User talk:Δ/2015

AfD summary

 * Just wanted to give you a heads up, I saw you removed the sorter from your user page. I was wondering why until I saw that its been broken. No one let me know that it was broken, otherwise I would have fixed it sooner. The updated URL is http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/AFD.html If you have any other issues let me know. ΔT The only constant 21:17, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

WP:BON
Please see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645 its an issue with mediawiki that the bots are running into. ΔT The only constant 03:55, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Bot requests/Archive 63
and I already have the infrastructure to run these reports using the database dumps if you are interested. ΔT The only constant 20:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Ping test
test let me know if you get this. ΔT The only constant 20:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I did not get a notification.--John Cline (talk) 21:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

This is yet another test of the ping system. Let me know if you get this. ΔT The only constant 21:12, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * This time I did.--John Cline (talk) 16:00, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Village pump (technical)/Archive 134
I work on labs and can take a look, feel free to email me. ΔT The only constant 21:10, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi! I just emailed you. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 21:48, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * , here is the tool you wanted, betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/suggested_articles.py. Next time give me a real challenge. Most of the work was getting the input boxes to line up Face-smile.svg ΔT The only constant 01:25, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * It looks good. Yes, I have feedback, but I suppose it will come after your vacation (I have some ideas for real challange :) at least kind of). What was cool about the old tool was category depth (the currect max depth was 3). You could at least do that, currently. And if I may ask, for now it would be nice, if the output could be restricted to only articles. I have a vision about other namespaces, but not currently :) Forgot to say - THANKS! -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 01:35, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Namespace filter is now an option
 * a subcategory scan system has been added, but it will probably kill the scan performance. So please use sparingly. ΔT The only constant 02:33, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * a subcategory scan system has been added, but it will probably kill the scan performance. So please use sparingly. ΔT The only constant 02:33, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Feedback
So, here are some ideas for challange or problems. Most of them are from "Nice to have" category, some - "If you have free time and it isn't very resources consuming, then you could do that" * * Article name which would result in: I was usually copying results in Notepad, so such format would be great.
 * Problems
 * Such problems (this is the category), I suppose it is because category name contains some unallowed symbol (ē)
 * There was similar result when category name was ok, but content had some problems. Problems also was with chacacter encoding.
 * Ideas. You could enable...
 * skipping some category
 * option "Including template". This was really helpful in the old version. And maybe "Excluding template"
 * Maybe instead of one, there could be included several templates? I image that in the tool there is one row:
 * Including template: "Template1" AND/OR "Template2"
 * Really helpful would be taking categories from talk page. For example, I would like to know how much iw has articles (not talk pages, of course), which talk pages are included in this category.
 * Also would be great to enable "Including template" for this.
 * option just to check how many iw are for articles/pages in category. For example, I want to know which articles in this category has the most iw.
 * Oh, this probably will sound strange, but could you change the table format to bullet format?
 * * [[Article name]]

I hope you understtod what I mean. If you need some explanation, I'll try to do that. And I hope this isn't too much. Actually, I have some more ideas, but enabling these ones would be great start. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 00:24, 1 March 2015 (UTC)


 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/suggested_articles.py?title=Latvijas+cilv%26%23275%3Bki&iw=en&project=wikipedia&lang=lv&recurse=0&articles=NS0 fixed the issue with the category title encoding.
 * New option labeled Text only output.
 * Use qqx as the language code and it will just output based off the total number of interwikis
 * Category skipping, and template usage will require some study to see how feasible it is.
 * Based off talk page categories should be possible, but I will need to find a way of doing it sanely. ΔT The only constant 23:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Everything works good for now, thanks :) But I knew I missed something :) For the text output I mean something like this:
 * * * Article name interwikis
 * And also it should be linkable in the tool (so the code would be something like Article name of course, from technical point of view it is completely wrong, but I hope you understtod the idea ). As for your comments, from those 3 things the most important to me should be talk page category option, then comes template usage and then category skipping (actually, this one isn't important, this is from series - if you have plenty of time and you don't know what to do :) ). -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 08:39, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Similar error (category). -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 16:34, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, I tweaked the ouput of the text version, and I am not sure what is causing the error, but part of the category title either isnt getting input correctly, or is getting mangled by your browser. I copy/pasted the category and ran the report http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/suggested_articles.py?title=Muzeji+Latvij%26%23257%3B&iw=qqx&project=wikipedia&lang=lv&recurse=0&articles=NS0 which caused no problems. ΔT The only constant 17:05, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, I tweaked the ouput of the text version, and I am not sure what is causing the error, but part of the category title either isnt getting input correctly, or is getting mangled by your browser. I copy/pasted the category and ran the report http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/suggested_articles.py?title=Muzeji+Latvij%26%23257%3B&iw=qqx&project=wikipedia&lang=lv&recurse=0&articles=NS0 which caused no problems. ΔT The only constant 17:05, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

So, how the things are going? At least with the talk page category option... -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 12:48, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

WP:BON

 * here are several useful points:
 * Untagged orphan non-free files are reported daily to
 * I have a NFCC#9 report with a corresponding simple list for usage with AWB and the image delinking plugin.
 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/orfurrev for listing non-free files with orphaned revisions.


 * Anything else? ΔT The only constant 20:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for pinging me. I know I haven't been on freenode much due to my lack of time and being somewhat burnt out on the project.  I still need to look into this more, but will follow up with you there on this idea.  I'll also note that I read the above section, and would rather not see your talk page access be revoked for these productive communications. As such, I believe I've given you my email in the past, and if not I'll pop in later today to make sure you have it, and you are welcome to email me about these things in the future.  Thank you again for taking the time to ping me about this, and I hope for your return to Wikipedia sooner than later. I'm now also STALKing this talk page, so there should be little need to ping me from it. :D —   20:41, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note that I have alternative reports:


 * query/1225: Non-free files not used in the article namespace. Excludes files with redirects from the article namespace as redirects count as file usage. Gives false positives if a non-free file has a redirect which shadows a file on Commons.
 * query/1203: Non-free files violating WP:NFCC. Excludes violations of WP:NFCC in the article namespace (disambiguation pages) and redirect pages (needed to prevent lots of false positives in the file namespace).
 * query/1226: Non-free files with non-free revisions. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Bot_requests
[//tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/cat_username.py Blocked users in Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues] ΔT The only constant 22:55, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Tools down?
Δ, it appears your tools, such as this one are down? If they can't come back up again, is there a replacement somewhere? --Hammersoft (talk) 15:06, 24 April 2015 (UTC) (feel free to ping me back here)
 * Tools is having a few issues right now, services are moving servers. I have restarted the web service. If there is anything else let me know. ΔT The only constant 15:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Tools?
In other news...This: appears to be down? Also, all appear to be down as well. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:50, 28 August 2015 (UTC) ΔT The only constant 18:53, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/pages_with_excessive_nfcc.html
 * http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/NFCC_BLP.html
 * http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/high_use_NFCC.html
 * http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/NFCC9.html
 * http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/nfcc_count.log
 * looks like the memo wasnt sent out correctly. Everything should be using the updated labs URLs.
 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/reports/pages_with_excessive_nfcc.html
 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/reports/NFCC_BLP.html
 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/reports/high_use_NFCC.html
 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/reports/NFCC9.html
 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/reports/nfcc_count.log

Active editor count
in regards to that report it should be fairly doable depending on how you want the data structured. ΔT The only constant 20:35, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * User_talk:Jimbo_Wales


 * Same structure as the Most Edits list would work. User, count of edits in month — making sure to include IP editors and registered editors both, if possible. If the number can be broken down further into mainspace edits vs. non-mainspace edits, that would also be useful — a full breakdown into the various myriad types of edits would be perhaps more useful still. The main thing is something that allows the 3300 or so Very Active Editors to be identified each month, along with the next couple thousand who just missed the list. Thanks for your interest in this, getting WMF to move has been fruitless... Carrite (talk) 22:15, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, I have no idea if these lists can be retroactively generated, but rolling things back 12 months would make meaningful comparison possible. Thinking up another dream item for structure, if there was a field for "position last month" on the list, that would also be interesting, allowing big increases and decreases to be identified, sort of like putting a bullet next to rapid movers on the Billboard charts... Carrite (talk) 22:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * And I don't know if there is a mechanism to identify "declared gender," but that would be a massively useful field. So would a field for "Date of Account Creation." Carrite (talk) 22:24, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I can run the report with mainspace totals and non-mainspace counts. Beyond that I would need clearer instructions on what constitutes other values. I can run retroactive counts however deleted edits will require some thought. I can pull gender information if its declared in a user's preferences. As for user registration, if an account was created after the introduction of user registration date, I can include that, however if the account was created prior to that, it uses the date of their first edit. (Not %100 accurate but kinda close). ΔT The only constant 22:47, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * another angle that might be cleaner is to look at mainspace only edits. This would cut down on excess non-content clutter. ΔT The only constant 02:06, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Date of first edit is better than date of account creation anyway, probably. Mainspace Edits as one field and Non-Mainspace Edits as another would be the most useful division of total edit count. Declared gender, if you can get that, would be golden. Even if there were no retroactive lists, a series of monthly lists starting from current-month would be extremely useful. Let me know if you need help with an ArbCom ban appeal. Carrite (talk) 02:45, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Another field for Career Edits to Date would be handy as well. Carrite (talk) 02:47, 29 August 2015 (UTC)