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The Signpost: 02 January 2012

Request for Interview Regarding Wikipedia Bots

Greetings X!-

My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of BAG and the bot community, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.

My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.

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UOJComm (talk) 01:01, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Joseph Patrick Kennedy III

Hey, about two years ago, you deleted an article on Joseph Patrick Kennedy III due to lack of notability. I think the page should be restored now that Kennedy is exploring (and considered likely to embark upon) a run for Congress: [1] A Google search for "Kennedy III" yields 555,000 search results as well. I believe this is sufficient to establish notability, whereas it did not exist at the time the article was originally deleted. Therefore, a page for Kennedy should exist on this website. Thank you. -Kudzu1 (talk) 10:41, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

SoxBot request

I've spoken to you before about User:SoxBot removing the {{uncategorized}} tag from articles whose only categories are hidden maintenance categories that don't count toward whether an article is "categorized". To date, I've applied the workaround that if an article had hidden maintenance categories on it, I would apply the {{improve categories}} tag instead so that the article wouldn't get prematurely detagged — however, this has now resulted in a new situation which I need to bring to your attention.

If you review the edit history of The Chronicon of Ademar of Chabannes, you'll note that after a previous tangle with SoxBot I applied the {{improve categories}} tag. However, a different bot, User:Yobot, then came along and changed that tag to {{uncategorized}}, which is the queue the article really belonged in since its only category was hidden — but, naturally, SoxBot then came along and detagged the article again. Which means that not only did the page end up being incorrectly put back onto the uncategorized articles list again, but for bonus points SoxBot is now getting into edit wars with other bots.

I need to ask you again: if SoxBot cannot be properly programmed to distinguish hidden maintenance categories that don't count as categorization from real content categories, then would you please disable that task? This really needs to stop — if the bot can't do the task correctly, then we're better off not having it do the task at all. Bearcat (talk) 19:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Just noting that Bearcat has started adding {{nobots|bot=Soxbot}} to article pages. Assuming this continues, someone (other than Soxbot) will need to clean up that mess later. --Versageek 23:46, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
And a side-effect of that is confusion caused for uninvolved editors who find an incomprehensible addition to a simple stub. Consulting User:SoxBot doesn't give any explanation of what the bot does, which might illuminate why Bearcat is blocking it from that page. I'm just a simple stub-sorter, but from what I've read I endorse Bearcat's request that you fix the bot, and also request that you describe the bot's actions on its user page. Thanks. (Ah, on looking again, I think I've now understood that "SoxBot" is an umbrella name for the set of distinct-looking bots which are listed in that table... not obvious, please clarify). PamD 08:58, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Note, it appears that the task in question has been disabled: see User:SoxBot/Run/Uncat. Anomie⚔ 17:02, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 January 2012

bug report of tool "Article blamer"

I searched in Cold fusion for the text:


"These high temperature phases would last for two days or more and would repeat several times in any given experiment once they had occurred." submit link

and I got this error message:

Warning: file_get_contents(/var/www/sitenotice): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/soxred93/public_html/sitenotice.php on line 7 Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'CURLError' with message 'cURL Error (28): Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds with 1644736 out of 1959471 bytes received' in /home/soxred93/Peachy/HTTP.php:171 Stack trace: #0 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Includes/Wiki.php(575): HTTP->get('http://en.wikip...', Array) #1 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Plugins/page.php(316): Wiki->apiQuery(Array) #2 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Plugins/page.php(306): Page->history(50, 'older', true, 442218875, false, true) #3 /home/soxred93/public_html/blame/index.php(88): Page->history(NULL, 'older', true) #4 {main} thrown in /home/soxred93/Peachy/HTTP.php on line 171

In the second try I got:

Warning: file_get_contents(/var/www/sitenotice): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/soxred93/public_html/sitenotice.php on line 7 Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'CURLError' with message 'cURL Error (28): Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds with 2148520 out of 2236197 bytes received' in /home/soxred93/Peachy/HTTP.php:171 Stack trace: #0 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Includes/Wiki.php(575): HTTP->get('http://en.wikip...', Array) #1 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Plugins/page.php(316): Wiki->apiQuery(Array) #2 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Plugins/page.php(304): Page->history(50, 'older', true, NULL, false, true) #3 /home/soxred93/public_html/blame/index.php(88): Page->history(NULL, 'older', true) #4 {main} thrown in /home/soxred93/Peachy/HTTP.php on line 171

In the third try I got:

Warning: file_get_contents(/var/www/sitenotice): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/soxred93/public_html/sitenotice.php on line 7 Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'CURLError' with message 'cURL Error (28): Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds with 1812896 out of 1834512 bytes received' in /home/soxred93/Peachy/HTTP.php:171 Stack trace: #0 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Includes/Wiki.php(575): HTTP->get('http://en.wikip...', Array) #1 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Plugins/page.php(316): Wiki->apiQuery(Array) #2 /home/soxred93/Peachy/Plugins/page.php(306): Page->history(50, 'older', true, 437009639, false, true) #3 /home/soxred93/public_html/blame/index.php(88): Page->history(NULL, 'older', true) #4 {main} thrown in /home/soxred93/Peachy/HTTP.php on line 171

Cold fusion is a long article with thousands of revisions. The tool seems to be hitting a hard-coded time limit while trying to process all the revisions.

Also, at the top of the page I get the message:

Warning: file_get_contents(/var/www/sitenotice): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/soxred93/public_html/sitenotice.php on line 7

--Enric Naval (talk) 17:32, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects

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The Signpost: 16 January 2012

Spelling

Your toolserv page that counts all the articles created by a given user?

At the bottom of the page, it says "Trunctuated to 100 pages".

That should be "Truncated". DS (talk) 14:08, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

rangecontribs toolserver tool broken

Hi,
FYI, your rangecontribs toolserver tool is apparently down.
Cheers, Amalthea 16:08, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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