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copyright issues
Hi, I'm contacting you about several photos I added to the Croatian Air Force and Special Operations Battalion (Croatia) articles which were singled out by your bot for lacking copyright info. I added the said info to the disputed photos, but they are still candidates for speedy deletion. Could you rectify that? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivanjek (talk • contribs) 18:04, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Done --Chris 09:32, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
botclasses.php
I guss that is made by you. I have edited it a little bit, and I'm planning to edit it even more. Where can I put it in order to send changes to you? do you have an svn/git? Fale (talk) 19:02, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
- http://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/chris/classes/ - it is hosted on toolserver svn so you'll need a toolserver account to access it. If you can't get a toolserver account I might move it to something like source forge. --Chris 11:28, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
- Actually, I have an account ;). Can I upload directly or you want to review it first?Fale (talk) 19:33, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
- Just upload directly, although I think I'll need to file a jira bug to give your account access to my repository, what's your toolserver username? --Chris 08:23, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
- Actually, I have an account ;). Can I upload directly or you want to review it first?Fale (talk) 19:33, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Stained Glass Window at Stobo Kirk
Hi, thanks for your mail re. Licensing for the above image. I am sorry but I had upoaded this file in error (I had previously uploaded with the proper license) therefore this was a duplication. Please delete it, thank you.--Jimmydenham (talk) 09:26, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- Done --Chris 09:37, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Constant vandalism and disruption
I don't understand why you admins turn blind to Tajik (talk · contribs) when he goes around use sockpuppets in your faces and vandalize pages after pages. Is Wikipedia some type of gang related website? User:Tajik is removing sourced material from articles, this is vandalism and you admins allow it. He uses the excuse "falsification and POVs" but it's really him doing those if you concentrate on his edits. These are only few examples: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] He and Inuit18 (talk · contribs) (sockpuppet of Anoshirawan) pops up as a tag-team and usually at the same time, I believe that account is shared by him and someone in USA who's English is not so great. It's so strange that he comes everyday but only edit very little, so it's very likely that he's using sockpuppets to evade his 1 RR restriction. Tajik pretends that he is against POVs but it's he that is a POV pusher."The author - in this case al-Biruni - is referring to the Suleiman Mountains. In that case, it is highly probable that he was referring to Pashtuns, because he had described them as a "Hindu people" before.... Tajik (talk) 01:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC)". It's very clear for readers here that Tajik hates Pashtuns with great passion so he wants to give them a new history which would make them being Hindus when all the scholars, history books, encyclopedias, and the Pashtuns themselves, disagree. There is "zero traces" of any Hindu culture among the Pashtuns. Anyway, Tajik was blocked 17 times and banned for a whole year but he doesn't seem to care about any of that, he just wants to remove things from articles that he doesn't agree with or doesn't like. This is a serious problem and you guys should put an end to it. I also believe Muxlim (talk · contribs) is him.
Thanks
Thanks for approving my account on the acc tool. CalumH93 (talk) 15:08, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Sig
I saw you welcoming, but your signature show up a bit funny? Like this: <b><font style="color:green;">Chris</font></b>
Just a little curious-- fetchcomms☛ 03:06, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- That edit was made by SQLBot-Hello not me, it appears to be slightly broken. --Chris 03:12, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
ANI (not about you, but you're involved peripherally under the section "Immediate Block Needed")
Hello, Chris G/Archives/2009. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Frmatt (talk) 08:06, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Chris G Bot 3 - odd behaviour at WP:CHU
The bot is behaving strangely here and here. I undid it the first time, but it seems that unlike some other bots yours will edit-war with me if I keep reverting it. It looks like the absence of line breaks, although perfectly legitimate, is causing the template to be misread, so I've refactored the request, but perhaps some tweaking is needed so that the bot can understand the {{Renameuser2}} template even when it used on one line? Cheers, AJCham 05:29, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- Ok, that should be fixed. If the bot starts edit warring with you on a request, just put <!-- Chris G Bot 3 --> somewhere in there and it will leave it alone or if its being really bad, get someone to block it. Thanks --Chris 08:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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Can you get your bot to delete the associated talk page as well? Tim Song (talk) 18:10, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
botclasses.php
Are there any code examples out there of using botclasses.php[6] to upload files to commons? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 19:58, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
<?php
/* Setup the mediawiki classes. */
require_once 'botclasses.php';
$commons = new wikipedia;
$commons->url = 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php';
/* Log in to commons. */
$user = 'FooBar';
$pass = '******';
$commons->login($user,$pass);
/* Upload an example image. */
$commons->upload(
'Example.jpg', /* The image's destination filename */
'/home/foo/example.jpg', /* The filepath to the image on your local computer */
"\{\{PD\}\}\r\nAn example image.\r\n" /* The image description page*/
);
?>
Although that particular function was written before the api supported uploading images so it uses index.php, when I get around to finishing it my rewrite should support uploading images via the api. --Chris 08:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Help with RfC Posting script
I'm trying to use your posting script to give Talk:SpongeBob's Truth or Square a RfC. I fill out the form properly, but I get this error:
ERROR: The talk page you entered does not have a corresponding page.
What is the problem? Dalekusa (talk) 22:01, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
re:
Hey
Could you find out why I Was k lined on Freenode, I even emailed them, they didn't reply or notice me or anything... thanks :( I honestly didn't do anything was talking to Aqwis next thing I know got kicked out. cheers Danger^Mouse (talk) 11:07, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- I tried asking them in #freenode but they said k-line appeals were only dealt with via email. Sorry :( --Chris 13:07, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Codepage when using botclasses.php
Hello!
I am trying to set up my bot that is using your botclasses. Everything is running well except editing or getting pages that are using different character encoding (i mean characters like: č, ť, ž, á ect.). I thought that problem is in curl_setopt but everything i tried was useless. Could you help me? --ra1n★ 14:50, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- Try running the text through this:
function FixEncoding($x){
if (mb_detect_encoding($x)=='UTF-8') {
return $x;
} else {
return utf8_encode($x);
}
}
--Chris 11:55, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
- Hey! Thanks for the answer. I tried that code some days ago (the same code as you wrote and some other that i found) and it didn‘t do anything but... Today i have tried to put my code with characters i mentioned above in different files (one was created by me and second was downloaded and rewrited) and in the second one it runs correctly. So the problem is solved for now. Thank you very much for your help and patience (and of course for botclasses :) --ra1n★ 16:19, 18 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ra1n (talk • contribs)
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Copyright
Oh yeah. Yes, it doesn't have a copyright. So you can remove it ASAP. It is not suitable for the article it was intended for anyway.--عيسى (talk) 00:53, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Your message
Hi there, thanks for the message about File:Kate Brown cropped.jpg. As you'll see from the description, it is a cropped version of File:Kate Brown OR.jpg which is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. When I created it, I tried to add the same tag to File:Kate Brown cropped.jpg but it doesn't seem to recognize it. Any idea how to do it? Thanks. --Lincolnite (talk) 12:59, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- It should be fixed. --Chris 12:58, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Chris - I've fully protected that page as I imagine it would be a pain if someone enabled it for the lulz and we had two bots clerking. Sorry for rudely intruding into your bots user space :0 Pedro : Chat 12:02, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
- What a lame attack vector. On the other hand I made a fair few "friends" running AntiAbuseBot who would just love to do something stupid like that, so its probably a good idea. --Chris 12:06, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
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Bot error
Hey, any idea why your bot removed my clerk note at CHU? Useight (talk) 00:52, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
- The api was giving my bot slightly out of date data combined with bots edit conflict detection working on the assumption that the data given to it is up to date. I've improved the EC detection so it shouldn't happen again. --Chris 09:02, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Re: File:AramcoCoin.jpg
About a month ago your bot flagged an image as being a candidate for speedy deletion even though that image had the "cc-by-2.0" license tag. Maybe "Money-US" would be better, but, regardless, per the tag, I think the edit was inappropriate? I can revert it but I worry that your bot might just retag it if I do that TerraFrost (talk) 04:47, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
- Please look carefully before accusing my bot of inappropriate edits. When my bot tagged the image for deletion it did not have a "cc-by-2.0" license tag on it. Environnement2100 then added the css-by-2.0 tag but did not remove the deletion tag. --Chris 08:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
- I thought I actually had looked at the history but I guess not... sorry about that... TerraFrost (talk) 18:32, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Plese revert Kurier-r.png
Chris,
On 30 October 2009, I was contacted by a bot of your about licensing problems with File:Kurier-r.png. While the comments were a bade case of bureaucracy gone rampant, I politely explained the licensing of this file on the image's page.
Notwithstanding my explanation, the file has been deleted. At no point have I been contacted by a human being.
Please be so kind as to get this deletion reverted, or at least to tell me what was unacceptable in my reply. --Jec (talk) 23:57, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
- All images must have a license tag on it (this is so that it is easier for bots to manage and sort the image backlogs, especially non-free images as if there is no license tag the bot cannot determine if the image is free or non-free). From reading through your explanation, it would appear that {{PD-font}} is the best tag to use? I've undeleted the image and added {{PD-font}}, if you think there's a better tag feel free to change it. In an ideal world the admin deleting the image would have seen your explanation about the image's license and added the correct tag, however simply due to the massive image deletion backlogs it is hard enough to get them cleared out let alone pick up cases such as yours. --Chris 03:01, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
- "this is so that it is easier for bots". I keep forgetting that Wikipedia is being run by the bureaucrats for the bureaucrats, and that adding extra work to the editors is okay.--Jec (talk) 00:54, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Just take my quote completely out of context why don't you? "this is so that it is easier for bots to manage and sort the image backlogs, especially non-free images as if there is no license tag the bot cannot determine if the image is free or non-free", the bots managing these backlogs are in fact removing extra work for editors. Seriously its not that hard when to upload an image to add an appropriate license tag and removes extra work for other editors. So before you start accusing me of making extra work for editors perhaps you should look at yourself and how you are making extra work for editors. --Chris 08:15, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- "this is so that it is easier for bots". I keep forgetting that Wikipedia is being run by the bureaucrats for the bureaucrats, and that adding extra work to the editors is okay.--Jec (talk) 00:54, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
reminder
Hi Chris,
You might have this on a to-do list since Oct. and its turn just hasn't come up, but I'm wondering if the {{IPAr}} (|pl switch) to {{IPAc-pl}} move is feasible. Just checking, no rush.
Thanks, kwami (talk) 02:10, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
- Never mind! It's being taken care of by User:AnomieBOT. But thanks! kwami (talk) 21:39, 26 November 2009 (UTC)