User talk:Tawker/Mar07

Thank you very much

I would like to thank you very much for unblocking my very shared IP 69.121.173.40 (talk · contribs). I would like to say I feel bad that there are always unconstructive vandals or Trolls on just abou every shared ISP proxy nowadays but nevertheless at least we could deal with them with anon only account creation blocks without collateral damage to legitamate contributors to the Wiki like me. Thank you very much again by the Way for your time and understanding! Sincerely, --Johnny89 01:00, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for supporting my RfA. It was (47/0/0) upon closure and now phase I is complete. I think the tools will aid both me and the encyclopedia. Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, or if you think I'm misbehaving I'm always open to recall. Thanks, James086^Talk 13:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

What's wrong with AVB?

I noticed that AntiVandalBot was not reverting vandalism like it used to -- why? Was the approval rescinded? I miss it beating me to every RC change.... --N Shar (talk • contribs) 03:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 21:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

Bot approvals

Hi Tawker: I was just curious; don't we usually have bots run through a trail period if they're doing tasks not on established software (like interwiki with pywikipedia, disambig, etc.)? I was just a little concerned about this and this, which prompted me to ask. —METS501 (talk) 20:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I see what you missed. It said "The code is entirely my original creation and will be a major rewrite of the thing that was running under EssjayBot" :-) No harm done. —METS501 (talk) 21:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

All articles created by a user

Hi Tawker. I noticed this question (permalink) on the village pump and recall you doing something similar once. You might be able to help him out. Picaroon 00:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

AntiVandalBot rules

I'm making an assumption that your bot works by identifying common vandal patterns, similar to how SpamAssassin identified spam. If that is true, is it possible to recommend new patterns? I see a LOT of childish vandalism that usually involves adding either 'poop' or some form of 'is gay' to pages. Can these be added? --Mdwyer 01:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Double redirect

You made a double redirect in electrical outlets The right destination page would be Domestic AC power plugs and sockets. --Altermike 07:18, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Hi, Tawker. Just a quick note to say thanks very much for the support at my RfA. Much appreciated. :) Bubba hotep 09:05, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

• Sigh* If you continue to refuse to provide Wikipedia Weekly in a free format, you are going to have to discontinue promoting it on Wikipedia. I don't know why you refuse to even provide Ogg/Vorbis files for recent episodes, but I told you at the start of this project that your use of proprietary formats was going to cause problems. --Gmaxwell 17:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

The ogg is up (the file was up but for some reason wordpress wasn't indicating it as such.) Our problem is the fact that most people listen to WW on mobile players (and like it not, the iPod has > 50% market share. I rather get the content out to people rather than not. Most of the content on Wiki itself is relatively short content intended to be played on a computer. The podcast on the other hand is intended to be listened to on not only computers but also portable players. The audio policy was mostly intended for the short clip played on a computer and not the type of content on the podcast. If we could play it on mobile players, yep, ogg would be the only file, but until that happens, it is silly to deny listeners access based on the brand of their mobile player. -- Tawker 19:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

wikipediaweekly.com failure

I see you were the most recent updater of wikipediaweekly.com. You should be aware that the episode 13 downloads are not working in either ogg or mp3. Thanks.--Pharos 21:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Working on it :) -- Tawker 21:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed, it always helps using filenames w/o a space in them :) -- Tawker 22:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch.--Pharos 22:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia weekly typing errors

Hi, my firefox's spell checker has spottled two errors in the message used by your bot to remind about new wikipedia weekly episodes, both on the last line: recieving, third word, which should be instead receiving and recieve, 18th word, which should be receive. Happy editing, Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI - 22:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I found that even in episode 14's notification the errors are the same. Why not fix 'em up? Happy editing, Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 19:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Also I suggest you remove the spaces before the unordered list ;-) Happy editing, Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 20:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations

OK, I'LL SHOUT IT OUT LOUD!!!  ;-) --Butseriouslyfolks 07:20, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

AntiVandalBot

I have temporarily blocked the AntiVandalBot, because it's broken; it corrupts Unicode characters. See WP:AN/I. - Mike Rosoft 20:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Block of 4.152.210.198 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Don't you think that one-week block was a bit excessive? It's an IP address and the user is not a repeat offender. -- tariqabjotu 05:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Your recent block of TheDoctorIsIn

Hello. You recently blocked TheDoctorIsIn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), and they have asked to be unblocked. Upon review of their talk page, block log and contributions, it is not immediately clear to me why you chose to block this user. I'd appreciate it if you would explain your rationale on their user talk page, and advise on whether or not their unblock request should be granted. Thank you, Sandstein 07:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox

OK, thanks :-) Jogers (talk) 19:23, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Concerning your Admin Coaching assignments

Your name is still listed at Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Volunteers. The department is heavily backlogged with student's requests for coaches, and we need your help!

Note that the instructions may have changed since the last time you checked, and the department now follows a self-help process...

If you don't currently have a student, or if you believe you can handle another one, please select a student from the request list at Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Requests and contact them. See the instructions on Wikipedia:Admin coaching. Good luck.

If you are no longer available to coach, , please remove yourself from the volunteers list.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    03:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

re:Wilde

You didn't study Oscar Wilde, so I didn't expect you to get it. (Look on Wikiquote if you want to know.) Oh, and my MSN is not broken. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 18:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

top 100

On wikipedia weekly you mentioned the Top 100 page hits. I have tried to search for that but can't find it. Would you be so kind, and give me the link to it. Thanks Agathoclea 17:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

1.0

I don't have all the information myself. Martin has much more details than I have, and he has appeared there already. I could be there, only I don't have a mike... Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 06:02, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

AVB

Ahhh :) /me sees it now. I've rollbacked myself Martinp23 17:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Template:TB2

Back in August 2006, I asked about a template you created (Template:TB2). As far as I can tell, it still isn't being used. Is it ever going to be used? If not, may I put it up for deletion.

Or, as an admin, you could delete it. -- kenb215 talk 03:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot approvals process

Just in case any of you haven't seen the new bot request to track the bot approvals process, this is just a reminder to use the correct templates at {{BAG Admin Tools}} so the bot can correctly identify the stage of bot approval. Also, the approved requests section has been moved to a separate page at Wikipedia:Bots/Approved bot requests for the Bureaucrats to watchlist. When approving a request, make sure you remove it from the main page and place it on that page so that a bureaucrat can flag it. Thanks. MetsBot 16:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tawker. When you approve a bot request, if you archive it and move it to the Wikipedia:Bots/Approved bot requests page, you'll get a quick response from bureaucrats there who have the page watchlisted. —METS501 (talk) 21:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Ahh, I should try reading these messages and actually remembering them sometime :o - Give me a sec and I'll fix it -- Tawker 21:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

He's already got a flag hasn't he? I threw an approved template on for you but I thought that was it. --kingboyk 21:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Not sure, I'm still doing things from the days where we had literally 5 BAG members, and it was the most informal process ever..... so who knows -- Tawker 22:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

You'd better see User_talk:Mets501#Betacommand too :( --kingboyk 22:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for dealing with User:AnyIdiot, even before I realized what he had done in terms of copying my user page. Bobo. 05:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

BAG help

I've got an issue I'd love to hear some more on at:Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Approvals_group#Another_second_opinion_needed if you have a moment. Thanks, — xaosflux ^Talk 03:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Tawker I'm Not New

Tawker, I don't want this to escalate into some editinng war. Let's contact an admin and work it out in the dispute process. I think the rules should apply here. I have been active in Wikipedia for 7 monthes now. I'm not new. There are no special exceptions on Wikipedia. Please in the future don't remove tags for speedy deletion. As I have said, I'm contacting an Admin about this. I hope we can work this out peacefully. Mrld 23:33, 25 March 2007 (UTC) PS Thanks for the welcome Mrld 23:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

• I'm sorry, it was a stupid fight to get into. Thanks for the tip. Mrld 00:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)