User talk:Misza13/Archives/2009/07

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VPT again
MiszaBot hasn't hit VPT since 22 June now. I've tried a couple of things, including taking out what could be a blacklisted link, and noticing that the archive page was a redirect and blanking it. Anything else to try? It might be a good idea to have the bot make a dummy edit when it fails for reasons like these, to record what the problem is. Happy‑melon 14:05, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Not sure, really. Seems like it's plagued with a problem with "whatlinkshere". I replaced the pywikipedia's screen scraping with calls to the API, but now it's regularly timing out. I'm still looking into this. Maybe I'm querying the API too rapidly. Миша 13 21:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Why does it query whatlinkshere in the first place?? Or do you mean what links to User:MiszaBot/config?? Happy‑melon 21:51, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, template transclusions are available through whatlinkshere (which is what pywikipedia uses) or the API's list=embeddedin function. Миша 13 13:58, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Maybe I'm just being dumb.....
I've very carefully followed the instructions to set up autoarchiving on my talk page.....but it doesn't seem to happen. It's been a few days now. Is there an obvious error I'm making? Stephen Kirragetalk - contribs 16:14, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I can't figure this one out either. There are two external links (worldcat.org and polamjournal.com), but neither seem to be on the blacklist. –xenotalk 16:27, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I ran it manually (explicitly on your page) and there were no problems, so these weren't spam links. This may be related to the "whatlinkshere" problem described thread above. Миша 13 21:35, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Section dates
Sometimes Miszabot ignores date stamps; e.g. archiving sections of Talk:Washington Monument from 2006–09 while leaving sections from 2003 and 2005. The latter group were sections I added date tags to. Is the bot looking at the page history to see the recent changes, or does it not like, or what? —WWoods (talk) 15:26, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Those timestamps do not specify a time zone (UTC) and are not recognized. Миша 13 22:52, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

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MiszaBot II
Hi, MiszaBot II seems to have stopped archiving WT:Naming conventions. It last archived two threads on June 29, but several threads have passed the 10-day mark since then, but haven't been archived. Could you take a look? Thanks in advance, --Aervanath (talk) 04:07, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's because there were only five threads. The bot doesn't clean house unless you ask it to. The default is to leave five. P.S. This page is on my watchlist, I'm not stalking, I swear. :) ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  04:30, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I didn't realize that. Thanks! And I understand, I stalk quite a few talk pages myself.--Aervanath (talk) 02:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

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Section header in an hidden comment
This archive from a couple of weeks ago caused a strange problem. The removed section contained the close of an hidden comment (just after the Russian text). As a result the hidden comment was extended through several succeeding sections until it encountered another hidden comment. I suggest that you ignore section headers in an hidden comment—the same as the Mediawiki software. —teb728 t c 19:50, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your suggestion - you are not the first one to make it. Pywikipedia does not have a wikitext parser though. Миша 13 05:02, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

How do you get it to archive to the right archive?
It keeps archiving Talk:Solar System to archive 4, when it's already on archive 6.  Serendi <sup style="color:#bb0000;">pod ous  16:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The bot is currently set to fill the archives to 160kb and the counter is set to archive 4. You may want to change the parameter from 160kb down to 40kb or so or you could change the counter to 6. -- <u style="font-size:14px; font-family: cursive;color:#8000FF">Banj e  <u style="font-size:14px;font-family: Zapfino, sans-serif;color:deeppink">b oi   21:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The bot does not possess intelligence. If someone set the counter to 4, it will obey just that. Миша 13 22:05, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

MiszaBot III misfire?
Hi, first off many thanks for your botting. I may have done something wrong but ... the III has been fine as far as I knew until I looked for a thread and noticed a misfire, the files were removed from talk but never made it to the archive page? -- <u style="font-size:14px; font-family: cursive;color:#8000FF">Banj e <u style="font-size:14px;font-family: Zapfino, sans-serif;color:deeppink">b oi   21:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Revert the bot and move the closing "}}" of the archiving template to its own line. Миша 13 22:03, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Cheers! I was hoping it was an easy one. -- <u style="font-size:14px; font-family: cursive;color:#8000FF">Banj e  <u style="font-size:14px;font-family: Zapfino, sans-serif;color:deeppink">b oi   22:26, 10 July 2009 (UTC

WT:PHILO
I placed the appropriate template on the WikiProject Philosophy talk page a bit ago. The bot skipped it once, and then I changed the header part of the page. However it was still skipped. So I don't know what is causing it. Any help appreciated.Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 23:50, 10 July 2009 (UTC
 * I see what it was now! My goodness, I overlooked that address. Thank you so much! Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 20:24, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I think MiszaBot I broke
Its last edit was to archive the Michael Jackson talk, which it "archived to dev/null". Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. Wizardman 05:00, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like it's been doing that for a couple days on that page, so maybe it's not a big concern. Granted, it just stopped archiving after this last one. Wizardman  05:03, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * FAQ much, please? :) Someone broke it. Here's the fix; I'll leave finding the one who broke it to your excercise. It's also probably best to undo the "/dev/null" edits, so the next time it runs, it redistributes threads to correct archives. Миша 13 09:13, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Is MiszaBot III still working?
I was wonmdering because I posted a archiving request on Monday, but it hasn't been responded too. - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 22:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * See User:MiszaBot/Archive FAQ, reason 1. I promise I won't tell anybody. Миша 13 09:16, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It is still not archiving my talkpage. Is something wrong? - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 11:19, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Creating multiple tiny archives
A user mentioned this. Looks like MiszaBot I is archiving into tiny pages, usually with only 1 or 2 sections clearly much smaller then what was the size of 128K. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:40, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * These sections all had one entry. I think the problem was on the archive size where 'k' was used instead of 'K'.  I think the bot needs to do a better job of detecting and accepting these common created mistakes, if in fact this was the cause.  Vegaswikian (talk) 19:55, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:AFC/R
Hi Misza13. We're not sure why but at WP:AFC/R, Miszabot II has stopped archiving threads on the page. Please help...Thanks, 02:38, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Guinea pig
Hi...Miszabot I is archiving talk on this page to Archive 1. Can we have the bot archive to Archive 7, instead, to keep chronological order? Thanks Chubbles (talk) 03:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. Edit the page, find the <tt>User:MiszaBot/config</tt> template and change <tt>counter</tt> to 7. Миша 13 05:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank You
Dear Misza13,

Thank you for blocking the user I reported. I thought his username may present trouble.

All the best Limideen 12:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Minor weirdness
Any thoughts on ? Was it because there was no "seed" archive, or did something else go wrong? Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Might have been the leading spaces. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 17:18, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

discussion about how to archive ANI
See here. Your expert input would be very welcome. --Enric Naval (talk) 17:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Bad archive
Any idea what happened here. The archive code complies with the example, and I've never had a problem setting up archiving before.

Thanks, ThaddeusB (talk) 18:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like in this edit someone other than Misza13 provided an example with leading spaces which will confuse the bots. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 18:14, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * That would explain it, thanks! --ThaddeusB (talk) 18:42, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

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Bad archiving
This archival edit is wrong. The end section is a nowiki-ed block showing header syntax and not a new section header. Dragons flight (talk) 20:17, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Old and known bug, I'm afraid. That pywikipedia doesn't have a built-in wikiparser doesn't make things any easier. Maybe in the next incarnation... Миша 13 09:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Volume conversion l × w × h (or w × h × l)
You moved this issue to Template talk:Convert/Archive July 2009 apparently without ever being resolved. Not very helpfull! Peter Horn User talk 00:55, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I did not. My bot did. Neither have I set up the archiver on that page. Please take this to whomever did. Thank you, Миша 13 09:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

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