User talk:Betacommand/20100201

The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 February 2010
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External link regard Makedon Arman people
Hello mister BetaCommand. I saw that you removed the offical link of the council of Aromanians/Macedonians/Vlachs. Which is the reason? What is the problem with this site? Thank you! Best regards! (Greek macedonian (talk) 20:11, 2 February 2010 (UTC))
 * link spamming by the site owner WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/makedonarman-council.org βcommand 01:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Finding cited material that could be on Wikisource
In respect of a recent disscusion on IRC,

Summary of purpose : Locate and identify jorunal articles and books that could be public domain and suitable for inclusion in wikisource, that are used as citations on English Wikipedia.

Full Technical Description.

The script shall start by identifying titles tagged with the cite book or Cite journal and shall create a list of these internally.

From the internal list the script shall eleminate those items for which the date or year paramaters are null or not specifed.

From the internal list the script shall eleminate those items for where a data or year is specified, the data is later than Jan. 1st 1923.

The system shall then sort the list of the generated items by the title= values, or if no title= is present the journal= (and then if non-null, by volume=, issue=, date= ,year=), publisher=,author= fields in preference...

The script shall than attempt to find duplicate entries, eliminating them as required..

Finally the script shall internally flag any items for which a url= field is set,

before generating a report, detailing the Title(or Journal), Author, Year, And number of cites. If a url=field exists for the entry, then this included as a 'Potential scan source' in the report.

Having generated the report, it is intended that the results be provided in a wiki-markup compatible manner to English Wikisource.

Frequency of operation : One off run initially, and then possibly every 3 months to catch new entries.

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:17, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 8 February 2010
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thanks
I will ask the existing projects which have a Unreferenced BLPs section whether they would like to do this, such as: WikiProject Football/Unreferenced BLPs Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 19:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Another stats request?
Hi Beta! I've got another request for you and your marching droid minions :)

I noted that we recently crossed 350k non-free images on the project. Just unreal. But anyway, I got thinking about ratios. For example, assuming each non-free image is used just once (we know that's not true), then at least 11% or articles have a non-free image on them.

I'm curious about two figures that I can't derive from the available data. Of the ~3.2 million articles on Wikipedia, how many of them currently have at least one non-free image on them? Second, how many total uses of non-free images are there in article space?

I'm just looking for one time figures. But, if you want to make this an ongoing report, that would be useful. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 23:40, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

sandboxes
with the list of BLPs--are they active do you want items removed as they;re cleared?  DGG ( talk ) 03:03, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * sorry, I see where the list been moved to, I'm working there already  DGG ( talk ) 03:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

The rare Multiple Barnstar :)

 * Thank you again for your work. That is great that only the last step is pending. I am trying to program autohotkey to scrape the first paragraph. In the coding, there are certain ways that all first paragraphs of all articles are the same. Okip (formerly Ikip) 03:20, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * List of your scraped unreferenced BLPs with google news, scholar, books and first paragraph of article:
 * WikiProject_Cricket


 * Okip  05:45, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 15 February 2010
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Comment on your edits
I have concerns about your edits which I've raised with MBianz here. If I am mistaken I apologise but please be aware that unspaced ndashes should not be replaced by ndashes when "when there is a space within either one or both of the items". Rambo's Revenge (talk)  19:29, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * thanks I was unaware of the exception to the MoS. Ill keep that in mind. The edits are not automated, just going though a list of pages with red linked images, removing the deleted/non-existent images and doing other miscellaneous cleanup that I see. Keeping track of the MoS at times can be difficult so thanks for the heads up I'll ensure that it doesn't happen again. βcommand 19:35, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Good news

 * User_talk:Tim1357 so close to it happening! Thanks again for your hard work. Okip  02:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 22 February 2010
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Possible rename of Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
Please note that I have nominated Category:Candidates for speedy deletion for rename. I happen to know that you have a tool on the tool server which keeps track of this category, so please make sure that, should my proposal pass, your tool will know how to handle it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:40, 28 February 2010 (UTC)