User talk:Cmdrjameson
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Your bot recently fixed some errors in Lydia Sigourney -- Published works. This page has been there a long time; I appreciate that-- I was unaware of the spelling errors and thought my list correct. Checked some library catalogs and the bot got it right. Just wanted to say thanks. --Matthew K 16:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Bot for Mac!?!?
Hi, Commander! I was wondering about your bot CmdrObot - the page says it's a Mac program. Can you give me some more info? Is it OpenSource? How much Python do I need to know to run it? Anything more than "zero" might be a problem, though I'm proficient in Perl and PHP, so maybe I won't have too much trouble... Anyway, any help you can give would be appreciated. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 03:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hi there. I'm afraid my bot isn't open source, and at the moment it isn't really fit for general consumption: it's got a fairly annoying memory leak, its error handling is a bit lacking, and the user interface could most kindly be described as 'minimal'. I keep meaning to clean it up and make a proper release of it, but other things keep getting in the way. Sorry! Cmdrjameson 15:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Steve Andino
You placed a cleanup tag on the above article. I have now wikified (as far as possible, it needs references/citations) said article, and if you want to review it and remove (or replace with wikify template) the tag then please do. Cheers.LessHeard vanU 01:15, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for tidying it up. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 15:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Greetings, fellow bot operator
I see that you are listed as a fellow bot operator. I have been regorganising the wikipedia bot help pages to try and provide more information for those who want to learn how to create a bot or have quesitons relating to how to run a bot on wikipedia (more nuts-and-bolts than the existing policy page, which deals with what you are allowed to do, not how you would go about doing it). I've made a start at Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot but could do with any feedback at all. I could do with any programming-language specific information that you can provide as well as any suggestions for improving the article. I'm leaving this same message with 5 other bot operators, to encourage them to pass on the knowledge we have learned developing our bots to the "next generation" of wikipedia bot-builders! Cheers - PocklingtonDan 15:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] All Music Guide
I've been on a long quest to find out allmusic.com's system for identifiers and I ran across a comment your bot made and I was hoping you would be able to help me out. Do you know of anyway of converting the ID they display for an album (for example R381637 for http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:olsqoayaiijn) to a URL that will link directly to that album every time. For example. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&AMG_Album=R381637 or something. That is just an example and obviously doesn't work, but I'm looking for something along those lines. Thanks. EyeRmonkey 23:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC) Update: I just found that if you put a 27 before the colon in the sql variable, you can link directly to an artist. For example, the identifier for The Offspring is 26810 (P26810 actually) and if you make a URL that is http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=27:26810 you can link directly to that artists page. Now I just need to find a way to do this with albums. I tried every number between 1 and 99 behind the colon, and none of them brought me directly to an album page given only the ID. Any ideas? EyeRmonkey 01:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hi there. I'm afraid your guess is as good as mine as regards the format of the sql variable in the AllMusic URLs. All I really know is the stuff that I mentioned on my bot's talk page. Good luck though. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 15:27, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank You.
Dear Jameson, I was just checking my older pages and found that you have reverted the vandalism on the page William of Baskerville. Thank you so much. --Cyril Thomas 21:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] replace "often times" and "oftentimes" with "often"
Can you get your bot to include replacing all instances of "often times" and "oftentimes" with "often", please. They of course mean exactly the same thing, but the first two are not of a formal tone expected. Paul Silverman 12:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Paul, that's a good idea, I'll add it to my bot in the next day or two. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 19:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I see it's working. Great job! Osurak 00:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tireless Contributor Barnstar Award
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| I Hpfan9374, hereby award you with the Tireless Contributor Barnstar Award, for contributing an especially large body of work without sacrificing quality. Hpfan9374 08:47, 20 January 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] Re:AntiVandalBot
I saw your message on AntiVandalBot's talk page. I am not the operator of AntiVandalBot, but I have to tell you that AVB has been broken for the past month or so, and now only edits the Wikipedia:Introduction page. However, if it comes back on I'm sure it would pick up the kind of vandalism that you mentioned. Academic Challenger 05:57, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Phycology/psycology
These are two different words sometimes confused. Phycology is the study od algae. "Phycos" is the Greek from which "Fucus" (Latin) is derived (I understand). Fucus is the generic name for certain big brown algae common on European shores.Osborne 11:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Osborne, thanks for that. You learn something new every day. My bot doesn't have a rule for phycology but it does have one for phycological. Is that what you saw? (What article was it in BTW?) In any event, I'm removing the rule for phycological as I did a search over an entire enwiki dump and every use of phycological was correct. Cheers, and apologies for the confusion, Cmdrjameson 13:56, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unicodify
May I ask what tool are you using to unicodify pages, as in this diff? --Dmitry (talk •contibs ) 14:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Dmitry. One of the functions of my bot is to turn appropriate HTML entities into UTF-8. The bot just searches the entire article for entities using a regular expression, checks each one to see if it's safe to turn it into UTF-8, and if it is, does so. The bot itself isn't open source at the moment, but I could fairly easily extract the unicodifying code if you need it. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 11:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] CmdrBot error
CmdrBot vandalized the Grandest Fleet page (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grandest_Fleet&diff=118026646&oldid=117750294) Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalk 16:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Cocoaguy, I think you'll find that my bot's edit was the following legitimate spelling correction. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 12:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] another bot error
Over on Conversion of units, the bot converted cental (a unit name) to central, which isn't the same thing at all. Rhialto 03:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Rhialto, I'll make a note of it so it doesn't happen again. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 09:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
