User talk:Bamyers99/Archive 2

Michael Connolly (rugby player)
You said that a search turned up no reasonable results yet the first result when I searched was evident http://www.rugbywa.com.au/article/pindan-premier-grade-round-one-preview — Preceding unsigned comment added by PandaTelf (talk • contribs) 03:32, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

William Wallace Spence
Just a quick note for you about the categorization template on William Wallace Spence, which you changed from improve categories to uncategorized a couple of days ago: the problem is that there's a bot, User:Cyberbot I, that goes around removing uncategorized from pages that do have categories on them (since sometimes users forget to remove it in the process of fixing the problem), and it doesn't know how to detect the difference between a hidden maintenance category and a real content category. It just strips the template if it sees any categories at all, and that in turn bounces the page right back into the untagged queue again — so it just gets trapped in a recursive loop where I tag it, the bot untags it, I tag it again, the bot untags it again, lather rinse repeat forever and ever. So even though it is technically uncategorized rather than needing more categories, we do have to use "improve categories" instead of "uncategorized" if a page has hidden maintenance categories like on it. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 00:59, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Election tables with invalid "Navbar" links
Thanks for Database reports/Invalid Navbar links. Could Election table be included in the report? It doesn't currently use Navbar but has its own code to make "e d" links. See [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Kazakhstani_presidential_election,_2011&oldid=634446274] for an example with wrong links because it says "Kazakh presidential election, 2011" instead of "Kazakhstani presidential election, 2011". Would it have to use Navbar to be included without a lot of work? PrimeHunter (talk) 22:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I have added Election table and its 2 redirects to the report. The next report run will be in early May. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:10, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:18, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the new report. Redrose64 beat me to all the fixes. Is it OK to write a status like "All these have been corrected 2 May 2015" at Database reports/Invalid Navbar links? Is the whole page just overwritten in the next report or does it cause problems for you if there are manual edits about the old report? PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The whole page is overwritten each month. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:53, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, I was unsure what "Manual update" in the edit summaries meant. I have added "All these have been corrected 2 May 2015" to the election table section. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:10, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Isn't it possible to get at least similar results in ? I would like to run it for Latvian Wikipedia. I made some kind similar query, but it is wrong :) -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 18:43, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Your query returns the pages that use the Navbar template. The database report code also retrieves the text for each page and then extracts the template names and parameters using this code. It then verifies that a specific parameter value matches the page name. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:13, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for explanation. BTW, would it be possible to make one time run for Latvian Wikipedia? Those same templates would be ok. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 21:12, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I have created a quarry table with template parameters that you can use to query. Here is a sample query. You can copy it and change 'Navbox' and 'name' to whatever you like. The data is from a database dump on 2015-04-21. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:01, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much :) -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 20:06, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Tennis
Hi, can you update the bot for the New and Edited Tennis Articles so that it no longer includes articles that are strictly in the category of table tennis? E.g. the BLP for Doo Hoi Kem should not appear in the list as she is a table tennis player and not a tennis player. However if a player is/was both a tennis and table tennis player, the most famous example being Fred Perry, than the article should of course appear in the list. Thanks in advance. Cheers, --Wolbo (talk) 19:54, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * It has been updated. You can test it here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:07, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Bamyers99, seems to work fine, also tested it with Fred Perry. Thanks for the quick update! --Wolbo (talk) 21:18, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Rick Hawn
Hey, thanks for fixing my mistake on Rick Hawn. I guess I was in hurry and wasn't paying close enough attention etc. SQGibbon (talk) 19:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Quick question about edit summary on WP:DBR/Broken section anhors
You left the summary "Record count: 43105", is this a record high or low, and to what does this number pertain? Thanks Banak (talk) 23:54, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * That is the current number of broken section anchors. Only the first 10000 are displayed. I started including it to track progress. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:06, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah thanks. Is that a record high or a record low? Banak (talk) 00:07, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The only other count I have is from September 2014 of about 65000. fixes probably account for a good portion of the reduction. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:19, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah sorry, misunderstood the word "Record" as being a high or low score, rather than the number of entries. Appologies. Banak (talk) 00:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Changing Article Title From Lower to Upper Case.
Hi Bamyers, I recently created a page for the late motoring journalist Frank Page. I notice that you correctly changed the letter 'P' in the title from lower to upper case. I had tried to do this, following the 'site instructions, but to no avail. I'd just like to ask you how to do this, in case I'm faced with the same problem in the future. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DenbySpinks (talk • contribs) 19:31, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * On the right side of the top menu bar there is a menu item called More, click on that and one of the options is Move. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:50, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

That's excellent, many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DenbySpinks (talk • contribs) 01:49, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

AlexNewArtBot pages
I've just seen User:AlexNewArtBot/WomenScientistsSearchResult and similar pages; which are very useful, thank you. I have some suggested tweaks to the output format, to make it even more useful. Please could you:


 * indicate the Wikidata ID, if one exists, otherwise give an indication that one should be created
 * For biographies, include search links for VIAF, ISNI & ORCID, e.g. for Polly Roy:
 * http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22Polly%20Roy%22&sortKeys=holdingscount&recordSchema=BriefVIAF
 * http://isni.oclc.nl/DB=1.2/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=8006&SRT=&TRM=Polly+Roy
 * https://orcid.org/orcid-search/quick-search/?searchQuery=Polly%20Roy

Please let me know if you need me to expand on any of the above. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:41, 25 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I have implemented your suggestions as a separate web page with a link from the new article lists. User:AlexNewArtBot/WomenScientistsSearchResult has the new link. The rest of the new article reports will have the link after the May 28 bot run. If you have more authority search links I could add, post them here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:08, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. That works for me (it's an extra click away, but worth it for the added utility). Please may I suggest:

Cheers, Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:04, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * remove the  from the links (users can always tell their browser "Open in new tab" if they wish to).
 * pre-populate the "create Wikidata" link, with the Wikipedia page title, like
 * Add the search links found in Find sources AFD (in a separate section to authority control searches, please)
 * As well as linking to Wikidata, if found, link to Reasonator e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42&lang=en
 * Add authority control searches:
 * LCCN (e.g. )
 * ULAN
 * imdb
 * MusicBrainz
 * Make the tool work for Wikidata (e.g. )


 * Enhancements are coded. What do you want the 'make the tool work for Wikidata' to do? --Bamyers99 (talk) 02:24, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you again. This is already proving to be really useful. First, a couple more requests:


 * If the subject has an official website (url or website in an infobox, using Official, or in Wikidata, please display a link to it.
 * If we know that the subject is a human, a better VIAF search URL is
 * If we know that the subject is not human, suppress the ORCID line

For use with Wikidata, instead of:


 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/PageTools.php?page=Jane+Doe

you'd use, say:


 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/PageTools.php?page=Q12345

or:


 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/PageTools.php?item=Q12345

and your abstract would be the Wikidata description (in English, or the browser's default language, perhaps).

A user script can then launch it from within Wikidata (or indeed, Wikipedia). I would also make a template for use in Wikidata non-item pages. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:42, 30 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Enhancements are coded. The Wikidata url is  --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:46, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * And again: thank you very much. I have found a small bug: You appear to be using a full stop (period) as a delimiter for your abstracts. This fails if the subject has an initial ("Jane Q. Doe") or a "circa" birthdate ("born c. 1786"). Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:58, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * That's the MediaWiki api's primitive extract the first sentence code. I have changed my code to keep requesting more sentences until is has at least 50 characters. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:17, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Neat workaround. Do you happen to know if a bug has been raised for the API issue? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:00, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Don't know if bug raised. Not worth my time to research. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:02, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * NP, thanks. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:07, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Another bug; at you've concatenated two web addresses. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:07, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The infobox has two urls. I am not going to attempt to parse official site to see if it has multiple urls. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:16, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

CleanupWorklistBot
Quick question--it says it runs once a week, but was wondering which day? Just wondering when to anticipate the first population of my cleanup listings for WP:ROMANCE. Thanks! plange (talk) 03:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * It runs on Tuesday. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:15, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! plange (talk) 14:30, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Ring Magazine Fighters of the Year
Hi @Bamyers. I think you can imagine how frustrating the following has been for me. I am the Editor in Chief of Ring Magazine, the magazine in question in the category Ring Magazine Fighters of the Year. I keep changing our 2012 Fighter of the Year to the correct winner (Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico) and someone keeps changing it to to Nonito Donaire. Donaire won a fan poll; that's not our official Fighter of the Year. If you can help me change it to Marquez permanently, I would really appreciate it. - Michael Rosenthal, Editor in Chief of THE RING Magazine.
 * Sorry about that, I only checked the reference that had the fan poll and I didn't know that it was a fan poll. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:14, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Adding to NAA
Hi! How can I add a new subject to this list? Mhhossein (talk) 13:29, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * There is a complete new article list here. If the subject that you want is not in that list, you can follow the directions near the bottom of that page to add a new subject or I can assist with adding one. Most new article searches use keywords, categories, stub templates to locate articles of interest. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:05, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. It is fantastic! Mhhossein (talk) 12:51, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Categories....
Thanks for catching my accidental deletion of the categories on Yarmouth Castle! Hchc2009 (talk) 19:15, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Why were my edits removed?
Why were my edits removed? The year of birth is wrong. In order to be qualified in any of those contests you have to be younger. Known facts. No one wants to see old ladies in the buff or in bikinis. Those sources give the fake age. Angel Is A Centerfold (talk) 23:57, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * You removed referenced material. If you want to replace it, provide a source. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:03, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Okay so you want me to find birth records? That's the only way to prove it. Angel Is A Centerfold (talk) 00:10, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

InceptionBot definition of lede?
Thanks for your work on InceptionBot, I've been looking at it to monitor new drafts that would be relevant to WikiProject Bangladesh. I've noticed, when using the new page search rule test, that I don't always see the doubling of points I expect for matches in the lede.

In RuleSetProcessor.php, method processRule contains this call:

The  appears to be looking for the start of the first section header after the lede, but I'm puzzled about the. The effect appears to be that InceptionBot considers the lede complete as soon as it encounters a blank line. (Example test: rule page name Bangladesh, test page name Textile Engineering College, Chittagong.) This is a narrower definition of the lede than is usual on Wikipedia, where the lede may consist of several paragraphs separated by blank lines, or, for example, an infobox - blank line - paragraph of prose. Would you take a look at it and see if it's working the way you intended it?

Php is not my area of expertise, and my regular expressions are pretty rusty, so forgive me if I'm talking through my hat. I do have a software engineering background, though, so you don't have to explain in words of one syllable. Thanks, Worldbruce (talk) 01:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)


 * The lede detection regex was copied from the previous bot. Blank lines before the "real" lede are more common than I originally thought. I have modified it to always use the the whole first section as the lede. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:43, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Joya's Fun School
You have the wrong information on the Joya's Fun School page. Joya's Fun School aired on Fridays on WPIX up until October 1, 1982. Then it moved to a Saturday morming timeslot on Saturday, Oct. 9 - Saturday, Nov. 27, 1982. You say it ended in 1980. It always aired on Fridays in the same timeslot as the Magic Garden up until Oct. 1, 1982.

You actually have alot of mistakes on the page. It was 100 percent accurate before. Joya's Fun School started airing on Fridays on April 7, 1972, not 1973 --Mst4581 (talk) 21:19, July 3, 2015‎ (UTC)
 * You need to provide the source (read this page) of your information. Note the References section near the bottom of the current Joya's Fun School article. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:30, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Joya's Fun School
There are alot of mistakes on the Joya's Fun School page. It was correct before. I will send you the correct info. Mst4581 (talk) 21:36, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

List of shipwrecks in August 1943
Thanks for the catch, not sure how that happened but the edit window didn't load correctly first time, so I had to reload it. Will correct flags again now. Mjroots (talk) 18:04, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Susquehannock
Hey, I noticed some minor errors. I live here and know a lot. Can I toss u some info? Pzrschreck (talk) 04:25, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup listing
Just a minor annoyance: in the listing, "Articles with unsourced statements" appear in the "Neutrality" section, instead of the "References" section. GregorB (talk) 15:50, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, fixed for future runs. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:59, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! GregorB (talk) 16:02, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

CleanupWorklistBot hiccups?
In the latest cleanup listing for WP Louisville, a lot of the "Resolved articles" haven't been touched in the previous week or longer, and still have the problems that were shown to be resolved. Would you please investigate what might be the matter there? Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 10:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax was removed from some of the cleanup categories (ie. Category:Pages with citations lacking titles) on July 26, 2015. This caused the bot to lose track of those categories and mark articles as resolved. I have fixed it by including Category:CS1 errors subcategories which the affected cleanup categories are also a member of. I regenerated the cleanup listings. Thanks for reporting the issue. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:43, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for fixing this so quickly! Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 08:23, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Can the most edited articles bot run daily?
Can we please try having that bot run daily for a few weeks at least? EllenCT (talk) 23:09, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I have configured it to run daily. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:50, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

About edits on List of autobiographies
I think it is a mistake that you reverted my recent edit to List of autobiographies.The edit I made is merging the two duplicate lists into one, thus cleaning up the entry. The information lost is the ordering by author surname and some entry links. It is not a test or vandalism, please undo your revert. Golopotw (talk) 05:42, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I have reverted my revert. 1) You were not logged in when you made the changes. 2) You removed all of the wikilinks and the category. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:04, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

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User:AlexNewArtBot/Malta
I created the page User:AlexNewArtBot/Malta, but the bot is still not generating lists of new Malta-related articles. What else do I need to do please? Best regards, Xwejnusgozo (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I have added Malta to User:AlexNewArtBot/Master. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:54, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks :) Xwejnusgozo (talk) 16:06, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Two requests
I would like to be informed in independent lists about new articles in the following categories and their subcategories: Category:Narrow gauge railways OR Category:Rail transport. I don't understand yet, how to set-up these searches. Could you help me, please? By the way: Are similar searches possible for Commons Category:Narrow gauge railways and Commons Category:Tübingen and subcategories? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:09, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Is this for a WikiProject or for your own personal use? --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:10, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * For being linked or even better to be imported on subpages of the relevant German portals: de:Portal:Bahn/Mitmachen and de:Portal:Tübingen. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:42, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Which bot you are asking about: User:InceptionBot or User:CategoryWatchlistBot? InceptionBot is for the English Wikipedia only. CategoryWatchlistBot currently supports English Wikipedia and Commons. Here are the 4 queries that you asked for using CategoryWatchlistBot: Commons - Narrow gauge railways, Commons - Tübingen, English Wiki - Narrow gauge railways, English wiki - Rail transport --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I am delighted about the results of the English Wiki searches. However, the Commons searches are currently still empty. I will check them soon again, and might need to broaden them. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 02:19, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I had the wrong link for Commons - Narrow gauge railways. The Commons data collection is brand new. Scans are done hourly. 7 days of data are retained. Re: broaden them, there is a limit of 500 subcategories per search and all 4 searches are at the 500 limit. At the bottom of the search results is a link called Subcategories that will display them. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:35, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, much more effective now. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 20:52, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Wrestling at the Summer Olympics of 1928
Hi! Sorry about this. I meant to do this. Best of wishes.--Paracel63 (talk) 16:44, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Respond to my Talk page
Hi the current players of Afghan F.C., KPT F.C., PIA F.C. are violating FIFA code which means that they are not significant in professional football. Just like Qatar league there are some non-professional players. The players also failed WP:GNG. And i also understand i made a unprofessional mistake by accidentally removing the categories. Thank you for telling me! Hockeysoccertennis (talk)

Regarding handling of drafts by InceptionBot
During my weekly review of User:AlexNewArtBot/PolandSearchResult and I noticed that the bot will report drafts as they are created, but not as they are moved to mainspace. Could we have the bot report such moves too? (If you reply here, please ping me - thank you). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:52, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you give me an example. The bot is supposed to report draft moves. It reported Suzanne Eisendieck when it was moved from Draft:Suzanne Eisendieck. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:04, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It did, I am sorry, I missed that. But this leads me to a second question: would be possible to have the bot use different colors for background text for drafts, and moved drafts? As well as for things like categories? When I am parsing hundred+ entries each Monday or so, it would really help to be able to be able to visualize the workload a bit better (I for example ignore drafts and categories, but still have to look at text to see the difference...). It's a tiny thing, but would be very helpful. (I guess one could write a user script for this, but it's outside my set of skills to do so...). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:20, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The new article lists can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization. Re: moved draft highlighting, InceptionBot does not keep track of whether a new article was moved from another namespace, so they won't get highlighted. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Excellent, that's what I was looking for! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:24, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Issue
Your bot appears to have created a copyright violation, which I have removed here. Please ping me when you reply. --JustBerry (talk) 02:01, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The text comes directly from the 2016 Pakistan Super League article lead. --Bamyers99 (talk) 02:10, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like the article itself has copyright issues. Keep me posted. --JustBerry (talk) 02:17, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup listings history
Would it be possible to add another column to the "History" page? Right now, it lists "Cleanup articles" and "Cleanup issues", but it doesn't tell you how many articles were resolved each week. Sometimes, when you look at a cleanup listing for a Wikiproject, the number of articles in the backlog is increasing, but there's also a lot of activity cleaning up articles. Other times, the weekly listing shows very few articles resolved, so nobody actively focused on the backlog that week. Adding an "articles cleared" column would make it easier to identify the WikiProjects where nobody is currently focusing on cleanup. --Djembayz (talk) 15:45, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Search processes
Hi. I'd be curious about the new-article patrol process as it pertains to search. This is because I do a lot of research about Search. I have to, to write so much of Help:Searching and now Help:Searching/Draft.

For example, if there is a bot search going on, I'd really like to know more about it please. Stuff like that, I'd like a description about. You can just point me to other places if you don't have time.
 * What are the actual queries or how exactly are they formed?
 * Do they use regex? I noticed another subpage has a list of Perl regex.
 * Do they use CirrusSearch or AWB-plus-download?

I got here from an AlexNewArtBot subpage linking to here for Q&A. Thanks. &mdash; Cp i r al  Cpiral  04:31, 13 October 2015 (UTC)


 * InceptionBot (formerly AlexNewArtBot) doesn't use Wikipedia's search to locate new articles. Instead, it uses the Wikipedia API to retrieve a list of new articles, then it uses the Wikipedia API to retrieve the text of each new article and uses regexes to determine if a new article may be of interest to a WikiProject. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:40, 13 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Interesting links. Thanks. &mdash;  Cp i r al  Cpiral  07:28, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup listing
Hi, looking at the cleanup listing for the tennis Wikiproject it is noticeable that some categories are named 'Articles...' while others are named 'Wikipedia articles...'. Is there any distinction between the two? If not, can the categories starting with 'Wikipedia articles...' be renamed to 'Articles...'? This would improve consistency and make the listing a little bit easier to scan and read.--Wolbo (talk) 17:58, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. It has been implemented. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:34, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thx!. --Wolbo (talk) 13:47, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Hello. Thanks for running this bot. The featured articles clean up list stopped working between 21 and 29 July and I had assumed that this had affected all listings and that the problem was on the toolserver. However, I see that the problem appears to be specific to the featured articles listing. Any idea what might be causing it or how it can be solved? Thanks. DrKay (talk) 10:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reporting this. There was a talk page in Category:Featured articles. I have fixed the talk page and put a check into the program to report this in the future so that it can be fixed right away. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:13, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Joaquín Murillo
Thanks for the edit, help me to add more and make the page to look like other players pages. Thanks!--Alexiulian25 (talk) 08:54, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot/OregonSearchResult
Hi there, are you in charge of the bot now? Thanks! It seems like the rules used to suppress redirects. Do you know why it isn't? I created a gallizion redirs today and much to my chagrin they are now clogging up the new article list. Can we fix this or was it based on some consensus? Valfontis (talk) 18:58, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
 * InceptionBot has never suppressed redirects in the 2 years that I have been running it. I have updated it to now suppress redirects for future runs. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:15, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks! Valfontis (talk) 20:43, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Gender changer Entry
I would like to understand why the edit to the Gender_changer entry has been dubbed non-constructive. Gender Changer refers to a computer part as well as a group that discussed the gendering of technology nomenclature. Could you possibly explain how the entry is problematic? (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 16:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The article is about the computer part. If this group that you are referring to is notable, then you are welcome to create a new article with a different title. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:20, 3 November 2015 (UTC)


 * As far as I understand the 'notable' criteria, the genderchangers group has "Significant coverage", and is "Reliable" insofar as it has been mentioned in academic publications over the last decade and has a mailing list archive describing activities and discussions. I included the mention within the Gender changer entry so as not to erect an 'advertising' about genderchangers (i.e. "Independent of the subject"), but rather how this term 'Gender Changer' is not only a computer part, but a placeholder for the discussion on, amongst others, as mentioned, tech nomenclature (male/female plugs, master/slaves, etc). I would prefer it be included within the Gender changer page, another option would be to add a 'disambiguation' link.

Ingress (video game)
Many thanks for repairing my unintended deletion of categories on Ingress (video game). Unfortunately, in moving the explanatory footnotes around and into their own h2 section, you disconnected them from their tags: efn A now leads to Note 1, and efn B to Note 2.

I hope you know how to fix this, because I don't. -- Thnidu (talk) 00:35, 7 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Never mind, I worked it out . I don't know why moving  from its own section back into § References should work, but it does. --Thnidu (talk) 00:50, 7 November 2015 (UTC)


 * It's only in the mobile view! Will report as a bug. --Thnidu (talk) 01:01, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

How to include new created category into a Wikiproject?
Hi, I have created a category ([Category:Sindhi computer scientists]), how to include this category into {WP Pakistan} New Articles section...? Kindly include it if you can......Jogi 007 (talk) 12:36, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Pages with reference errors
There's a new cleanup category, Category:Pages with reference errors, might be included in the WikiProject cleanup listing... GregorB (talk) 15:39, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have added it. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:41, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I think this category is throwing up some errors at the moment. Looking at the Cleanup listing for Musicians the number of new entries has increased five-fold. I left a message on the Village Pump here, where there somebody already raised the issue. Karst (talk) 10:59, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

For those wondering why automatically named references such as sfn are generating duplicate name errors on the Cleanup listings see Village pump (technical)/Archive 141. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * As I have been going through some of the entries (starting at the top) in the Cleanup listing for Musicians over the past few days, I have to say most of these are genuine errors. In the main, they consist of duplicate 'ref name=' tags or badly formulated references. What I tend to do is the following. Check the reference error. Copy the tag name that causes the error. Go into edit source mode and do a search for the term. Check for duplicates and remove them. I guess this could be automated somehow and on occasion I have noticed that using Refill partly fixes the problem. Hope that helps. Karst (talk) 10:33, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Faroe Islands new articles list
Hi Bamyers99. I would like to use the InceptionBot to get a list of new articles that could be within the scope of WikiProject Faroe Islands. I can't really understand how I could get the bot working (enable the bot to run under certain rules, generate list etc). Could you give me a hand? Hansi667 (Neighbor Of The Beast) a penny for your thoughts? 13:24, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have created the rules for the Faroe Islands and added the result list to the WikiProject. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:04, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Bamyers99. Just one more question. In case I want to add more words in the search rules, can I edit the page? Is there anything else I should do to update the rules? For example if I'd like to add the word Faroese to the rules, do I just add a line with 10 /\WFaroese/ in the rules page? Hansi667 (Neighbor Of The Beast) a penny for your thoughts? 09:41, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * You can edit the rules page. Yes, that is how to add a new rule. After the rule page is saved, go to New Page Search Rule Test to test the rules. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:21, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Football squad templates with invalid Navbar links
Thanks again for Database reports/Invalid Navbar links. I came by [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Johor_Darul_Takzim_F.C._squad&diff=690134756&oldid=684082151]. Could templates using Football squad also be included in the report? There are around 1800. The only example I examined Madhya Pradesh Squad has invalid links. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:27, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have added it plus several others from Category:Navigational box wrapper templates. --Bamyers99 (talk) 02:32, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Women's football search result
Is it really a good idea to include the word "she" in User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensFootball? It's going to match every article which talks about a woman, or even anything else feminine for that matter. It matched my new article Codenames (board game) even though it has nothing to do with football. It's even matching articles about ships, which aren't even living creatures! J I P &#124; Talk 11:03, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The page history shows the rules in User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensFootball were made by Hmlarson. "she" and "women's" were both bad ideas. They each gave 10 points (20 if in the lead) and caused a huge number of irrelevant articles to pass the threshold of 14 points. I have removed the two rules.[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensFootball&diff=690281264&oldid=689717532] PrimeHunter (talk) 12:14, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * - thanks for modifying. If you have any other tips for optimizing for women's football soccer-related articles only, let me know.Hmlarson (talk) 17:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have removed all entries with "score: 20" from User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensFootballSearchResult. That was around 90% of all entries and nearly all were false positives. Most entries with score 30 and 40 are also wrong but were not removed. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:49, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Scoring
On WikiProject United States/New articles State O-Z all the articles are given a score, like 60 or 25 or something. I'm just curious as to what that means. Does a high score mean a better article or is it like golf where a lower score is better? Thanks. White Arabian mare ( Neigh ) 00:42, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The higher the score, the more keywords were matched and the more likely an article will be of interest to a particular WikiProject. A Match log describes how the articles were scored. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:56, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. I was pretty wrong; I thought maybe they were being scored on the style of writing (informal to encyclopedic), quality of references or something else. I hadn't known about this before. Thanks again. White Arabian mare ( Neigh ) 01:56, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi, similar question for WP:Ships: what is the higher score that a ship article can achieve, and are there any scoring guidance that can be used to improve new ship articles? Thanks, DPdH (talk) 21:16, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The score is not an article quality score. The score is only used to determine if a new article should be reported to a particular WikiProject as a new article. --Bamyers99 (talk) 02:39, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. What's the highest possible score? DPdH (talk) 09:02, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The score depends on how many keywords are matched. The ships rules are here. The number at the beginning of a line is the score for the keyword that follows it. If there is no number, then it defaults to 10 points. If a new article scores 50 or more points, then it is reported to the WikiProject. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:05, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Crystal clear, and really useful. Thanks a lot. DPdH (talk) 22:16, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-50
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 * Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias.
 * Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles.
 * IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature.
 * You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be.
 * It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead.
 * You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor.
 * UploadWizard will look a bit different.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
 * New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays.

Meetings
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Future changes
 * A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default.

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Tech News: 2015-51
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 * Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

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Thanks for your edits to Russian National Parks
I appreciate it. One question: when I create a new article for, say, WikiProject Protected Areas, should I create a Talk page and add the project template to it myself? I'm new to Wikipedia and can't figure out if WikiProjects are controlled by gatekeepers or if I'm allowed to add articles to the Project by myself. Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 02:15, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for creating the new articles. Anyone can add a WikiProject template to a talk page. I monitor the protected area new article report to look for talk pages that are missing the WikiProject templates. Adding a WikiProject allows articles to be tracked for things such as the article cleanup lists. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:27, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Also, I did kind of an overhaul of the list at National parks of Russia.  Can you take a look to see if I did it right?  Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 04:52, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

thanks and need help
Thanks for correcting my error. The deletion happened as I tried to correct the references section of Instrumentalism. Can you see why I don't get that section title at the end of the article?TBR-qed (talk) 22:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I have added a missing tag. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
 * Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
 * One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
 * Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

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Tech News: 2016-04
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Recent changes
 * You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week.
 * Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no tag in that section.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension.
 * The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade.
 * Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones.

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