User talk:Dragons flight/Archive 3

Category Tracker
I have copied your category tracker to one of my sub-pages. I trust that is acceptable? It's a good piece of work. JodyBRoll, Tide, Roll 02:33, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Category Tracker is not updating - hello, are you there? hello? -  Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 06:26, 14 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I turned my bots off when I started my wiki-vacation a while back. I'm still avoiding jumping back into things full-time.  Also, now that the toolserver works with en, the category tracker really ought to be rewritten to take advantage of that.  Dragons flight 08:25, 14 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I hope you (or someone else) get it working again, as I think it's a very useful tool. Thanks for writing it, and I look forward to any updates. -  Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 19:11, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Logs
Hi, as I'm sure you know the floodgates may be opened and anon page creation allowed. If so could you run another log analysis like you did. That way we could see how the logs of new articles and deletions change. If this is too much trouble/time consuming then that's ok, I understand that you may have other commitments. Thanks, James086 Talk &#124;  Email 02:25, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Commons images
Hi! Back when I mentioned to you that your images could be watched more convieniently on the commons via the email notifications... remember. Well, have a new capability it seems you should know: see this partial change in, and the tool templates Cms, wpd, and friends. {{{{tl|wdy}} can be handy inline so you don't have to define things in an explaination!). I left the {cms} in place to see if it was going to a gallery or a redirect as the one link did... but a little global SAR should give your description pages a boost, and make them read well "There", as they did "here". Those templates were developed with malice aforethought of being sister-site transportable, so this is a good use for them.


 * The other thing... Think the ice ages you have in a bottom bar graph on that page should have a clear source cited. A numeric table of end points on that would be nice on the given dense time (5 mya, iirc) scale. I was looking via the Permian Mass Extinction which corresponds to 430-450 mya, and that ice age, whatever it may be called... perhaps something else for that hypothetical table!  (See how good I am at giving you work to do... perhaps you need a new supervisor?  Well, you do good work, imho, which means you wouldn't start out in trouble! I gotta run! Cheers! // Fra nkB  20:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Cheers
I replied on my talk page. - 211.30.71.131 (talk) 14:04, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Graphs in the log analysis
I'd like to include some of your graphs in my forthcoming book. Would that be okay? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:16, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's fine, as long as I'm acknowledged (Robert A. Rohde) as creating them. Dragons flight (talk) 21:42, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * It's a deal. Thanks. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I hope I won't have to bother you much, but I'll ask when I need clarification. In the edit sample, for the column labeled "Bot", is this (a) those edits with a "b" flag, or (b) edits by all useraccounts that you identified as bots by (say) using a category to label the couple hundred or so approved/categorized bots useraccounts as such? -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 02:26, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Every account with a bot flag at the time of the analysis plus any accounts that had a username ending "Bot". Dragons flight (talk) 03:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Dead External Links - CFLs
Hi Dragons flight, you may not be aware of this: Dead external links

"Do not simply remove dead links; they often contain valuable information.

However, if unsuccessful tag the link with dead link which will notify other editors that the link is dead and optionally provide a link to the Internet Archive. See Citing sources and Using the Wayback Machine."

Regards,

WLDtalk 13:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * A single manufacturer's product catalog is a dumb reference for facts in question anyway, even if the link worked. It would be better to replace it.  Dragons flight (talk) 13:57, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Feel free to replace it with a suitable alternative. If you don't have one to hand, the 'dead link' tag will prompt someone else to do so. Regards, WLDtalk 22:54, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Analysis for Dutch Wikipedia
Hi Dragons flight. I have been interested in your analysis and would like to find out how the Dutch Wikipedia develops. Is it possible to do your analysis for the NL:WP as well?

Kind regards Londenp (talk) 13:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * While certainly possible, I have no intention of doing any more big analysis efforts (for any wikis) at least until the xmas holidays. However, I might be willing to generate an NL equivalent of User:Dragons_flight/Log_analysis/wiki_logs for you now.  That would cover the logged actions but not things like edit rates.  Depends on what you want, I guess.  You could also bug User:Gmaxwell, since hypothetically he's doing statistical analysis of Wikipedia too.  Dragons flight (talk) 17:06, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your offer, but I want to bug nobody. The main interest is in development of amount of edits in time. A simple analysis which would not take too much of your time will be excellent. As an alternative I have also found a person, who does a lot on the tool server, willing to perform the analysis of our (NL-WP). If you can release your script and your analysis is based on a dump, he would be willing to do the analysis as well (nl:Gebruiker:Erwin). So either way which suits you best. Thank you so much for considering. Kind regards Londenp (talk) 21:06, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The edit count portion of the analysis was not based on a dump. There have not been any dumps of enwiki in over a year.  It is based on pulling the history pages from randomly selected articles off of the live site and scaling from my sampled articles to the whole population.  One could do the same analysis on the toolserver or from a dump, but the code would be different.  Dragons flight (talk) 21:16, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Your recent RfC reply at Talk:RealClimate
You recently provided a reply to an RfC at RealClimate. Your input was greatly appreciated. The debate there has evolved a bit and updated language has been proposed. If you care to comment further you can do so at RfC: Should the following criticism be included?. Thanks. --GoRight 16:41, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

#ifexist limit
A request was made at Template:Archive list to reduce the # of calls from 101 to 10 in light of this discussion. Should that change wait until the week's over or should it be done now? SkierRMH ( talk ) 23:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Magma
Thanks for your valuable addition to Magma. Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 16:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)