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Status Template
Hello Misza13. I'm trying to use your status template for my user and user talk pages, but there is a bit of a problem with it. Whenever I click in, busy, or out, then it just appears to clear my status, thus causing me to have to change it manually. Besides that, it appears to be good. I also had a bit of a problem with MiszaBot III recently where it wasn't archiving my talk page when it is set to. I tried to recopy the User:MiszaBot/config template, and I'll let you know if it still doesn't work.-- Disturbed Nerd  999  04:45, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure why wouldn't it work, unless you're using Internet Exploder? I've heard it might be incompatible. If not, can you paste one of the links the extension creates? I'll check if they're correct. Миша 13 11:12, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Having always been a fan of Microsoft, I do use Internet Explorer. Maybe that's why it wouldn't work for me.-- Disturbed Nerd  999  02:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

MiszaBotII
... isn't archiving WP:ANI. I've done it manually to get the size down to something manageable. Cheers, Black Kite 20:41, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It bumped off a spam filter. You seem to have moved the offending link to the archive. Миша 13 23:00, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I guessed it might be that. I had to fiddle with the offending links to get them into the archive. Always going to be a problem when someone reports a spamlink and then it gets blacklisted.  Black Kite 00:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

User:MiszaBot on Wikinews
Hey, just as a quick note but MiszaBot has been "offline" since 8 February. Not sure if it has to do with the replag on the tool server, but I figured I'd mention it. Thanks. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 07:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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WP:PW newsletter
Hi, I have been receiving 2 newsletters on my talk page with the same issue for a few months, now this might just be a glitch or something but I thought I might tell u. Adam Penale (talk) 11:47, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You're probably listed twice on the participant list, possibly with different usernames (the bot just follows redirects and doesn't resolve duplicates). Миша 13 22:11, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey
I know that your bot dose a lot of the archiving around here i'm just here to ask if you could start to archive the Talk:List of YouTube celebrities its getting long an no one has started to archive it yet. Thank you Kyle1278 (talk) 16:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:47, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

MiszaBot I error
For some reason MiszaBot I just archived a section at Talk:Wii to Talk:Wii/Archive 1 despite the fact that the archive is currently up to 28 (Archive 1 was from 2005). Could you take a look at it? Also, shouldn't that section be fixed and moved to the right archive target?  TJ   Spyke   05:37, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This edit started the archiving. Diego pmc set the counter to 1, causing the issues. I reverted the edits to Archive 1, moved the content to Archive 29, and set the counter to 29. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:40, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Colobot
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Colobot, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * no assertion of notability

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Ironholds (talk) 17:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

User:MiszaBot/Trackers need updating after some category renames.
Hi, the names of the various dated speedy deletion image categories have changed, see Categories for discussion/Log/2009 February 12, would be nice if you could update your bot to track the new ones when you get the time. --Sherool (talk) 08:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

News importer bot for Portal:Roads
Hello there I think I have assembled together some real wikinews categories at wikinews Portal:Roads/Wikipedia which should screen out transport airplanes, trains and boats, and leave me with autos, trucks and cars, ie road type articles. In the transport category, there are some articles I think which should arise like a bus accident and what not. Is there something I am doing wrong still. Do I have to rename my wikinews portal to a different name as there are no highways categories, but portal transport is already doing news pick up as well. It says no articles to be found, do articles have to be very current to be picked up? Any advise would be appreciated. SriMesh | talk  18:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems to work now. On a side note, however, I don't think you wanted news about nuclear submarines to show up... Миша 13 17:16, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Vexing botIII Issue
Hello and thanks for your work with the archiving bots. I had set up a template on my talk page on 24.Feb and the bot came by fine on that day and did a nice job archiving as anticipated. Since that day, though, i've had no further clean-ups despite threads matching the algorithm parameter. I've tried dwindling the min-related values to make sure that it would archive some thread, but have not had it trigger further archiving. Can you see what i'm missing here? Thanks. Quaeler (talk) 15:43, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks much for determining the error. Is there the actual code for the bot which i could view by which i could debug situations without needing to bother you? Thanks again. Quaeler (talk) 18:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It's part of the pywikipedia framework as archivebot.py. But the code won't tell you a bit without access to actual execution logs, which are not publicly available. Миша 13 19:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the pointer to the python archive. I see what you mean concerning the log information — perhaps an error condition to log to the talk page attempting to be archived (as long as it's a talk page and not an article) as well as where ever the private logs are? At any rate, thanks again for your work. Quaeler (talk) 19:51, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Working in Help: NS?
I setup MiszaBot on Help:Books/Feedback and wonder whether this will work, as this NS is not mentioned in the bot's description. Any suggestions for an alternative if it will not work? Thanks --He!ko (talk) 09:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * NSs 12 and 13 added to config. Миша 13 17:14, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks!!! --He!ko (talk) 20:45, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Miszabot - add total to tracking?
It might be nice for the tracking reports to have a total count of articles in all the subcategories. If it isn't too hard to add, and doesn't break things that use the tracking reports. It would be nice to be able to tell trends in overall numbers by comparing old versions of a report like User:MiszaBot/Trackers/CAT:ORPHAN. Thanks. Zodon (talk) 18:39, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have added a total counter to the edit summary. Will that do? Миша 13 19:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Fake bot?
I just blocked it. Tiptoety talk 02:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. You could've deleted the fake userpages while at it. Миша 13 07:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I wanted to make sure it was not actually yours before I did that. Cheers, Tiptoety  talk 23:58, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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Bot for archiving
I've noticed you have a few archiving bots. Could you please assign one to archiving my talk page every 7 days? Carabera (talk) 20:46, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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Broke?
Any idea as to why User:MiszaBot isn't archiving my talk page anymore? It was working perfectly forever but since I came back from my "break" of several months and restored my userpage as it was before I left, it hasn't worked. I didn't change any of the coding or anything. - &#10032; ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 15:38, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't see the configuration template anywhere in your page's header. Миша 13 16:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Not working for me either. :(  iMatthew //  talk  //  16:37, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * User:MiszaBot/Archive FAQ, reason 2 in your case. Миша 13 16:44, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

It's at User talk:Allstarecho/utalk/content, which is templated/substd into my talk page and which is where it's always been and where it's always worked before. I took off from WP about 4, 5 months so I cleared out my talk page. When I came back, I just simply restored the content. Which means, it should just start working again because it was before. Does this make sense? lol - &#10032; ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 22:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * No, it's not subst'd, it's only on a template on a subpage. Just think from the bot's perspective - it doesn't see the template when examining the code of your talk page, so ignores it. You didn't seriously expect the bot to search for it in every template transcluded there? Also, no, you apparently didn't "just simply restored the content". Look at the header in the last revision before you blanked it. It's there, so it makes perfect sense that it was working back then. Миша 13 00:43, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing it out. I sure don't remember moving it from the actual talk page to the template but obviously I did. Thanks for the smack back into reality. ;] - &#10032; ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 01:06, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Archiving problem
I've tweaked the setting several times, but I still can't get MiszaBot to archive Talk:Transcendental Meditation. Does anyone have any ideas for what I might be doing wrong? I checked the FAQ and I don't think I'm making any of those mistakes.  Will Beback   talk    18:40, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks - that did the trick.   Will Beback    talk    02:26, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Archive Request
Hi please archive Talk:MSNBC. It goes back a year and is getting rather long. Thanks TomCat4680 (talk) 10:31, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Talk:Citing sources
For some reason, Misza is unable to archive the first topic on the talk page of WP:CITE. The topic is titled "Retrieval dates for online versions of old printed sources, again". I hesitate to archive it myself, since I don't want to throw the bot out of sync or something. Do you think you could take a look at it and help Misza to archive it? Thanks. CharlesGillingham (talk) 06:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * See subsection "Default setting: show or hide access date?" - archiving of that thread has been disabled for some reason. Also, I am Misza, MiszaBot is the bot's name. Миша 13 11:18, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Forgive me. CharlesGillingham (talk) 10:59, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Code question
So all is well, MiszaBot archived last night. Now I have a question about parameters. In my setup, I have:

 |archiveheader = 

Are either of these possible as well?:

 |archiveheader =  

Or

 |archiveheader = 

Or

 |archiveheader = 

Thanks for your time. - &#10032; ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 17:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You could always put them into a subpage in your userspace and link that. &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 19:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * All are possible, as long as the value fits in one line. Миша 13 21:00, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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Is MiszaBot III able to take parser functions in its config?
Is it possible to use parser functions like CURRENTMONTH in the config? Thanks, &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 18:22, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually - is it possible to use templates? That was I could do 03 -> March. &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 18:22, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Generally, you can, but they won't be interpreted as such. I supposed it only makes sense in the archiveheader parameter. On the other hand, why not RTFM and use <tt>%(month)02d</tt> instead? Миша 13 19:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I could do that, but then I wouldn't be silly, would I? :P Thanks. &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 20:05, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Quick question - I need to subst my archiveheader for it to work (see User talk:Neurolysis/A). How should I tell MiszaBot to add this? The howto doesn't seem to tell me whether to put the archiveheader parameter in curly braces, so I am wondering whether I would just use '|archiveheader=subst:User talk:Neurolysis/A'? Thanks again, &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 17:32, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I assume you missed this? &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 19:07, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I missed it, sorry. No, the parameter's value is put verbatim as a header of new archive pages, so there have to be curly braces. But then again, instead of substing it, I bel.ieve something like <tt> |archiveheader= </tt> should do the trick (the month's name should be filled in when creating a new archive page). Миша 13 21:21, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * No idea how I didn't think of that. Thanks. &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 15:56, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

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Archive skips
Well, now that we got the bot to archive again.. I have it set to 5 days. It archived on March 23, 2009. It archived up through January 28, 2009 on one page and when it was full, archived through February 8, 2009 on the next new page but didn't archive February 9, 2009 through March 13, 2009 because they are still on my talk page - even though they are 5 days or more old. Suggestions? - &#10032; <strong style="letter-spacing:1px;font-family:Verdana">ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 20:27, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The almighty FAQ has an answer for ya. See Q1, reason 2. Миша 13 22:35, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

MiszaBot II at VPP
Hi. It looks like MiszaBot II hasn't archived Village pump (policy) since March 13. I tried looking for blacklisted external links, but I didn't see anything obvious on either page. Thanks. Flatscan (talk) 04:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing the issue so quickly. I was searching for "[http", but I see that non-linked URLs are blocked also. Flatscan (talk) 04:30, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

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Talk: Star Trek Online not archiving
Forgive me, but I do not have the programmer nature. I've read the FAQ and still can't figure out why the above isn't archiving. It's got posts on there from January 2007! -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  20:00, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Quite possibly because the archiving code was added today and the bot doesn't run continuously (only at scheduled hours). Sheesh, research, please. Миша 13 21:08, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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 * It doesn't have to be enabled; it's User:MiszaBot III that already handles the entire User talk: namespace. However, I'm afraid it won't work correctly anyway; not only because the archiving template is included incorrectly, but mainly due to your talk page being horribly corrupted (you have threads at different levels (ie. with different numbers of equation marks in titles), that would confuse the hell out of the bot). Миша 13 11:24, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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