User talk:Josh Parris/Archive 11

Unbroken links
The links in this don't look broken to me. - UtherSRG (talk) 09:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Ditto for this. Bradley0110 (talk) 09:48, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

And here. I pressed the Halt button. - Fayenatic (talk) 09:54, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Same here and here, I clicked the Halt button for real.  X  eworlebi (t•c) 10:00, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I'll try to figure out what's going on. Josh Parris 10:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Crap, it's the database caching again. Josh Parris 10:38, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

None of the links in this diff are broken either. It's improperly tagged several articles I've written that way. Jayjg (talk) 11:44, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ There was a misplaced "not". I'll be reprocessing the world to bring everything into good standing. Josh Parris 12:14, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

section links Internet Relay Chat
WildBot reported here that there are broken section links. That is incorrect or I can't find it. or is that a bug in you're bot that the section link is #Channels without the naming the own page? mabdul 12:53, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This is probably the same problem as ; I'll check your specific instance once that's solved, but I expect it will be resolved when whatever problem it is is solved. Josh Parris 00:21, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ I've checked your pages and believe all the problems have been fixed; I've restarted the bot and it's running hard. If you see edits from now on that are dodgy, please tell me. Josh Parris 08:04, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * New problems! again: Talk:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients the links have anchors in the article! wildbot is wrong! add the check to wildbot. mabdul 19:17, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Problem with links
On the Talk:Batman & Robin (film), when I click on the "Check" or "Fix" disambiguation links, it takes me http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py%3Fpage%3DBatman_%26_Robin_(film) which attempts to disambiguate the page Batman instead of Batman & Robin (film). I've fixed the links on Batman & Robin (film), but left the Wildbot template so you can see the problem. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs)


 * That's neat. Try [10] instead (worked for me in preview). Rejectwater (talk) 23:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I know this isn't my talk page so I'm probably breaking some cardinal rule, but I started looking at this and can't put it down. It looks like this is a problem with the way  passes the page title to the toolserver dispenser tool.  "Batman & Robin" gets sent as "Batman_&_Robin" and the dispenser tool truncates this to "Batman".  Saw the same thing with "Law & Order".  If you give the dispenser tool "Batman_%26_Robin" it works fine.  Rejectwater (talk) 00:16, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * A known bug, see above. We're working on a work-around, but it's not being treated as such a high priority as getting the bot running at full tilt in production. Josh Parris 00:40, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've reverted the NoScript workaround, the links should now work correctly. NoScript users should add toolserver.org into their XSS exception list or just click "Unsafe reload" when it comes up.  — Dispenser 18:13, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

WildBot giving odd results
On Talk:Silver King (wrestler) the WildBot is listing a long list of links that it says are wrong, but I checked them all and those that are listed now are correct down to the case sensitivity as far as I can see.  MPJ  -DK 15:53, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm having the same problem at Talk:Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district special election, 2010. Thanks. – Hysteria18 (Talk • Contributions) 17:21, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Same with on Talk:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients. --Tothwolf (talk) 18:37, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * And here. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 22:21, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Investigating... Josh Parris 23:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe this the entire cache is corrupted. I'm going to halt all processing and blow it away. Josh Parris 23:29, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Cache cleared, bot restarted. Gimmie a heads up if it acts up again.  Josh Parris 23:36, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

false positives - George H. D. Gossip
Wildbot is giving some false positives. One is in George H. D. Gossip. I had a couple of other articles today where it was right on some but wrong on others. Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 23:12, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ blowing away the cache made the bot happier about the world. Josh Parris 23:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Pages changed to redirects
I've come across three pages that have been changed to redirects but that are all still tagged by Wildbot for disambiguation-


 * Talk:A View from a Hill - article page redirects to A Ghost Story for Christmas
 * Talk:2010 Holywood car bombing - article page redirects to List of terrorist incidents, 2010
 * Talk:2010 ACM Awards - article page redirects to Academy of Country Music
 * Talk:2010 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell - Singles - article page redirects to 2010 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell – Singles
 * Talk:2010 Copa Libertadores Goalscorers - article page redirects to 2010 Copa Libertadores
 * Talk:AJ maldonado - article page redirects to Soulidium
 * Talk:Action roleplaying game - article page redirects to Action role-playing game
 * Talk:Yearly Top Albums - article page redirects to Oricon

ThanksRejectwater (talk) 18:27, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm going to need to improve the code that detects if the main article has become a redirect. Josh Parris 11:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I still need to look at this. Josh Parris 10:11, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * In the hopes that it will help you, I will continue to add to the list as I find more. Rejectwater (talk) 16:33, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ha ha- I will not let you forget about this. Rejectwater (talk) 12:35, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't mean to bug you, I know you've got bigger fish to fry right now, I just don't want this to get archived until you've had a chance to work this out. Cheers, Rejectwater (talk) 13:31, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

The Dragon (Beowulf)/Wyrm dab
Wildbot keeps flagging wyrm as a link that needs fixing. It doesn't - the wyrm article appears to be a stub and a disambiguatuion page, and is the correct page for The Dragon (Beowulf) to be pointing to. Work may need to be done on Wyrm, but it would help if WildBot wasn't asking pages linking to it to fix a problem.Metabaronic (talk) 15:49, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Josh Parris 21:51, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * But the page is called Wyrm, not Wyrm (disambiguation), which is why the FAQ doesn't answer the question.Metabaronic (talk) 22:07, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ See what I did there? Josh Parris 00:07, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

SporkBot
Thanks for the approval. How to I go about getting a bot flag? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 06:35, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * In general 'crats will check this page for unflagged bots. However, it looks like Josh may have put SporkBot down as flagged when it actually isn't? I've changed the page to say it need a flag, so hopefully a 'crat will look into it shortly. - Kingpin13 (talk) 08:34, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it looks like it has now been resolved. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 15:26, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Operator error. Sorry! Josh Parris 22:16, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Wildbot to check many pages
I would like to have Wildbot check every page that I currently have on my watchlist. Could you gave me some advice as to the bast way to do this? I noticed on the FAQ that a page list would work but when I edit my raw watchlist it omits the " "... -- RP459  Talk/Contributions 16:52, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Create a new page, User:RP459/watched with all the pages listed on it (copy and paste from your raw watchlist). I'll take it from there (the code is currently experimental/not productionized). Josh Parris 22:15, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for the help with this! -- RP459  Talk/Contributions 23:42, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The pages need to be wikilinks (otherwise it could just be text/writing as far as the bot's concerned). Josh Parris 23:58, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Is the bot smart enough to ignore the redlinks?  If not I can remove them by hand...  --  RP459  Talk/Contributions 00:35, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Processing now. Yes, the bot is unsurprised when links don't work. Josh Parris 00:48, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) A quick way of converting it next time is to the regular expression find and replace in WikEd with  and  .  Once 66539 is deployed we'll be able to use the API to access other people watchlists. — Dispenser 01:53, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks this is awesome! -- RP459 </B> Talk/Contributions 03:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Hello there!!
Please check the links in my page: Dream Chronicles. Thanks first! :P †hinhin_of_you/buzzworthy/βoy Ünder Ғlowers 03:28, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Books and category cleanup
Alright after an epic Cfd, category cleanup is now possible. Could WildBot


 * Remove all categories found in user books
 * Remove Category:Wikipedia books from community books
 * Check if community books are categorized. If they aren't after the cleanup (and forgetting categories added by templates), add Category:Wikipedia books (books without categories)

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:05, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * So, for User remove any, and if a Community book has no categories, add that one above.
 * Give me a couple of days. Josh Parris 04:13, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * No rush. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:14, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Any updates? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:29, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ping? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 10:19, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Rote Hilfe
When you get back to Wikipedia, it would be great to get the dab template removed from this article's talk page. Thanks in advance. Marrante (talk) 07:45, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Started poll for SRAG trial.
I just started a poll for the SRAG trial run. It looks like there won't be many of us weighing in, but that reflects the small amount of editors would be recruited so I don't know if we should be too concerned. I think that, in the future, we might want to follow the BAG approach of having the requester do the canvassing to make sure that they aren't waiting on us to do it. -- EpochFail (talk 15:07, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * discussion link -- EpochFail (talk 15:10, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

BAGBot: Your bot request WildBot 7
Someone has marked Bots/Requests for approval/WildBot 7 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:52, 13 June 2010 (UTC) <small style="color:gray">To opt out of these notifications, place  anywhere on this page.

Is autoupdating running?
Hi,

I've been fixing a couple of things listed on Talk:Participants in World War II.

Wildbot last updated that page in May although one or more disams have occurred since then.

Is there an issue at present?

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 05:19, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Also, Wildbot used to display when it last updated. Has that information been suppressed?
 * Ditto for the Kodak_EasyShare_DX6490 page. Flagged by WildBot 2010-05-26, and disambiguous links sorted on 2010-06-02. Scottmacpherson (talk) 10:52, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

7Series
Hey Josh - I know you're busy, but I was doing some tests

I know I had to reinstall everything from scratch ... did I miss something somewhere? 7SeriesBOT (talk) 16:27, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * On the page User:Bwilkins/test, when I G7'd it, the bot didn't even glance at it. When I U1'd it, same thing.
 * On the page User talk:Bwilkins/test, G7 gave me "unhandled exception" and U1 said I had non-bot, non-owner contribs.
 * I then created Talk:Oubie and G7'd it: unhandled exception.

SRAG | Recruitment Issues
Hello Josh! I have left you here this message:
 * Thinking about it more and also reading this discussion, I am not sure if private messaging would be the better way for a first contact. What do you think?

Would be nice if you replied on the SRAG page. Thanks in advance! --Jojoona (talk) 12:04, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

WildBot appears to be stopped
According to its Contributions page, WildBot has done nothing since July 7, 2010. What gives? (Please respond here.) Many thanks, HairyWombat (talk) 22:14, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Later. The bot is back. Looks like it came back online on July 16, 2010. HairyWombat


 * One of my pages today still shows Wildbot listing disams that were fixed on July 3. But things are definitely running again?
 * Varlaam (talk) 00:51, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Should we remove the Bot tags ourselves?
If we've made the changes needed, should we wait until WildBot returns, or should we go ahead and remove the tags ourselves? Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 03:25, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * As it is unclear for how long WildBot will be offline, I intend to remove the tags manually (so that other editors do not waste time trying to fix problems that no longer exist), but will also add " " (so that when WildBot comes back online it will come by and check). HairyWombat (talk) 15:02, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Removing tags manually is perfectly fine as long as the problems have been fixed. Whether you should remove them it just a matter of how lazy/impatient you are :P. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:15, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks!! Aristophanes68 (talk) 16:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Any sign on when the bot will be removing the User:WildBot/m01 tags yet? I have been running into many many of these tags that are no longer applicable. If its not going to be coming back online it might be good to just run through removing all the tags its placed. -DJSasso (talk) 01:32, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Backlog not being cleared
WildBot is not working as it should. There are recent edits and the list of tagged articles (here) is only 20 long, but one of them I put there on July 15, 2010; that was 15 days ago. (Another article on the list, Talk:2003 in music, was tagged on June 17, 2010.) HairyWombat 17:38, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree, the links for List of computing and IT abbreviations have been fixed, but they haven't been recognized as fixed. 70.247.169.197 (talk) 20:51, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

The Essential Project
This entry is a shameless promotion of a specific product "Essential is a free, open source tool by Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd, a UK-based EA consulting company".

The entry adds no real value to the subject of Enterprise Architecture which is amply covered here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_architecture —Preceding unsigned comment added by WalkWidKings (talk • contribs) 04:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)


 * This is not my Talk page, but I think the above comment refers to the article Open Source Enterprise Architecture Tools. I gave it a section heading because without one it was confusing. (Well, it confused me no end.) HairyWombat 06:27, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Wildbot hasn't run on books since the August 13th
Anyway to give it a kick so it resumes its very useful work? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Book:Featured Articles
Do you normally have your bot update the subpages there? Or does it have to be updated manually? :| TelCo NaSp  Ve :|  05:12, 20 August 2010 (UTC)


 * If you mean update the book themselves, no, you need to do that manually (or with the use of a another bot). If you mean update the talk pages report, it's supposed to, but the bot is currently down. There is however, no downside in updating the talk page reports manually. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:51, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Erroneous bot removal of project tags
Hello, take a look at this edit. Your bot removed the project tags for two projects from the article, which definitely can not have been the intention, and it does not qualify as a minor edit. So some bugfixing seems to be called for. Tomas e (talk) 18:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Will the bot ever work again?
It hasn't done anything since the spring. Varlaam (talk) 16:01, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems to be active again, as of this morning. -- Red rose64 (talk) 13:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

PediaPress renderer for Wikipedia Books
I thought you might be interested in this. Basically, this would give you access to the PediaPress renderer used to print books and should allow you to review book as they would be printed (minus covers). If you find errors and problems, please report them at Help:Books/Feedback.

You either received this message because
 * You edited several books
 * You are part of WikiProject Wikipedia-Books. (If you aren't, please free free to join in. We'll take any help we can.)

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WildBot inactive?
Last activity at september 21st, afaict. Buzz-tardis (talk) 18:35, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Requesting that WildBot visits Book:Turtles. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 14:04, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

How is our ailing friend doing?
Talk:Russian language has a Wildbot notice from May.

I have now made a correction.

But will Wildbot notice ... ?

Varlaam (talk) 17:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Unlikely since Josh last edited in July and WildBot had low activity since then, until mid-September when it completely stopped. For the disambiguation tags, I've ask bot owners to remove tags from a list I've compiled on the Toolserver.  But creating such a list for the #section tag would a very long time to do.  — Dispenser 22:12, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey, maybe RF can take over this bot! Varlaam (talk) 01:42, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Erroneous report at Lucifer
Could the talk page notice about Morning star be removed? I cannot find any such link in the article. __meco (talk) 10:30, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * On April 27 when WildBot made that report, there was a link to Morning Star. It has since been removed, and WildBot has not run in months.  Feel free to remove the dab notice, as per the bot's FAQ. ( talk→   BWilkins   ←track ) 11:47, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a discrepancy in the primary topic detection. WildBot detects only pages with    (See is_ambiguous in disambig.py).  Dablinks uses the more advanced circular link detection.  Finally, my cleanup report, to find which wildbot tags are safe to remove, did not use any method.   I have now implemented WildBot's detection method into the report and may enable Dablinks' method in the future.  — Dispenser 23:47, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Bot
Dear Josh Parris, I know that your bot, among many tasks, points out the presence of redirect in WikiBooks. Can I ask you to send me the script (python?) that you use to perform that task? Thanks a lot. --Gnumarcoo (talk) 10:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)


 * You'll find SVN repository link at the bottom of WildBot's user page. — Dispenser 23:14, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Broken links in "Oligonucleotide synthesis"
Dear Josh Parris, I tried many times to fix the broken links in "Oligonucleotide synthesis" to various sections of "Protecting Groups" identified by your Bot. Although the recipy of fixing seems to be extremely straightforward, it is just not working for me in spite of many attempts. Could you please give it a try at your spare time. Thank you, Chemist234 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:32, 11 January 2011 (UTC).

Bot issues
I don't know if this has been stopped, but edits like are bad. Don't make them. --NE2 01:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * What's wrong with them? It changes an incorrect name to a correct one (redirect is found within Category:Redirects from incorrect names). Also both Josh Paris and WildBot have been inactive for over six month now. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:53, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * If he were a human, he could compare the row in the table to the article and see that they're not talking about the same entity. --NE2 19:48, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Links in "Oligonucleotide synthesis" have been fixed
Dear Josh Parris, Links in "Oligonucleotide synthesis" have been fixed. Could you please verify/edit/remove your "broken links" message from the discussion page of the article. Thank you, Chemist234 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:18, 22 January 2011 (UTC).

February Disambig challenge
Greetings! I've challenged my fellow disambiguators to help knock out more than a thousand disambig links a day for the month of February, and every bit helps. Please check out the list at Disambiguation pages with links and see if you can get in the game for this month. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:37, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Yadkin River Bridges
There is a tag stating the link to a section in another Wikipedia article is broken. In fact, I tried it and it works. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 23:19, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixing Disambiguation
While the bot offers a sophisticated interface kudos, why doesn't the bot actually fix the disambiguation links ?

A simplistic (two parameter) method would be:


 * Check the largest projection of the source page onto each proposed disambiguation desitination. Using cosine of their normalized term vectors.
 * If the  (is significent) AND if the   then you have a sure thing.
 * If the  you have evidence that the link offers minimal added value.
 * You could get the parameters by crunching your log.

Of course a semantic algorithm like topic maps would be even better - as it could disambiguate the same  in a single source page to different   based on context. OrenBochman (talk) 01:01, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

List of errors
Hi there. I was looking for a page listing all the issues that Wildbot reports about books - with suggested fix, but it looks like one needs to check books in the different categories to know which problems are common when creating a book and how to solve them. --Elitre (talk) 07:26, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Popups in Chrome
Hi, I saw that you had a problem with popups.js in Chrome 4. I just checked: the non-experimental popups gadget works fine in Chrome 12. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 13:05, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

DAB bot < >
Josh: sorry to say the DAB bot appears to be destroying page content. Here's the description I left in the talk page Talk:Augustan_literature

You may notice strange strings of the form link:1 through link:5 on this page. Every time someone clicks a DAB Solver button to disambiguate a term, and tries to fix it, the term is replaced by link:n. The original text is not merely obscured but destroyed from the article source text. So, someone must identify all of these and if necessary go through the article history to recover the missing terms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.164.227 (talk) 06:46, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Psst
...nice to see you back! ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 11:35, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Hey Josh, how are you going? I just thought It was interesting that we had the same name, but I guess its be be expected. Have a great day! From Joshua Parris =) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshua.parris (talk • contribs) 07:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

DAB Humperdinck?
What's with edits and many others like it? The composer's page is unchanged at Engelbert Humperdinck and there is no disambiguation problem.-- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:46, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there is. About 10% of the incoming links are for the singer, so as to know what links are intentionally to the composer they have to be disambiguated.  That way they never have to be checked again. Josh Parris 13:53, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
 * No, there isn't, at least not in the sense how disambiguation is understood at Wikipedia. Coming so soon after the discussion to move the composer's article, these edits might be seen as a bit "pointy". I can also see some well-intentioned editors, not aware of WP:NOTBROKEN, changing the links back to the non-redirected target, so I wouldn't bet on "never having to check them again", leaving aside newly created articles which would naturally link to the proper page name. Anyway, it's all in the past now. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:22, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

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Request for Interview Regarding Wikipedia Bots
Greetings Josh Parris-

My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of BAG and the bot community, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.

My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.

Randall Livingstone, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon

UOJComm (talk) 00:43, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Melbourne Meetup
Hi there. Just inviting you to the Melbourne meetup this Sunday at 11am, to celebrate our 11th anniversary. Details on that page. Hope to see you there! SteveBot (talk) 02:02, 11 January 2012 (UTC) (on behalf of Steven Zhang)

Source
Fin para la ley anticianuro — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.139.13.69 (talk) 22:18, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

My BRFA's
Thanks for reviewing my BRFA's. I think I answered all the questions I could. If you have any more questions though please let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 02:49, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Great minds think alike
You beat me by three minutes. Rivertorch (talk) 07:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

A beer for you!
hey brother. thanks very much for your assistance with my article about the national strategic narrative. please feel free to take a look at the rest of it and do what youd like. the chat room guy says you are a well know editor. thanks again! -Uconngijoe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uconngijoe (talk • contribs) 23:37, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * If I've become well-known then I've been doing it wrong.  I'm pleased I could help the both of you. Josh Parris 02:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the Bot!
Thank you for having a bot look over my book. I want any kind of error to be discovered and repaired. Allen (talk) 11:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't get your hopes up; it will be a few weeks at best (the wheels on toolserver move slowly, and then I've got to bring the code up to date). Josh Parris 11:19, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

February Melbourne Meetup
Hi All. Just letting you know that we have another meetup planned for Melbourne, on Sunday, 26th February at 11am. More details can be found at the meetup page. Pizza will be provided. Look forward to seeing all of you there :-) SteveBot (talk) 23:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 21:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * and bottom of the deletion-discussion as well... maybe that's a better place. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 21:58, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for all your comments about BattyBot's edits. You made a great suggestion about the section templates, which I hope is something that the AWB developers will be willing to take on. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:19, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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Red Links
No problem!

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Redirect template
Redundancy Because both True_love_(Lil%27_Romeo_song) and True_Love_(Lil%27_Romeo_song) redirect to the same place. It seems silly to me to have every possible typographic variation redirect to the same place and be included in Category:Redirects from songs--only properly-formatted redirects should be in that in my estimation. Does that make sense? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

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Nice job
Hello Josh, just stopped by to say thanks for your contributions to the Signpost this week, and to encourage you to continue if you feel so inclined; we really appreciate the input of promising contributors. Regards,  Skomorokh   17:13, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It's been a pleasure. I've helped out in the past and found my attention wandering off, so I think I'll continue to fly under the radar for a while before I consider myself a "contributor". Josh Parris 17:20, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Well enough
I don't think "wrong" is "well enough". -- JHunterJ (talk) 17:45, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I was, in fact, referring to my edit adding Doctor of Physical Therapy, which you moved down the bottom as a PTM. The anon saw it was no longer in the list of professions, and predictably shoved Physical Therapist back in there. Pay close attention: I reverted to your version. Ideally we ought to get the page into a state where people aren't seeing their job missing while others have it, and fixing the page. Josh Parris 17:57, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I was, in fact, referring to the same thing. The revert to my version was fine, but the PTM in the main list was not "well enough" (the link was, if you're paying close attention, there to show the edit summary). -- JHunterJ (talk) 19:05, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah. Well, anyho I'm hoping that the "doctor of" solution will fly. Josh Parris 19:09, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Yobot
Hi Josh Parris. I don't understand your messages. I stopped editing the list that was causing the problem 1 hour before your message and your 2nd message was at 22:56, this is an hour after my last edit in a new list (less than 500 edits) that was flawless (no whitespace only, no bypass only edits). Can you please explain? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I haven't noticed you latest comments in my talk page. I a sorry. I replied. The last bunch of edits was with "skip if only minor fixes/whitespace/casing edit only" on. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:30, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup
Hey all, just a reminder that there's a meetup tomorrow at 11am in North Melbourne. There are more details at the meetup page. Hope to see you tomorrow! SteveBot (talk) 04:39, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Getting started on those Simple scripts
Hey, I've started putting together a, er, simple version of my scripts for Simple Wiki. It's bare bones, but that's probably all you need; there are less than 1500 disambigs with incoming links. I'll be testing and whatnot for another day or so, and then I'll probably drop them here. Cheers, -- Ja Ga  talk 06:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Josh, thank you so much for your work in getting this started up. It really is a huge help to the Simple community. I hope to see you back again there soon! Osiris (talk) 02:18, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Don't thank me, it's the tool devs who've done all the hard work - they are the heros. I merely hit them with sticks until they complied with my demands. Josh Parris 02:21, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Haha! Nice! ;) Osiris (talk) 04:14, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Toolserver performance to improve on Friday?
You mentioned in the Signpost that "Toolserver performance is expected to improve on Friday". I was wondering, what is your source of information was for this statement, and how reliable is that estimate? Most of us who rely on the toolserver are in the dark about the process currently underway. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:44, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Toolserver has a central notice system that some tools publish (poke the owner of your favourite tools if they don't). If you got to ~dispenser/cgi-bin/dabfix.py right now, you'll see:
 * Our wikipedia:en database copy is corrupt and in read-only mode while a dump is prepared. Meanwhile, WMF is adding a SHA-1 hash column to the revision table (usefulness: was that a partial or full revert?) and replag will likely start decreasing earily April (MNT-1225). 
 * That's where I got the Friday (now "earily April") date. Josh Parris 20:56, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * That hasn't been used since 2009. The text (originally a week old) is from my internal notification system which I implemented after being annoyed that important timely information wasn't being passed to my users.  — Dispenser 23:20, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Userfy bot
Hi there- not sure where else to put this but I saw that you seem to have the most involvement. I've been watching the Legobot 12 BRfA and I see that it's basically reached a dead end. Just wanted to say that if Yoenit doesn't want to run it, I'd be happy to put in a BRfA and do so if you think that would be ok. I actually quickly converted the code to the "other" (non rewrite) pywikipediabot if that might be useful. Cheers.  S ' D ' 5  23:21, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Any and all are welcome. Go right ahead. Josh Parris 01:59, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I made a BRfA!  S ' D ' 5  02:30, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for helping in the latest BRfA. Just one thing. Is the regex correct? Currently it doesn't replace – with spaces either side and does replace – with no spaces either side. You don't think it should have been the other way around?  S ' D ' 5  14:28, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually I think its OK. It's just that I've seen a few reverts implying that the bot is to blame, when it is actually the incorrect usage of – by editors.  S ' D ' 5