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Edit counter: German Umlaute broken

Hi, the edit counter displays Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) incorrectly. The content is delivered as UTF-8, the Umlaute however are ISO-8859-15. It's only a minor inconvenience, but I thought I'd let you know. Have a nice wikibreak. --Asgar (talk) 07:09, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:Adminshirt

A tag has been placed on Template:Adminshirt requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. ALIENDUDE5300 (talk) 03:53, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you! --188.124.240.36 (talk) 09:33, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

SoxBot 19

Hi X!,
sorry to break into your break. Quick question since it came up at Twinkle again, apparently SoxBot isn't doing the image tagging task from SoxBot 19 anymore, since March 5. Can you turn it back on? Or is there a bigger issue I'm unaware of?
Thanks, Amalthea 12:54, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I can bring it back to BOTREQ of course. It would help to know why you've disabled the job though. Cheers, Amalthea 22:10, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Since you are now officially back, can I bump this one more time? :) Amalthea 14:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

The problem is that pillar, while good in concept, has some serious issues that mean it can't be run by cron. It's a trivial task to change the framework, and I'll get to it when I have the chance. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Admin highlighter

Hi X, I was wondering if you run SoxBot over on Commons. I've established a local version of User:SoxBot/adminrights-admins.js over there (at Commons:User:Huntster/adminrights-admins.js, base script at Commons:User:Huntster/adminrights.js), and I'm hoping you could have SoxBot auto-update that list as well. Cheers :) — Huntster (t @ c) 01:18, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

It would be trivial to transfer it to commonswiki. I'm adding it to my to-do list. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you :) If you need anything else from me, let me know. — Huntster (t @ c) 00:29, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

MPUploadBot

Hey X!, I gather you haven't got a lot of time on your hands, but is there any chance you could programme the bot to copy the licensing and description from the Commons image to the local copy, particularly for TFP. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:19, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, this is a known issue. I've got a few ideas for solutions, and they'll be tried when I get a chance to fix them. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Adminshirt

Template:Adminshirt has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.--The Evil IP address (talk) 20:01, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

PHP seems to have lots of issues with UTF characters, so things get encoded wrong and whatnot. I'll look into this. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Localization text errors of you new edit counter

Hi, can you please fix some translation errors in your new edit counter for localized texts of Bengali (bn) version? The corrected texts are showing below. Please fix this.

# 'edits'          -->   'সম্পাদনা'
# 'show'           -->   'প্রদর্শন করো'
# 'translatelink'  -->   'অনুবাদ'

If you don't have the support for Bengali script, just copy-pest the texts. Well, that's all for the moment, and I hope you will add action count (i.e. page move, delete etc.) section too, just like the previous counter. Thank you in advance. — Tanvir 10:18, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

I've added another error. — Tanvir 13:11, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

PHP seems to have lots of issues with UTF characters, so things get encoded wrong and whatnot. I'll look into this. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

SoxBot UAA request

Is it possible for your SoxBot UAA to raise a red alert if a username that is a play of Collectonian or Kanruyan is registered? Having major problems with him stalking me (see ANI, and part of his harrassment includes making spoof accounts of User:Collectonian, and replays of his own blocked main account. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 15:21, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

See User:SoxBot/UAA/Blacklist and its associated talk page. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Will do, thanks :-) -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 21:44, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

CU/OS options

You added an option #4. Any chance of considering the identical question by Lar (a bit above on the talk page) and explanation there? I think this one is likely to be redundant for reasons given. FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 01:19, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

It's kind of a moot point, as it's not gaining support. Either way, I didn't see the talk page, and thus, added it without acknowledging the talk thread. I can see how it'd be redundant now. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Crat stats

Firstly, welcome back.

Now - get to work! =)

Do you think that {{Cratstats}} should be changed to indicate actionable usurp requests (i.e. those that have passed the 7-day waiting period)? –xeno^talk 18:28, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Though I'm not a crat, it would probably be a useful addition since USURP takes seven days. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐) 18:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Would make us look better too! –xeno^talk 18:45, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

woah, someone actually uses cratstats? All right, I'll add it to my long to-do list. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Unrelated

Holy hell that was the fastest month of my entire life. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:05, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

repeating "o" checker - forgive the rhyme

Hi X! - just a note that either the bot (or the description of the rule) appears wrong on this UAA report. Lots of Os, but not in a row...  7  00:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

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Turkish translation for Edit Counter

Hello, I noticed that some of the Turkish localizations for your Edit Counter are missing. We use your tool by default on the Turkish Wikipedia, so having as much of the interface in Turkish would be very appreciated. Below are the translations that are needed:

title

X!'ın araçları

tool

X!'ın Değişiklik Sayacı

mysqlerror: MySQL hatası, lütfen <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:X!/Bugs'>yanlış duyurucusunu</a> kullanarak beni haberdar edin. Şu hata mesajını belirtmeyi ihmal etmeyin:

$1

nosuchuser

$1 adlı bir kullanıcı yok.

generalinfo

Genel kullanıcı bilgileri

unique

Değişiklik yapılmış tekil sayfalar

average

Sayfa başına yapılan ortalama değişklik

live

Silinmemiş değişiklikler

namespacetotals

İsim alanı toplamları

topedited

En çok değiştirilmiş maddeler

executed

$1 saniyede işlem tamamlanmıştır

graphalt

İsim alanı toplamları pasta grafiği

viewingsource

$1 için kaynak inceleniyor.

sourceviewer

Soxred93'ün Değişiklik Sayacı için kaynak kodu

translation

Soxred93'ün Değişiklik Sayacı çevirmeni

submitted

Girildi. Teşekkürler!

nograph

Kullanıcı henüz onay vermemiştir. Grafikleri görmek istiyorsanız lütfen içinde herhangi bir içerik olan bir <a href='http://$2/wiki/User:$1/EditCounterOptIn.js'>User:$1/EditCounterOptIn.js</a> sayfası kaydedin. Buna alternatif olarak, eğer tüm Wikimedia projeleri için bilgilerinizin görünmesini istiyorsanız, <a href='http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:$1/EditCounterGlobalOptIn.js'>meta:User:$1/EditCounterGlobalOptIn.js</a> sayfasını yaratabilirsiniz.

notopedit

Toolserver sunucusunun sınırlı kaynaklarını tüketmemek için, 45000'den fazla değişikliği olan kullanıcılar için "En çok değiştirilmiş maddeler" işlevi devre dışı bırakılmıştır.

Thanks very much. --tr:User:İnfoCan14:30, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Happy Belated Birthday!!

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Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Happy Birthday X! for 28^th May. It's a bit late, but better late than never! :D Set Sail For The Seven Seas 325° 15' 15" NET 21:41, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

SoxBot UAA

SoxBot is still reporting usernames that haven't edited when the bot is supposed to wait till they edit. This report occurred today. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐) 21:41, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

OptIn

Hi,

why do you use a new opt-in system in your editcounter with the .js? Many users have already opted in for interiots edit counter, with the Yourusername/Editcounter page, witch contains Month-Graph:yes Namespacesum-Graph:yes Weekday-Graph:yes Hour-Graph:yes Therefore, it would be helpful if this practice is also supported, because it is already widespread. --Halbfertige Artikel (talk) 13:59, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Basically, the toolserver admins forced X! to add it against the will of X! and many others due to privacy issues. Set Sail For The Seven Seas 212° 22' 15" NET 14:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

I believe what Halbfertige Artikel is suggesting is that X!'s tools should also recognize opt-in requests at the Yourusername/Editcounter page. And for my part, I'd love to be able to opt-in somewhere centrally so I don't need to keep an extraneous page lying around my bot's userspace. –xeno^talk 18:28, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Interiot's tool seems to have stopped working, in any case, unless it's moved to a new URL. But for me, loading up toolserver.org/~interiot or tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/ or any page within those subdirectories produces an error message stating that the account has expired. —Soap— 14:53, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

I think is good, that there is a opt-in, unfortunately only a small percentage have opted in with X!'s system but about 70 percent of users with more than 10 edits have opted in with interiots system (data from German Wikipedia). So it seems helpfully that also this opt-ins would accepted.

It seems that interiot won't work longer on Wikipedia, see his talk page. No answers since 1,5 Years.--Halbfertige Artikel (talk) 22:21, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Automated Tool Edits

Hi there X!, I find the tools/counters you have created to be very helpful. I am interested to know if you would be willing to include my tool, STiki, as part of the "assisted/automated edits" count. The tool has already accumulated about 4000 reversions with a small user-base, and given that STiki will be presented at the upcoming WikiMania in Gdansk -- I expect its popularity to grow. The REGEX you'll need to match is straightforward, just look through my contributions. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 18:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done (X! · talk)  · @752  ·  17:02, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks much! West.andrew.g (talk) 17:40, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010

I don't know if there's much you can do about this, but the bot's not updating nearly as frequently as it has done in the past- can this be sorted in any way? Thanks. J Milburn (talk) 13:17, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I'll have a look at it. (X! · talk)  · @635  ·  14:14, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Something that I heard you weren't clearing the sandbox in hours

What happened? I thought you were clearing the sandbox.

98.177.155.42 (talk) 17:42, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

SoxBot seems to be temporarily down. —Soap— 19:00, 15 June 2010 (UTC)t

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Logged out SoxBot

Is there an alternative? I know that when HBC AIV HelperBot makes edits it is not required to add a signature. Unfortunately, the current format gives away the IP Address of SoxBot at UAA (needless to say it also implies SoxBot and HBC AIV HelperBot use the same address). mechamind90 23:05, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Of course they have the same IP, they're both on the Toolserver. There's a bug that's affecting the toolserver right now, that is restricting some bots from logging in. I'm looking at it now. (X! · talk)  · @006  ·  23:08, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit counter error

Your edit counter did not recognize my username at around 1:36 AM UTC. After a minute, the problem resolved itself. I decided to notify you. AirplanePro^Radio_Checklist 01:39, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Stuck bot?

User:X!/RfX Report isn't updating. Is the bot frozen? ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐) 02:34, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

There was a server issue today that froze a lot of bots for ~10 hours. That issue is fixed now, but I don't know if X! has restarted his bots yet, or if they may automatically restart. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Apologies

Sorry for the unexplained revert earlier today. I don't remember clicking rollback at all today but obviously I did. I had no intention of causing any issues with you or J Milburn (talk · contribs). Again, sorry for the mistake. Cheers, Cyclonebiskit (talk) 04:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Oh well, it happens. :) (X! · talk)  · @266  ·  05:22, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Re:Code review

Yes, I even got as far as the registration form yesterday, can't remember what put me off... - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 09:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Done now. - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 09:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

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Trout

"WP:WHACK" redirects here. You may be looking for WP:Wikipedia is not Whac-A-Mole (WP:WHAC).

Not to be confused with Cod throwing.

Whacking with a wet trout or trouting is a common practice on Wikipedia when experienced editors slip up and make a silly mistake. It, along with sentencing to the village stocks, is used to resolve one-off instances of seemingly silly behavior amongst normally constructive community members, as opposed to long term patterns of disruptive edits, which earn warnings and blocks.

Example

Whack!

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For this. I may actually need rehabilitation to recover from this. My brain has turned to mush. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 00:40, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

You can tell it's not my favorite style of "music". (X! · talk)  · @071  ·  00:42, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

You's "rapper", init tho'!

Ha ha ha! That's brilliant! Have a "rapper"! :D Set Sail For The Seven Seas 16° 6' 15" NET 01:04, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

SoxBot messing with the RFA tally

SoxBot (BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) is currently removing vote counts from the RFA tally when it is apparently "updating" the tally. Can you stop the bot until you find and fix what is removing the tally? Thank you. Cheers, —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 22:34, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

It seems like it has been fixed. Thanks anyway. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 23:44, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Ten Commandments mix up

Hello I am trying to make a small change to the ten commanments page i spoke with Robert Skyhawk and he told me to make the change for another reviewer and when i made the change it was reject automatically thinking that i had started an editing war or something would you please look at it thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Case547 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit Counter bug

Hi, I've found a bug in your editcounter: If I check the edits of user with a large number of edits (150000+), nothing will be shown, only a file name index.php (size 0b) should be downloaded about one minute after request. It seems, that the maximum execute time of the script is exceeded. --188.23.15.212 (talk) 22:42, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

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The link to your wiki is broken at http://code.google.com/p/mw-peachy/

Tisane ^talk/_stalk 23:04, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion

Would it be possible to add more switches to User:X!/Tally suchlike "Theleftorium 2-support=86" so that User:X!/RfX Report pulls data from there? I think using #time and other parserFunctions the "time left" can be automated. Then the only updates needed to RfX Report would be adding/removing & noting dupes. –xeno^talk 12:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit Counter Trouble

In case you didn't know, your edit counter is down. It claims that I, nor anybody else, exists! Why? 2D ℳaestro ^{Hablar/Escribir} 01:36, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

MPUploadBot

Hi. I've noticed that MPUploadBot's been overwriting (and deleting) image pages. Not sure if this was intended; I've been away for some time, but last I checked, featured pictures were to retain a local copy of the description page for categories and links, etc. I'm not sure if it's just me, but other strange things seem to be happening as well, including earlier versions not appearing in the upload logs at all. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:22, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Using user name "Jowo" for unified login

Hello. I'm using the account "Jowo" in many other wikimedia projects with unified login. Unfortunately someone already has this name in the english wikipedia so that I couldn't merge it with the others. It seems as if this user is not used and I wanted to ask if you could make it possible for me to use that name in the english wikipedia, too. Thank you very much in advance --79.244.117.237 (talk) 08:42, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Sure. Create an account on this wiki under a different name but with the same password and e-mail address. Edit your talk page on the German Wikipedia and get the diff link. Then file a username usurpation request at WP:CHUU, following the instructions and providing the diff link to show that you hold the global account. Since you are are trying to unify global login, the seven day waiting period is waived, so the response should be quick. Then you should be able to complete the unification using Special:MergeAccount. PleaseStand ^(talk) 08:58, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Cat purring

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Thanks

Thanks for the invite ! DynV (talk) 01:47, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		This Barnstar is awarded to X! for being such a wonderful teacher. Thank you for being so helpful on IRC. Adamtheclown (talk) 05:11, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

User:EyeEightDestroyerBot

They appear to have approved User:EyeEightDestroyerBot, please use it, please.--IngerAlHaosului (talk) 17:41, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

It was approved for a 1 time run that was completed long ago. There's no use for it now, unless someone asks for more limited deletion tasks under I8. (X! · talk)  · @951  ·  21:49, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Documentation

Do you suppose you could add to the Peachy documentation info on how to make a "Hello world" edit to, say, page "Sandbox" after the bot has logged in? I can probably figure out the rest from there. I'm creating a new bot and have been resorting to wikibot, which kinda sucks because I don't want to invest in a different bot framework when we've already chosen the superbotframework. Tisane ^talk/_stalk 22:09, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Done @ [1]. (X! · talk)  · @989  ·  22:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

In order to idiotproof people's getting started with this framework as much as possible, I recommend making a .tar.gz file, and possibly a .zip file, available from http://compwhizii.net/peachy/wiki/Download . If you want to change $wgFileExtensions to allow those file extension(s), I can upload it. I have also compressed r151 (today's revision) of the file and put it at http://libertapedia.org/w/images/3/35/Peachy.tar.gz if you don't feel like compressing it. Tisane ^talk/_stalk 03:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

What's not idiotproof about SVN? (Come on to IRC at #wikipedia-BAG, we can discuss this quicker than talk pages) (X! · talk)  · @188  ·  03:30, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposed Peachy logo (geez, the edges looked quite a bit cleaner in GIMP; I thought anti-aliasing was supposed to take care of that)

Some bot users might not want/need to use SVN. For one thing, not everyone likes to use Linux or even the Windows command line, so they would probably end up using TortoiseSVN, which involves unnecessary hassle. It's just easier to let them download it; MediaWiki.org provides a tar.gz for that very reason. OK, I'll head over to IRC. Here's a possible logo for $wgLogo, by the way. Tisane ^talk/_stalk 04:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Template Undeletions

Hiya X!, could you do me a big favour and restore the templates substchecktop and substcheckbottom except the last revisions on both of them? Thanks pal. :) Set Sail For The Seven Seas 351° 51' 45" NET 23:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

I'll just ping you on this one! Set Sail For The Seven Seas 169° 35' 30" NET 11:18, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Why? They were deleted for "it is a useless template that brought havoc to Wikipedia". Why do you feel they should be restored? (X! · talk)  · @950  ·  21:48, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Basically, I created them and there were some problems with their implementation. It was assumed that templates were at fault, but it has been realised that this wasn't the case. The reason, "it is a useless template that brought havoc to Wikipedia" was exaggerated due to the aftermath of these events. You can check the code and see that they could come in handy. Also, I could demonstrate the usage of the templates to you if you want. Thanks. :) Set Sail For The Seven Seas 345° 18' 15" NET 23:01, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

RPED plugin

Hi X!, Thanks again for your help yesterday. I have created an rped plugin. I would like to commence testing/debugging, but am not sure how to properly instantiate the RPED class from the bot .php file once $wiki has been set. Any advice on this matter? Thanks, Tisane ^talk/_stalk 03:57, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I've fixed it up to Peachy plugin standards. Here's how you use it...

Peachy::loadPlugin( "rped" );
$rped = RPED::load( $wiki );
$rped->insert( $page );

(X! · talk)  · @497  ·  10:55, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I got the rped plugin to work, so it's tested and ready to commit. What's the full svn command that I should use to check out the code in a way that will let me commit? (With mw:Commit_access#Getting_started_and_set_up, you have to use svn+ssh; if you just use the http://, it won't let you commit.) Is there anything else I need to do, like change ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub? Thanks, Tisane ^talk/_stalk 06:09, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

The instructions are at http://code.google.com/p/mw-peachy/source/checkout (X! · talk)  · @498  ·  10:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Oh, OK. The instructions for the https didn't appear at first because I wasn't logged in. It's all good now. Thx Tisane ^talk/_stalk 17:37, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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image protection

The MPUpload bot is protecting main page images with a protection time of indefinite. Shouldn't it be for only 24 hours? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs) 16:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)