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Clean user sandbox by User:AvicBot2
Hello Avicennasis

I was happy to find that you are running a bot that can clean user sandboxes, which is a very useful thing (in fact I am operating a similar bot on dewiki). Could you please add User:DrTrigon/sandbox to the list of pages? That would be great!

By the way; is there a possibility that the bot does not delete the whole page content but e.g. keep all text appearing before the sandbox template? What is the correct sandbox template to use with your bot?

Thanks and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 10:52, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't be a problem - the script is set on crontab, with something like  - So the page can be reset to whatever templates/text you want set for 'DefaultPageContent' (provided that 'DefaultPageContent' is static - I've not yet coded something to handle dynamic content.) Also, you can specify how frequently you want it cleaned - e.g., every 12 hours, Tuesdays, or whatever.  Let me know what you need. Avic ennasis  @ 15:39, 2 Tevet 5772 / 15:39, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello! Thanks for your reply! I think I will use the same 'DefaultPageContent' as you on your sandbox! ;) But it would be very helpful if there would be a method for me to control the bot somehow. I need something to deactivate the bot temporarily; e.g. either a 'protected' area that does not get changed (e.g. in front of the template) or the bot resets the page if the template is existent only (so I can remove the template to deactivate and later put it back). Something like that would be very handy... ;) Anyway the desired reset interval is 24h, e.g. at midnight or shortly afterwards.
 * Thanks again and greetings to you! --DrTrigon (talk) 11:15, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok. I'll tinker with the script and see if I can get an enablepage to work for you, like AvicBot has for some of it's scripts. Perhaps something like User:DrTrigon/sandbox/checkpage with 'Enable' as the content? Let me know if that would work for you. I'll try to get some free time to code it soon. Avic ennasis  @ 02:56, 5 Tevet 5772 / 02:56, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * What about cleaning if (and only if) a given template (like e.g. your sandbox template) is present on the page? Can be checked through 'What links here' (better the api analogous ;)... Is more or less whatI used... ;) But essentially it is not important to me - do what is the most simple for you - thanks anyway!!! ;) greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 10:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Could you meanwhile set it to the same as on your sandbox, cleaned at midnight: ==Test below here== that would be a great start... Thanks a lot! Greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 21:31, 6 January 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅. Should run UTC midnight-ish tonight. Avic ennasis @ 12:37, 12 Tevet 5772 / 12:37, 7 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Works fine! (even though the run was not at midnight... ;)) Thanks again and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 10:47, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

double redirect frequency
Context: Village_pump_(technical). What's the mean or median and max time to double redirect correction? Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 12:50, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure what median time is (never measured it) but this particular script runs every three hours. So, presuming the timing is perfect, the longest a redirect in mainspace might exist is a little over that 3 hours. Avic ennasis @ 02:53, 5 Tevet 5772 / 02:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks...so if the script were instant and creation of redirects randomly uniformly distributed, mean/median would be able 1.5 hours. Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 03:02, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

NBCN
The bot keeps false positiving the NBCN rd to NBC Sports Network over to Versus (TV channel); the intended target is NBC Sports Network as the Versus article will move over to there this afternoon due to a channel rebranding. Thank you.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 09:18, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The bot is working as intended - NBCN was a redirect to NBC Sports Network, which is itself a redirect. As such, it's a double redirect - and so needs to be corrected.


 * When the Versus (TV channel) article is moved to NBC Sports Network, AvicBot will update the redirects accordingly. Avic ennasis @ 12:28, 7 Tevet 5772 / 12:28, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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