User talk:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot/1.0

Bot login
Watchlistbot for me is going to be a dream thing. Was looking for one yesterday and stumbled on it today!! Pardon silly questions if any ;) I am on Fiesty Fawn and from what I understood, I added watchlistbot@jabber.org on to my pidgin "Add buddy" option and gave the same screen name and alias. Pidgin was logged into my gmail account at this time. There's no response. Can you help? Thanks. Prashanthns (talk) 11:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok. I see that I am not yet authorized. Sorry for the impatience!Cheers. Prashanthns (talk) 11:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Working great
WLB is working great for me, and thanks again for this. I was wondering if it is possible to add "my watchlist" itself to this. This would be convenient also to get updates from my watchlist? Is this possible? I tried "watch Special:watchlist/Prashanthns", which it adds, but doesen't do anything nonetheless. Thanks. Prashanthns (talk) 13:52, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Not currently. In order to do this it would need to obtain your Wikipedia account name and password; watchlists are not public information.  I don't know about you but I don't really want a database of Wikipedia login information sitting on my computer, for several reasons.
 * You can copy over your Wikipedia watchlist though. Just type "batch add" into your chat window followed by a newline (use Shift+Enter to get one in Gmail) and then paste the contents of Special:Watchlist/raw right after.  Of course, it will be up to you to keep them synchronized.  --Chris (talk) 14:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Dd..uh...that simple!Thanks...and No, I wouldnt want my password there either!:)Thanks again. Prashanthns (talk) 15:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Possible problem
As of 4:15 Pacific time, Watchlistbot is not being shown as online. I don't know if you shut it down regularly, but I thought this should be brought up if you don't. Leonard^Bloom (talk) 23:16, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Wlbot down?
It seems to be down. Not seeing it online on my gtalk. Just letting you know. Prashanthns (talk) 08:31, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * It appears to be down again. :(   — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 05:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It appears to be up again. Thanks for restarting it, Crazycomputers.    — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 12:32, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Non-English pages?
I'm having trouble using watchlistbot on non-English pages. I should be able to set "watch FR:France" and see any changes made to this page, but it doesn't seem to be working. Is watchlistbot watching non-English pages? Is my syntax correct for watching these pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.195.137.211 (talk) 10:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Interwiki is planned at some point (basically when I get around to it) but is not currently implemented. But you're using the same syntax I'll be implementing later. :) --Chris (talk) 16:53, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

AIM
Hi. Thanks for this great tool, but exactly how does one contact it on AIM? Thanks again. — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 00:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Right now AIM is not supported and I don't have a timeline for adding support. Perhaps I could use libpurple at some point... --Chris (talk) 02:55, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * OIC, that support is at version 0.4 and you've only developed up to version 0.1.8 so far. No biggie, I haven't had a problem yet with XMPP connecting (via Pidgin).    — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 03:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Batch Add
Hey Man,

I am having trouble using the batch add feature

can you describe, keystroke by keystroke how to do this. Use articles foo and bar as an example if you could. Tim1357 (talk) 20:20, 27 October 2009 (UTC)


 * You need to figure out how to insert carriage returns into your IM client. Usually this is done with CTRL+Enter.  Before you hit enter to send the message, it should look like this:

batch add foo bar


 * --Chris (talk) 23:12, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to subscribe to me
I've tried with two different XMPP accounts, nothing happens when I send authorize requests and the bot appears as "offline". I've tried sending it "about" IMs even though it appears to be offline, to no avail. Is it down or not accepting new subscribers or am I doing something wrong? ciphergoth (talk) 22:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Appears to be working now - thanks! ciphergoth (talk) 12:12, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I know this reply is months late, but just for clarification: if the bot is marked offline then it is usually not operating at the moment. This may be due to a bot crash or issues on the XMPP server. Occasionally the bot will still be operating even though it appears offline, but if you don't get responses from the bot (either command responses or subscription responses) and the bot looks offline, then it's just not working. You are welcome to report the problem to me directly in that case. --Chris (talk) 21:54, 1 August 2010 (UTC)