User talk:Reedy/Archive 2008

Update
I have some good news! Fnlayson and I were hard at work with the Boeing 747 which has been awarded featured article status. It wasn't easy. One of the editors opposing it was accused by someone else of bad faith. I was just trying to improve the article so I tried to work with everyone and not even consider whether or not the comments were in good faith.

For diplomacy and experience in Wikipedia, I asked Fnlayson if he were interested in an RFA but he's not. Self noms are possible but being nominated (or asked if one was interested) is always better, which is why I asked him.

Anyway, your helping hand to me 6 months ago helped spawn a FA! That's the update. Happy New Year! Archtransit (talk) 18:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I'll work with you on the 728 article. I'll work in a slow but steady mode. I tend to work from the bottom up but can skip around. I'll do one section at a time. Archtransit (talk) 20:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

News, father!
In a way, you're sort of my WP father with the nurturing you provided months ago. I've been nominated for administrator. Canvassing is when one spams others telling them about a RFA. However, pals don't keep secrets from pals! Wish me luck! Archtransit (talk) 17:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

About AWB and reflist
I discussed in AWB's talk page but maybe it got forgotten.
 * Will do, I wrote this before you had added some of the corrections. Thanks for all your help.  RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 21:34, May 23, 2008 (UTC)

Are you up for bot-tagging Brazilian municipalities again?
What could be more fun? How is new RAM?--Wloveral (talk) 01:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems 1 GB of the new ram is broken... :( Rest seems fine. Just under 3000 to tag, so im underway with those now. — Ree dy  10:49, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * All those are now done! — Ree dy  13:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * That's great. I wonder what your bot could do for Category:Brazil geography stubs, for example. That might be a bit more pressing than Category:Brazilian people or even Category:Brazil stubs. All best wishes. Today is a bank holiday in Brazil, but I'm not a banker.--Wloveral (talk) 17:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm. For the People category, i can run it through tagging as WPBrazil, and also adding WPBIO tags at the same time if they are needed. If you have subcats for "stubs" – presumably you would, i can tag them as stubs, same if you have a category for dead people, etc. For the Geography stubs, i can tag that with class=stub on WPBrazil... Same for Brazil stubs. Let me know what you'd like doing — Ree dy  17:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Starting Category:Brazilian people stubs – Tagging with WPBrazil as Stub, and tagging with WPBio as stub. Will update and/or add any missing tags. — Ree dy  17:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fantastic. BTW, is there an infobox that could be used for a Brazilian municipality? A wikitable is too easy to upset when editing.--Wloveral (talk) 17:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure... There is probably one you can use... Infobox Settlement is maybe too specific? Could make your own based on another... — Ree dy  18:01, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks about right. Some care will be needed to distinguish the municipal from the city data, however, since both the municipality and its municipal seat have the same name.--Wloveral (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much. Your tags will help us organize these Brazil articles. Cheers,--Wloveral (talk) 23:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for fixing the AWB code. I'm new to C# programming so the info will be most useful. Also, I suppose I coded it ad-hoc for one job, not intending it to be used widely [although I don't mind!]. I can post it on the main AWB modules page if you want. I know KingboyK's plugin does a similar thing, but this would work for any template, not just standard ones. What do you think? Thanks again for the improvements.  RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 15:24, May 23, 2008 (UTC)


 * This must seem kind of stupid. I loaded up the module (I think)..it turned green.  Anyways, when I try to tag an article is just adds the tag but doesn't add the class.  Do I have to do something special to get the module to work?  Or is my running the Generic Template Plugin+the module making it act funky?  Thanks for your help.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  20:00, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll test the new code later. Thanks for that!  A-class shouldn't be auto-added.  Those have to be reviewed by their respective project.  B-class is pretty generic though and could be added.  Thanks again.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  21:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thought I'd report that the code is working great. I modified it a bit to allow B and List classes.  It wasn't working for me before because the template name had a hypen in it "OH-Project".  I set it to WPOHIO and everything runs smoothly.  Thanks for your help!  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  05:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Just a side note, you may want to cater for redirects.... — Ree dy  09:04, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Definitely if I do this for other projects. Ohio doesn't do redirects so it almost passed my mind. Thanks. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  15:09, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * As a side thought, Kingbotk's plugin will automatically generate a list of redirects (for generic plugins as you will probably know..) You could just copy that, append a ) and prepend a (, and use it as a regex.. — Ree dy  17:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bother you again. When I use the module (copy here) in conjunction with the KingBotK plugin it completely ignores banner shells.  Do you know of any coding I need to pop into the module to make it banner shell compliant?  If your busy no worries, it's not anything pressing.  On a different note; I feel bad for coming to you with all of these problems.  Do you know of anyone who wouldn't mind helping me out so I'm not constantly flooding you with questions?  Thanks for all of your help!  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  19:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * For the latter, im not bothered! =) The only thing i can say, is i might just take a while to reply if im busy. The code by default isnt banner compliant. Would have to look into that — Ree dy  19:17, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you. §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  19:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Reedy Bot – fictional character tagged with WP Biography banner
Hi Reedy,

Just an FYI – your bot tagged Magma (comics) with WP Biography. I removed this banner as Magma is a fictional character. It's no big deal, I just figured I'd let you know in case you wanted to do any tweaking of the bot. --GentlemanGhost (talk) 19:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers for letting me know. Its presumably somewhere in the Brazillian people category. No big deal — Ree dy  19:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB Access
Sorry to rush in. I left a request at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage for AWB Access. Kindly grant me the same --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) – 15:25, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Done! — Ree dy  16:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) – 16:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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AWB plugin
Hi, im having some trouble with the Kingboyk plugin for AWB and since you helped program it i was wodering if you could help me. Ive got it setup to tag a list of pages relatin to swimming with the wikiProject Swimming banner. I clicked the Auto-stub box and was hoping that this was going to assess all articles already with a stub template as 'stub class'. The problem is that it assesses all articles as stub class if i have the auto-stub box ticked, even if its not stub class. And yes the template has an auto parametre so it should work. (its for a bot so thats why i ticked the auto-stub box, and it didnt work, ive tried both the stub boxes, both with the bot, and without and just cant get it too work.) Am i doing somthing wrong, If you cant help me, thanks anyway, but since Kingboyk hasnt replied to me yet, i thought ill try you. Thanks. Printer222 (talk) 12:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You are supposed to make a list of what transcludes the stub tag, then go through tagging them with those options enabled. — Ree dy  13:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for claryfying that. I confused myself. cheers Printer222 (talk) 13:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Exams over?
Just poking you again about the NPW issue.  Enigma  message 20:33, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * There seems to be no NPW SVN (IRC seems to state it has been moved)... Need to poke martin about that before i can do any development. My exams were over a month ago... lol. — Ree dy  21:08, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Which means you should've started work on it a month ago! ;)  Enigma  message 21:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been busy overhauling AWB again ;P. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Creating a bot
Hi I would like your help with something. I want to create a bot account that will use AWB for two different operations:
 * Run though all the soap opera articles and link fictional character is this doesn't exist.
 * Run though all articles in Year of birth missing category and if Living people exists to change the category to YOB (living people).

I want to run the first one only once and the second periodically, let's say once per month or two months.

I have run both from my account with great access and with no problems. What should I do next? Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:07, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool. Easiest/best way to do it, is to create a bot account for yourself (include Bot in the title). Then put a WP:BRFA for each of the 2 tasks. When you get trial approval for one/both, you'll be able to get AWB Bot access, and then you'd be able to run this in an automated fashion. With it being tested on your account, if you provide some diff's, you should just get away with a small trial. Hope this helps. If you need any more help, just leave me a message! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I hope I did it correctly. Check Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot. Thanks for the help. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

AWB GUI
<i>Really needs an overhaul

You've suggested some good ideas with the DB scanner, its just hard to work from the way thats down... Dont know if you want to try making some changes

The List Maker does need overhauling, and with the code backend of it having been overhauled mainly by myself with Kingboyk's help, a few of the obstacles from your proposed changes are sorted...

Any chance of you trying to improve it again? And we will try and implement it?

Thanks!!

—<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC) </i>
 * I have been writing down things over the past two weeks. The database scanner was one of the first things I've gotten completed.  I don't have too much time during the week to do work for Wikipedia, but over the weekend I did complete the ListMaker context menu refactoring.  — Dispenser 03:41, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool, patch applied in . Thanks!! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  10:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Reedy Bot
I saw your bot has been tagging Brazil oriented talk pages with WP:Brazil tags and WP:Biography tags. The bot seems to be on point with tagging the articles w/ Brazil; however, the bot has also been tagging fictional characters, albums, and population groups. It seems others have notified you about a few instances, but it seems to be fairly encompassing. -66.109.248.114 (talk) 04:56, 19 June 2008 (UTC).
 * Some mistakes were made, many/most were rectified. Not a lot of point notifying me (i know why the errors occured etc), so please just revert the changes/remove excess tags. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:08, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Infobox Software Template
We're wondering why you removed the "software" from Template:Infobox Software in your most recent edit. This causes a problem: when an editor clicks on the +/- to update the version, they instead mistakenly edit the redirect page instead of the page with the version information. I (and I'm sure others) then have to revert the change so we don't have two pages with inconsistent version information. Please leave an explanation on the talk page so we can fix this problem once and for all. Thanks. -- Schapel (talk) 14:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It had been changed, therefore breaking the links on many pages. So therefore, causing the information to be displayed... [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=Latest_preview_software_release&namespace=10] [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=Latest_preview_release&namespace=10]
 * Some are in one place, some are in another. There is no need whatsoever to have redirects (in fact, none of those seem to be redirects, they seem to be the same thing in 2 different places) for something like this, therefore it shouldn't have just been changed from one to the other, breaking half of the usages (granted, i've similarily done the same by reverting the change to fix the other usages). —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:00, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Barn Star

 * Gah that took me a while to think up :D  ·Add§hore·  <sup style="color:blue;">T alk /<sub style="color:blue;">C ont 11:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * =D —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  13:08, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

AWB
Per your response at user talk:MaxSem, would you be willing to "convert" this script and this scipt to "AWB form"? Thanks for the help. « <font color="#9696A0" face="Cambria">Milk's Favorite <font color="#4D0100" face="Snap ITC">Cøøkie  23:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry, i've been a bit busy and forgot about these. Where do you want the targets putting? Or want me to just do it in my userspace and notify you when im done converting? (Should be able to get most of it done this weekend) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:10, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * In your userpace would be fine, if you could simply notify me when your done. Thanks, « <font color="#9696A0" face="Cambria">Milk's Favorite <font color="#4D0100" face="Snap ITC">Cøøkie  22:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * For my info – User:Reedy/AWB/WikiProject User scripts Formatter, User:Reedy/AWB/LinkFixr —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:32, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright – thanks. Would you mind adding User:Jj137/general.js to the list? It's just a simple find and replace so hopefully it should be easy. Thanks for the help so far, and take your time on converting the scripts. Thanks, « <font color="#9696A0" face="Cambria">Milk's Favorite <font color="#4D0100" face="Snap ITC">Cøøkie  19:56, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks – I really appreciate it:


 * Thanks!! =) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  14:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Support for newer workgroups of WP:INDIA
FYI – See this ... Thanks in advance -- <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) – 12:57, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Skybolt101
A user you blocked in December 2007 for claiming copyright of images is asking for a review of his block, and stating he will no longer repeat this behaviour. Thoughts? –<font face="Verdana"> xenocidic ( talk ) 12:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers. I'll keep an eye on the talk page too. –<font face="Verdana"> xeno cidic ( talk ) 18:24, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. And cheers for notifying me of it. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot
Hi. Just a question. I completed the trials and 6 days passed. Should I do something else or I am just waiting for approval? Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 02:02, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * OK. An admin approve it. Now I just need a flag. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 07:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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Asking about AutoWikiBrowser
Can I use autowikibrowser in other wiki?(Korean Wikipedia) I'd like to use AWB in kowiki. Can you help me?--Kwj2772 (talk) 05:27, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you can.. Is there a checkpage or anything for it? There isnt an interwiki, so presumably, you'd just be able to login... Let me know if you need any more help. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  10:06, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Approval
Hi, could you perhaps approve me for the NPW tool? I am just looking for any admin to approve me ASAP. Thanks -- Eric (mailbox)  03:01, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  10:03, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- Eric (mailbox)  15:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

East Hampton Airport
Hi Reedy. Look like you've been busy. Anyway the changes you did on the East Hampton Airport trashed the infobox altogether. I left it in place rather than reverting. Thanks. Americasroof (talk) 00:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Capital Region International Airport
Why are you removing the airport diagram from the infobox of this airport? --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:19, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Airport Infobox Migration Plugin
I'll have a go when I get back. I'm off in a couple of hours and will be gone for a week or so. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 21:00, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Congratulations. Some of the last ones will also include talk pages, etc. Fast work. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:15, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well done! That was a lot quicker than I expected. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Who else was working on it? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you have any fingers left? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Excellent work!
P.S. I restored the template and added Template:Tdeprecated. In part to preserve the edit history (historical and such), but also to redirect those who may still try to use this template in new articles (the new template has been official for a while but people still managed to use the old one). - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 16:10, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, thanks, nice to know time spent is appreciated ;). =) Do you think the other templates need restoring aswell..? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  16:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Nah, I think the main one was the only one being linked to on talk pages, and the rest were pretty minor. If someone noticed those ones being gone the main one will let them know why. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 16:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

le barnstar
Thanks!! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  09:37, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * no problem! you deserve it. do you think you could enlighten Milk and I here: User talk:Xenocidic. thanks! –<font face="Verdana"> xeno cidic ( talk ) 00:35, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I had a chance to test it out today and it works well, the one thing I noticed was that there's certain commonly used template redirects that I have to paste into the Find & Replace template substitution for AWB to pick up on them, and then they'll get skipped if I use the new "fix if no subst" option I asked you to add. any way to work around that? –<font face="Verdana"> xeno cidic ( talk ) 04:12, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage
Hi, Reedy. The current Arabic page of AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage is ar:ويكيبيديا:قائمة الويكيبيديون المسموح لهم باستخدام الأوتو ويكي براوزر. However, the current tile contains a typo. It should be ar:ويكيبيديا:الأوتوويكي براوزر/مسموح. Could you, as an AWB developer, change it? --Meno25 (talk) 05:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAutoWikiBrowser%2FCheckPage&diff=225761115&oldid=225231821] – Done, thanks! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  07:52, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, again. It is not working. When I [//ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5%3A%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%84&type=&user=Meno25&page=%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%3A%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AD+%D9%84%D9%87%D9%85+%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88+%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A+%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1&year=&month=-1&uselang=en moved] the page, AWB gave a "You are not allowed to use the software" error. When I [//ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%84&page=%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1/%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AD&uselang=en reverted] back, AWB worked as expected. AWB 4.3.2.0 under Win 6.0 IE 7.0. Could you please fix the problem? --Meno25 (talk) 10:46, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * AWB doesnt use the Interwiki links for anything, that is just for user editing benefits. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  14:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

The checkpage is hard coded for ar.wp.. Needs changing in the code. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  14:38, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Regex

 * If you have a quick minute I asked a really newbish regex question at WT:AWB =) – xeno  ( talk ) 14:29, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * cheers =) – xeno  ( talk ) 14:33, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

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Huggle whitelist
Hey reedy. On this edit you seemed to have removed hundereds of thousands of bytes of data from the huggle whitelist :S. Was this edit made using huggle? :S If so I thinks we has another bug to try to fix :P Thanks in advance.  ·Add§hore·  <sup style="color:blue;">T alk /<sub style="color:blue;">C ont 22:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zombina and The Skeletones
I'll take a look through your comments and the afd again to see if it merits undeletion. Someone else has disputed it earlier as well, so if i don't restore it I'll probably self-drv to get more community imput. Wizardman 05:28, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Palindrome edit
Regarding your edit [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palindrome&curid=24147&diff=229879531&oldid=229685656]:

1) You removed  but it correctly ends a piece of text starting with <p style="font-family:monospace; line-height:130%"> . They should either both stay or both be removed.

2) I Googled and most sources say "reoccurring" and not "recurring" in both titles.

3) Language names like "latin" are not capitalized in Swedish.

So I disagree with every change you made and think the edit should be reverted. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I looked at your recent contributions. It seems you are moving fast with semi-automated tools and also made an incorrect spelling change in a Portuguese quote in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portuguese_language&diff=prev&oldid=229879149]. Please examine changes suggested by a tool before saving. An article may have a good reason to not use normal English spelling but programs are usually not smart enough to see such things from context. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Species names not to be capitalized
In [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Algae&diff=229999792&oldid=229227768 this edit] you uppercased the name of a species. Per WP:TOL, they are to be written in lowercase. Kingdon (talk) 15:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

awb for nahwiki
Good day Reedy.

I was checking who's the current AWB maintainer and I believe it's you, so forgive me if this is not the right place to ask.

I want to run AWB on nahuatl wiki (nah.wikipedia) to fix a widely used template whose parameters got localized. But nah is not to be found at the dropdown menu to select a project.

Do you know where or how could that be set? I'd appreciate if you could answer me at either my meta talk page or my eswiki talk page since I don't really work anymore on this wiki. -- m:drini 22:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * oh *blushes* thank you. Althought I figured out how (setting it to custom as if it were a thrid party wiki) and then putting the proper url on the field. -- m:drini 03:08, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

India changes
Reedy, I am done with the India plugin changes and have left a message for you at the plugin page. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 03:36, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

AWB question
Hello, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question but where exactly is the option to change the iw sort order? You said it was already a feature, but it appears you still need to edit the code manually and not given the option in the interface. If it is already there somewhere, it should be move to the "Options" menu. That would make the most sense. Thanks. (please respond here) Rocket000 (talk) 02:48, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It doesnt exist in the interface, as it generally shouldnt need to be changed. What/why do you need to change it...? If it needs setting a certain way for a WMF project, we can do that —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  09:22, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Invite
As a dev of TypoScan you are invited to the channel for a discussion tonight. --mboverload @ 06:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I suspect you mean the AWB channel? ;P. Auch, when is "tonight"? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  09:23, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Zombina
What I'll do is restore the main article for now, since it seems okay to do so at this point. Not sure about the albums right now. Wizardman 21:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Archiving AWB
I noticed the feature page got a bit cumbersome and have gone through, labelling discussions as best i could. If you'd like to give it all a once over to see if i missed anything, or tagged something incorrectly, i'll go ahead and clear out all those partial and completed requests so you guys have less to wade through. (unless there's a friendly bot that does it??) you can respond back on my talk page. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 18:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, that was a quick archiving
''It doesnt exist in the interface, as it generally shouldnt need to be changed. What/why do you need to change it...? If it needs setting a certain way for a WMF project, we can do that —Reedy 09:22, 9 August 2008 (UTC)''
 * Well, I think would be nice if you give users the option. Why make it harder for them? For example, on Commons it's alphabetical by ISO-code. There are users that continuously mess them up with AWB because they're using en.wp's default. Rocket000 (talk) 01:44, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Link to the relevant policy will be appreciated. Max S em(Han shot first!) 06:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The weird thing is your the first person to mention it. Its pretty easy for us to update the versions to match the various requirements, all we need is to be told! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  09:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, cool! A interface menu would still be nice, but whatever you think is best.
 * @MaxSem: I'm not sure it's written down anywhere (we're not en.wp, remember ;), but if you take a look at some pages, you'll see the order. Rocket000 (talk) 22:20, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

AWB use on small projects?
Hi! Someone [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rodhullandemu&diff=233611494&oldid=233610105 suggested] you may be the right person to ask this. I'm a bureaucrat on Simple English Wikiquote, and someone there has requested AWB access. Is it very complicated to set up? Thanks. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 21:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You can quite easily. Go to Options --> User and Project Preferences. Site tab. Select project of wikiqute, and language of simple. Click ok, file, login. You're away! If you save the settings, it will load to simple.wikiquote on startup =) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:00, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't quite understand. I wasn't planning to use it myself; another user has asked to be able to use it.  Can that user (non-administrator) just go ahead, without needing to be listed in a file of permitted users?  Does an administrator have to actually run AWB in order to grant permissions to others to use it? If users have to be listed in a file, what's the name of the file? Thanks. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 22:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Never mind – I think we figured it out. Sorry to bother you. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 00:06, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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AWB
You're never on IRC when I am! How easy would it be for you to make an AWB program that sets up auto archive with User:MiszaBot on talk pages? It would need a variable that sets it so the archive is the same name as the article talk page name.  C t j f 8 3 Talk 20:09, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * IT'd be possible, not sure how easy though.. Why do you want to use AWB for it out of interest? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:57, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It is much easier for AWB to auto archive pages, mainly Simpsons pages, then me doing it.  C t j f 8 3 Talk 23:01, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Why not just stick some standard bot archiving templates on it and have it do it...? See Talk:ASUS Eee PC for an example —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  08:49, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I suppose...AWB would be easier...but I'll do it manually  C t j f 8 3 Talk 16:08, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You could use AWB to add the bot archiving template to the pages... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  16:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm confused as to what on the page you are linking me to?  C t j f 8 3 Talk 16:32, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

—<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  16:33, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Replacing Talk:ASUS Eee PC with {{subst:FULLPAGENAME}} should do the trick. – xeno  ( talk ) 16:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, cheers :). You will probably want to change some of the other config stuff about —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  17:05, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

custom build
I tried to enter http://pinataisland.info in the custom project preferences but that site doesn't use a /wiki/Main Page structure, it uses http://pinataisland.info/viva/Main_Page. Will it be possible to use AWB there? Would it need a custom build? Do you think you could see it in your heart to create for me such a custom build? ;> – xeno  ( talk ) 22:51, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I havent replied as i havent had chance to get round to it. It should really be changed in the main code to work with any (no reason it should be forced against it being /wiki/). Will try and look at it when i get back from work tommorow... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Appreciate it! No rush. – xeno  ( talk ) 23:04, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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I'm Fluff from Swedish Wikipedia, we've been thinking of using the same system as you do on enwp with aproving users before allowing them to run AWB. I'm curious as to how this works and if it's possible to implement it on svwp as well. /Fluff (talk) 10:08, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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AWB bug report
Hi. I tried to file a bug report for AWB [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AAutoWikiBrowser%2FBugs&diff=238461552&oldid=238446620 here], and I followed the instructions:"To list a bug ,create a subpage in of Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Your bug name use the following template . When done add to the correct section of this page and ensure you add the sub page to your watchlist so you can monitor your bug." It isn't showing up right. It is at the bottom of this section. If you could fix my report so it shows up right, it would be appreciated. Thanks.--Rockfang (talk) 07:49, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Tbh, i've no real idea, as i havent had chance to look at how its been done, lol. Will have a look —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  08:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

AWB 'not enabled'
Hi Reedy,

I've been trying to use AWB again after a bit of an absence, and it is saying that Mdcollins (AWB) is not enabled to use this.

Rodhullandemu checked the authorised uses list a few days ago, and it appeared fine. He re-added it anyway, but it hasn't made any difference. My main account (Mdcollins1984) is still enabled, but I'm trying to keep my semi-auto edits separate. Can you please take a look and advise what might be the problem? Many thanks–MDCollins (talk) 23:14, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Reedy, Many thanks for implementing the two feature requests and informing me on my talk page. I really appreciate it. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:44, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your editing of Asus eee pc page
I happened to notice you had removed my edits on the Asus eee pc without any prior communication or discussion on the talk page or editing comments. This was regarding reporting the Windows 2000 compatibility of this machine. I added the Windows 2000 line in the compatibility table in hopes to catalyze a reader to contribute this information if they were in the know. I'm posting here first instead of reverting this immediately to avoid an edit war. Please discuss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.121.92.198 (talk) 05:06, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Nothing was really added in that edit. You added Windows 2000, marking nothing as supported. Windows 2000 is a legacy operating system now, cant see the point of really listing it. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:21, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

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Why did you clear it? In doing so, you cleared any new requests, that were at the bottom of the list, please make sure of what your doing before doing it. --TylerPuetz (talk/contribs) 21:49, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

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You can unprotect now, Rezistenta and I have reached a consensus off-Wikipedia. <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">Khoikhoi 10:51, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


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Toolserveraccount
Hello Reedy,

please send your real-name, your wikiname, your Freenode-nick (if you have one), your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to. We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 16:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sent, thanks —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  19:22, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

you can scan for typos?
you can scan for typos faster than awb? would you mind scanning the remainder of the v 0.7 list that I haven't checked yet? I'll give you my list... Ling.Nut (talk—WP:3IAR) 13:45, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Not exactly. Its more of a group co-ordination for this sort of large scale task (assigning work units to multiple people to typocheck all potential matches from the last database dump.. In theory, it could be easily modified/expanded for this actual project (ie input list of articles and then it can assign units...) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  16:07, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Assign away, then pls. As I said, I can give you the list of those I haven't awb'd yet... BTW, I'm flying through the articles beginning with "C: on my list. Almost no changes. I looked at Cadel Evans and it had a recent typoscan scrub by rjwilmsi. maybe they're all like that. It would definitely make my day. Ling.Nut (talk—WP:3IAR) 08:55, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oops, no. The Enable Regex Typo box was unchecked. Now I need to start all ovr again... I swear, not only had I check the typo box; it had even corrected a typo... then it somehow unchecked itself. Crap. Ling.Nut (talk—WP:3IAR) 08:58, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Save your default settings with typofixing enabled. Makes life loads easier =) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  08:59, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

(undent) Tks! Now about typochecking the artcles selected for the CD... Ling.Nut (talk—WP:3IAR) 09:02, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Kingbot Plugin bug
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Plugin requests
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I'll be afk...
Sam, I'll be away for the next week. All stuff that needs to be changed for the new release is left commented out in Variables constructor. Take care. Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:12, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

A request
Hi. Can you enable this feature for special characters in DEFAULTSORT for the catalan Wikipedia? This is the easy part of the request an we need it to start cleaning around. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 22:32, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I would if it was so simple, but im not sure if there is some other way of doing it... MaxSem seems to be back, so hopefully he should have an idea. Will try and speak to him soon. As from the code only en has defaultsort enabled —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:51, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Autoassessment code
Hi there,I use User:Richard0612's AWB module code for autoassessment and happened to see your code here. I checked it out, there is a bug when there is not class parameter already like this : I am doing it for WikiProject Computing :

is changed to

I doesnt update WikiProject Computing but WikiProject United States and that too wrongly. ( btw I reordered Start before GA; had it been directly as per ur code, it been otherwise "StartStart" instead of "GAStart" in the example). -- <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu  <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian  – 07:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

hi
I'm curious why you removed the bizet article from dyk? Victuallers (talk) 13:29, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Swapping
Not sure about this swapping, I think that chronologically the earlier DYK should appear previous. Also, in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know/Next_update&diff=251956143&oldid=251939665 this edit], you forgot to swap the credits as well. Cirt (talk) 13:54, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I moved it back – I think preference should be given that articles written/expanded earlier should ideally appear at T:DYK before those worked on later (especially if already placed into an earlier queue). Cirt (talk) 13:57, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

thx for the reply. Don't be deterred. The Aussie thing I think is a (possible) miscalculation. That set won't ap[pear tonight but I guess tomorrow some time. Its tricky to predict as there are other sets waiting in the queue in front of this one. Victuallers (talk) 16:44, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

NSLU2- discontinued?

 * Please refer to Linksys's site at http://www.linksys.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000000.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2elinksys%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2fshop%2ehtml&WD=nslu2&SHOP=%20&PN=NAS_Basic_Systems%2ehtml%23aNSLU2#aNSLU2 which does NOT show it as discontinued. I agree that its availability from retailers is not necessarily a reliable indication I'd suggest that when Linksys themselves uniformly refer to it as discontinued it will be fair to mark it as such in Wp, but not before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkMLl (talk • contribs) 15:18, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

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Explanation, please
I will assume for the moment that you don't throw around block threats in a casual way. So, I would appreciate a reasonable and prompt explanation about how my posts on the AWB discussion page were "trolling" or "nuisance". I happen to care about the AWB rules of use, and I believe that Lightmouse is the poster child for abusing those rules. This has nothing to do with date delinking, other than the fact that I became aware of Lightmouse's edits because he and I are both interested in that issue. I also would appreciate your opinion about the purpose of the AWB rules of use, given your obvious belief that an editor with AWB rights, at least in some circumstances, can ignore those rules without consequence. Are the rules mere exhortations or recommendations? If not, in what situations are they enforceable? Tennis expert (talk) 23:13, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Lightmouse appears to not be using Lightbot for date delinking activities because of the outcome of these two ANIs involving that bot: (1), (2). Tennis expert (talk) 23:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You might also want to take a look at this. Tennis expert (talk) 06:53, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

You said on the AWB discussion page, "If you've still got a problem, bring it up somewhere else, where greater opinion can be gauged." As I still have a problem with Lightmouse's AWB rules noncompliance, where do you recommend that this discussion be continued? At the administrators' noticeboard? Tennis expert (talk) 23:40, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * For the middle point, I thought you said you weren't bothered by his edits, just the speed at which he is/was doing them? The fact that the ruling may or may not change doesnt matter it. Lightmouse is following current guidelines (i am however, in the "camp" that suggests that even though its not reccommended in the MOS, mass delinking isnt necessary, but thats here nor there), he is using a semi-automated editing tool to do the job, which is editing to the speed it can load and process the articles. There is a WP Essay about "Dont worry about the preformance", which states we don't have to worry about these sorts of edits (although, MaxSem and i do, based on the total amount of edits AWB is actually repsonsible for, so we should do, or at least, try and help things out – like moving to API for list building). If people had problems with his edits, he would've been blocked. I'd reccommend you'd best bring it up somewhere like WP:AN, its not important enough for WP:ANI.
 * As for the "trolling" or "nuisance" comment. Your making a fuss over something trivial, that really doesnt make that much difference. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  19:53, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I was extremely clear about my objections. I said several times that he was violating two AWB rules of use: (1) controversial edits; and (2) speed of edits.  Where are these date delinking guidelines that Lightmouse is supposedly following right now?  If you mean the current MOS, there is a big controversy about whether date linking "deprecation" means: (1) no future date linking; or (2) no future date linking and eliminate all existing date links.  And this controversy is one of the issues that hopefully will be settled by the two ongoing RFCs that are still two weeks away from being closed.  Lightmouse is aware of this controversy; yet, he is using semiautomated means to eliminate existing date links in thousands of articles.  This is why Lightmouse's edits are controversial for purposes of the AWB rules of use.


 * I am not "worried about performance." I am simply interested in people complying with Wikipedia rules, whatever they are.  If there is no point to the AWB rule about speed of edits, then why does that rule exist?  And why hasn't that rule been stricken?  Until the rule goes away, editors that use AWB are obliged to comply with it, and it is very counterproductive for an administrator to say to an editor "you don't have to comply with Rule X because I personally believe it serves no purpose."


 * I am not looking for Lightmouse to be blocked or banned. My objective is for him to be reminded that complying with the AWB rules of use is required whenever using AWB and that if he persists in violating those rules, his authority to use AWB will be taken away.  That is the only reason for my posting the complaint on the AWB discussion page instead of somewhere else.  You, apparently, believe that AWB usage issues must be taken care of at WP:AN instead, which I find to be strange.  But given that you've threatened to block me for continuing the discussion at the AWB discussion page, I have no choice but to do whatever you want.  If Lightmouse were not allowed to use AWB to delink dates, he could always use a script, ordinary editing, or his bot (although it appears that some administrators are willing to block the bot if he uses it for that purpose).


 * If your "trolling" or "nuisance" remark about me is not a big deal, then you surely won't mind striking through your comment. Otherwise, it is a very big deal.  It's insulting, it's threatening, it disparages my reputation, and indicates your failure to assume good faith, among other Wikipedia policy violations.  Tennis expert (talk) 21:52, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

"Don't edit too fast; consider opening a bot account if you are regularly making more than a few edits a minute."
 * - How fast is too fast? (Common sense here?) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:50, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Obviously, "more than a few edits a minute". Lightmouse regularly violated this rule by about a factor of 5.  Tennis expert (talk) 05:57, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Some people just won't accept defeat. It's very commendable in many cases, but it should should be made clear that the general havoc, disruption and boredom caused by Tennis and his cohort Locke are taking its toll on the community. It already accepted ages ago that the consensus was valid, but they were not satisfied. Tony1's actions were endorsed back in September. Two individuals have been going around behaving like Spiderman, and have also been forum shopping. They have launched continual complaints at WP:AN or WP:AN3 against at least four people on this list, including harassing yours truly multiple times.


 * Let's talk real numbers here – it is simply amazing how much 'controversy' the "gang of four" (sic) can stir up. Actually, there are four editors vehemently opposed to deprecation of DA and date-linking, but these two have been doing the most running. Now an RfC, no, sorry, two RfCs, being held which show very clear majority in favour of doing away with DA and date linking, and they are still not satisfied. Sure, the RfCs are not yet closed, but most of us recognise a snowball when we see one. Not these tow – there is no reason to think they will accept the result at the close. Then now howl in protest that any persons who dare to support delinking should be made an Administrator, and have gone on to make statements based on that position which said that said candidate was "unfamiliar with consensus building process and general Wikipedia policies". Now they are still trying all technicalities and procedural means and using straw man arguments to stop of slow down the delinking. Any administrator who disagrees with their untenable position is suffering from "[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Three_proposals_for_change_to_MOSNUM&diff=prev&oldid=257438435 conflict of interest]". Of course, their fallback position is that [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)&curid=189815&diff=257462938&oldid=257462580 WP:MOS] is not policy, thus does not have to be followed. All this shows that they are digging up trenches after each successive retreat.


 * I was able to achieve speeds of 7 pages a minute simply using the multi-windowed Firefox browser. I also increased the speed of my AWB edits by having more than one AWB window open at a time. When there is so much rubbish and detritus floating around WP, we need all the speed we can get. Ideally, a bot should be sent around so we can rebuild from scratch with the minimal linking which the community wants. It is time to wake up to these "freedom fighters", and see them as the terrorists they are in reality. Ohconfucius (talk) 07:51, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Wow, that's an amazingly hostile post that violates all sorts of Wikipedia policies and is full of exaggerations and factual misrepresentations. Tennis expert (talk) 09:37, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm sure that User:Reedy won't be as easily fooled or intimidated as you might imagine. Ohconfucius (talk) 10:06, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * As a corollary, the article frozen by [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&diff=prev&oldid=253770170 this diff], and [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=252955495#Special:Contributions.2FTennis_expert here (thread:Special:Contributions/Tennis expert)] each captures the situation brilliantly all on one page: the war which is being waged by Locke and Tennis at the same time on editors who they allege have been infringing WP:MOSNUM against four editors, namely Dabomb87, Date delinker (myself), Lightmouse and Colonies Chris. Ohconfucius (talk) 15:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

AWB
I placed a comment here still trying to AWB working. I am hoping to figure out what the problem is. I have a lot of time-consuming mundane edits I need to take care of that was put on hold waiting for AWB to help sort it all out. 68.226.0.35 (talk) 17:41, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

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Re: IW Sorting Orders
Sorry, I just copied (with a bit of find-and-replace help) the lists across from meta as there were a couple I came across that AWB wasn't sorting properly, so I'm not really an expert! Could probably have a go if no one at meta responds; we'll see. mattbr 09:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)