User talk:Jarry1250/Archive 11

Manners
Hey robot, it is rude of you to assume you have our understanding. --IceHunter (talk) 20:28, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

User talk pages
Regarding your comments: 1. I don't know how to put it otherwise. I'm willing to entertain a different phrasing if it conveys the same message - do you have a suggestion? 2. I thought a users page was a users page where he had the freedom to write what he wanted without being censored, yet you say one gets banned for it? I could change it but then it would still be in wikipedias memory wouldn't it? --IceHunter (talk) 00:16, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Apathy? See, I find that rude, ie you come to my page and insult me and I didn't do that. Funny that. its not apathy, if I know something to be fact (I don't debate taste on wikipedia) I fail to see why i should waste time pretending i want to hear from people who believe otherwise. --IceHunter (talk) 18:45, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah well, I wrote that at one point after getting a lot of dubious messages. Oh well. --IceHunter (talk) 21:24, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Marking articles students are working on
Howdy, Online Ambassador!

This is a quick message to all the ambassadors about marking and tracking which articles students are working on. For the classes working with the ambassador program, please look over any articles being worked on by students (in particular, any ones you are mentoring, but others who don't have mentors as well) and do these things:


 * 1) Add  to the articles' talk pages.  (The other parameters of the WAP assignment template are helpful, so please add them as well, but the term = Spring 2011 one is most important.)
 * 2) If the article is related to United States public policy, make sure the article the WikiProject banner is on the talk page: WikiProject United States Public Policy
 * 3) Add Category:Article Feedback Pilot (a hidden category) to the article itself.  The second phase of the Article Feedback Tool project has started, and this time we're trying to include all of the articles students are working on. Please test out the Article Feedback Tool, as well.  The new version just deployed, so any bug reports or feedback will be appreciated by the tech team working on it.

And of course, don't forget to check in on the students, give them constructive feedback, praise them for positive contributions, award them The WikiPen if they are doing excellent work, and so on. And if you haven't done so, make sure any students you are mentoring are listed on your mentor profile.

Thanks! --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:12, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

 * I hope you're ready to be the (unjust) target of a few users' anger... Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:53, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Film articles
Hello, in 2009, you generated on one of your sub-pages a list of films that used the Infobox film template in the article but did not have the WikiProject Film template on the talk page. I am wondering if you would be able to generate a new list, if you are still able to use the same process as before? Would it also be possible to include the sub-categories of Category:Films by country, Category:Films by language, and Category:Films by year to seek out any film articles that may not use the WikiProject Film template? Thanks, Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 15:36, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! I will give it a shot. Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 17:19, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Livingbot task 11
I was wondering if task 11 of LivingBot was still running. I recently put together a bot request for a very similar bot, and was told that one already existed. However, these toolserver pages show 30,000+ articles with messed up section heading hierarchies. &mdash;SW&mdash; confer 05:48, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

SVG Check and rendering error
Hello Harry! Do you have an idea why File:BSicon tÜWo+r.svg is displaying an error in transparency (on second dash from the top)? It is displaying just fine when I test it with your SVG Check tool. Is that related to the 1.17 MediaWiki upgrade, or is it something else? Any help is appreciated. Regards, -- Orionist  ★  talk  02:06, 27 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for having a stab at this! I dabbled with the viewBox and the path segments with no success. I was going to give up when it occurred to me that this file can be produced by rotating File: BSicon SANDBOX.svg, a similar file which did not show the defect. So I used the transform attribute to rotate it around the center of the viewBox, and to my surprise, it worked! Both the bug and fix are really weird, and it makes me wonder if it isn't time to ditch librsvg and switch to, say, Apache Batik or something. Wouldn't that save us a lot of work? Well, nevermind, thanks again for taking the time to tend to this request, I appreciate it! Regards, -- Orionist  ★  talk  12:07, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

LivingBot problem
Um, I stumbled upon what the bot did here and was wondering if it made an error or something. GamerPro64 (talk) 21:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it is. GamerPro64 (talk) 22:02, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Changes to minor edit preference.
As stated on my talk page, I have not heard of this change before you mentioned it, nor do I condone this behavior, and I expect that the decision whether I want my edits to be marked major or minor by default is my own and will remain my own. You mentioned some kind of javascript workaround which I don't know how to use, implement or otherwise work with. I find wikipedia's move on this subject quite confusing and not at all in line with improving usability of the site. Removing the choice is a VERY bad idea. I can accept that the default choice might be to mark edits as major, but I cannot accept, nor condone, that the choice is removed in its entirety. I have never been all that involved in the wikipedia culture, but this is an appalling move. I would love to be informed of more user-friendly options available to me to preserve my default editing behavior. Maki (talk) 12:25, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 March newsletter
We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is with 231 points, who leads Pool H.  (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see WikiCup/Scoring.

A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:59, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

External tools link to transclusion count broken
Please see: Village pump (technical). --Funandtrvl (talk) 16:16, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

GA recent promotions
Hi, I appears that LivingBot has stopped again. Jezhotwells (talk) 03:55, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, still not working on adding to Recent Good articles. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:54, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Announcements
Why is the bot deleting the previous items? Nergaal (talk) 00:37, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Your tools (again)
Hi Jarry! Both links to the SVG Check and the Template transclusion counter are broken. Alfie ↑↓ © 00:36, 9 April 2011 (UTC) If I comply with W3C's recommendations, I get
 * THX for the fix!
 * A question. According to the definition of SVG's font-family any style information should follow CSS2. A generic font family should be provided:ybr />“The following generic families are defined: "serif", "sans-serif", "cursive", "fantasy", and "monospace". Please see the section on generic font families for descriptions of these families. Generic font family names are keywords, and therefore must not be quoted. Authors are encouraged to offer a generic font family as a last alternative, for improved robustness.”

It took me a while to figure out that the message was referring to the generic font 'sans-serif' at the end of my font list (starting with 'DejaVu Sans'). IMHO it would make sense to fire up a RegEx checking whether more than one font is given and not issue a warning if one of the five generic fonts is at the end. What do you think? Alfie ↑↓ © 19:22, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Commonscat on villages in England
Hi! http://toolserver.org/~jarry/villages.txt does not exist anymore... can you put it online again? Thanks. -- Basilicofresco  (msg) 11:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

GAR: Valentin Pavlov
I've responded, and fixed the remaining issues (which you saw) of the article. Are there any more problems, or will the article pass. Thanks for taking your time to review this article.
 * Regards. --TIAYN (talk) 15:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Finished! :) --TIAYN (talk) 14:23, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for passing the article.... To another topic; as for me becoming a GA reviewer I don't thinkt that's such a good idea, my grammar ain't that good which by all means may lead to articles which don't meet GA criteria to be approved. Anyhow, thanks again. Oh and great job on the Vidkun Quisling; that article probably has a chance on becoming a FA. --TIAYN (talk) 19:24, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

GAR: History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)
Thanks for taking your time to review another article written by me. I've responded to you're requests, but I've left a question for you at the review page. --TIAYN (talk) 12:48, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Finished! Created a new section, and I've expanded the Third World section. :) My new text may need a copyedit, this is only a "may" however. --TIAYN (talk) 18:08, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the copyedit! Fixed the remaining issues, but I couldn't find a date for that particular "jungle quote"; the book which I used to reference it, didn't have a date, and no other sources seems to have a date. He probably said it during the 1970s, but that's just a presumably. But again, I'm done! :) --TIAYN (talk) 15:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Chat
Pop in to IRC if you can (pm me, Chzz) (quicky linky)  Chzz  ► 12:55, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Education policy in Brazil
Hey, as you know - I'm working on the GAR. But something even more urgent has come up; part of this 'public policy initiative' - the Ambassador thing? One student has just about 40 hours left to get her article into some kind of shape, so I'm doing what I can in the time we have. I wonder...any chance you could help, even just a little? it is Education policy in Brazil, the user is. Some others are helping me look at it; the objective is, by Sunday evening, to knock it into as good a shape as possible. If there's anything you can do to help, that'd be superb. Thanks - and ASAP, we'll be right back onto the GAR.  Chzz  ► 07:07, 23 April 2011 (UTC)


 * That copyedit work is superb; thank you so much.  Chzz  ► 09:53, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

GAR Vidkun Quisling
Hi Jarry, I've just started the review process, and being 'assisted' by Chzz through this, as it's my first one. Pesky ( talk ) 16:07, 22 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Talk:Vidkun Quisling/GA1  Chzz  ► 21:58, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

GA review for Albulena
I have tried to address your concerns on Talk:Battle of Albulena/GA1. Again, thanks for the review. Regards, Gaius Claudius Nero (talk) 17:45, 23 April 2011 (UTC).
 * Thanks again. I have Inkscape but I'm still unfamiliar with it. The map I uploaded was made on Inkscape but the background map wasn't. I actually have access to a detailed map of the area surrounding Albulena which would probably be more useful. Anyway, I could use a hand with Inkscape since I have plans to make many more maps. Any help would be appreciated. :) Regards, Gaius Claudius Nero (talk) 17:31, 24 April 2011 (UTC).

Transclusion count mystery
Hi Jarry,

We have encountered a bit of a mystery with your transclusion counter. Here are the results we're getting:

Here's the problem: Every transclusion is reported in WP:MEDA, which shows only 25,579 pages tagged by these templates. Do you know what's creating the ~16,000 phantom transclusions, and how we might get an accurate count on the actual transclusions of each name? WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:29, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Quisling
As ever, my timing is bad as work remains busy, plus a brother's wedding this week but I shall see what I can do. Cheers. --Roisterer (talk) 08:57, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Timing and messages
Sorry I missed your messages - but I did read them later. I have not forgotten your deadline; it's unfortunate that you won't be available today, but I'll see what I can do; as always, no guarantee is possible but I will do what I can. c/f User talk:ThatPeskyCommoner.

Next time I ever agree to try and meet a 'wiki cup' deadline, please please trout me!

Speak to you later,  Chzz  ► 23:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Ongoing GA stuff
Thanks for those recent edits.

Main thing I'd like you to look at / consider is the continued infobox query; I just don't like having 'prime minister' listed there; it's the PM's when he happened to be in the MOD office. But it looks confusing; because... well, *he* was not-quite-PM himself; he was 'minister president' etc.

Some of my comments (as usual) - inc. some of the 'not done' - were really more intended to be notes for going forwards - like the pic, trying to get a better one, and indeed re. why the CBE was revoked (I'd imagine it'd be *possible* to find out, somewhere - there must be official records, if nothing else).

I'm reasonably confident we'll get this sorted today, as per discussions.

We are of course (as per usual) in IRC. Cheers,  Chzz  ► 12:13, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Query
I thought I'd just post this one here, as you appear to be around;

One particular sentence is puzzling me;


 * worked with Prytz on an ultimately unsuccessful joint plan for peace between Britain and Germany and their eventual union into a single state.

I'm guessing 'joint' refers to Q and Prytz - fair enough; we could just remove the word joint.

However, the second part puzzles me more - is this saying that their plan was a specific union between the countries of Britain and Germany into a 'state' as in, a country, type of thing? That sounds unlikely. Can you clarify what it means? Cheers,  Chzz  ► 16:32, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

 Chzz  ► 16:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey Jarry! You're doing great stuff, as always, but - please, take a few mins break and pop in and say 'hi' in IRC; it's a lovely atmosphere today. Well done on the GA, BTW. Great work. Hope to chat soon.  Chzz  ► 11:29, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank You!
For the barnstar! (Must be the quickest one on record, lol!)

Although (being my first GAR) it was a bit stressy, I quite enjoyed it - particularly the teamwork bit. Nice to be one of many pairs of eyes licking an article into final shape for a GA. Great article - by the way! I'll look forward to watching its progress up the next rungs of the ladder. Pesky ( talk ) 20:36, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Quisling
Hi Jarry, and congrats with the GA! I've added two new images; please reword the captions if you want to. If you want to take it to FA, I would recommend adding something more about his connections with other Norwegian NS members. Does the Dahl bio mention anything of Sverre Riisnæs or Jonas Lie (government minister)? I have access to Nils Johan Ringdal's 1989 bio of Riisnæs (which is listed in the VQ article) and Sverre Rødder's 1990 bio of Jonas Lie. I'm also able to borrow Roughtvedt's 2010 bio of Lie (Med penn og pistol, ) and Ivo de Figueiredo's outstanding 2002 bio of Johan Bernhard Hjort (Fri mann, ) at the library. -- Eisfbnore talk 08:47, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 April newsletter
Round 2 of the 2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. , who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.

This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to and  who also led pool H and pool B respectively. However, there remain content types for which no points have yet been scored; featured sounds, featured portals and featured topics. In addition to prizes for leaderboard positions, the WikiCup awards other prizes; for instance, last year, a prize was awarded to (who has been eliminated) for his work on In The News. For this reason, working on more unusual content could be even more rewarding than usual!

Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 19:22, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Question
Hi there. I was wondering if you could help me to get my article from my sandbox to the main space. I am unsure how to accomplish that task. Thank you very much for your time! Tanishadk (talk) 19:25, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you VERY much for all your help! I greatly appreciate it! I added two categories to my article and hopefully I did it right :) Tanishadk (talk) 02:52, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Please help assess articles for Public Policy Initiative research
Hi ,

Your work as an Online Ambassador is making a big contribution to Wikipedia. Right now, we're trying to measure just how much student work improves the quality of Wikipedia. If you'd like contribute to this research and get a firsthand look at the quality improvement that is happening through the project, please sign up to assess articles. Assessment is happening now, just use the quantitative metric and start assessing! Your help would be hugely appreciated!

Thank you, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 17:12, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

bot timeout
sorry, I did not see your message until now. Bots/Requests_for_approval/MdupontBot anything I can do now? mike James Michael DuPont (talk) 14:39, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Transclusions count tool
Hi.

A few notes about your transclusions count tool:
 * 1) Your transclusions count tool has an XSS vulnerability. Sanitize your output! Example: http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Template%3AU.S.+presidential+call+signs--%3E%3Cb%3Ehey%20there%3C/b%3E#bottom
 * 2) Templates can be in (nearly) any namespace; assuming namespace is 10 is wrong
 * 3) The encoding of the file should be set to UTF-8
 * 4) The transclusions count is wrong for Template:U.S. presidential call signs at the moment, but that's due to replag, apparently; you should probably throw a warning if replag is high or something

--MZMcBride (talk) 01:07, 12 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank for you message.
 * Eurgh, embarrassing. Fixed.
 * I have filed a reminder for myself
 * It is set to UTF-8? Which page are you looking at that isn't?
 * It can be wrong due to replag or for a myriad of other reasons, but might be useful anyway


 * Regards, - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 16:59, 12 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm fairly sure it's not UTF-8. I noticed from the shell and I noticed it when viewing the file from the web viewer (). Set your browser to UTF-8 and look at the copyright sign. The file seems pretty clearly encoded as ISO-8859-1.
 * Also, http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Template%3A-- is still rather broken, at least in Firefox/Windows. You should kill that debugging code altogether or put it at the bottom of the output. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:10, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the slow reply. The character encoding issue should now be fixed.
 * Is that Firefox 3.5 you're using. A can't recreate on release or trunk FF4 (the versions I have to hand), though the "View source" is messed up, I grant you. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 11:04, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Recent GAs
I undid this edit by LivingBot, because the two "new" good articles were listed quite a while ago. Adabow (talk · contribs) 06:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

svg check
Great idea about the svg check at - I just had a problems with fonts that I couldn't see in any local application and it would have come in handy. Could you add an option that influences the size of the produced png, though? The problems with fonts are not visible in the original size, but they do appear in thumbs (or in oversized 2000px images). Thanks for the tool, cheers Iridos (talk) 01:15, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador sweatshirt
Hi! This is the last call for signing on for a Wikipedia Ambassador hooded sweatshirt (in case you missed the earlier message in one of the program newsletters about it). If you would like one, please email me with your name, mailing address, and (US) sweatshirt size. We have a limited number left, so it will be first-come, first-served. (If more than one size would work for you, note that as well.)

Cheers, Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 19:41, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

articles with a given start date
Please let me know if you think this discussion should stay at the pump or if you'd rather have it on my talk page.

Would you be willing to pull the articles in a couple of rounds? I'm not sure how big a window I will want, so I'd like to try a test run first. Say all articles started in January of 2005... Once I figure out the size of the window, I would like to get two or three groups of articles to look through. If it is easiest to email a file, I can send my email address for this account. Thanks and please let me know if I'm imposing on your offer. Wikipositivist (talk) 22:10, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Signpost
...should at least mention Help:Email notification (see also WP:VPT for some mention of the response to suddenly turning it on). Rd232 talk 17:53, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey
Hi Ambassador,

We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.

WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:40, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Nazi talking dogs
Please note that what you are marking as "dubious" is indeed in The Telegraph. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It would be nice if the book were on previewable on Google books to verify, but for now I think that keeping the "dubious" tag is enough. It may warrant discussion, and you were right to remove The Sun citation from that sentence. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I have suggested an alternate in hidden text in the article. Perhaps the wording would be more agreeable to you? Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:32, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, I will change the wording and remove the dubious tag. Cheers! Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:38, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Question
Hi Jarry1250, could The Telegraph make a wrong translation of Waffen-SS? Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 19:45, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * But what about this article "Hitler’s plan was apparently to ensure that his “Wooffan SS” forces could communicate with their SS masters"? Here “Wooffan SS” is not named an experiment, but it is named “Wooffan SS” forces. Also a joke? Also could you please take a look at this search result especially at the first item. Also a joke? I am asking the questions not because I'd like to keep this language in the article, not at all, I am simply trying to understand what I got wrong. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:14, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Vidkun
Hey Jarry, I promoted Mr. Quisling to A-class. Congratulations, and I hope to see you around our A-class process again in the future! :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:20, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Slovak Uprising article edits
I must ask you why did you change the diacritics on the people's names? I really don't want to rollback edits but they were all correct unless of course I've missed something entirely... Demokratickid (talk) 00:38, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

-In response to what you posted on my discussion page, if you could reconvert them in order to save your other edits that'd be fine or otherwise I could just do a rollback and you could go back in and edits specifically what you wish to. It's up to you, sir! Demokratickid (talk) 02:01, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Klemens von Metternich
Hi

I have added to those sections. Once you have finished them perhaps you can remove the hidden messages so that I know I can do the ce on those sections?

Chaosdruid (talk) 22:17, 31 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I have finished the copyedit as far as those two sections, I have also added a note on the GOCE requests page that they are yet to be completed before editing. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:26, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 May newsletter
We're half way through round 3 of the 2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. , of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by, and  respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.

A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:30, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Signpost
FYI - Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost. Rd232 talk 00:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

resource request
Hi,

I've responded to your post at WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request. You can find a link to the article you requested at that page.

Best, GabrielF (talk) 22:18, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Your offer
Thank you for your offer at this discussion. The list awaits your attention whenever you can get to it. LeadSongDog come howl!  05:23, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you. wp:NODEADLINE :-)
 * Looks interesting. I'd suggest capturing the OCLC and/or ISBN for the copy at the same time, even if it just goes in comment. I've dropped a comment at template talk:Backwardscopy about wanting an explicit copy id parameter. The existing id parameter is a version id (a.k.a. oldid) from the edithistory of the wp article. Now, I presume you have a plan for how this output gets folded into the wp article talkpage headers? LeadSongDog  come howl!  18:45, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * On the list here, each of the titles is an href. The URL therein contains the substring "/oclc/" immediately followed by the oclc number. Following the link, of course, yields the full record, which will include an ISBN if one is known. Given the nature of these works, there likely is no such assigned ISBN, so it's probably simplest to just stick to the OCLC number. LeadSongDog come howl!  17:21, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks good! Thank you. :-)

Adoption
I'm from the UK and I'm interested in sorting out vandals and fixing up wiki pages, I am a New Wikipedian so tips would be welcome--Superlightoftruth (talk) 16:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Image Existence Checker
Hi, the checker does not appear to be working, always returns zero results. Concern I may have done something as it was working yesterday until I added another image name to the blacklist. --Traveler100 (talk) 04:39, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Here is an example

Or take any form the photo request categories like Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Canada--Traveler100 (talk) 21:11, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Important move
Hi, per the outcome of this discussion, Announcements has been moved to Milestones. LivingBot may need to be reprogrammed to reflect this change. Thanks. Guoguo12  (Talk)  23:26, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, it appears that the bot works. Guoguo12   (Talk)  00:07, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Google Summer of Code 2011 coverage
Hi! Just wanted to check in on whether I can do anything to help you more with your information-gathering on this. Have you gotten to chat with some Google Summer of Code mentors and students?

thanks, Sumana Sumanah (talk) 18:48, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

SVG Translate
Hi Jarry, first of thanks for SVG translate tool. I was to create a translate following file to hindi. File which i got the after translation i am getting an error 'Failed to load the requested file ... '. Can you please check whether indic languages are supported by the tool ? --naveenpf (talk) 02:09, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


 * There was no error till i was creating the svg. Manual upload worked fine and i got the svg file. But when i load the file in notepad i am getting a message

'contains characters that do not exist in the code page 1252 ( ANSI Latin 1 ) They have to be converted to system default character' --naveenpf (talk) 17:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * But lnkscape is giving the error 'Failed to load the requested file ... ' . --naveenpf (talk) 01:42, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Quantitative easing discussion
There is a discussion going on at Talk:Quantitative easing on a topic you have discussed before. You are invited to participate. Lagrange613 (talk) 05:47, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi there Jarry1250, I am a bit confused by one of your comments in this discussion, .... "Experience has told me that a battleground mentality already exists on this article, so I'm not about to get dragged into a lengthy discussion here when conspiracy theories are already flying." - Could you please explain to the discussion what conspiracy Theories are already flying.  I've re-read the discussion regarding 'Ex-Nihilo' and can't see Conspiracy Theories whatsoever. Thanks Vexorg (talk) 16:33, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Spurious LivingBot tag
LivingBot left a tag at Talk:Strict Nature Reserve/Wilderness Area claiming that the "article is substantially duplicated by a piece in an external publication. Please do not flag this article as a copyright violation of the following source: Surhone, L. M., Timpledon, M. T., & Marseken, S. F. (2010). Protected areas of Michigan: Michigan"

I believe this statement to be a mistake as I translated the article from German Wikipedia and it doesn't even mention Michigan. I am happy to be corrected as I cannot verify what the book actually says. Otherwise I intend to delete the tag. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:54, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Jarry. Oh sorry I had that the wrong way round and have deleted my comment. But, since I've only recently translated it, it seems odd that it's been published by someone else unless they also translated the German article. --Bermicourt (talk) 05:40, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

LivingBot edits
Hoi Jarry1250, please have a look at this edit. Dunno why it happened this way. And while you are at it, please also note the next two revisions – adding an empty section for every day (when there is nothing to report) doesn't make much sense, or? ;-) --bdk: 01:57, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm... I guess I was wrong. Bdk, the reason most likely has to do with Announcements being moved to Milestones a couple of days ago. The header that now reads "Milestones" used to read "Announcements". I suppose the bot cannot find where to correctly insert new updates. Guoguo12   (Talk)  02:15, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Dugard
Do you know of any portraits of Dugard which the archivists at CRGS could use.

Nhyty (talk) 17:39, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

LivingBot edit summaries
I notice a bunch of articles on my watchlist suddenly showing up with edits by LivingBot that include the following note:
 * VDM have been known to include e.g. Georgia (state) when they mean Georgia (country), however

It's unclear to me how this observation relates to the edits in question. --Trovatore (talk) 21:57, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Physicist
I can't tell what your bot was trying to do with this edit, but it certainly broke the formatting of the page. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Hugo Award
Hey, Livingbot just marked Talk:Hugo Award with a backwardscopy from... a book of short stories that happened to win the Hugo Award. I've never read the book, but I'm unsure how the 2010 edition of a 50 year old book of stories has the same text as the newly-written article about an award. Just thought you should know, in case you ever mucked with the bot's code. -- Pres N  01:23, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, thank you. I'd heard of Alphascript but not VDM- though that's also a strange bunch of articles to bind together. In that case yes, the bot was probably correct. Thanks for running it! -- Pres N  16:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

LiviingBot and VDM publishing books (and others like them)
Could the bot not add the backwards copy from VDM Publishing and its imprints? Same for Books LLC and its imprints. These will clutter talk pages for no good reason [VDM Publishing and Books LLC exist for the sole purpose of taking random Wikipedia articles and churn out books based on them]. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:24, 20 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I shall place a moratorium on the bot's edits. Note, however, that the bot was programmed and approved for this explicit purpose and is limited to only those books logged on WorldCat (those that have ISBNs and/or OCLCs) rather than the 184,000 mostly yet-to-exist books. If you have a complete dislike of the project, you should take it up with User:LeadSongDog, the main advocate of adding the tags. As you will have noticed, LivingBot has been adding a dummy parameter, allowing the display of its tags to be minimised. Maybe this would be a useful compromise? Remove the image graphic, perhaps? - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 19:17, 20 June 2011 (UTC)


 * My request is limited to those two publishers (and their imprints). I'm not opposed to the task of adding backwardscopy in general, just that these two publishers are just mass-producing crap books, and the talk page clutter is just not worth it for the "actual concerns" one might have about proper attribution. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:10, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

I've opened a discussion on this at Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot 17. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:30, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Malfunction?
Please see this edit which was mentioned on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics for a reason related to the above discussion. It damaged a section header. My guess is that it has something to do with the fact that the title of the section was a link. I fixed the problem in that particular case, but you should fix the bug in your bot to make sure that it does not happen again. JRSpriggs (talk) 05:45, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Signpost technical section: feedback
Hi, I believe you asked for feedback on the technical section of the signpost. I was thinking that it would be great if the signpost included a summary of bot stuff: maybe newly create BRFAs if of significant scope to en-wiki, or approval of significant new tasks. Thanks Rjwilmsi  11:25, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Recent Good Articles
It seems that the bot is not running. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:12, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Re:Featured article candidates/Vidkun Quisling/archive1
Sure- watchlisted, and I'll update your page if it is promoted. J Milburn (talk) 11:32, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

United Airlines Flight 696
United Airlines Flight 696 looked like a clear copyvio, why did you remove the tag?-- SPhilbrick  T  16:25, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, must be a timing issue, I thought I saw the original wording after the tag was removed, but maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me. Thanks.-- SPhilbrick  T  16:41, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 June newsletter
We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by, claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by , who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by, who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.

No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

We would again like to thank and  for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.

Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:34, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Complicity (novel)
I see you moved this; can you please remember if moving articles to update image fair use rationales? Thanks a lot, --John (talk) 09:33, 1 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, mea culpa. Thanks for the note, I shall be more careful in future. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 10:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Re:WIkiCup issues
Thanks, I appreciate it. Unlucky you didn't make it through- you did better than I did last time. J Milburn (talk) 12:37, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * It still doesn't seem to be picking up the multipliers on WikiCup/History/2011/Running totals. J Milburn (talk) 15:57, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Klemens von Metternich
Hi

I have posted to the reviewer and to the GA discussion page.

Hopefully this can be resolved amicably before having to go to a community review, as a prequel to a Good_article_reassessment. I appreciate that you think it was your changes that caused this, but the article has not changed significantly since my copyedit, here are the diffs.

Hope you enjoyed your break :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 14:32, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I was going to relist it for GAN - what subsection was it before? Politics, or history etc.? Chaosdruid (talk) 20:57, 30 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah! I see you are on holiday :¬) Hope you had a good time!
 * I think you should re-nominate this one. The original reviewer has not replied to our requests for further info, they did not leave any pertinent points to help "fix" the article, they did not give any reason for their failing on stability etc., and the GA criteria talkpage (where they were asking for advice on how to assess) has achieved nothing either. Chaosdruid (talk) 05:15, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I had an answer from the good article nominations page here. Chaosdruid (talk) 23:55, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. It is a difficult one, especially if you decide to split it. I cannot imagine how you would do that as taking sections out to new articles by date would leave each article separate and unrelated to the previous time periods.
 * Shall I do the copyedit? or did you want me to take it off the GOCE requests page for now? Chaosdruid (talk) 01:34, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, just realised I forgot to tell you I had given it a second copyedit. Chaosdruid (talk) 17:13, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost Barnstar

 * Hear hear, I second that. Great work overseeing this week's Signpost, and thanks for making the tech reports wonderful! – Quadell (talk) 11:29, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Request for assistance
Greetings. I wonder if I could bug you for a second. I'm trying to customize my Wikilove extension.

I read WikiLove and examined MediaWiki:WikiLove.js. Then I edited User:Quadell/common.js and purged my cache, but I'm not seeing any changes. Do you see something obvious I'm overlooking? Is User:Quadell/common.js the wrong place for me to make these changes? Thanks for any help you might have. – Quadell (talk) 12:52, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I've now Cross-posted this query to Village pump (technical), because I'm not very patient. [[Image:Face-wink.svg|25px]] – Quadell (talk) 03:29, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for your help there! – Quadell (talk) 15:01, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Your bot shutdown
please do not use it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benzygs940 (talk • contribs) 23:41, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Ambassador Program: assessment drive
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.

In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:25, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:USANA Health Sciences
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:USANA Health Sciences. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! However, please note that your input will carry no greater weight than anyone else's: remember that an RFC aims to reach a reasoned consensus position, and is not a vote. In support of that, your contribution should focus on thoughtful evaluation of the issues and available evidence, and provide further relevant evidence if possible.

''You have received this notice because your name is on Feedback request service. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from that page.'' RFC&#32;bot (talk) 05:34, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are (Pool A, 189 points) and  (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (White-bellied Sea Eagle, from ) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from ). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!

There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:35, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Toolserver tools
Hello there! It's been a long time since I've dropped a note on your page, as I've been on a rather lengthy hiatus. I'm dipping a toe back in the waters now, and I've noticed that a few useful pages I had bookmarked are no longer working. In looking at your Toolserver page, I suspect they've been removed since it had been so long since anyone had used them.

So, I'm wondering if the tools I'm thinking of are still around, and if there's any chance of getting access to them again. There are five in particular that I'm thinking of:


 * http://toolserver.org/~jarry/callsigns/index.php
 * http://toolserver.org/~jarry/infoboxchecker/index.php?lang=en&template=Infobox%20Television&category=Television%20articles%20without%20infoboxes
 * http://toolserver.org/~jarry/radiostations/
 * http://toolserver.org/~jarry/radiostationsnone/
 * http://toolserver.org/~jarry/infoboxchecker/index.php?lang=en&template=Infobox%20Radio%20station&category=WikiProject%20Radio%20Stations&inverse=true

Thanks! Mlaffs (talk) 17:28, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

NAN
Jarry, broadcasting that someone has called a Wikipedian "a bully" without properly presenting the reasons or asking the accused party for their side of what appears to be a complex story is not what I'd call balanced reporting. "Bully" is a serious accusation to leave as a bald and unexplained report. And the sentence is still missing a word (I'm not sure what word, but it doesn't work at the moment). Tony  (talk)  11:49, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Jarry, looks OK to me. Tony   (talk)  08:42, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

opinion piece
I saw your post at the village pump and I worked something up today at User:Beeblebrox/The PC fiasco. Not sure if this is the sort of thing you are looking for but thought I'd throw it out there and see if the signpost has any interest in it. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:36, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * As a non-participant in the discussion I found it very interesting. I for one vote to publish. jorgenev 05:06, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

LivingBot and the WikiCup
Hey, sorry to bug you, but it's looking like LivingBot is not updating the WikiCup scores automatically. Could you take a look? There's a related thread here. J Milburn (talk) 11:07, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

LivingBot 19
Hi! Just wanted to let you know I have Approved LivingBot task 19. SQL Query me! 23:19, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Wikipedia bots by name
Category:Wikipedia bots by name, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — This, that, and the other (talk) 07:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Technology Report
I think it's fine, and almost certainly quite understandable to readers who are interested in this kind of material. Keep up the good work. --Lambiam 20:51, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Extra bonus ")" from bot?
 Chzz  ► 12:09, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors: Time to join pods
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
 * Working closely with the instructor and Campus Ambassadors, providing advice and perspective as an experienced Wikipedian
 * Helping students who ask for it (or helping them to find the help they need)
 * Watching out for the class as a whole
 * Helping students to get community feedback on their work

This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.

You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.

Once you've found a class that you want to work with&mdash;especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area&mdash;you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.

If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:32, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!

Bug in SVGtranslate
Hi, I tried to translate an SVG file using your tool today, and I got these errors back:

Warning: preg_replace: Unknown modifier 'N' in /home/jarry/public_html/svgtranslate/svgtranslate.php on line 286 Warning: preg_replace: Unknown modifier 'K' in /home/jarry/public_html/svgtranslate/svgtranslate.php on line 286 Warning: preg_replace: Unknown modifier 'C' in /home/jarry/public_html/svgtranslate/svgtranslate.php on line 286 [etc.]

The reason for this is that some of the labels contain slashes, which apparently you forgot that you need to escape them in a regular expression. (You should escape all other characters with special meanings in regular expressions, too. You can spare yourself this effort by simply not using regular expressions to do simple text substitution.)

P.S. I tried to post this to your bugtracker (jira.toolserver.org) but I couldn’t find a link to post a new bugreport anywhere. Maybe you should make it more obvious so that it is easier to find.

— Timwi (talk) 18:19, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

SVG Translate
Hi Jarry1250,

Great work on your SVG Translate tool. I especially like its ability to upload the SVG back to Commons.

I understand that Naveen Francis has filed a Jira task to fill the text fields with automatic translations, but if that's too much effort to implement, is it possible for the original (English) strings to be simply copied?

Many SVGs have text fields comprising numbers or symbols which don't need translation anyway.

If not too much trouble, perhaps use an icon or change the table cell's background colour when the user edits the default value to indicate which values have been changed (editors may not edit strings sequentially)?

Thanks, cm&#610;&#671;ee&#9786;&#964;a&#671;&#954; 18:29, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Another bug in SVGtranslate :)
Hi again. Many thanks for fixing the bug I reported earlier. I have another one though :)

Basically, the left column (original text) is double-HTML-escaped. The result can be seen in this screenshot. Notice that it says “ ” where it should say “ ” and “ ” where it should say “ ”. If you could fix that too, that would be fantastic :) Thanks! — Timwi (talk) 20:27, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and I was going to mention that I concur with Cmglee’s suggestion above. Could you pre-fill all the textboxes with the English text? Or, alternatively, just allow the user to keep them blank and then default to the English text upon submit. Otherwise it’s really annoying to have to type out “translations” for strings like “1.”, “2.”, etc. Thanks! — Timwi (talk) 20:28, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

More bugs in SVGtranslate
Hi again. With the regexp bug fixed, I tried to actually translate something now. It seems that you accidentally applied the regexp escaping even to the translation, which means that I now have extraneous backslashes in the translated text... — Timwi (talk) 20:40, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

And here’s another one. I tried to translate SVG files whose filename has multiple words. The downloaded file is always truncated to just the first word. — Timwi (talk) 20:41, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

eo:Vidkun Quisling
Hi Harry,

I'm pleased to let you know that the complete Esperanto translation of your great article about Vidkun Quisling is now featured on our main page until the end of the incoming week.

Have a nice weekend, Thomas Guibal (talk) 07:49, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Village pump archives
Hi Jarry, great work making the village pump archives from 2004–2007 searchable again! I had never thought of using letters instead of numbers for the archiving system. Would your bot be able to chew on the old village pump history at Village pump archive 2004-09-26? In particular, the coverage of text from June to September 2004 is spotty or almost non-existent. I understand that it might be more difficult because there is no handy page like Village pump (proposals)/Archive to refer to. Graham 87 01:27, 15 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I've just fixed a typo on your talk page header. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 01:28, 15 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for looking into this. I understand that it might take a while. Re: the typo fix, no problem! :-) Graham 87 01:10, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I've taken a deeper look at the new archives, and the village pump policy and proposals archives seem to be incomplete. For example, see Village pump (policy)/Archive A (from March 2007 ... and the other archives are in some kind of random order) and Village pump (proposals)/Archive A (from July 2006. As a quick test, note that the first archive of the policy village pump contains a link to Managed Deletion. Therefore, one of the village pump archives (preferably the first one) should contain a link to this page, but this is not the case. The other archives seem to be fine. Graham 87 01:42, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks, much better now ... at least everything's there! Graham 87 00:23, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Opinion
Hey Jarry, I've tweaked the Opinion Desk a bit and I've asked User:Moonriddengirl if she'd be willing to write the first editorial in what will hopefully become a weekly (or at least bi-weekly!) section. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:07, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Op-Ed
Silver seren C 23:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikibot
I was reading your guide on creating a bot, but I don't understand where exactly to place the files. I don't understand how to use it on a site other than wikipedia, either. Also, could you provide an example that makes the bot remove certain words on a particular page? Thanks in advance. 203.97.117.99 (talk) 05:49, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Could you recommend a particular hosting site?
 * I can't get it to run on any of the ones I've found.
 * 203.97.117.99 (talk) 11:12, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, I upload the files to a ftp server, which I beforehand confirmed supported php.
 * Then, I could only open the file (which just shows the code in the browser) or download it.
 * Is there a particular way to run it?
 * Clearly, I'm not very experienced with PHP....
 * 203.97.117.99 (talk) 11:23, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I tried using XAMPP. Whenever I ran the file, I received an error about a string being used as an array on line 36 in the class file.
 * No matter what I tried to correct it, new errors were always caused.
 * 203.97.117.99 (talk) 11:30, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * if ($response['login']['result'] == "Success") {
 * Now I can't even run the file. Using XAMPP just displays the text in the browser.
 * If it makes a difference, I'm using a Mac, which makes everything more complicated.
 * 203.97.117.99 (talk) 11:47, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * To get it to execute, I had to change the extension to ".php" instead of ".php5" but I get an error that says "Login Failed:"
 * I assume this is because I don't properly have the target wiki set up. I am trying to make this for http://www.uesp.net/wiki/ but I don't know which values I need, or where to put them.
 * A screencap of the parts I changed is here.
 * I also don't know what I need here.
 * What information do I need to enter instead?
 * At least I'm not getting the error about line 36 anymore.
 * 203.97.117.99 (talk) 12:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I do have them in a separate file, but this particular file won't run as a .php5 file.
 * It calls the class fine, but I just didn't have the proper information.
 * 203.97.117.99 (talk) 23:46, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Gah! More problems!
 * It makes edits fine, but it does it without being logged in!
 * As you would know, this is a big problem, as the edits get reverted pretty much immediately for editing the bot's user page when it isn't logged in.
 * The two scripts are here. Could you point out what I'm doing wrong?
 * Broccollipie (talk) 10:48, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Broccollipie (talk) 02:47, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It's still not logging in. I think I'm gonna kill someone. Broccollipie (talk) 04:12, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Programming is certainly among the most frustrating hobbies/jobs.
 * It does indeed create a cookie.txt file. I ran a script that only logs in, and pasted it in my sandbox. I then ran a script that actually edits a page to see if the contents of the file were different. I checked the recent changes page on the wiki, and to my surprise, it said the edit was by the correct user. I have no idea why it worked, though the wiki has had a few issues lately. Thanks for your help.
 * One more question, though. In one or more of LivingBot's scripts, it gets the target pages from a file "bot_targets.txt" or something. In this file, do you just enter the pages/namespaces you want edited in a list fashion?
 * Broccollipie (talk) 13:55, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ......Where does the } go?
 * Broccollipie (talk) 00:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

The SP
Jarry, a user has posted suggestions. Tony  (talk)  07:18, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

User:Moonriddengirl/Opinion essay
Hey Jarry, what do you think of this? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:38, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me! Thanks, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:06, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Edit filter
Hi Jarry,

The edit filter has been a huge benefit to the English Wikipedia. It has completely stopped certain types of pattern vandalism that were previously very difficult to deal with; it has made other types of vandalism much easier to detect and revert. Smaller wikis can benefit from the learning curve that we have already been through on en.wiki by using some of the filters that we have developed here. NawlinWiki (talk) 11:56, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Signing, via javascript
Hello again Jarry. I have a question, and I was wondering if you could help. I've created a js page to modify my Wikilove settings at User:Quadell/common.js/wikilove.js, but I can't get the script to attach my signature with a timestamp. If I save ~, the page substs in my sig with the timestamp of when I save the js page. But I want it to include my signature with the date and time of when I leave the Wikilove message. I've tried everything I can think of, but I can't get that to work. Do you know how I can do this? (Please reply on my talkpage, if you would.) Thanks so much, – Quadell (talk) 12:27, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Re: early village pump archives
Hey Harry, thanks very much, the archives sound great! Yes, I think it'll be OK to delete the earlier archiving attempts, once all the links are fixed (I think I'll be checking that today). I know that I've linked the old village pump archives in a couple of places on Wikipedia. Graham 87 00:49, 31 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm currently checking links to the previous village pump archives. They seem pretty complete so far, but for some reason, your bot didn't catch any of this text. Graham 87 04:02, 31 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I've just received a Victor Reader Stream, basically an iPod for the blind, so I'm unsure how much time I'll have to work on the archives today. Anyway, there's no rush. Graham 87 05:18, 31 August 2011 (UTC)


 * See my recent contribs; the archives seem about 70% complete, but I can't really blame you ... they're a total mess, but they should get better as I go forward in time. Maybe I should have told you that in Wikipedia's early days, sections were often separated by horizontal rules, rather than "==" signs ... or have you figured that out already? I can't find too many useful incoming links to the old archives ... some village pump discussions refer to the earlier archives, but not too many. Graham 87 13:17, 31 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks! For whatever reason, the script seems to have missed all the text in Village pump/June 2003 archive 3, Village pump/June 2003 archive 4, Village pump/June 2003 archive 5, and Village pump/June 2003 archive 6, which is quite a big gap! Did it not retrieve the history for this time period? Subsequent archives seem fairly complete, judging by their size and the date ranges. Graham 87 08:39, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Just to say thank you for running the bot. Sorry I didn't comment earlier. I've also made a suggestion at Signpost. Simply south...... eating shoes for 5 years So much for ER 22:08, 2 September 2011 (UTC)