User talk:Chris G/Archives/2012/June

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Please comment on Template talk:Infobox shopping mall

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The Signpost: 28 May 2012

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends

Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph

WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology

Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese

Arbitration report: Fæ and GoodDay requests for arbitration, changes to evidence word limits

Technology report: Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6

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The Signpost: 04 June 2012

Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women

News and notes: Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture

Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change

WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts

Featured content: On the lochs

Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three open cases, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban

Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Wikiquette assistance

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The Signpost: 11 June 2012

Special report: Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"

News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI

WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit

Featured content: The cake is a pi

Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three open cases

Technology report: To support or not to support IPv6, and why knowing when this report was last updated might be getting easier

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yugoslavia

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Chris G Bot 3

Is there a bug in the archiving at WP:CHU/SIMPLE? The page seems to be getting longer. Not yet a massive problem, but... --Dweller (talk) 14:32, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

No, it's running fine. There's always been a deliberate delay between when requests are marked as (not )done, and when they are archived. --Chris 10:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

OK, great. --Dweller (talk) 10:43, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

How long does it wait? There are some on the page that were [not] actioned 30 or so hours ago. --Dweller (talk) 15:56, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

{{done}} - 12 hours
{{not done}} - 36 hours --Chris 12:29, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Very useful, thanks --Dweller (talk) 09:09, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard

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The Signpost: 18 June 2012

Investigative report: Is the requests for adminship process 'broken'?

News and notes: Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association

Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations

WikiProject report: The Punks of Wikipedia

Featured content: Taken with a pinch of "salt"

Arbitration report: Three open cases, GoodDay case closed

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5

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Bot question

hello,

can your bot do these tasks? Regards.--GoP _T ^C _N 19:27, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Trout

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Bot

Hey man. So I saw that you created a number of bots for Wikipedia. I was wondering if I could get you help with something. A wiki that I have been working on on (www.imfdb.org) has a lot of redirects which redirect to subsections. For example: #REDIRECT [[PAGENAME#SECTION]]

I want to create a bot that will help me find the redirects that don't work because the SECTION part of the redirect is wrong or doesn't exist. I have a good amount of programming experience with python, java, c and c++ but have never tried to create a bot before. Any help would be greatly appreciated! --Zackmann08 (talk) 21:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2012

Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing

News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012

In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias

Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere

WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics

Featured content: A good week for the Williams

Arbitration report: Three open cases

Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches

Opinion required

Chris, I note you deleted an image from God of War III, and wanted to know if you were willing to assist with something else. The same user has uploaded this image ([1]) and admitted it is a fan-created image ([2]). From what I know of Wikipedia, this is not appropriate or legal. Can you help resolve this matter?

Many thanks Bluerim (talk) 06:14, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

RfC Bot bug

RFC bot isn't working right. It removed an RfC template seconds after adding it here. What's up? --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 03:35, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

No, that's no bug. Note the timestamp "21:28, 28 February 2012 (UTC)"; the RfC is expired. If you want the RfC to stick, change the timestamp to today's date. (Note, the bot uses the first timestamp of the first signature in the thread) --Chris 06:05, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Proposal by Jc37

Hi, this is just a courtesy note to say that I've unprotected the above page. I can't see any legitmate need for full protection. For RFC bot to work properly, it needs to be able to edit the page; otherwise it creates all sorts of problems. Thank you. --Chris 03:38, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

My apologies, I did not think it would affect your bot.

It is protected because as it's a proposal by me, there was no reason for any editors in general to edit it.

Anyway, as bots are autoconfirmed, I'll just semi it then.

Thanks for the note : ) - jc37 03:46, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Level one user warnings

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A kitten for you!

hey look what i got for u and thx for all the hard work and it wwould mean the world to me when or if u get this message could u please message me back i kinda have no one to talk to cause my record says right now i am a newbee on this site well cya

wwecenarules 19:54, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Normal?

Is User talk:Czarkoff a normal occurence for RFC Bot? MBisanz ^talk 00:25, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Nope, that's very much an edge case. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Proposal by Jc37 was full protected, so the bot couldn't add the rfcid to the template. It should all be resolved now. Thanks. --Chris 04:26, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Worse - it was human error (hangs head in shame) - I didn't know that individuals are contacted by the RFC bot. I kept trying to fix formatting problems with the proposals page, so I kept resetting the number. note also that some are for the talk page and some for the main proposal page. So it took me several times to figure it out.

You (and whoever else got so many messages) have my great apologies - jc37 04:39, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Good good, I was sure it was something simple. Thanks for checking. MBisanz ^talk 01:52, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Username change request

Dear Chris G, could look again into my request for changing username? Thank you. Mohamed CJ (talk) 09:17, 29 June 2012 (UTC)