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Possible idea for bot?
Hi, I see more and more non-free files uploaded which are way too big, I've tagged many (I've even added a tab to add non-free reduce and save in one click - but I don't think my programming skills are currently up to writing a full bot!). It would be nice if we could take category:all non-free media and have a bot put the images into new categories of size bands, e.g.
 * 1) Non-free images over 1,000,000 pixels
 * 2) Non-free images between 500,000 and 1,000,000 pixels
 * 3) Non-free images bewteen 250,000 and 500,000 pixels
 * 4) Non-free images bewteen 100,000 and 250,000 pixels

I suspect that, as the main cat is over 510000 images, that it will take some time to get "up to date", but then maybe the bot would run at intervals just examining the changes since the last run, adding and removing from the bands as appicable. These new categories could then be used as a start for manual review. Does that sound like a plausible idea? If that sounds to big and complex then maybe a daily dated category of files over 100,000 pixels - sort of on the lines of the User:Multichill/Free uploads display (sadly that's not working now, but much missed as well!) Since your bot can work out image sizes, then I suspect maybe quite a section of code is already available to you. Ron h jones (Talk) 22:31, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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Tracker
About one year ago you added a tracker to Template:COI editnotice so we could evaluate how many article-subjects actually used/clicked-on on the template to suggest an edit, per consensus for a trial at Village Pump proposals. I see the template is now transcluded on 760 pages (often manually added by folks familiar with the template to articles that specifically had COI editing issues). I was wondering how we go about checking how many people clicked on the "Click here" button in the template per the tracker? 21:44, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

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User:Theo's Little Bot/unnecessary dab status
I was wondering if User:Theo's Little Bot/unnecessary dab would be run for the rest of the alphabet. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:24, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

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Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests
This category contains hundreds of files, some of them, such as File:Fuse ODG Dangerous Love.png, tagged weeks or months ago. Why isn't the bot reducing them? The bot seems to reduce a small number of files each day, but leaves hundreds of other files unreduced. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:33, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

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Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews
Hello. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular. The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered. If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.) If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with. Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors. I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC). Sent via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia study- Thank you
Hello, I hope you remember speaking to me in the summer of 2012 about your motivations for contributing to the health-related pages on Wikipedia. The great news is that the study got published this Wednesday in JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research). You can read it here: http://www.jmir.org/2014/12/e260 This would not have been possible without your contributions so once again, I would like to thank you for taking the time and sharing your experiences with me. I also wrote an entry about my own experience with the study, about additional observations and how I plan to further extend my research - published in the WMF blog today: https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/12/who-writes-wikipedias-health-and-medical-pages-and-why/If you have any comments or questions please get in touch.Perhaps see you at the next Wikimania conference in Mexico! Best Wishes Hydra Rain (talk) 21:01, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Request for help from an obviously new user
Hello Theopolisme. I'm a teacher at a photography college and want to use Wikipedia for an assignment next semester.

I need someone who will help me with the more ridiculous questions I will have! For example, I have requested a course page and I have had a response, but the page doesn't seem to have been created (or I don't know where to find it). Would you be willing to help me along a little bit as I learn how to work with Wikipedia? Looking forward to hearing from you. Louisa. Louibu (talk) 23:11, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Theo. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015 and I hope you’ll continue to be around on  Wikipedia for a long  time to  come. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:08, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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Your Bot?
I am wondering if your bot is out of order? Because I cannot run your bot to update the table statistics. Hope to hear from you soon. Adamdaley (talk) 06:26, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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User:WP 1.0 bot
Hi! I tried to run the bot, using the external link on the bot's page, but it didn't work. For some reason, although the bot has this and this, but no User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Beetles or User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Coleoptera. Can you please make the bot create the table for WikiProject Beetle articles? Gug01 (talk) 18:03, 18 January 2015 (UTC) Gug 01

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Hey Theopolisme! You are receiving this message because you are subscribed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers

I have recently launched a new downloads for beta testers that contains nightly builds of huggle, eg. versions that are built every day from our master branch and contains latest huggle. These builds are currently provided only for Windows and Ubuntu. You can find them here: http://huggle.wmflabs.org/builds/

Please keep in mind that these don't have any automatic updates and if you download and start using nightly build, you will need to update it yourself! So don't get yourself to running old version, it's possible to install both stable and nightly huggle, which is what I suggest.

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A question on your bot's image resizing
There's been a bit of ado over at NFC regarding images that are just a notch above 0.1MP being resized below that by your bot (which is a bit of a pointless action, since 0.1MP is not a hard edge) after being tagged by human editors. Obviously, that's what the bot does, and while it's fine for most, there are fair complaints that this is a bit of a pointless resizing. Obviously, it is the human editors that tag such images that should take better care of doing that, but a question is if your bot can be capable of doing tagged resizes but ignoring (or removing the flag without doing them) for images that fall under, say, 0.15MP and where the aspect ration falls between a normal landscape to portait mode, such as from 9:16 to 16:9? I'm not asking you to make the changes now - I'd want to figure out the policy where we really need to enforce image sizes via bot first, but it would help to know how flexible your bot is in handling these. --M ASEM (t) 01:05, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
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ENWP10 problem and maintenance
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 * I was able to fix the missing assessment category, so this problem should be solved. However, I'd appreciate your feedback on the minor counter problem (see index page), whenever possible. GermanJoe (talk) 00:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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