User talk:Misza13/Archives/2009/10

Archiving an Archive
I know it is a bit strange, but on English Wikinews we've got a bunch of old hand done archives for our Water cooler pages (We've actually got 5 different Water coolers). Anyways, we've decided to migrate to your wonderful automated archiving, and do so by month. So far, so good. Of course we'd like to move dozens of old archives in with this new system too, I tried but the bot ignored me. After re-reading your HowTo page, I saw the "key" option and I think that is probably what we need. Can I request said key, please? And will it work for all 5 water coolers? Or should I be requesting multiple keys. Thank you! -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 20:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, a key is what you need, but you'd need a separate key for each archive. :/ I'll see if I can just prepare a batch manually (it's a one-off action anyway). Do I understand correctly that you'd like numbered archives for each of the 5 water coolers redistributed under date-based archives? Миша 13 21:07, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Correct. Numbered archived to date.  If it is too much trouble, don't worry about it.  Thanks much! -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 22:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Unprotection request
I'd like to request unprotection of Template:Rating-5. It is deprecated, other templates of that series have already been unprotected or even deleted, and it is in use on a little over 50 pages only. Debresser (talk) 12:00, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for agreeing with me and taking the trouble. Debresser (talk) 03:46, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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Your assistance please
The record shows you deleted File:Alb helic BO-105.JPG and. User:Gerd 72, the contributor who uploaded these images uploaded about one hundred images of Albanian military installations or equipment, one or two at a time, over the last two and a half years. Most of the image they uploaded were deleted, in one fell swoop, about a month ago.

I looked at User:Gerd 72's talk page. I thought they offered a very credible explanation as to how they got access to that Albanian military installations and equipment.

I could see that a small minority of the images Gerd 72 uploaded were scans of previously published images. Many good faith uploaders make the mistake of thinking they possess intellectual property rights to scans of PD material. I'd like to confirm that. Would you mind taking a look at these images, and telling me if they were scanned images, or an ordinary photos?

Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 12:08, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Detroit Lions
Miszabot recently archived the Detroit Lions talk page but left no links to archived pages, why? 99.241.95.241 (talk) 22:04, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * 'Cause there was no archive box or talk page header. —WWoods (talk) 23:15, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Willis Tower archive
The archiving of Talk:Willis Tower has been stopped for some time. Can you check the config to see what is wrong, is it the counter not updating properly? Thanks – Sswonk (talk) 22:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Miszabot's default is to leave 5 sections. If you want, you can add " " with some other value.
 * —WWoods (talk) 23:20, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, it was six until this recent change. I had forgotten about the undated section, which Vegaswikian removed. I think five is OK, we'll just have to wait until someone adds a new section. Thanks – Sswonk (talk) 00:28, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Another of Miszabot's parameters is, with a default value of 2, so you may have to wait till there's a 7th section. :-)
 * —WWoods (talk) 03:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

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Suggestion for the IRC Bot
Hey there,

first off let me say i love MiszaBot! My suggestion is that MiszaBot add users to the blacklist if their edits are reverted by anybody using Huggle or Twinkle. Just an Idea.Tim1357 (talk) 01:29, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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Wikinews Importer Bot
Sorry to ruin your day, but the Wikinews sections at Portal:Current events don't correspond to what has actually been published recently over at Wikinews. For example, none of the articles listed 'today' were actually published today. Any clue why? Bot's are far beyond me. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 21:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * This and this look the same to me. It's a matter of configuration of the source feed, not my bot. Миша 13 07:50, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein/Archive 3 hiccup
Looks like somehow Talk:Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein/Archive 3 didn't land after this job. Talk:Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein/Archive 2 and Talk:Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein/Archive 4 did. Any thoughts? Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 02:30, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * No idea. At the same time, I'm clueless as to why would you want to have a maximum archive size of 31K. Миша 13 10:40, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Stems from the historical 32k limit on page length, but I've always found it to be the ideal length for keeping archives readable. On some machines I edit from, pages much over 80k give me pretty heavy performance problems and the 250k monstrosities people sometimes archive to are entirely off-limits. Could you delete Archive 2 and Archive 4 and I'll put the page back to give the bot another go at it? Cheers. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 14:37, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I just renamed #4 to #3. —WWoods (talk) 18:13, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * That's not right: there should have been an /Archive 3, and there's a gap in the history where those threads should be. For some reason the bot just didn't write the page. I'm speedying these archives and will get the bot to run over it again. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 19:24, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

< tag
Hi, is there any way to stop MiszaBot from changing < tags (see here and here)? I realize I could stick the tag inside , but it would be great if I could just disable the feature. Thanks. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 19:58, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hah, just came here to ask the same thing, I just noticed it broke a section on my talk page with . Thanks, Amalthea  12:53, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, it didn't do that in the past. Then I suppose someone's messing with the pywikipedia core again (or some software changes affect it). If only I had time to play with this... If this is pandemic (i.e. affects other bots), there's hope someone will fix it, though. Миша 13 15:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, could you find the time to have a look at the comment the bug report got? Someone there says that such cosmetic changes are disabled both for < and & and on all talk pages in the first place, so it must be something in the bot code itself. Miszabot is, so it wasn't a temporary glitch. Amalthea  12:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Byford Dolphin
Regarding the use of twinkle on this article by User:RexxS, I am the original author & the user keeps deleting my references & blocking my undo's, could you please have a word with him —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark.T2009 (talk • contribs) 13:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * LOLWUT? Did you just hit Special:RandomAdmin to get here? Sorry, you can hardly call me active and I simply don't have time to do mediations of any kind. Why don't you have a word with him? (Note: it's a rhetorical question.) Миша 13 15:25, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * RexxS had already initiated a dialog on the article's talk page, I suggest you discuss the changes there, Mark. Amalthea  15:45, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Can you archive my talk page?
Hi, can you please automaticaly archive my talk page. Thanks

Link yo my talk page: User talk:93gregsonl2

93gregsonl2 (talk) 22:07, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Read User:MiszaBot/config for instructions how to set it up yourself, there are a number of parameters you'll have to define. Amalthea  22:14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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