User talk:X!/Archives/2/2011

Page History Statistics Bug
Hi Soxred. Sorry again for for not using the bug report, but I don't want a google account. I get an "maximum execution time" error, when I set an end date. However, I'e noticed that here (line130) it says "endn" instead of "end". Maybe that already fixes the problem. Thanks for the great tool! --ACNiklas (talk) 16:40, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The SVN is at an old version, so that is no longer in the code. It is happening for another reason. I'll look into this when I rewrite the tool. ( X! ·  talk )  · @875  · 20:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

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"isAdmin"-Tool
Could you expand this tool with a dropdown menue so that it can be used also in other wikipedias like the german one? --FalconL (talk) 19:30, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Already in the works. ( X! ·  talk )  · @873  · 19:56, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

The 45,000 edit cutoff
Hi, I asked you about this back in September.

At that time, I observed that:


 * There is now a restriction on detailed breakdowns for users in excess of 45,000 edits.
 * This was in order to "conserve resources".
 * But since no one actually ever uses this feature now (except me), isn't it perfectly safe to rescind that restriction?
 * Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 17:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

You expressed a different point of view:
 * No one's using it? It's had over a million hits since I implemented it. The hit count has been steady since long before I implemented the counter. Please do not make wild assumptions like that with nothing to back it up with. What more, it is more than just consuming my fair share, it is also to provide a faster response time. Parsing dozens of thousands of edits takes a LONG time in PHP. (X! · talk) · @855  ·  19:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I have full and absolute confidence that you know what you're doing, but since September, I have still seen maybe 3 users besides me using the detailed breakdown feature.

Anecdotal evidence, true, but engineers are accustomed to making observations, and reporting same.

I am always surprised when someone has enabled it.

My actual point:

I like your feature. (Obviously.)

For the past few months, I have been doing most of my work in frwiki and svwiki to avoid crossing the dreaded enwiki 45K threshold and shutting down my favourite feature.

So, is the threshold still active?

And if it is, that is simply the way it's gotta be, eh?

Varlaam (talk) 06:25, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

X! - the edit counter page says the cut-off is 75,000. Varlaam: I use this every so often. How do you monitor who is using the "detailed breakdown feature"? --Dweller (talk) 10:26, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * --Dweller (talk) 09:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Dweller: Do you have a link to where it says that?
 * Varlaam: Running a SQL query on the database results 2099 users who have opted in on enwiki alone. There's no basis behind your claim that "no one uses this feature". ( X! ·  talk )  · @879  · 20:05, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah... now I re-read it, what it says at Editcounter doesn't conflict. Very confusing for simple minds like mine. Where is the documentation on your edit counter? I looked and couldn't find it. --Dweller (talk) 11:06, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Question for the clerk
Why have several parties at the SAQ ArbCom case been allowed to exceed the 1000 word limit? I worked very hard to live within the rules. Others seem to have been given extra space. And one, has posted a link on the evidence page to his "statement" of over 1600 words? Is this fair?

A side question - is this flaunting of the rules taken into consideration by the arbitrators in terms of editorial behavior? Smatprt (talk) 04:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * We have already emailed the people who have exceeded the limit, and are giving them a chance to cut them back. ( X! ·  talk )  · @522  · 11:32, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Bot for Introduction
Hi, could your bot clean the Introduction as it does with the sandbox. This preferably has to be left editable so that users can see the edit button, to which the intro refers, but it's still edited quite often despite the editnotice which asks not to. If we use PC on it, we can prevent readers from seeing edits but editors still have to revert all those edits, so it would be great if a bot could 'reset' the intro. Cenarium (talk) 21:18, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I turned it off because I was told it wasn't meant to be edited anymore. Apparently that's been revertted. ( X! ·  talk )  · @873  · 19:57, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think that before people were told they could edit below the intro, but now it's discouraged. So now it's not supposed to be edited, but semi-protection isn't desirable because users should see the edit button. So pending changes plus a bot to replace the intro should do fine. Could you switch it back on ? And also, is there some page where we can put the text to replace ? Cenarium (talk) 23:35, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

AGK gone for a few days, so..
I left this question for AGK, but since he is gone for a few days, I have been advised by Bishonen to approach Brad and an arbitrator. Brad had recommended that if I had any procedural questions, I ask one of the clerks. Here is the link to my questions for AGK:. Thanks for your time. Bishonen suggested I also email, so I did that as well. Smatprt (talk) 18:07, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm also quite busy for the next few days, so I'll look at this when I get a chance. ( X! ·  talk )  · @241  · 04:46, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Bug report
This edit a few minutes ago at 2010 Copiapó mining accident seems to indicate a bug in Soxbot. Thanks, Borkificator (talk) 00:21, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Next Montréal Meetup
I would like to know when the next Montréal meetup will be taking place and where. I would really like to attend this year`s.-- -¤÷(`[¤*M*¤]´)÷¤- 04:31, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't take part in that, so I wouldn't know. ( X! ·  talk )  · @240  · 04:45, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

How did a user vote?
Hi X! It looks like the tool at http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rfap is no longer working. Every username I try returns "Invalid user!" I entered a bug report (and after I did, I noticed that a couple of other people had entered one also) but I thought I would mention it to you directly as well. Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 19:17, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I checked the coding. The tool is quite ok. The link's been messed up with in the last ftp upload. Use this code for checking out your or other user's (replace your name with any other user's name) RfA contributions.  Wifione    .......  Leave a message  03:11, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks. That one works great! 28bytes (talk) 05:36, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There are others too that are returning 'invalid user' shame they can't be fixed in the toolserver interface. Kudpung (talk) 05:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Soxbot request
I have a request for your Soxbot. Please either:
 * make it nobots compliant (it's not )
 * have it mark edits as minor on the user talk page so as to not trigger the yellow bar message or
 * don't have the thing retag it every day. Magog the Ogre (talk) 00:12, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

5 albert square RfA
I moved your comment, or copied it, to the RfA discussion page. As you've essentially said nothing, I don't think it belongs in the candidate's RfA. I responded as best as possible, which is not possible, because you've given no clue as to your confusion. While I don't think that the candidate is qualified for adminship based upon her answer to a particular question, she appears to be a solid editor in good standing with the community and does not deserve for her RfA to be sidetracked by off-topic commentaries directed to other editors. Please discuss there if necessary. --Kleopatra (talk) 01:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Blocked
Hello. I do not speak good English, because I'm from the Spanish Wikipedia, like a friend. You block to User:El javo accusing him of "being a puppet of elpilotodi" but nothing to do, you're confused. He and I contribute in the articles of Lady Gaga in Spanish Wikipedia, he is not and never has been a puppet. I wanted to know how I can support him in his unlock, he's innocent. I await your reply, thanks and regards--NicolásTM (talk) 04:26, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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QR code
Hi,

With regard to this revert, the template has been criticized (externally and on the GLAM email list) for using a url that can be shortened. I understand the policy of direct links being preferable on Wikipedia, but in the case of QR codes the recommended design approach is to use as short a url a possible (often generating special short-cut links) so that the 2D image is as simple and readable as possible for printing on a label. I would be happy to add some explanation to the template documentation to this effect. See wm-outreach and WP:GLAM/DER. Thanks Fæ (talk) 12:27, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Until enwp.org becomes aquired by the WMF, I simply feel that it's better to use a longer URL than to have all of the generated QR codes break if the domain goes down. Bitrot happens. ( X! ·  talk )  · @619  · 13:51, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Soxbot bug
See. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:04, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!


And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God.

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Added template for SuggestBot
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peachy wiki
The peachy wiki seems to be having problems: http://compwhizii.net/peachy/wiki/, http://wiki.peachy.compwhizii.net/wiki/Manual/Getting_Started --Waldir talk 00:54, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It's been down for about half a year. See the notice at WP:PEACHY. ( X! ·  talk )  · @179  · 03:17, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

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YGM
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Your tool "Edit counter" – feature request
Hi! Would it be possible to additionally display in your edit counter tool the number of reverted edits? There is a "revertedEdits" entry in the array that holds the counts all these user-specific numbers ...

Thank you very much for considering - and for your nice tools anyway! Troubled asset (talk) 12:48, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * There is no way to determine the reverted edits at this time. ( X! ·  talk )  · @873  · 19:57, 1 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your answer and sorry for not getting back to you sooner.
 * Well, the german wikipedia (my "home" wiki) grants additional user rights (editor and reviewer group memberships) automatically upon fulfillment of certain criterias, one of them is the ratio between the total number of edits and the number of reverted edits. The code checks a variable revertedEdits in the array FRUserCounters in http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/FlaggedRevs/FlaggedRevs.hooks.php?revision=81940&view=markup. So there should be such a possibility to check the number of reverted edits ...? Thank you, --Troubled asset (talk) 18:27, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's a different functionality entirely and not the "reverted" which you are thinking of. (I presume). Quite simply, there is no easy way to get "reverted" edits from the Toolserver. ( X! ·  talk )  · @847  · 19:20, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

suppressRedirect during rename feature
During the brief windows of 1.17 being up, I tried to fool around with passing "suppressRedirect=1" to a rename URL and it did not check the box. Is it because of the deployment issues or does it not accept input in that way? Can it? (see User talk:Amalthea for a related issue where the problem was fixed in 26851) – xeno talk 18:44, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Amalthea diagnosed the problem, see comment at above-linked thread or 23819. – xeno talk 15:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Just tested the feature in a live-fire situation and other than the above issue, it works great. If we can solve the above, that would be even better. – xeno talk 13:54, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Editcount source
Hi. About this - fine tool, thanks. But "View Source" link at the bottom leads to nothing. Could you please upload the source somewhere? I intended to install this counter for Russian Uncyclopedia (Absurdopedia). Thank you. ru.Media (talk) 14:33, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The code you are trying to run will probably not work without significant modifications, as it runs from a specialized database on the Toolserver. Either way, it is broken right now, so I'll look at this when I get a chance. ( X! ·  talk )  · @850  · 19:23, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

A month of coding
Always take the maximum length you think you'll take, then double it. If there's any delays, you've budgeted it.

Seriously, tough, want to work together on the code? suspect the basic stuff'll take about a week, but I want to do a lot of optimazation and user friendliness stuff. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, that'd be great. ( X! ·  talk )  · @975  · 22:24, 16 February 2011 (UTC)


 * My basic plan is to adapt the current featured pictures system, but using a slightly more complicated input. So, "Wikipedia:Today's Featured Whatever/2011-04-10" might look like one of the following:

This is a slightly eccentric way of doing it, but with a big advantage: One can use this as input in various templates, to quickly find out any sort of information you need to know. For instance, could check which type something is. This can be used to easily make an archive containing just the pictures, by using the code

OBVIOUSLY, it can be far better optimised than that, but that way's simpler to explain with, if you know #ifeq. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:46, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Tools Source Code
Hi X!, my have a source this tools? I need use for my wiki project (AcehPedia), thanks Fadli Idris (talk) 09:01, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The code you are trying to run will probably not work without significant modifications, as it runs from a specialized database on the Toolserver, and it has multiple dependancies. Either way, the source code function is broken right now, so I will look into this. ( X! ·  talk )  · @537  · 11:52, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured sound candidates/Swansong
You'd best get this one. Both me and Sven voted. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:25, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

User:EyeEightDestroyerBot
This bot has not operated in about a year, would you consider removing its user rights? ΔT The only constant 06:09, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

You have requests at Template talk:Adminstats
May I direct your attention to Template_talk:Adminstats as well as the post below it? For your consideration, when you have the time. Thanks, &oelig; &trade; 16:07, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

IRC
If you happen to be on in the next 8 hours, please head onto IRC and ping me (nick is Sven_Manguard) immediatly. I want to run something by you and Adam before the FS poll closes.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  21:09, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

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Thank You!
I've mainly just sketched out the interaction of components, and what needs to be done today. Didn't have enough continuous computer time to start assembling the codes, so I'll do it tomorrow. If you want to make a start, the first thing to do is probably to set up a mock mainpage, and duplicate the Today's Featured Picture templates to "Today's Featured Whatever", fixing all the internal links. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:30, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I did start the design at User:X!/Main Page FS Mockup a little while ago, so you may want to build off of that. ( X! ·  talk )  · @069  · 00:39, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

File:Amy with dildo.jpg
It seems the template was added again by SoxBot after Gimme danger had http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=File%3AAmy_with_dildo.jpg&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= speedied] the file, per the Bad image list I believe. Could you please tell me whether it is alright to remove it, since it no longer is subject to much vandalism, as seen from its deleted history, and after it has already been transferred to Commons? :| TelCo NaSp  Ve :|  07:31, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

FYI
Featured lists on the main page --Highspeedrailguy (talk) 18:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

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IRC
Can you poke me when you're on? I hit a snag in coding, and want to see if I can still use my original plan, or if I need to change it. If we can't do it the original wa, I have an alernative, but want to talk it through. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:36, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

[Feature request] Arcle Blamer
Hi!

Your tool is very useful.

I just wanted to suggest an enhancement to pages like this where it is displayed the text "Revisions that added specified text:". I think it would be good idea to change it to "Revisions that added the text [the specified text goes here]: ", so that it is displayed in the page itself (instead of only in the URL, which is difficult to read because of the encoding). Helder 12:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Duplicated edit count data
I am getting duplicated edit count data (on a black background) on your edit counter for User:Neelix. --Highspeedrailguy (talk) 17:20, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Graph axis
I don't understand the meaning of the left-hand vertical axis in the graphs. Could you explain it (preferably on the graph's page). Wahrmund (talk) 19:17, 28 February 2011 (UTC)