User talk:Timotheus Canens/Archives/2016/8

The Signpost: 04 August 2016
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SPI script
Hi Tim, a good while ago on someone's Talk page we discussed your changing the SPI template that blocks/tags accounts so we could specify that the block was a CU block. You said it was doable but you didn't have time to do it right away. Do you have some time now? It would be very useful, particularly when the list of accounts to be blocked is long, which, unfortunately, seems to happen all too frequently. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:19, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. CUs now get two checkboxes they can use to mark all the blocks as CU blocks and optionally suppress the usual block summary. T. Canens (talk) 16:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 16:57, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 18 August 2016
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Archiving SPIs
Quite some time ago I was under the impression that the archive script would either fail or not perform properly if the report being archived was malformed. I don't recall what aspect of the report had to be malformed. It's been so long I figured I'd ask whether the archive script can handle a report that is structured incorrectly or in some other way doesn't comply with the usual format. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:47, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The code is written on the assumption that the report is well-formed, so malformed reports result in undefined behavior. :) The current rule is that it always archives everything starting from the first L3 or L5 header to the end. No promises that it will keep behaving this way in the future. T. Canens (talk) 22:01, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, good to know I wasn't imagining things.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:16, 21 August 2016 (UTC)