User talk:Reedy/Archive 2015

Lockheed L-1011 TriStar‎
Using the autofill program left a multitude of errors: missing authors, dates, placing publishers in the wrong tracing, and did not follow the pattern of how the other refs were listed. There is, as you know, no mandate for using cite templates especially if they introduce errors and do not follow established styles. as I said to another editor who also introduced templates; cite templates are neither mandated nor recommended and are merely one way of identifying reference sources. For the most part, on wikipedia, they can also be an example of the computer axiom of "garbage in, garbage out." I prefer to have an accurate bibliographic notation and the ones that work best are typically written out in text form, carefully following an identified style guide.FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:40, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Article recounting
I understand you're one of the "shell users" who ran the updateArticleCount.php script occasionally in response to bug reports about article counts. As I'm sure you already know, the script is now being run monthly (at 5am, presumably UTC) on all 679 Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity, and Wikivoyage wikis. I've done a preliminary analysis of the changes to article counts that resulted from the first such monthly recount, on 29 March 2015. I'd like to do a more fine-grained analysis of the changes to the Wikipedias based on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:NUMBEROF/data&action=history hourly data], but I am hampered by not knowing how long it takes to do such massive recounts. Can you give me a ballpark figure as to how long you think it would take the script to recount those 679 wikis? Less than an hour? 3 hours? 8 hours? Alternatively, if you can give me a guesstimate for a few large wikis you remember recounting, I can try to extrapolate from that bit of info. (BTW, if this information is available somewhere online already—as in, script-generated output—I'd love to know where.) Also, is there a fixed order that the wikis are recounted in? (See the monthly-recount script, which may mean something to you: I don't know what order is implied by "$set.dblist".) - dcljr (talk) 01:15, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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Season's Greetings
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:29, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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