings in my last comment on the (proposals) page and would appreciate your comment regarding my revised views - thanks - MarkDask 17:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Because you participated in Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Archive 34#Does WP:NOTMYSPACE apply to secret pages?, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Secret pages 2. Cunard (talk) 07:07, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I've asked you and Rich/Smackbot before about not propagating incorrect tagging, when your bots convert an "unreferenced" template to a "BLPunreferenced", based on a Category:Living people cat being on the page, unless you are able to check if both the unreferenced template and the living people cat is correct. Rich seemed to think that his bot COULD determine if the unreferenced should instead be converted to a ((BLP sources)) tag, not ((BLP unsourced)). Are you able to either a) stop doing this task all together; b) leave it others with smarter bots; c) Instead of changing the pages, generate a database list of "incompatible tags" ie a BLP tag without a cat:Living people or vice-versa. Today 6 pages were added to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/DashBot_unreferenced_BLPs. 5 of them were incorrect.
That level of accuracy would not be acceptable if it was a person doing the tagging, so a bot should also not be allowed to make that many errors. Your previous claim of "but the BLP tag is more visable" or "higher priority" is misleading, as we are struggling to cope with the REAL unreferenced BLPs, we don't need to be distracted by referenced BLPs being mistagged. It is also quite bemusing to think that dumping extra articles into a bucket of 25000 articles is making them "more visable". So, please stop attempting to do this task - lets try generating a list and see how that goes. The-Pope (talk) 08:03, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
SELECT DISTINCT page_title FROM page
JOIN categorylinks AS clA ON page_id=clA.cl_from
JOIN categorylinks AS clB ON page_id=clB.cl_from AND clA.cl_from=clB.cl_from
WHERE clA.cl_to="Living_people" AND clB.cl_to="All_articles_lacking_sources" AND page_namespace=0
ORDER BY page_title ASC;
I'll slap your bot with one hand, and pat you on the back with the other. Got to say, I've been amazed in all of this BLP and referencing that I haven't seen more comments like the one you made last week on the Village Pump page...Why the hell do so many people feel the need to create a new article as their first edit?) is not considered. I agree 100% with you on this - mainspace article creation rights shouldn't be automatic to people. Make them earn it by editing first. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 13:08, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I was looking for an explanatory page for our current wikieditor toolbar. The page Help:Edit toolbar is out of date, and the only decent reference (and screenshot) I can find of it is at Wikipedia:RefToolbar 2.0. Do you happen to know if there's a more current Help page, either here or meta or elsewhere? Thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 06:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Added references (and external links and removed tag generated by your bot. --Beth Wellington (talk) 19:39, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 03:43, 23 September 2010 (UTC).
Hi Mr.Z-man,
Is it possible to get a popular pages report for WP:WikiProject Essays? The thing is, they don't assess Wikipedia essays for quality (so there's no B-class category name), just importance. I don't know if the bot would be unhappy about that. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:12, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Mr Z-man - I note a shortcoming of the "popular pages" calculations you run... if a page is created during the month listed, it doesn't get counted. The September 2010 New Zealand list does not include 2010 Canterbury earthquake (created on Sept 3), despite that page receiving 184594 hits, which would have placed it tenth in the list of most-viewed pages for the month! Grutness...wha? 08:11, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Mr.Z-man! You may be wondering, what have I done to sound the alarm this time? Nothing. I'm messaging you in regards to the adopt-a-user program, which currently has a backlog of users wishing to be adopted. This doesn't make much sense, as we have a considerable list of users offer adoption, so there shouldn't be any backlog. I've begun to eliminate this backlog myself through a matching program, but I need your help to make it work. Of course, adoptees and adopters don't have to go through there, but I believe it helps eliminate the backlog because someone is actively matching pairs.
On the list of adopters, I have modified the middle column to say "Interests." It's easier working with other users that have similar interests, so if it's not too much to ask, could you add your interests in the middle column? For example, if I was interested in hurricanes, computers, business, and ... reptiles? I would place those in the middle column. Counter-vandalism and the like can also be included (maintenance should be used as the general term). The more interests, the better, since adoptees can learn more about you and choose the one they feel most comfortable working with. The information about when you're most active and other stuff can go into the "Notes" section to the right.
Finally, I've gone around and asked adoptees (and will in the future) to fill in a short survey so adopters can take the initiative and contact users they feel comfortable working with. We all know that most adoptees just place the adopt me template on their user page and leave it - so it's up to us to approach them and offer adoption. So, please take a look at the survey, adopt those that fit your interests, and maybe watchlist it so you can see the interests of adoptees and adopt one that fits your interests in the future.
Once again, thank you for participating in the adopt-a-user program! If you wish to respond to this post, please message me on my talk page.
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 05:21, 11 October 2010 (UTC).
Hi.
Last July you commented on a proposal I made. The mini-tutorial has been trimmed and, I hope, simplified since then; so I would really value any thoughts you may have regarding (a) the proposal as it now stands and/or (b) the clarity, value, appropriateness of the current version of the mini-tutorial - if you feel so inclined. It's being trialled on Pain for a few weeks. Anthony (talk) 08:35, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
On ANI you remarked "This has been an escalating problem." If you mean since the last ANI on 28th September, can you please explain to me exactly what it is that you believe is escalating, and on what basis you form that belief? Rich Farmbrough, 23:52, 21 October 2010 (UTC).
Ⓢock 21:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Perennial proposals#Move maintenance tags to talk pages -- PBS (talk) 23:16, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey Z, thank you for responding the other day on the RFA. I was just curious on your definitions of optional queries, but I see where your coming from on them (and to be honest you do make a very good point), At anyrate, happy editing cheers, Ottawa4ever (talk) 08:56, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
The name of WikiProject Films has been changed to WikiProject Film. If any changes are required with regard to the popular pages setup for this project, do you think you could take care of them? Thanks in advance. PC78 (talk) 12:06, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
I've emailed you. Tony (talk) 07:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've been referred to you as the creator of the 'RefToolbar script', the gizmo that autofills cite templates. 1. Is that right? 2. Shall I comment here, or is there a centralised discussion page? cygnis insignis 11:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
I want to make use of the function at sister sites, and eventually have this recognised at wikipedia. I'll give you the background: I do a bit of work at Wikisource, Commons, and here. The usual practice at source is to obtain a djvu file from archive.org, upload that Commons, create a page in the Index namespace at wikisource, then make a transcription of the page scans in the Page namespace to serve the presentation of the work in that main namespace. There is an overview of the wikisource namespaces at s:Help:Namespace. This involves a lot of copying and fiddling with the bibliographic details at each of these steps.
Here is a example: archive.org to commons to ws Index to ws main. The title, volume, publisher and so on are given at archive.org, but need to be manually copy pasted at each step.
If I cite this document here, then I need to do that again in a citation template. However, if I was citing a google book or another source, I could make use of the autofill function. Would it be possible to use a script to 'autofill' the commons information template, ws Index form, ws header template and, eventually, a cite journal template here by using a single identifier, such as a url, of a (sub-paged) article like s:Folk-Lore. Volume 4/The Folk? cygnis insignis 08:25, 10 November 2010 (UTC)