User talk:Misza13/Archives/2011/10

Wikinews Importer Bot
Are you aware that the Wikinews Importer Bot has started to get the link syntax wrong? Perhaps it was the MediaWiki 1.18 rollout. See Portal talk:Current events. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, example here also. I think the issue was the rollout of relative URLs recently. This needs to be fixed quickly, I think. / ƒETCH  COMMS  /  14:02, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Until this is fixed, the bot should be reverted and perhaps blocked.--William S. Saturn (talk) 23:09, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I have opened a thread at the bot noticeboard.--William S. Saturn (talk) 23:56, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems to be creating a great deal of spew at the moment, so I've gone ahead and blocked it temporarily. Just until it can be fixed, obviously :) - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 12:12, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Whilst you're looking at the bot's code, can you remove the automatic linking of dates such as October 2? The rest of Wikipedia stopped doing this some time ago... Ideally there would the option to have the dates in either d-m or m-d format, but that's less important. BencherliteTalk 16:30, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

ANI notice
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--William S. Saturn (talk) 04:42, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

User:MedcabBot
Hi Misza. I know this bot is inactive (it's now all done by MiszaBot) but Anomie is writing us a new bot for MedCab and I was wondering if you could free up the name. If you could request this old bot to be renamed to, say, OldMedCabBot, that'd be great. Thanks, Steven Zhang  The clock is ticking....  20:08, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I notice you have been inactive since May, so I will make the request at WP:CHU. Steven Zhang  The clock is ticking....  20:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 October 2011
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Re: MiszaBot III
Is the bot nobots compliant, meaning it cannot edit a page when nobots is placed there?  Rcsprinter  (talkin' to me?)  10:30, 8 October 2011 (UTC)


 * nobots compliant bots are listed here. Miszabots are not included...(why would you try to stop archiving with that method?) ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 02:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Request
Hi, Can MiszaBot Archive my talk page? Thanks! Spidey 665  01:39, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * If & when you have your indef block lifted...we'll talk about it. ⋙–Berean–Hun<b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b> 02:17, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

MiszaBot III
Can you help me? I want MiszaBot III to archive my talk page, but i want it to continue as i already manually have 7 archives. Page should have 60 threads, and bot should finnish this (seventh) archive, and add new one when needed. Also, archive if older then 7 days. Please, help, i really cannot do it alone... :( -- WhiteWriter speaks 15:10, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah...I think I've got you covered on everything but the 60 threads part. It is file size based; not thread count based. We'll see if everything works correctly within 24 hours. <font face="High Tower Text" size="1px"><b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b> 02:33, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 October 2011
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Malfunctioning?
I've blocked this bot after a request from a MedCab user. It appears to be malfunctioning, based on this page history. Bots aren't my area of expertise, so if someone sorts out what the problem is/was, please feel free to unblock. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 19:46, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note for clarity: Fluffer is referring to Miszabot only as it appears the other Miszabots are working correctly. <font face="High Tower Text" size="1px"><b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b> 02:07, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoops, sorry, yes, I didn't notice I was posting on a redirected talk! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 02:39, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 October 2011
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Setting for max amount of threads on an archive?
Is there any way to set the max amount of threads shown on a topic? I need to limit mine to 75 per archive for HBC Archive Indexerbot to actually index for me. LikeLakers2 (talk &#124; Sign my guestbook!) 13:20, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. Where is the 75 thread parameter for the indexerbot referred to...that's new to me. Regarding your indexerbot trouble, I would suggest removing your template wrapper and just make sure the bot will write there...it looks like the content is making it there but something you have in your code seems to be masking it out. <font face="High Tower Text" size="1px"><b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b> 22:07, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Running a test w/MiszaBot III
Hi Misza13,

Steven Walling and I are currently running some A/B tests of user warning templates, and, in order to actually see which templates work better, we figured out a hacky way to check whether people read their talk page messages or not. But when analyzing the data, we've basically had to throw out all shared IPs, because their talk pages are filled with dozens of warnings that are months or years old. Stemming from this, we had a tangential idea to try a shared IP test. Our hypothesis is that shared IP talk pages, which are cluttered with tons of old warnings, are probably discouraging good contributors (who click on the "You have new messages" banner and see a wall of warnings not meant for them) and encouraging bad-faith ones (who do the same and think it's okay to vandalize Wikipedia because everyone else seems to be doing it). This is just a theory, but it's one we can actually test – we were thinking of dividing the list of shared IPs in half and setting up a vigorous archival system for the test group, so that their talk pages only display messages that are relevant for the person currently using that IP. And since you run the main talk page archiving bot, I thought I'd ask you about this idea first :)

The one technical barrier we're facing is how to set up an archive for a thousand or so talk pages all at once. Clearly, that's a job for a bot (though not necessarily yours). Let me know what you think about this test, and if you'd like to help or know someone else who could. And if you're interested in template testing in general, feel free to (shameless plug) sign up for our task force. If you have ideas about other tests to run, we may just have the time and resources to try them out :) Thanks, Maryana (WMF) (talk) 19:20, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 October 2011
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Archiving bot missing sections
The bot is sometimes skipping sections with dates in templates. E.g. here. What to do? —WWoods (talk) 03:33, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Archiving to /dev/null
Your bot just tried archiving to /dev/null here. Now I realise that was due to the broken archiving tag on that talk page but I still don't think it's desirable behaviour for the bot to "lose" content like this. I can't imagine it would be too hard to check that the bot isn't about to archive to somewhere like /dev/null and stop the archiving if it is. I do of course realise that this isn't that urgent and would take time so I'm just suggesting you put it on a to-do list for when the bot code is having other changes done. Dpmuk (talk) 11:17, 31 October 2011 (UTC)