User talk:Emijrp/2008

Illustrating bios
I've added 25+ pics to the bios, but seemed to have missed the barnstar bus. Is there a threshold for this? -- Broken Sphere Msg me 00:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

A suggestion
Hi Emijrrp, the suggested new images are a great idea. If I can make one, actually two suggestions, it might be nicer if it sorted by destination wiki. That is, if all the images for adding to a given wiki are put on the same page? I know that would mean some duplication where a single image can be added to two wikis, but given that a single person is quite likely to only add one of those images, I think that's probably a good thing.

The other suggestion, which I guess you've already thought of, would be to add automatic removal of suggestions once they get actioned, or perhaps just add a one-click button to each suggestion that deletes the section it's in, if that's possible?

But anyway, thanks for creating the bot! Regards, Ben Aveling 01:48, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Useless redirects?
I've recently deleted some redirects from uncapitalized names, and I've noticed they were all created by your bot. I wonder what is the policy on that? I tend to be lenient on redirects, but I think everybody knows they should capitalize name of a country or a city. Redirects which I think are useless include for example Duchy of zator or expulsion of poles by germany.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 12:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Please, read this, this, this and this.
 * Example from WP:REDIRECT:
 * Redirect Vice chancellor of austria to Vice-Chancellor of Austria is needed because the Go search is case-sensitive for mixed-caps titles. Adding this redirect allows the article to be found when a user enters "vice chancellor of austria" or "vice chancellor of Austria" as a Go search.
 * Also,, , . Not all have been created by my bot ;). Now, if you write "duchy of zator" on the search box, you won't go to the article :(. --Emijrp (talk) 13:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Images for bio
Hi. Yes, please make the tool add images on left. For example, this image should have been added on left of the page. The first edit summary is correct. It is not working correctly here because the English Wikipedia is configured as an ltr wiki. It will work correctly on the Arabic Wikipedia where it is intended to be used. Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 18:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * the Hebrew wikipdia also need the images on the left so please change it from right|thumb to שמאל|ממוזער which is the local syntax. Hidro (talk) 01:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * i don't know if it's the tool's fault but it's a problem . Hidro (talk) 18:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It is a usual mistake for character ' and I don't know how to fix it :( . Fortunately it isn't a frequent character. --Emijrp (talk) 20:52, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * it's a vary common character in names translated to Hebrew, look. Hidro (talk) 21:43, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Images for biographies @ toolserver
Hi Emijrp,

Thanks for the great bot! I've added already about 50+ images to nl.wikipedia! I have a small quiestion however, is there a particular reason that the added images are flagged as minor edits by default? Adding an image is not a minor edit IMHO, minor edits are things like spellingcorrections or typo's etc. Keep up the good work! Best regards, Tdevries (talk) 22:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't care to change the flag edit, but nobody think like you by now. If there are more people, I have no problem. --Emijrp (talk) 12:55, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Destacados y buenos
Buenas y santas Emilio, espero que todo te ande bien. Me apena un poco tener que venir a escribirte aquí, ya que se te echa de menos por nuestros lares (sí, sé que suena inverosímil de mi teclado =P). En fin, te vengo a hacer un "mangazo". Quería pedirte si podrías correr a BOTijo para que saque la lista de destacados y buenos de en: con tamaño y eso, cómo lo tenías antes en tus subpáginas, que lamentablemente decidiste borrar. Si podés (y querés), crealas en cualquier subpágina mia que quieras, no tengo problema. Muchas gracias de antemano. Saludos, Gizmo II (talk) 01:33, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No recuerdo haber hecho eso, me parece que era cosa de Yrithinnd. Lo que si hice fue un listado de destacados que nacieron como esbozos. De cualquier forma no tiene mayor complicación un bot así, dime que campos te interesan: título, tamaño, número de interwikis, de imágenes, ¿algo más? Lo pongo en mi lista de tareas por hacer. --Emijrp (talk) 12:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * De hecho, con sólo tener el título, el tamaño, y sus homónimos en es: me alcanza y sobra. Muchas gracias. Saludos, Gizmo II (talk) 14:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

"Images for biographies" in the italian wikipedia
Hi Emijrp, in your useful tool there isn't the italian wikipedia (it:). Can you add it? Thank you --62.211.186.67 (talk) 11:44, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Because italian wikipedia use a lot of templates which have got parameters for images that hide the file extension (jpg, png...), so the bot thinks that it is an article without image, but it's wrong. And this show a mount of false positives. --Emijrp (talk) 12:54, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately it's true :( thank you anyway. --79.7.202.13 (talk) 18:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

imagesforbios
First of all, thank you for developing this cool tool. Secondly, I request/suggestion to make this tool better: for RTL languages, such as Hebrew, Arabic etc, it should add the thumb image floating to left, not to right. Two options to implement this: Thanks, 89.139.253.72 (talk) 12:24, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * condition to check if the language is rtl - change "right" to "left"
 * just add it in format of thumb| - without "right" or "left" and it will get the default direction.
 * Thanks. --Emijrp (talk) 12:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

2nd run of duplicate images w/ variations on the theme
After working on the completion of the last run, and doing a bit more work with duplicate images (and not having the tech saavy to do this), would it be possible to make a run of duplicated image names that have simply a variation on the theme of their suffix; i.e. Image:test.jpg and Image:test.JPG and possibly Image:test.Jpg Image:test.jPg and Image:test.jpG (though I don't know how the software deals with those last three. The other variation on the theme would be capitalization of the name, such as Image:test.JPG and Image:teSt.JPG Image:TEst.JPG (though I believe that the first character is always capped).  I've been coming across a few of these that were uploaded like this, and don't think there's been a search through the images to catch these duplications.   SkierRMH  ( talk ) 08:27, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

contador.php feature request
Hello !

Could you add a feature, to allow us to link directly to the result page ? Something like contador.php?user=DumZiBoT ?

Thanks, NicDumZ ~  06:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Woops, I just noticed the template on your Userpage !
 * Actually, when you enter a name on http://tools.wikimedia.de/~emijrp/contador.php, and hit submit, it gives you the result, but it does not change the URL of the page. I'd suggest you to redirect to http://tools.wikimedia.de/~emijrp/contador.php?usuario+Place%20holder, to emphazise how easy it is to link to a resultpage of your tool, and to avoid questions as dumb as mine ;) (Or at least, add a little notice on the page, mentionning that it is possible, using *this* syntax)
 * This tool is a really good idea : I was thinking about implementing such an utility, since I consider that both internal and external editcounters retrieving one's contributions is stupid when http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=DumZiBoT|NicDumZ&usprop=editcount will give an editcount loadfree or nearly. By the way, you are using api.ph, are you ? (If not, just in case you don't know yet, you should upgrade from query.php to api.php, since query.php *will* get discontinued in the next month)
 * Thanks !
 * NicDumZ ~  10:31, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * http://tools.wikimedia.de/~emijrp/contador.php?usuario=DumZiBoT Emijrp (talk) 16:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm using query.php, thanks for advice, I have to re-code that part, query's death is near. --Emijrp (talk) 16:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Hola Emirjp
disculpa la molestia; queria pedirte que me enseńaras como puedo poner los videos de Youtube (como en tu wiki personal), en mi pagina, me gustan mas he visto que en todas las demas wiki si se pueden poner los videos, pero he tratado en la wiki:es de que se vea, creo le llaman embed, y no puedo, es necesario que uno baje el programa a la computadora de uno?. o solo se puede pegar el codigo y ya?, leia en mediawiki el que hicistes pero de todos. modos no sale ninguna imagen, necesito crear alguna pagina nueva para poner ese codigo?, por favor cuando leas si puedes ayudame, me gusta mas ver esos video en la wiki, creo se ven mas presentable. en fin que tengas un buen dia. lo copie aqui pero de todos modos no se ve como aqui. gracias por todo. --Teknomegisto (talk) 23:16, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


 * ¿Dónde quieres poner los videos? En las Wikipedias no se pueden poner videos de YouTube porque no hay ninguna extensión instalada para ello. En Inciclopedia sí, porque habrán incorporado alguna. En Wikipedia lo que puede hacerse es poner videos mediante la etiqueta, y estos videos deben alojarse en Wikimedia Commons. Advertirte que no se pueden subir videos con derechos de autor restrictivos, osea, no libres. Un artículo que tiene video es Despegue por ejemplo. Emijrp (talk) 08:54, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

entonces esta extensiòn que creastes ¿no sirve para ese proposito? como se puede instalar una?, la queria poner mas que nada en mi pagina personal de la es: wikipedia, no en los articulos, de esa manera si quisiera podria cambiarlos!, asta la habia copiado ¡pensando que para eso era!, has creado alguna para poderse instalar en las wikipedias?, pues entiendo que la inciclopedia es de wikia y esta es de jimbo ¿no?, donde podria conseguirla aunque la pusiera en un apartado particular con mi nombre como hice con laTeknomegisto:youtube, ayudame plis, consiguemela!,pues veo que eres un experto en todo eso, y ya que tienes una cuenta en youtube me imagino que conoces mejor ese maneje ¿no?, he visto varias formas en la web para otras wikis pero, si no sirvio la que hicistes en media wiki, menos serivirian las de otras web. bueno buen dia tengas y muchas gracias por tu contestaciòn.

pensaba, que poner de esa manera los videos son mejores, porque en realidad no se estaria violando ningun derecho de autor aunque fuera copyright el video, puesto que no se sube el video mas bien solo se presenta ¿no?. --Teknomegisto (talk) 22:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Instalar extensiones que permitan usar videos de YouTube en Wikipedia es cosa de la comunidad y en última instancia deben instalarla los desarrolladores. No creo que se vaya a hacer porque plantearía muchos problemas de derechos de autor, aunque los videos estuvieran alojados en YouTube. Emijrp (talk) 08:23, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

meta-pages on pl wiki
Hi! Hmm pl:Wikipedia:Utilisateurs par nombre d'éditions (bots inclus) ? Is it correct? :) Przykuta (talk) 21:44, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. I believe that fr:Utilisateur:Toolserver was also yours. fr:Wikipédia:Utilisateurs par nombre d'éditions has been created, but there is already fr:Wikipédia:Liste des Wikipédiens par nombre d'éditions ;)
 * I'd be curious to know what happened :þ
 * NicDumZ ~  17:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Unwanted bot meddling
In this edit to page Philippe Tailliez, the bot User:BOTijo changed the catalog lines, removing the sorting re-specifier "|Tailliez, Philippe". That was unwanted. That page is to sort as "Taillez", because that is his surname. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Read this DEFAULTSORT, please. Emijrp (talk) 10:48, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

User:BOTijo and DEFAULTSORT
I see that the bot has been running the defaultsort task for a while. Did you forget that you withdrew that request and it is not approved for the task. I don't think it is problematic work, but you should go to Bots/Requests for approval and reactivate the request so that the bot will be approved for the work it is doing. GRBerry 16:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Please consider using Template:Lifetime instead. -- Jeandré, 2008-08-16t12:34z

Redirects
You may want to modify your bot code to avoid edits like this one. --Russ (talk) 16:19, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * After I wrote the above, I looked back and see that this is the same bug that I pointed out to you some months ago. Really, if you find a self-redirect, your bot should either skip it or add db-redirnone to it, not mark it as a capitalization redirect.  --Russ (talk) 16:21, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

11S & 11 S
Wouldn't you agree these are titles which are unlikely to be entered in the search box? Regards, Cau  lde  18:23, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

img 4 bio in pt
Hi there Emijrp. Thanks for the excellent tool, but I can't seem to be able to get relevant results for the portuguese wikipedia. almost all suggestions the tool presents refer to articles that already have images, most of the time the exact image the tool suggests. Also, I mark articles as done, but next time I use the tool they show up again... What do you think may be causing this? --Waldir talk 14:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Great!! I'm looking forward to that :) don't forget to fix the bugs (like the one above) as well as adding the features :D --Waldir talk 00:53, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I tested it for a bit... seems to work fine! I'll let you know if I find any issue. Btw, have you thought of extending this tool to articles other than bios? --Waldir talk 18:57, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, would it be possible to choose not to list articles that already have an image? --Waldir talk 09:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Flodday near barra
A tag has been placed on Flodday near barra, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you believe that there is a reason to keep the redirect, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Finavon (talk) 15:53, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Bot
I just wanted to commend you and say that your bot is simply excellent and invaluable. Thanks! I think that the redirecting part is the most useful part. -- penubag  (talk) 01:10, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Stingray Sam
The Wikipedia article for the upcoming Cory McAbee's film Stingray Sam is nominated for deletion. Please contribute to the discussion.--DrWho42 (talk) 03:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Commons:User:Emijrp/Commons/he/1
Hello, I used this page of yours to place images in Hebrew articles. I want to thank you! It is brilliant. I was also wondering if you could update it. Thanks, HaGamal 22:53, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for creating the Statistics template, ;). --Xabier Cid (talk) 12:30, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Images for Bio doesn't like accentuated characters in French
Hello,

When using Images for Bio in French, accentuated letters are poorly rendered, and the tool doesn't work afterwards if you try to add an image. Looking at the list shows a few question marks (also if you show "done and useless"). A UTF-8 issue maybe ?

Thanks, le Korrigan → bla 20:03, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello, Images for Bio doesn't work in French. Is this normal ? Thank you for this tool ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.132.128.138 (talk) 21:25, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I was reloading the data because there was a problem with codifiation. Regards. Emijrp (talk) 21:42, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks great now, thanks ! le Korrigan → bla 21:48, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Images for biographies
http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/imagesforbio/index.php?language=eo

how to look next 25? Maksim-e (talk) 19:32, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Mark as done them. Emijrp (talk) 20:08, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you make that it will be possible to look the next ones without mark as done the first ones? Maksim-e (talk) 21:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Not by now, sorry. emijrp (talk) 15:28, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Images for biographies
Hello, it would be great, if your tool 'Images for biographies' would support all languages supported by Wikimedia. (I am searching for nds support in particular, but of course support for all languages would be the most optimal improvement). Would be great if that would be possible. Thank you (did I overuse the word 'would'?) --:Slomox:: &gt;&lt; 04:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Please, wait some days, the process is slow. Althought small Wikipedias have small lists. Emijrp (talk) 10:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Tool Imabio - deutsch is missing
Hi Emijrp. Whrere has de (ger) gone? The tool is very useful. Greez --Sargoth (talk) 11:46, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, what happend to DE? The tool looks better than a few days ago. Please rejoin german Wikipdedia. Great Tool. --Xario (talk) 16:48, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * dewiki is very large and the script crashes because Toolserver limits executions to 1 GB of RAM. So, I have to improve the performance of the script or to request more memory. I hope this will be solved in the next days. Emijrp (talk) 18:40, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OkyDoky, thanks for the answer - hope that to. If I can be of any assistance - please let me know. --Xario (talk) 21:23, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright. So this will be my everyday entertainment while having breakfast: check if your tool is available again. ;-) --Sargoth (talk) 09:18, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done ;). Enjoy. Emijrp (talk) 15:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Minor edits by bio tool
Hi, I am trying out the bio image tool on the Swedish Wikipedia. I like it, but have one small complaint: the tool marks the edits as minor as default. At least on Swedish Wikipedia we discourage users from using "minor" when adding information, reserving it for linguistic and stylistic corrections and changes. Adding an image in my eyes fall outside of the scope of minor edits. /Dcastor (talk) 20:50, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok. Now, edits aren't minor. Regards. Emijrp (talk) 21:53, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. /Dcastor (talk) 22:11, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

I've got one more thing from svwp, see this edit and the next one. The & is making the filename incomplete. // moralist 14:17, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Finding biographies
What method does your "images for biographies" tool use to find out which articles are biographies? On sv.wp there are now two categories men and women that together hold 79,400 articles, without the need for recursion. Similar categories exist on de.wp (men and women). --LA2 (talk) 05:25, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Script checks English Wikipedia articles with "XXXX births" or "YYYY deaths" categories. Emijrp (talk) 10:39, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * A wonderful tool indeed. I would have preferred to distinguish between done and useless. That way people could scan discarded pictures to see if they were useful after all. But this is emphatically NOT a complaint. Just a reflection after a very valuably spent day. --Ettrig (talk) 20:03, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I see you have worked hard . Thank you! Emijrp (talk) 20:33, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Images for biographies for be-x-old
Hello! Could you please add be-x-old wiki to the Images for biographies tool? I think this bio tool will be useful for us. —zedlik (talk) 18:58, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

A little bug
There's a little bug in Image for bio when there's a "&" in the file name. You can look the problem here : http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enrique_Bunbury&diff=36224617&oldid=35883388 (the end of the filename after "&" is erased). Bye ! 92.132.171.105 (talk) 16:02, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Images for biographies for wuu
Hello!

Could you please add wuu wiki to the Images for biographies tool?

I think this bio tool will be useful for us.

Regards

--Hercule (talk) 17:03, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * Happy new year,
 * Is there something I must do for you can implement your tool for wu wikipedia?
 * regards
 * --Hercule (talk) 13:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm waiting for Toolserver fix, and then I will update the tool, including wuu. Although if wuu is a small language, not much images will be showed. Regards Emijrp (talk) 13:45, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for your answer --Hercule (talk) 10:54, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Images for biographies for nl.wikipedia
Hi, your program is very helpfull of finding the right images for the right persons. I have one question. If i save the change, the filename is called 'Bestand:xxxxxxxx.jpg'. On the nl.wikipedia we prefer 'Afbeelding:xxxxxxxxx.jpg'. If you could change that, i would be happy. Thanks and keep up the good work. 84.106.92.25 (talk) 22:39, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Your stat template removed from Wikipedia:Statistics
I really liked your stat essay, and I do respect the hard work you put into it - a year ago. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Statistics for why I decided to remove your usepage essays from WP:STAT. Perhaps you'd like to update them with the last years data? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:52, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Images for biographies
Hi, I noticed a mistake when I added pics to de-WP: When I'm adding a picture to some article which has been on my watchlist before, it gets removed from the watchlist afterwards. This shouldn't be. Best wishes, --Scooter (this one)  12:34, 25 December 2008 (UTC)