User talk:Theopolisme/Archive 19

Survey for editors who mentor newcomer
Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,

I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV

Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah

Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅, happy to help!  Theopolisme ( talk )  00:21, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Precious again
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Thank you for quality contributions, for taking care of deletions and reverting unconstructive edits, for today's articles for improvement and Theo's Little helpful bots, for and for appreciating the best Main page design, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:30, 29 May 2013 (UTC) A year ago, you were the 499th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

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Heads up: no internet access until June 19th
Hi everyone,

Just a heads up that I will be venturing into the Great and Mysterious Land of No Internet Service™ for the next three weeks or so as part of my summer travels. If you need to reach me... you really won't be able to. Hopefully nothing too major will explode while I'm away; if it's quite urgent send me an email and I'll see those earlier on the 19th than posts on-wiki.

Thanks!

 Theopolisme ( talk )  14:56, 28 May 2014 (UTC)


 * May I interest you with a copy of Wikipedia® to bring on you journey? Only $9,99 (straight into my pocket) ! I've heard that it got a lot of "words"...to bad I can't read! (t) Josve05a  (c) 15:32, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Do you get a free gift with it?--Otus scops (talk) 16:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes! It is something called "knowledge"! (t) Josve05a  (c) 17:38, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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Image captioning
Hi.

Any chance of writing an extension to Theo's Little Bot which does a caption pulling operation?

I've found that in many many instances, 'missing' descriptions for images can be obtained by reviewing the cpations where it's used. Vada has a script for generating these from a list.

I wuould like to suggest that a bot goes through free images (especially those tagged for Commons) checking for a blank Description= field, and if it finds one, performing a caption pull similar to that provided by the tool in VADA.

This wouldn't be a complete solution to the problem of missing descriptions, but would greatly reduce the amount of trival effort needed by Image patrollers.

(In time I was also going to suggest a tweak in Mediawiki itself which meant the captions were explicity displayed on the File Description pages.)

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:28, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

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...and I'm back
I'm back home in one piece, which is always a good thing. There are a ton different things waiting for me onwiki, so please patient if it takes some time to get to each and every one of them :) If you want to work on that list of things for me, that would be awesome -- I'll be on IRC later. Cheers,  Theopolisme  ( talk )  14:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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WP 1.0 bot web tools broken
Hi! It seems that http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/ is returning a 404. Is something broken? --Rschen7754 00:08, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
 * , you may want to try emailing Theo for a quicker response. He's gotten a new job eating up most of his time and infrequently checks on-wiki and even less frequently replies on-wiki. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 11:51, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Rotten Tomatoes score is malfunctioning
Specifically at The Amazing Spider Man 2's critical response section. It said to contact you :P  Corvoe  (speak to me)  18:18, 1 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Apologies, I just hid it. See this revision.  Corvoe  (speak to me)  18:19, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * , I'm looking into it for you... Should be fixed in a couple days. You can actually manually enter the first summary as an unnamed parameter of the template and it will make the placeholder text go away. ;) — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 18:53, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Totally forgot about that. Thank you!  Corvoe  (speak to me)  18:54, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Legal
Hello,

I just wanted to ping you on the issue raised at User talk:Theopolisme/Archive 18 (the original thread is now archived at here). Is a resolution possible?

Thank you, -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:58, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

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User:WP 1.0 bot
Hi Theopolisme. I'm involved in a GLAM project out of Chicago, and we've been using the statistics box that the above bot produces to help focus our content efforts and assess our progress. There's been some talk that this may be a server issue generally, but I wanted to clarify that with you as you maintain the bot and are back from being away. Is there nothing to be done at this point? (Pinging ). I, JethroBT drop me a line 18:58, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi there, User:I JethroBT. Sorry, I really haven't been active on-wiki lately at all -- my reply at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index and the last comment by Walkerma in the thread above it (based on an email discussion) might be helpful. Sorry about this!  Theopolisme ( talk )  22:27, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

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Trello
Hi! Since I'm taking more of an interest in AFCHRW's development, would it be possible to add me (APerson on Trello) to the AFCH Development board? Thanks! APerson (talk!) 14:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Done!  Theopolisme ( talk )  21:36, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! APerson (talk!) 21:54, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

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New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon
Hi Theopolisme, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ !

Major changes:
 * Multisite support - you can now log in to unlimited number of wikis in 1 huggle session and get a huge queue of all edits made to these wikis. This is good for smaller projects which gets overlooked often.
 * Ranged diffs - you can select multiple revisions and get a huge diff that display all changes done to them.
 * Fixes of most of bug reports we had so far

In case you found a bug, please report it to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Huggle&list_id=147663 thank you! Petrb (talk) 10:15, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Questions about your bot: Rotten Tomatoes task
Hi Theo. I have a question about your Little Bot. How often does it run to populate more up to date info for the Rotten Tomatoes score templates? I personally created a subpage for a film, here in hopes of starting it off (don't know if that should have been done or not), and the scores have changed for the film since then. Just wondering what the frequency it comes by is. Thanks. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:17, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I saw you edit the heading (thanks), so you may know part of my question. By creating the subpage by myself for the film I wanted, was that an error? Should I have waited for the bot? Thought you might know, as you have helped with the template before. Thanks. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 02:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Re: Template:Rotten Tomatoes score
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 * That said, there's an error showing at Prometheus_(2012_film). The template looks OK to me, but I'm easily confused by such magic. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 03:55, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That said, there's an error showing at Prometheus_(2012_film). The template looks OK to me, but I'm easily confused by such magic. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 03:55, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

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Talkback
Hi Theopolisme. What are the present parameters for User:Theo's Little Bot regarding archiving of TAFI nominations at the Nominated articles page? Please feel free to respond at the discussion linked herein. Thanks! NorthAmerica1000 03:31, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Your comments would be appreciated. And if you are busy, would it be ok if we used your code with another bot maintainer? -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 19:02, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

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Your draft article, User:61.245.165.37


Hello Theopolisme. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "61.245.165.37".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the  or  code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code:, paste it in the edit box at this link , click "Save page", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. PNGWantok (talk) 12:09, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Discussion about AFC templates and workflow
I remember, in early stages of your AFC rewrite, I tried to convey some thoughts on semi-automation, more comprehensive reviews, etc to you; you had mentioned that such ideas need a redesign of templates first. I'm asking others to consider doing it, now, in here. Please have a look. --Gryllida (talk) 04:40, 27 August 2014 (UTC)


 * IMO changing anything  at  this stage to  AfC and/or its scripts will  be simply  a palliative to  what  has proven to  be a largely  dysfunctional system. Something entirely  new is needed but  rather than disband AfC altogether, or attempt  to  rewrite its existing  scripts, there will  shortly  be a proposal  to  use a nice little bit  of ready  made software that  could end all  these issues once and for all.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:56, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

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Template:Rotten Tomatoes score not working
I tried to use it for 1760985. Have a look at Nancy, Please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mihai Capotă (talk • contribs) 21:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I changed the template to all_in_one (first I had all_in_one_plus_consensus). The error became "Unable to locate a listing on Rotten Tomatoes for this title. (Is this an error?)". I think Rotten Tomatoes does not yet have the IMDb ID. I removed the template. Mihai Capotă (talk) 06:59, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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What have I missed?
For the past few months I've been quite busy with real life -- it's surprising how much time that stuff takes up! ;) I'm starting to have more free time, though, and will probably gradually be able to ease into a more active on-wiki role. Technical 13 et al., have I missed anything of note? The usefulness of one's watchlist decreases exponentially with time... :) Happy to be back (in some capacity, at least)! Many happy returns of the day,  Theopolisme ( talk )  00:19, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * We missed you! The TAFI portions of your bot could use some servicing. Come visit us over at WP:TAFI when you have some time. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 03:40, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy to help over the weekend. Can you point me to some threads/tl;drs of what needs work? RIght now I'm still suffering from a bit of information overload.  Theopolisme ( talk )  22:30, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey Theo. Welcome back. There seems to be an issue with your Little Bot Rotten Tomatoes task. It appears to no longer be populating updates and/or new template calls. Please ping me for more detail, but it would be most helpful if you could investigate. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 20:35, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

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ENWP1.0 Possible Problems?
Hi, Today I was trying to locate articles on transport using this fabulous bot, but now all i keep getting is a redirect to a Portuguese Language 'page not found' on wmf labs, (like this one) it has only started to occur today, any ideas or solutions would be appreciated, all projects redirect to this page! many thanks 92.236.217.144 (talk) 12:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I am experiencing the same issue Brirush (talk) 12:14, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Seems to be fixed now. Thanks for your help!Brirush (talk) 15:55, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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