User talk:AlexNewArtBot

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Thank you for experimenting with the page User:AlexNewArtBot/BadLog on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. P.B. Pilhet / Talk 21:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

War of the bots, eh? :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
He has reverted the edit to log himself. Seems to do it manually (might be some software-assisted) Alex Bakharev 00:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 18:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Will you pl. instruct more clearly?

May be I am not able to understand your suggestions well.

I will be obliged if you help me put the matter in the page of Kriya Reiki as well as Vishitao Reiki in the way that is acceptable to the site.

Can you suggest more specifically what needs to be added and what needs to be changed?

Rekhaa Kale 17:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hello, Alex. Many thanks for creating the bot. I proved to be extremely helpful. Cheers, --KoberTalk 19:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 00:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:AlexNewArtBot/Sweden

Hello! I'm not sure if User:AlexNewArtBot/Sweden grabs the keyword "Swedish", but if it doesn't, could you add it? Great bot idea, great bot! Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 23:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

  • It should grab it. The very first rule 8 /\Wswed[ie]/ should grab all the words starting with Swede (e.g. Sweden) or Swedi (e.g. Swedish). It should give the rule 8 points, 16 if in the leading paragraph (slighty down from the default 10). I have decreased the weight of the rule as the name of a country is often used hardly relevant articles (sport team played there, a reference book published there, etc.) Alex Bakharev 00:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Wonderful. Is more weight given to categories, such as Category:Swedish Moderate Party politicians? Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 00:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
      • Yes, the second rule /\[\[Category\:[^\]]swed[ie]/ should give the whole 10 additional points to all Category:..Sweden and Category:..Swedish . With additional 8 for simple swed[ie] it should give total of 18 points (with th thethreshold of 14) Alex Bakharev 07:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Karnataka/New Pages

Hello,

I need to setup you to find and list the new pages related to Karnataka. I have put in the announcement tag in that page. Not sure what next? The initial set of Keywords include, Karnataka, Kannada, Kannadigas, Kannadiga, Kannadati, Category:Karnataka, Category:Kannada poets, Category:Kannada writers, Bengalooru, Bangalore, Mysuru, Mysore, Mangalore, Tumkur, Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Rajkumar, Sahitya, Saahitya, Vachana.

The new pages need to be listed here: Portal:Karnataka/New Pages.

Please let me know if you need further information on this request. Thank you! - KNM Talk 09:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I have started a feed. It would be taken into efect tonight, then I will run the bot Alex Bakharev 02:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] another languages

This bot can used another languages wikipedia? like zh wikipedia--Shizhao 15:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the bot can be modified reasonably fast to handle other language wiki. I foresee a few problems, but they seems to be manageable:
  • Decoding new article lists rely on a specific format of the list. Zh-wiki might have different format that would break the code
  • Zh-wiki is obviously heavily unicoded. Currently, all the unicode symbols in the rules have to be entered using the numeric codes as \x{dddd}, it is a nuisance on en-wiki and unacceptable for the zh. I guess we need to code translation from something human readable into the valid Perl regularar expression. Maybe there is already a standard for such expressions?
  • I do not see any value on the case-insensitive search in zh. AFAIK there is no capital letters in Chinese
  • I am not sure what to use a word boundary in Chinese, \W is obviously wrong
And the worst of all
  • I have no knowledge of Chinese
I think I would find a way to make the code freely available (but somehow not that easily accessible for the teenage vandals) and somebody will pickup after me Alex Bakharev 10:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested additions for User:AlexNewArtBot/Bad

Hi. Have you considered adding User:Lupin/badwords to User:AlexNewArtBot/Bad? Just a suggestion. Happy editing -- Chris 73 | Talk 09:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

  • It is an idea. Theoretically articles with the bad words should be caught by the RC-patrolers, who used Lupin tools. Still worth to try. Thanks Alex Bakharev 09:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

You might also try and see if the ratio of content:external links is disproportionate; it will reveal articles that are nothing but linkspam creations. JoeSmack Talk 12:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NL

Hi! Could you please make a bot for the Netherlands? Here is some tentative keywords. ij (i+j) and ij (single letter) are both included. Colchicum 20:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FI

Colchicum 23:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AL

Colchicum 04:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naive Bayes classifier

This bot is a great idea! It is also a pretty much canonical example of the application of a Naive Bayes classifier, so we should be able to use mathematical principles to automatically generate pattern lists for categories, based on sampling word lists from already-categorized articles. -- The Anome 13:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Agree. We could even imagine an evolutionary algorithm: Having a population of filters allow them to breed and mutate and on each stage have the fiitest survive. Just now it is outside my computer power at home and outside my resources on the wiki development. But in future ... Alex Bakharev 12:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CZ

Pasted to User:AlexNewArtBot/Czech Alex Bakharev 12:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HU

Colchicum 23:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Literature/New pages

Could You feed new articles related to literature, books, novels, authors etc. Thanks, feydey 13:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roger L. Fitzsimonds

The google search actually has 840 results, NOT 1-10. Miaers 01:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] WP:PLT

Colchicum 15:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Mved to User:AlexNewArtBot/Politics Alex Bakharev 16:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange?

Hello Alex. Your bot added unref/uncat tags to a redirect. That seems a bit odd. Can you have a look? Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your bot isn't working properly

Look at eg. [1] (I can't wikilink that, since the title gets translated to a real article title, Mallee Football League 2007 "B" Grade season). That's the second article your bot has created with nothing but a speedy deletion tag. The first one replaced a page that had just been deleted (Jeff Merchant), but I don't know what happened here. - Bobet 14:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

It is still doing it. The bot has recreated a couple of deleted articles and placed speedy tags on them. IrishGuy talk 21:09, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked...

...until the bot stops creating empty articles that it then requests deletion for [2] - CSD is already backlogged 90% of the time without robotic help!

Shout me when the problem is solved and I'll happily unblock (as can anyone else when the problem is solved, of course).

Thanks Alex, and sorry to come down heavy on your bot. RΞDVΞRS ✖ ЯΞVΞЯSΞ 21:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Tags

I am working on the Wikification Project, and noticed that AlexNewArtBot is tagging articles with the cleanup tags at the bottom of the article. As per WP:TC, the tags normally are placed at the top of the article. Regards. -- Whpq 19:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

  • My intention was to decrease the affront to the authors if the bot is mistaken. But it is the second time somebody tells me to put notices to the front and nobody supported it the other way around. It seems that the consensus is with you. I would change the bot Alex Bakharev 01:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unreferenced?

Your bot tagged the List of people named Giselle with the {{unreferenced}} tag. The article is just a list of Wikipedia articles who share the same name, and doesn't make any other assertions. Do these types of articles need to be referenced? - Mtmelendez (TALK|UB|HOME) 12:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Theoretically each article include lists should be referenced. But I agree that the tag is excessive. Next time I would check the bot did not tag lists as unreferenced Alex Bakharev 13:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. - Mtmelendez (TALK|UB|HOME) 15:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dated categories?

I have come across several article tagged by your bot recently, and while I applaud the tagging, I wonder if it would be possible to add dates to the tags, as Alaibot does. This would at least save SmackBot from coming along later and filling in the gaps. To clarify, instead of adding {{unreferenced}}, you should probably add {{unreferenced|date={{{CURRENTMONTH}}} {{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}}. --Stemonitis 17:02, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding Stub Template

The automated addition of {{stub}} seems to be a bit problematic, it just means that someone else needs to go through again afterwards and correct every stub template that it adds. Any chance on improving or disabling this feature? --NigelJ talk 10:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Well, it is easy to disable. The problem is that it would not make the stubs disappear they would still be there and somebody would have not only tag them but also identify. What I would try to do today is to make that if a stub is identify as belonging to a project it would mark it as a project stub. E.g. if a stub is identified as belonging to the Australia project it would be marked as {{Australia-stub}} somebody would still have to move it to e.g. {{Australia-university-stub}} but at least half a work is done. Alex Bakharev 00:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "unreferenced" on Dionne Warwick albums

I noticed you have marked three of my contributions as "unreferenced" when all three of the items make reference to a book. For what references are you looking? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dma124 (talk • contribs)

  • Bot looks for any http or ISBN references, headers like References or Sources, <ref> etc. It does not look for the casual mentioning of a book in the middle of the text unless it is followed by isbn. I have put the references to the book and to the liner notes to the articles Alex Bakharev 05:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk pages for soon-to-be-deleted articles

The bot creates cleanup messages for articles that get speedy deleted, eg Talk:Kenneth fitzsimons. Could the bot be smarter? Perhaps wait 2 weeks after article creation so the article gets speedy deleted and the bot doesn't create an unnecessary talk page.--Commander Keane 06:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Yes, I see the problem. Actually the article was tagged for deletion one hour after bot tagged it for clean up and put the notice on the talk page. Maybe I should not put the notice on the talk page? The clean up tags notices are pretty self-explanatory. Or put a message on the original author's talkpage? Alex Bakharev 09:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Yeah 2 weeks was silly on my part. The 3 articles I saw were tagged for speedy deletion within 48 hours (Chainz93, Matthew Gray, Kenneth fitzsimons). I think notifying the original author on their talk page could be really handy, especially if you mention that deletion is a possibility - that way someone doesn't have to notify them of the deletion if it occurs.--Commander Keane 02:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Catharose de Petri

Hello AxelBot/AxelNewArtBot. I wrote the Catharose de Petri, Lectorium Rosicrucianum and Jan van Rijckenborgh articles. How can I clean them up? I can't find any evidence of what the Bot has found a problem with on any of them. I'm a bit worried about this Bot, to be honest. Don't like the idea that its roaming around the Wikipedia deleting articles.... Please adviseThePeg 22:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

  • In all three cases the bot indentified that the article needs categories by tagging them with {{catneeded}}. Since then you have added the categories and removed the tags. Thank you very much! It is how it suppose to work. The talk page notice was suppose to explain the situation if the bot was mistaken. Since yesterday I have disabled notices as they does not appear to be very helpful and create additional work if the article has to be deleted. Alex Bakharev 00:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Axel. ThePeg 09:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Deemed Universities

there was an ((unreferenced)) tag on the article List of Deemed Universities. ummm... it's a list. and all articles which the page links to mention it... does this need further references? or should i revert? thanks, joseph 14:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

See author's comment above. It's a conceptual bug. Revert (but only if all the list entries are blue-linked). --maf 17:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
okay... but just wanted to cross-check, anyway... thanks. joseph 23:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong bot action on Replication (metallography)

This bot insists in adding a film-stub tag to this article, even though the "film" mentioned in the article is not about movies. How to stop this behavior? --maf 17:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I would stop the bot handling the stub tags. To many false edits Alex Bakharev 07:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do basic lists need references?

The bot tagged Lists of nutrition topics as needing references. Do we really need to have a reference to prove that each food list is a nutritional topic list? Lists of mathematics topics doesn't have any references, and it is a featured list. The bot is cluttering up Wikipedia with useless tags. I work on a lot on lists, and it is getting to be a pain to clean up after this bot. Please remove lists from among the pages its works on. Thank you. The Transhumanist (AWB) 06:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Strictly speaking lists are articles and they should not use information from other wikipedia articles, thus lists should be referenced, especially if there are redlinks in the list. On the other hand, it is controversial and I would take it out today. I promise Alex Bakharev 07:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tetracontakaihenagon

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Tetracontakaihenagon, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. —David Eppstein 03:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New opera articles

If you get this message can you possibly put the list on our project subpage as indicated and not on the main page where it adds clutter. Thanks. - Kleinzach 02:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Done. Bots results are just templates: you can insert them wherever you want Alex Bakharev 04:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

Sorry to have had to block the bot, but it seems to be running the NP Patrol task, for which trials were specifically discontinued on the BRFA page, for the time being at least. I'm happy for the bot to be unblocked with your assurance that the bot won't be found editing without approval/trial status in future. Thanks, Martinp23 16:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lists

How does one handle working in conjunction with this bot? Is it like this?

  1. Bot continually updates subpage, adding new article to the top.
  2. Users edit subpage and remove (strike through?) articles checked or fixed

-Ravedave 16:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Yes, You are absolutely right. Another, more labour-intensive way is to move the entries from bot's page to the main project board (if the board has one). Alex Bakharev 00:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Excellent, thank you. I have added that to the list of things to do for the MN project. On a side note would it be possible to have the bot use # rather than *? It would help with knowing how much work there is to do. -Ravedave 02:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery of Sistine Chapel ceiling

This gallery has just had a banner put on it to say that it doesn't cite references.

It doesn't need to cite references. There is nothing in the gallery that is of a nature to be queried. It is merely a group of paintings with titles under them. It is an adjunct to an article which discusses the paintings and which cites its sources. Would you kindly remove the unnecessary clutter.

--Amandajm 10:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Don't bother. I've added the names of two books and deleted the tag.--Amandajm 10:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categorising

Can you tell/show me how to put an entry I created Steelyard Blues into the category films please? I thought I had done this but it seems I got it wrong. Thanking you. SmokeyTheCat 15:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uncategorized tags

Most people working on the uncategorized backlog prefer the uncat tags to be placed at the bottom of the article. This has a number of advantages and that's also what all the other bots are doing so it would be nice if this bot can be tweaked to follow that pattern. Thanks, Pascal.Tesson 16:28, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Golden Unicorn

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Golden Unicorn, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Red Baron 17:14, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Scotland

I want to use your bot to automatically update Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New articles, but I have to admit that I cannot make head nor tail of the instructions. I may try to do it anyway, but I just wondered if I could simply 'steal' the code of another similar WikiProject. Any suggestions for one that works well? Ta. --Mais oui! 09:08, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked?

Hello. I blocked [3], I presume this bot after it was reported to WP:AIV. It appears you might not have logged in. -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

  • It is weird. It appeares that the bot has lost the session data and edited as an IP. It is strange that the IP does not seem to be right. Must be some weird proxy settings Alex Bakharev 10:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List size

Is there any way to limit the list size? Max Naylor 10:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose

What is the purpose? Authors can just add it manually. - PatricknoddyTALK (reply here)|HISTORY 19:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Quite a number of articles are written by newbees, some by hoaxers, vandals and spammers. They need review by people who have a clue in the subject. Many articles written in the framework of one project (e.g. Project:Russia) might represent significant interest for the other projects. Usually, an ability to monitor and review articles related to a project (or portal) is an asset. All the bot does is producing and archiving some lists. You can transclude it somewhere or just ignore it if you wish Alex Bakharev 00:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, maybe a member of the project could find it and add it (or delete it). - PatricknoddyTALK (reply here)|HISTORY 11:00, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Points?

Found you at what-links-here for McGuire twins -- what do the points mean? Joie de Vivre 17:46, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Almost nothing actually. The bot considered putting the article the the list of New Law-related articles and Album related articles but decided not to do it on both counts Alex Bakharev 06:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meatpuppet edits

Some of the users in this checkuser case have made edits directly to User:AlexNewArtBot/ArchitectureSearchResult as part of an astroturfing campaign centered around Marco Casagrande. Most of the articles and edits that were made have already been speedied or reverted, and what remains is in AfD. Are the edits made to the search results proper, or is there more abuse going on here? DarkAudit 23:15, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Better filtering for Albums

Is it possible to filter out articles with "(band)" or "(song)" (or maybe even "song)") in the title ? I would try, but I don't speak this language. Thanks! --Fisherjs 10:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New word

I feel i am asking a completely random question but what does "mathes" mean? Is it meant to be "matches"? Simply south 18:25, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot/RailwaysLog. Link to what i mean.

[edit] DYK AlexNewArtBot

Hi Alex. At DYK, we are trying to implement a system where we manually notify the authors on their talk page that their article (found and posted at DYK "Good" articles proposed by bot by AlexNewArtBot) might be DYK material. If the author of the article was prodded on their talk page to nominate the article, we place a Image:Smile-tpvgames.gif at the end of the entry at DYK "Good" articles proposed by bot. However, AlexNewArtBot has erased these images.[4] Can you keep AlexNewArtBot from erasing the image or suggest a way to indicate at DYK "Good" articles proposed by bot that the author of the article was prodded on their talk page to nominate the article? Thanks. -- Jreferee (Talk) 18:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

  • It should be a rare collision. The bot reads the previous text of the search results, adds the new results checking each line that it was not there already than saves the results. It requires a few minutes (depending on the length of the previous and new results). If something was changed in those few minutes it would be lost. It looks like it was the case. Alex Bakharev 00:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
    • I revised the DYK bot instructions at DYK "Good" articles proposed by bot. I posted that the bot adds new proposals to this list each day at around 17:00, but that does not seem to be the case. How often does AlexNewArtBot post new proposals to the DYK bot list? Also, please review the instructions and make any changes that you think necessary. -- Jreferee (Talk) 02:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is there some problem

The WP:EDUCATION bot seems not to have run since July 7DGG (talk) 21:26, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I am wondering the same thing about Illinois. It hasn't been run for Illinois either, and I found this bot to be extremely helpful in tracking down lost Illinois articles.--Kranar drogin 10:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Looks like User:Alex Bakharev is on wikibreak until the 19th, alas... Katr67 20:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Come back, Alex. We need your bot for DYK! -- Jreferee (Talk) 02:28, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Aye :( -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  20:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Alex I am so glad you and you bot are back! Is there any chance you can get it to run back a bit further, say...to July 8th? I'd hate to think that there are 10 days worth of new articles I can't get my wikignoming paws on... Thanks! Katr67 19:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back! I too would like to know if this is possible. Thanks!--Kranar drogin 21:15, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for welcoming me back. I am not sure about going back for two weeks. I would have to either fix or circumvent the memory leak in Perlwikipedia that currently prevents me from going further back than 3..4 thousand articles (good to fix it anyway) also it would be slow (3 thousand articles require 5 hour, 50 thousand would probably require ~2..3 days of non-stop work). I would also have to re-order the search results chronologically otherwise DYK candidates search result would show results for a few weeks all mixed together. I will see what I can in a few days Alex Bakharev 15:08, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] only on en:?

hi, does AlexNewArtBot only work on the english wikipedia? -- 172.179.222.75 12:10, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AlexNewArtBot is adding tons of birds to new plant articles lists

Can this be fixed and stopped?[5] Thanks. KP Botany 17:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Well woodpeckers are of genius Dendropicos. The bot thought that all Dendro... are trees. I have fixed the rules Alex Bakharev 07:39, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
    • Thank you. Have you fixed the rules to get all animals off, it wasn't only woodpeckers, there were tons of frogs one day. Uh, today for example, just poppep up leaf-toed geckos. In cases where there is a taxobox, the bot can check the taxobox for kingdom, and this should remove leaf-toed geckos, frogs, and woodpeckers. KP Botany 17:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
      • I gave -50 points for Kingdom:Animalia that should probably kill all the Animals that have taxoboxes. Thank you for your suggestion Alex Bakharev 01:22, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
      • Thanks. You just can't keep those zoologists away from thinking they own the whole world, no matter what you do. KP Botany 01:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
        • We're still getting animals on the plants page, can you get the bot to search top-down in the taxobox? One of the problems is that under rules of nomenclature a plant can have a genus name associated with an aniaml, in fact there are a few species that share names, one a plant, the other an animal. Also, no more nuclear or other power plants. KP Botany 19:18, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
          • I have tweaked the rules a little bit Alex Bakharev 01:12, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
            • I still just can't access the pages. I've given up. I don't know what is wrong, but I'm not having this problem with any other articles or lists. It is worse today than it was. KP Botany 03:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rules for LogicLog

It seems that LogicLog is capturing unintended articles with the prov rule. May I suggest you exclude matches to province, provincial, and provincially (possible rule: provinc). Mindmatrix 21:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

That is a good call. I'll change it. Gregbard 23:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult

May I make a suggestion? I have worked on this page often, and found it to be ridiculously useful (far beyond, apparently, what human eyes can pick up) - yet there are a lot of false positives for users with a single letter username (e.g., User:L, User:F). Do you think you could change the code to not include them? Also, it would be nice if there were an opt out list for users showing up a lot which don't have a COI (e.g., User:Gh, who creates lots of articles, User:Although, or User:Docu who apparently gets nailed on the term "document"). The Evil Spartan 18:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I believed I have fixed it Alex Bakharev 23:57, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Commons

I use your Idaho bot for new articles in Wikipedia and love it. Thank you so much. Now for the greedy part. Do you have something (or know of) something similar in Wikimedia Commons? I want to review new photos uploaded with Idaho in the title, summary, categories, etc. I would like it to include new categories created as well, so I can review to see if the additions are duplicates, parent links, appropriately named. (I'm sure you get it.) I will pay you double what I paid you for the other bot. --Robbie Giles 01:01, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I do not believe there is something similar on Commons or for that matter something classifying new images here. Do you think it might be useful? Alex Bakharev 10:23, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
If I might butt in . . . Definitely! The NewArtBot for Cameroon is proving very useful for me in helping me find and correctly categorize new Cameroon-related articles. If there were something similar on Commons for images (and for images uploaded here, as well), it would be most useful! — Brian (talk) 13:27, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I third the proposal. This bot is VERY helpful. Royalbroil 17:25, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plant articles

AlexNewArtBot's new plant articles list today is too long. It is so long, that I cannot actually click on any of the articles on it and open them up for some reason. While PolBot is generating new plant articles (she's new), can you break these lists down some way to managable numbers--ie don't lock up the old computer I'm using now? The bot generated articles should be individually checked for problems, and I generally prefer to check the AlexNewArtBot lists because it has other articles and occassionally interesting articles on nuclear power plants--but I can't do this if I can't access the articles because the list is too long. KP Botany 22:11, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moved article

I notice that the bot mistakenly called the moved article Washington High School (Milwaukee) a "new" article (User:AlexNewArtBot/WisconsinSearchResult). I don't know if this is a problem or not, I just wanted you to be aware of it if you need to do some programming. Great tool! Royalbroil 17:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the notice! Alex Bakharev 00:15, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arkansas and Syracuse

I like the Arkansas new article search results, this is helpful for WikiProject Arkansas. I just visited one of the new articles and added it to WikiProject Arkansas, will do more. Thanks for creating this. Your search results show just the past week or two, though. It would be helpful to have a longer time-span showing, like 3 months, for the occasional visitor and would allow WP Arkansas people longer to visit all the articles.

Could you possibly please create a similar search for another wikiproject that I am a member of, WP:SYR? I would like to help revive that wikiproject, and it would help to find any new articles being created outside the wikiproject. Articles with "Syracuse" or "Onondaga County" in New York State are relevant.

Sincerely, doncram

P.S. Giving my feedback within the bot linked from the WP:Arkansas page, however, generates a message saying the Bad Log was tested and deleted, or something like that, so I am pasting this manually to your talk page. doncram 18:11, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Teenth centuries

Hi Alex. I just noticed your bot. Very impressive.

Browsing through some of the feeds, I noticed that the centuries rules lists could possibly benefit from the addition of substrings of the spelled-out names, for example twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, etc. (I usually try to spell them this way in article text, although I suppose that's quite rare in new articles.)

Cheers. —Michael Z. 2007-10-25 06:18 Z

[edit] DYK

Fine bot! ... Do you know the "DYK new articles" isn't working at present and has been missing for a number of days... if so then ignore this Victuallers 18:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] User:AlexNewArtBot/GeorgiaSearchResult

Hi! Can you please modify the date format on this bot, so it does not include time and changes the rest into "started dd-mm-yy", instead of "day month year". The current format makes the page extremely long on the country portal. Will appreciate your help (and thanks for running this bot). best. - Alsandro · T · w:ka: Th · T 23:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Schubert's last sonatas

Please remove the article from Portal:Architecture/New article announcements. It doesn't belong there. Thanks. Gidip (talk) 21:03, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mississippi

See User talk:AlexNewArtBot/MississippiSearchResult. Thanks. -- ALLSTARecho 09:15, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:AlexNewArtBot/CricketSearchResult

There appears to be a surplus </noinclude> on the above page. Its invisible there, but when transcluded into Portal:Cricket/New Articles it shows. Would you be able to look at this please. Regards —Moondyne 11:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Done. Actually, the bot does not edit lines that do not start with *. Thus, you can put anything there Alex Bakharev (talk) 13:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks Alex! —Moondyne 13:21, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:AlexNewArtBot/OregonSearchResult

Hi, I'm not sure you watch the talk page, there, could you take a look? We have a concern about the bot missing articles. Thanks! (and thanks again for your great bot!) Katr67 (talk) 19:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Build in a Delay?

Hi -- I had one thought while writing Wei Sili this morning -- if it's possible and not too difficult to do, I have a suggestion. If the article had a {{underconstruction}} tag at the time that the bot scanned for it, that the bot log it and go back to it later at a point when the {{underconstruction}} tag was removed. This should yield more accurate results as far as what the article is actually about. --Nlu (talk) 16:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] False positive - Brian Smith (politician)

The article Brian Smith (politician) was falsely put by the bot in User:AlexNewArtBot/19thCenturySearchResult. A reading of that stub reveals that the article's subject clearly has nothing to do with the 19th century.

If this helps to improve the bot, I speculate that the article was probably listed because of the reference titled "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986". Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 05:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot missing matches (New Zealand)

A couple of us have noticed articles we've created not getting listed when they ought to match the rules for New Zealand. We've started a list of these at User_talk:AlexNewArtBot/NZSearchResult#Missed_articles - any thoughts on why they missed are welcome. dramatic (talk) 08:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

  • I have tweaked the rules. Lets see if the results became better Alex Bakharev (talk) 09:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot missing matches (Italy)

I have been surprised to see the list of new Italy-related articles dry up in recent weeks, but I put it down to fewer of them being created. In its latest run, however, the bot missed one of mine—Elvo—which had lots of Italy-related words, categories and links in it and is indeed about an Italian river. I wonder whether it is mssing others? Short answer is yes: it also missed Biellese Prealps. But can anything be done? It’s a tremendously good tool and it used to work very well. —Ian Spackman (talk) 15:25, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

  • I have tweaked the rules to make them more inclusive, but it appears that there was some network problem for the bot. Anyway lets see what will happen Alex Bakharev (talk) 12:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] (not yet written)

It seems as if the 'pedia has now been including "(not yet written)" as part of the link alt= for red links. It's a minor thing, but you might have to alter bot coding to avoid the alt, such as on User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult where a red-linked users name in the {{user}} template points to Mousumi Bannerjee (not yet written) (talk · contribs) instead of Mousumi Bannerjee (talk · contribs). --Rkitko (talk) 18:22, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Sheffield Wednesday

Hi Alex,

I have (hopefully) set up the bot to scan for Sheffield Wednesday related new articles. Please could you have a quick look at the rules etc that I have set up to see if you can see any problems with them?

I also have a few of questions:

  • How often does the bot run?
  • How and where does the bot post the list of matching new articles? (I intended to set the bot up to post new articles at the bottom of Wikipedia:WikiProject Sheffield Wednesday/New articles; have I done it correctly?)
  • What happens if the bot does not find any new articles that satisfy the rules?

Maybe it would be worth adding an FAQ on the bot user page to answer these and other commonly asked questions to save you a bit of time!

Thanks very much, Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 00:43, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Dan, you have missed a step in creating your entry - the final one of telling the bot to add your rules to the search (see User:AlexNewArtBot#Inform the bot about the new job for it).
The bot runs daily, first it archives any old entries of full pages and then at approx 15:00 UTC it starts posting results to each page, finishing 3-4 hours later (Although sometimes its run at odd times but generally 15:00 is around the start time).
If you don't set a target for the results, it will still publish them on your entry's search result page at User:AlexNewArtBot/SheffieldWednesdaySearchResult.
If the bot doesn't find any that satisfy your rules, check User:AlexNewArtBot/SheffieldWednesdayLog (which is posted after every run) as you may find it rejected or accepted a number or articles erroneously due to weighting. You can then tweak this for the next run. Generally speaking, it will probably take 2-3 runs of the bot (followed by rule tweaking) before you get the bulk of the articles you want to see (this is why the AssociationFootball ruleset is now so complicated).
Hope that helps somewhat, Nanonic (talk) 12:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Doh! Can't believe I forgot to do that! Thanks for all the info. Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 13:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting out the rules for me too, as you can probably tell, I'm not very good with this sort of thing! Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 13:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Just one little thing

Hello Alex. Can you please add "bayou" to the rules at User:AlexNewArtBot/Waterbodies? I am not good in such technical things and I fear I would screw it up. Thank you very much. - Darwinek (talk) 14:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Added myself, hope I didn't mess up. - Darwinek (talk) 16:17, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anomaly

Hi, there seems to be a small anomaly at Wikipedia:New articles (Pakistan)#New articles suggested by Bot evenrsince the bot started archiving.--IslesCapeTalk 10:46, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Logged in?

Is the bot not logged in? I'm noticing changes to User:AlexNewArtBot/MississippiSearchResult by an IP address instead of by User:AlexNewArtBot. - ✰ALLST☆R✰ echo 22:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Silly bot. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:53, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I want to vote for you, but ...

Hi Alex, I want to wote for you but I can't Log in into Wikipedia mi Username was "Doborjginidze", my another Usernname "Education Credit Union of Georgia". If you can help me please e-mail me ecc2005@gmail.com Sincerly, D. Doborjginidze. 78.139.184.215 (talk) 04:09, 6 June 2008 (UTC)