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Archive for January 2011

MiszaBot not running?

MiszaBot (I, II and III) did not run today 3 January 2011 at all. Are you able to get the bot up and running again? --Kslotte (talk) 20:58, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MiszaBot seems to be up and running 4 January 2011. --Kslotte (talk) 18:13, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 3 January 2011

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MiszaBot

Hi, your bot seems to be down on Polish Wikipedia, but is running on other projects. Could you please check if anything is wrong? THX. Lukasz Lukomski (talk) 19:29, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

dounreplied=no

Template:Auto archiving notice has a setting for indicating that unanswered threads are not archived, however, I find no instruction at User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo on how to set this up. How do I set this up? __meco (talk) 09:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For MiszaBot dounreplied=yes is default and unable to configure. Sae also for ClueBot. The parameter is probably some old deprecated parameter. Maybe an answer can be found on Template talk:Auto archiving notice. --Kslotte (talk) 11:39, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 January 2011

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Lead numbers in archiving

Hi. Could you (or any friendly stalkers), have a look at this message I placed on your Commons talkpage? Thanks! Rehman 13:45, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Kslotte (talk) 20:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Rehman 23:44, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Miszabot malfunction

He is not reporting new users on #cvn-wp-en-newusers on IRC. Could you fix him please? Phearson (talk) 02:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot malfunction?

See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Thread_missing_from_archives. Exxolon (talk) 07:59, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Specifially, it's an issue with how this thread was removed by one of your bot acccounts and supposedly archived. Yet the thread doesn't show up in the archives for some reason. NotARealWord (talk) 20:24, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't find an incident and uncovered the same bot malfunction occurrence. The MiszaBot II contributions for the relevant period are: 

22:35, 8 January 2011 (diff | hist) m Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive220 ? (Archiving 1 thread(s) from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard.)
18:36, 8 January 2011 (diff | hist) m Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents ? (Archiving 6 thread(s) (older than 24h) to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive663, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive662.)
18:35, 8 January 2011 (diff | hist) Nm Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive663 ? (Archiving 3 thread(s) from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.)
14:37, 8 January 2011 (diff | hist) m Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents ? (Archiving 4 thread(s) (older than 24h) to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive662.)

You can see it says in the insert-edit that it put 3 threads in, and says in the delete-edit that it removed 6 threads. This is correct. The three threads it deleted without adding to an archive are:

  • The "Campaign of Deletion" against the Transformers Wiki Project by NotARealWord and TFWiki.net
  • No here to contribute + Sock puppetry
  • Re-opening Weiterbewegung, Maurice J. Halton and revocation of licensing for posted text

I'd guess that it intended to put those three threads into IncidentArchive662, but the edit to do so never completed succesfully, and the bot didn't retry but just plunged on ahead and deleted all 6 sections. -R. S. Shaw (talk) 04:54, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to archive those threads manually, but apparently, something in there triggered a spam filter notice. Perhaps that's why it didn't work? NotARealWord (talk) 21:02, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That would be it. Remove the 'http://' part of the url and then you should be able to paste it. –xenotalk 21:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notification

I have raised a thread at Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#User:Misza13 as your bots are running, issues are being raised but you are not responding and do not appear to have edited in 2 months. Exxolon (talk) 03:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How to make MiszaBot II use a new archive page?

For the past two months, User:MiszaBot II has been archiving threads from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transformers to the same archive page, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transformers/Archive 6. The page has grown twice its original size. Is it going to do so forever, making the page grow to gigabytes, or is it somehow possible to make it use a new archive page? JIP | Talk 10:27, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at how is the bot configured on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transformers, you can see that the parameter maxarchivesize = 200K is specified there. As the current archive has approximately 200 KB (counting the wikicode, not rendered HTML), you can expect new archive soon. Svick (talk) 12:51, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Failed archive (solved)

Something went wrong on Talk:Pangaea. MiszaBot 1 deleted (diff) most of the archive template I've added at the top of the page and archived the 28 threads "to /dev/null". I have manually archived the page in question, I just wanted to report the problem here. My guess is the == [[/Archive | Archive ]]... in the first section caused the problem. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 12:49, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's more likely the 'sample bot code' you had in that talk page section. –xenotalk 16:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
But I used exactly the same 'sample bot code' on Talk:Bat#Talk page archive and it didn't cause any problems there. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 17:02, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, then my next guess would be that the actual code used a leading space. –xenotalk 17:06, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 January 2011

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Question about a bot

Good afternoon, I noticed you ran the Wikinews importer bot and wanted to pose a question. Is there a bot or would it be possible to create one, for on this day? I would like to add an On this day section to Portal:United States but I want to make it as user friendly and maintenance free as possible. Any ideas? --Kumioko (talk) 16:43, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 January 2011

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Puzzled again

Hi Misza, I'm sorry to keep asking questions about your bot, but I'm puzzled as to why it sometimes works, and sometimes not, and what I'm doing wrong. Would you mind looking at Talk:Animal rights, just as an example? It is set to archive every 30 days, leaving just one thread on talk, as follows:

{{User:MiszaBot/config |archiveheader = {{talkarchivenav}} |maxarchivesize = 200K |counter = 5 |minthreadsleft = 1 |algo = old(30d) |archive = Talk:Animal rights/Archive %(counter)d }}

But it has not archived since October 28, leaving two threads going back to that period. I'm seeing the same issue on lots of other pages too. Can you let me know what I wrote incorrectly in the bot instructions? SlimVirgin talk|contribs 23:32, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This - I assumed that {{unsigned}} would always produce a proper timestamp (i.e. with timezone information). Миша13 19:07, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for fixing it! So that timestamp was stopping everything after it (including the next thread) from being archived, is that right? Just want to make sure I've understood. SlimVirgin TALK|CONTRIBS 22:25, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Kindasorta. By default MiszaBot |minthreadstoarchive=2 (at least two threads must qualify for MiszaBot to act), so since there were only 2 eligible threads - one with a noncompliant timestamp, MiszaBot wouldn't act on the other one (alone) that did qualify with proper timestamps. –xenotalk 22:29, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It causes bunching

Your robot causes talkpage text to be bunched up. [1]

Ironically, removing the "fix bunching" tag seems to fix it.

I'm on a 1920x1080 resolution and using Google Chrome, btw. Too lazy to test other resolutions and browsers.

It's your robot. Please bother to actually test new code before publishing it instead of arrogantly assuming, "Oh, it must work. Because I'm such an ingenious coder. I don't need to actually test these things. I'll just wait for somebody to complain."

That's the same type of lazy mentality that's leading to the decline in the gaming industry.

If you don't test it properly, when people do complain, they might not be as nice as me. They might have an irrational, paranoid hatred of robots on Wikipedia (and technology, in general) and might say things which are very mean or at least very silly. ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 02:42, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please submit a more complete report. All of us are volunteers. Your offer to fix the MiszaBot code would be welcome. EdJohnston (talk) 03:38, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Epic rant is surely epic. You say "it's your robot", but don't have any proof whatsoever. I say "it's your browser", but I'm likewise too lazy to procure a proof. So I guess that makes us even. Now buzz off. Миша13 19:14, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I was a bit rude. Sorry! Also, my robo-phobia is a bit unwarranted.
A more complete report: See Jimbo Wales' talkpage on a high resolution, using Google Chrome. ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 18:08, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I use Chrome, but the highest horizontal resolution I can go with is 1280. Not everyone has a high-end widescreen laptop at their disposal. Anyway, I lied about being that lazy, because I did take a good look at your screenshot. And the only things I see wrong are the title of the first thread that got compressed under the table of contents (and aligned to its width), and the slightly oddly aligned templates on the top of the page.
Then again, I still fail to see how this has anything to do with my bot - looks to me like a case of bad page rendering (caused by a combination of CSS rules and layout of templates that don't quite work under such width) and, as such, should be discussed with the page's author (if the layout is broken), or with the browser's developer (if it's rendering incorrectly). Миша13 21:47, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Just wondering if my setup is okay. I recently set my talkpage for your bot to archive, and I specified 7(d) in my /config file, but I have a 9 day old thread sitting around. Did I do anything wrong? See my talk page ; my archive page. Thanks. [CharlieEchoTango] 07:59, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to have sorted it. Cheers, –xenotalk 16:05, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! [CharlieEchoTango] 21:50, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Searching archives for this bot page

This page needs a "search archives" template somewhere. - Ac44ck (talk) 22:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

archived active discussion

Hi there, it looks like an active discussion, namely the conversation under "Interpreting Ramakrishna" on the talk:Ramakrishna page was archived. Please restore that! Or can I undo it myself? Let me tryDevadaru (talk) 13:58, 30 January 2011 (UTC) oops, my mistake. Sorry, all OK. Devadaru (talk) 14:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anchoring a discussion from being archived

I'm mostly unfamiliar with the way this bot works, but a specific talk page has an issue that continues to arise, and it's best to show new editors the extent of previous discussions. The most recent discussion should stay on the talk page and not be archived. Is there a way to anchor one discussion from being archived by the bot? Thanks. --Moni3 (talk) 17:14, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

{{subst:DNAU|365}} will keep a thread on a page for 365 days. –xenotalk 20:41, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And this should be placed under the specific section header for the section that needs to be anchored? Or elsewhere on the talk page? --Moni3 (talk) 20:49, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, anywhere in the thread to be held on the page. –xenotalk 13:35, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the help, Xeno. --Moni3 (talk) 22:44, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Portal bots

Hi, Cirt suggested I come to you with my question. Do you know of any bots that update portal sections for Did you know and "On this day" items based on the daily articles, e.g., January 1? I'm looking for bots along the lines of Wikinews Importer Bot to help with automating updates to these other sections as well. Any tips you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Regards, RichardF (talk) 19:35, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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