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[edit] Open for business

Enwiki is partially available on the toolserver now, yayyyyy. [1] It's not replicating right this moment, and there's probably a couple days of replag on it, and it's not visible to users quite yet (due to some internal issues, if it's important, I can see about working around it). But I can definitely do manual queries (like list of articles created, for instance). Yaayyyyy.

Thanks to DaBpunkt and Twincest and all for helping get the toolserver working again. They're importing the data for the other servers (importing it all over again) now, and when that's finished, they'll resume replication. --Interiot 00:11, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay, enwiki edit counts are working again [2]... as I said, there's a couple day's replag, but that's still a huge improvement. --Interiot 23:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Do you think there is a good chance that editcounts for the other wikipedias (like frwiki, for instance ;) will be up and running soon ? dh ▪ 2¢ ▪ 09:01, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, they'll be available soon. DaBpunkt restored enwiki first, and he's doing the non-enwiki data now. It should be done soon (eg. a few days). [3] --Interiot 09:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Cool, thanks. :) dh ▪ 2¢ ▪ 09:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Will counts for non-pedia projects (e.g., en:Wikiquote) also be restored to functionality? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
I don't know the full details, feel free to ask DaBpunkt @ de: or #wikimedia-toolserver, but as far as I know, all the data that was available before will be restored soon. --Interiot 22:47, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. DaBpunkt seems to have gotten all projects back online without any nudging from me. Thanks, folks, for all your work on this useful tool! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe the edit counter is working properly. It is currently claiming to have a lag time of 2-3 days, but none of my edits since 00:22, 26 December 2006 (UTC) (a full 10 days) has been counted since it was restarted. I've checked every few days, but the count remains fixed at 9850, even though, with this edit, I have coincidentally just passed 10,000. (Yay!) Is the lag message incorrect, or is there some other reason for this apparent discrepancy? Thanks for any info. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

There's a different replag for each database cluster. Dewiki and others have a replag of 2-3 days, but enwiki's replag is currently at 18 days. (enwiki and dewiki used to be in the same database cluster, but enwiki split off earlier this year) --Interiot 14:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
It's up to 26 days now . . . . is it processing anything or is it just slow? OverlordQ 18:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been out of the loop for a while now due to a recent surgery. People in #wikimedia-toolserver say that enwiki replication is down, but I'm not sure why. --Interiot 20:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Armenica image

Hey may i ask who uploaded this they might have some information on the copyright access? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tigran.gif Nareklm 03:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

There's no indication on their armenica.org photos that they have any new information on copyright. If you are in email contact with Armenica.org, please forward that mail on to permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org ASAP. I'll be posting the armenica.org and amernianhighland.com images to Wikipedia:Copyright problems tomorrow or the next day... these shouldn't be used on Wikipedia if their copyright status isn't clear. --Interiot 08:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ref-list and Reference

The templates, Ref-list and Reference now have no usage on mainspace articles of the WP. Where can we vote to have them merged into Template:Reflist or can we simply make the redirect ourselves? --Anthony5429 01:56, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spellings

Please do not revert corrected spellings back to incorrect versions. Wikipedia clearly favours the incorrect regional dialect of the Americans.

I'm not sure which diff you're discussing. I agree thoroughly with the WP:MOS "when two versions are equally acceptable, don't change back and forth", but perhaps I've made a mistake. --Interiot 02:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Category:The Daily Show

Your recent edit to Category:The Daily Show (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 16:57, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I think you reverted the diff after mine, and left my diff in. --Interiot 02:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heya

First, Merry Christmas. Second, hope you're feeling better, as an appendectomy can't have been fun. Third, I saw your edit to the edit counter project page, and it caused me to check your tool, which caused me to notice (and hence, mention) a couple things:

  • You might want to remove the flashing message about no replication.
  • Since we're likely to have a replag delay, if you want to keep the link to other non-db based tools, the new link for my edit counter is http://countervandalism.org/Count.php.
  • Is the deleted edit tool working now as well (I checked and it looks like it is, but I wanted to be sure).

Reply at your convenience, and again, Merry Christmas! Essjay (Talk) 03:34, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Merry Christmas to you too. I'm recuperating okay. I removed the flashing message, thanks for pointing that out. Yeah, the deleted edit count is working now, though with a ~7 day delay currently. --Interiot 05:04, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Glad to hear it! Take care of yourself! Essjay (Talk) 05:11, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Multiple copyright issues

I'm not going to list the url's because at first i tried to give the most appropriate tags and i did but i can't find all the websites or areas i retrieved the images if you want go ahead and delete them all. Nareklm 19:16, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Latest Email:

Hello!

I don't quite understand what information it is that they or you need, but as long as the images, maps and the information taken from our site is not altered you're free to use them.

Best regards,

Vahagn Avedian Nareklm 01:54, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Any idea

I've run across a few people (myself included) that have companies that will donate cash to organizations that their employees donate their time to. As wiki is a 5013(c) org, the WMF could be getting cash from my company for my edits! Now, here's the harder part: in order to get checks issued, there has to be a time-sheeting type functioe.g.

USER:xaosflux
DATE: 26-DEC-2006
HOURS: 1.5

Something as simple as that would do, then throw on a WMF logo, some verbiage, and voila a check! I'm thinking that a tool that could scrape the contributions of someone and compute a "Start time" and "stop time" for each editing session would be the way to start (with a log routine of "on edit CLOCK IN" "after x mins of no edits CLOCK OUT") {I know this would miss the times being used for writign up a 10 page FA from scratch and uploading it, but for me I do mostly maintenance work so it wouldn't hit me}. Any idea if there is something like this out there already?

Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 19:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

That concept sounds very curious/odd. (one would think employers don't want employees editing Wikipedia on their time to begin with... but anyway...) No, I don't know of a program that does that currently, but of course it shouldn't be hard to make an edit counter does that. If you want, I can look into seeing whether there's a fast query that will let it be done on the toolserver (eg. if/when the toolserver is working 100%, it might be something that only takes a few seconds to run). --Interiot 19:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
They don't want us editing on their time, but these programs offer incentives for non-profit/commnuity contributions done on our own time. (I was shocked, but if they want to send WMF a check because I stayed up till 3am editing again, more power to it!). Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 21:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Um, as soon as Flcelloguy's Tool can spit out a CSV (final beta testing in Excel, and poking AySz88 to do the GUI soon), the employers can do anything with it... :) and of course, someone could upload it to the toolserver and have it print out a pretty contributions report, including hours of use each day (from first edit to last edit in the day), to total contributions, to even total number of pages contributed to. Be sure to charge extra expensive, and to send the check during the matching days of the fundraising drive... ;) :) Titoxd(?!?) 07:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Sounds like a good use for CSV contributions, yeah. --Interiot 10:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crap

Well, I was about to come bug you about something related to edit counters, but I saw the note at the top of the page, so I guess that isn't that relevant now... I hope you get better soon, and that everything went well with your surgery. Titoxd(?!?) 07:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm healing well, and should be in the clear in a day or two. I'm still around editing some, and happy to be bugged about edit counter stuff though... --Interiot 10:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open edit counter

Please open my edit counter. http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Absar&dbname=trwiki_p

You should be able to activate it yourself. But anyway, I've manually opted you in since your en and tr accounts appear to be linked. --Interiot 10:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Get well soon!

I hope you are feeling better. Get well soon. Happy holidays. -- Samuel Wantman 09:28, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy holidays to you too, and thanks for the kind words. I probably shouldn't leave the notice up for long, I should be fully recovered soon... it's just that I have a few friends who check my Special:Contributions as a way to know whether I'm alive or not. :) --Interiot 10:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Editcounter optin

Can you please restore the optin functionality now that the toolserver has been fixed? Thank you!--84.221.69.69 02:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh, sorry about that. Okay, it should be working better now... does that work now? --Interiot 04:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I can't get it to work; !! Could you write "Edit Counter for Dummies" Thanks, Intersofia 18:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Is there anyway i can delete them myself?

And if the owner of Armenica.org uploads the images he can do that right? Nareklm 06:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

You can add {{db-author}} to any image you've uploaded, and a random administrator should delete it within a few hours at most.
It's usually not easy to verify whether specific Wikipedia user owns an outside website... someone from Armenica.org could upload to Wikipedia, but they'd have to do the same things you have to do... either 1) modify the website to note the material is available under a GFDL-compatible license, or 2) forward an email from the copyright holder to the wikimedia foundation, saying that the image is available under a GFDL-compatible license. --Interiot 06:43, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I emailed him again to upload his pictures if he wants because i said there very useful if he agrees he'll upload them if this even happens and you can email him with the email on his website to verify this. So ill wait on the reply :-) Nareklm 07:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
If it's not clear the images are GFDL compatible, then they really shouldn't be uploaded. If an email from the copyright holder has been forwarded to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org confirming the images are GFDL compatible despite what their website says, then it's okay to upload. Otherwise it's not. --Interiot 16:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I received this i don't know if it helps though.
Hi!

I still can't see why you can't use the maps as they are? Surely you can upload the images under wiki with GFDL rights without any changes as long as our name and URL is mentioned.

In case you haven't read the rules you can read the copy rights at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Using_copyrighted_work_from_others

Uploading images under GFDL does not mean that the images can be altered at will, but as they put it with "fair use". As long as our name is present and any user ask us for permission for any alteration of the material, than its OK. Otherwise we will be held responsible for possible errors and misinformation if someone alters our maps with faulty data and our name on it.

Please feel free to upload any map to wikipedia as GFDL material and make sure that our name and URL is mentioned.

With best regards,

Vahagn Nareklm 17:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Short answer: "you can't modify it without permission from Armenica.org" isn't GFDL compatible, period, end of story.
Long answer: Armenica.org images could be uploaded under fair use, but they'd almost certainly be deleted soon via {{replaceable fair use}}, since we limit the number of fair use images we use to places where we really have to (eg. such as the very historic Pulitzer prize winning Image:TrangBang.jpg). (fair use photographs aren't GFDL compatible... however, we do make allow a small number of non-GFDL photographs to be posted on Wikipedia when 1) those photographs are really necessary, and 2) we realize the photograph likely won't ever be available in GFDL)
It's better for us to create our own maps and take our own photos if someone won't allow us to improve theirs. If you need maps made, please use {{reqmap}} or ask at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Requested and orphan maps or Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve. --Interiot 17:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Do you know any free programs for creating maps? Nareklm 20:13, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Inkscape is one I'm familiar with, and it produces SVG maps which are helpful, because others can modify them more easily. It takes time and skill to create maps that look as good as what Armenica.org has, but Wikipedia already has a few to start with... for instance, you can save these as .svg on your local computer and start changing colors and text pretty easily... Image:Armenia map numbered.svg and Image:Armenia locater map armavir.svg. I'd be happy to answer any questions about Inkscape, I've been playing with it a fair bit lately, and the person who drew those maps (User:Bastique) probably knows even more. --Interiot 20:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
If you want to plot stuff on a map, you can use Jdorje's track map generator, used by WP:WPTC to generate all of our track maps... Titoxd(?!?) 20:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
For the Ink Scape how do i get the edges etc from the maps? Nareklm 03:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
If you're starting with a bitmap (eg. png, gif, jpeg, etc.), you'll want to use the Path > Trace Bitmap feature. --Interiot 07:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted Edits: -1 ?

Hi,

first, im glad you are recovering. Who else could maintain Interiot's Editcounter ;-). But i have a question, i would like to see how many deleted edits i have. [4] shows me, that i have now -1 deleted edit. It is somehow strange, there should be more than 2000. -- ThePacker 00:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

There's some problems with the toolserver... for some reason, the specific query that generates that number is running much too long, so I disabled it until I have enough time to figure out what's wrong. --Interiot 01:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. Well i wasn't sure whether it was intended or not. -- ThePacker 02:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Regular edit counts are extremely slow as well... do you have any idea why this could be? Titoxd(?!?) 03:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
    P.S: There's a typo, by the way: If relication lag is too high, you may wish to use an external edit counter, such as "wannabe_kate" or Essjay's...
    • Thanks, the spelling mistake is fixed. Yeah, I noticed the edit count is really slow... I almost can't get an edit count for myself anymore. I don't know. I'll try to check with DaBpunkt.... though replication is going slow even for non-en servers now, so I don't think the edit counter is the only thing that's slow right now. --Interiot 07:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open statistics

Hello, could you please activate the statistics complete for my account: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Medium69 My excuses for my English Medium69 22:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wannabe_kate

Wannabe_kate only takes my edits in German Wikipedia since 21:11, 21 July 2006 into consideration. But in fact, im registered since August 2005. Wannabe_kate vs. Interiot tool Why? Chaddy2 01:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

wannabe_kate just analyses the last 5000 edits via special:contributions. is there any reason for that? --rdb 10:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Ahh, you're right. Maybe some recent HTML changes broke it. I'll look into it today or tommorow. --Interiot 01:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I *think* it's fixed now. There's still a difference (Tool1 is ahead of Tool3 by 187 edits right now), but that's probably because the toolserver's database is lagging by several days. The "stuck at 5000" problem I fixed was caused by some non-English issues, which is a relatively new feature of Tool1, it previously was able to only count edits on English sites. --Interiot 23:40, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you, it´s better now. ;-) But what´s about my -1 deleted edits? That cant´t be right, I think... Chaddy2 13:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advert

Hello, I believe all content I wrote in Vbuzzer's entry is neutral. Could you specify where I write like advert/spam. I'll change that promptly. Thanks! Vtalker 07:06, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Vtalker. --Interiot 14:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy delete

You might note that speedy delete tags (though not from you) are on User talk:Interiot/Level design and User talk:Interiot/Sandbox/Level design --Henrygb 01:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, most of it is probably cleaned up now. --Interiot 01:08, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opt in problems

Hi, I have opted in as you can see from here yet my edit counter still shows the opt-in button. Cheers, AxelBoldt 07:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Not sure what was going on, but it looks like you're opted in now, without anything done by me. --Interiot 21:50, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, works beautifully now, maybe I forgot to refresh or something. Thanks for the service! AxelBoldt 22:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Ok, I don't know what's going on, but mw:User talk:Titoxd doesn't work either... so I'll have to ask you to manually poke it in. :( Titoxd(?!?) 07:49, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
While we're at it: -1 deleted edits? Titoxd(?!?) 07:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I had to temporarily disable that query, see #Deleted Edits: -1 ?. For the opt-in, I'll have a look soon. --Interiot 15:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how I missed that, lol. Thanks! Titoxd(?!?) 01:02, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I have but Edit Counter shows the opt-in button.tr.user:Erdemsenol

[edit] Access to #wikipedia-en-admins

Hi, the page Wikipedia:IRC channels said I could contact you for access to #wikipedia-en-admins. I'm just trying to figure out this IRC thing, but I figure I need to start with access! -- Renesis (talk) 20:52, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, just list your IRC username here (a IRC username that you've registered), and I'll get you added right away. If you have a cloak, I'll try to make it easier for you to join, but otherwise, you may have to send "/msg chanserv invite #wikipedia-en-admins" before joining the channel. --Interiot 21:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I registered "Renesis13" at Freenode. I don't know what a cloak is, though! -- Renesis (talk) 00:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Okay, you're added. Cloaks are described at m:IRC channel cloaks. No worries, just type "/msg chanserv invite #wikipedia-en-admins" whenever you login. If you get a cloak eventually, ask me or any of the other #wikipedia-en-admins rights people, and they'll make it so you don't have to type that every time. --Interiot 00:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Renesis (talk) 00:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Latest email

I received this but he lets me use it and if you want you can email him to confirm it because i know wikipedia has licenses regarding licenses with permission. Like all rights are received to me licenses etc any ideas ?

Hello!

You have my permission to use the existing maps and images on armenica.org as GFDL material. This is just so that you can upload the maps, but I stil don't see any reasons why you will need to edit the maps, since they have been used and are currently used in several wikipedia versions as they are.

Good luck,

Vahagn Nareklm 10:43, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


Okay, can you forward that email on to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org (with full headers)? Also, due to the way the process works, could you:
  1. Make sure there's at least one armenica.org image uploaded on Wikipedia, and that image should clearly mention it's from armenica.org
  2. If you could forward the original email as an attachment, and at the same time, mention the name of the Armenica.org image on Wikipedia
Once you forward the email with full headers, someone else will confirm it's good, and note that permission is confirmed in the talk page of one or more of the armenica.org images. --Interiot 18:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Persianermani.gif Nareklm 08:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Okay, did you forward the email above to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org? Once that's done, then someone else will review the email and confirm on Image talk:Persianermani.gif, and everything will be good. --Interiot 15:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
I forwarded my discussion with the admin of the website. Nareklm 01:31, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
"Dear XXXXXXXXXX,

Thank you for your mail." Please tell me this is approved :/ Nareklm 01:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you know the user who replied? From what I'd heard, they would have marked at least one talk page of an image somewhere. --Interiot 03:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Nope thats all they gave me nothing whats so ever i replied and told them to reply on the persian armenia image talk page. Nareklm 03:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Did they leave an OTRS number, or anything like that? --Interiot 03:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
There's this im not sure what it is though: Re: [Ticket#2007010210006387] Nareklm 03:31, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! so it worked? and should i add that tag to all my images i uploaded from Armenica.org? Nareklm 04:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I suppose, as long as the OTRS number you gave is good. So feel free to use armenica.org images, and it's probably a good idea to add this to each image to make sure nobody deletes them based on what armenica.org's website says. --Interiot 04:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks man, lets just hope i don't use Wikipedias bandwidth all in one day ;-) Nareklm 04:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, there's still the question of whether Armenica.org owns the copyright to every single image on their website, but we can tackle that question another day. In any case, if it seems clear that Armenica.org doesn't own a particular image, it would be good to avoid uploading it, but otherwise you're good to go, yes. --Interiot 04:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Well he just doesn't want people to alter it but that issue got solved because i think they re-make the maps because i have seen maps like theres only theres is much nicer and very accurate. But im not too sure but it seems to be solved! Merci, thanks. Nareklm 04:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The da Vinci Barnstar
For your most excellent toolserver statistical tools, I, Piotrus, award you The da Vinci Barnstar in recognition of your hard work to help us understand who we are and what we are doing. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  14:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. :) --Interiot 18:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VPT comment

Hi - Suppose I could interest you in putting up a category intersection script on toolserver (that would get the category contents using curl or something, so it'd work against en - assuming this isn't against some toolserver rules)? Someone is asking about this at WP:VPT. I suppose I should maybe think about getting my own toolserver login. Thanks. BTW - I hope you're feeling OK. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

(replied at VPT... replag is down to 15 days, so CatScan may work just fine) --Interiot 16:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
.. and another one, which sounds like an earlier conversation we had, see WP:VPT#Does this exist?. Is it against the rules for toolserver scripts to make queries using curl to en.wikipedia? If not, maybe it might actually be worth writing a shell script to do this. -- Rick Block (talk) 05:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mitanni

Did you check the history i did not change it, but can you just delete it automatically by my request i don't need it. Nareklm 19:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

That's odd. I didn't post that on your talk page, I posted it on Ararat arev's, and they moved it to your talk page. Anyway, unless you know how to address it, feel free to remove or ignore the message. I was just addressing Ararat arev's removal of the {{imagevio}} tag, and was pointing out that removing {{imagevio}} wasn't sufficient to address the problems with the image. --Interiot 19:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Ah i see it confused me too i assume he put it on mine because he may have thought its my image so my problem. Nareklm 20:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey interiot one question what is the block quote supposed to mean on wikipedia? Nareklm 21:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Block quote? You mean this?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Or perhaps:?
“ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ”
Not sure... where was it brought up? --Interiot 01:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is this copyright tag ok now?

I told him the fix permission of the image. I didnet upload it Narek did Ararat arev 22:34, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Is this one ok? Template:PD-Vardion Ararat arev 23:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

It would be okay if Vardion is the copyright holder, the one who created the image. That's somewhat doubtful though since it appears to have come from armenianhighland.com.
An acceptable copyright tag would be: 1) if armenianhighland.com is the one who owns the copyright to the image, then either point to a page on their site that clarifies what their copyright is (the site doesn't say "all rights reserved" everywhere, but US law says we have to assume that's what their copyright terms are), or forward an email from armenianhighland.com owners saying that they license the image under a GFDL-compatible image.
Or, 2) if armenianhighland.com isn't the copyright owner of the page, then state who armenianhighland.com got it from, and determine whether the original person might have released it under the GFDL. --Interiot 01:52, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] about User edit counter

Hi, on my edit counter ([5]), the edits of 4th January couldnt seem on list or diagrams. I wondered why, it would be very nice if youexplain to me. regards tr:kullanıcı mesaj:delamorena —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.247.192.3 (talk) 10:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC).

Replication lag is at 2 days for non-en right now... your edits should appear sometime today. DaBpunkt is working on making this more real-time. --Interiot 15:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted edits

Hi,

I think it is imposible to have negative number of edits, but in my edit counter [6] I have -1 deleted edits.

PawełMM 14:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

See above, it's intentional, I'll fix it later. --Interiot 15:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IRC admin-channel access

Hi, I'd like to get access to the #wikipedia-en-admins IRC channel. I've already registered a freenode nick, "LarryV". Thanks, Larry V (talk | contribs) 19:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Larry V (talk | e-mail) 08:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Differences between User contributions and User edit counter?

Hi Interiot,
when I look at my own user contributions I can count about 7 edits in December 2006 and about 13 edits in January 2007, until Jan. 5th. But when I start the counter there is stated Total edits=2 (Replication lag is currently 1 day, 18 hours.=until Jan 5th, 4:27pm UTC). Can you explain the difference? What do I wrong?
Thanks, Gerald SchirmerPower 10:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

There's multiple replication lags, one for each database cluster. Enwiki replag is currently stuck at December 20th, at which point you only had two edits. --Interiot 17:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer. I've read it shortly after you placed it at this discussion page. Now I've seen that you changed the information about the replication lag at your editcount tool and you splitted it per cluster. Thanks again. Gerald SchirmerPower 10:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First edit

Until ca. 2004 there was a bug, which has been fixed but not retroactively, as follows:

If a moved page is moved back, the edit history of the page with the intermediate title shows the latest move only, with the corresponding user name, but with the date and time of the first move(!).

Therefore, if the oldest entries in the user contributions list are moves, they most likely do not represent any activity of the user on the stated dates.--Patrick 15:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

What's the desired fix? Do they show up in the move log in this case? If so, I can check both the move log, and their first Special:Contributions edit, and show the earliest of the two? --Interiot 15:33, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
The move log is not that old, but for determining the first edit, edits with a summary starting with "moved to" could be discarded, see e.g. at the bottom of [7].--Patrick 16:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number written articles

Hello Interiot, I have a question: do you know a tool where I can see how many articles I have written? Bye, Adnergje 20:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC) (from nl:)

Yeah, but it has to be manually updated currently. Here's yours: [8] --Interiot 23:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! Adnergje 06:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Is there any way we can automate this report or change the code somehow so that this report/query can be auto-generated? I am interested to know my list? Thanks enderminh 10:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Data deviation?

I've made two editcounts today with your editcounter and Essjay's PHP editcounter respectively, but they gave results of 4896 and 5075 respectively. Since the stated replication lag is just 1d12h and I definitely have made less than 50 edits within the past 36 hours, there must be some problem with either of the data.

After some comparison with the memory in my brain, I suspect that your edit counter has miscounted some edits. About two weeks ago I checked your edit counter and the article namespace had more than 2000 edits. However, this number has dropped below 1980 as of today. Since I had not been notified of any deletion and I've made some tens of edits into the article namespace within the past two weeks, it is presumable that the actual recrement of article namespace editcount cannot exceed 20 within this 2-week interval. Please check out any problem with the editcount system and I look forward to your reply. --Deryck C. 14:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

For the difference between mine and Essjay's, see above, there's multiple replags. Enwiki's replag is currently 14 days.
For the decreasing mainspace edits, it's possible that there's a bug in the back-end database, but it's somewhat doubtful, and there's not really specific enough information to examine the possible issue. --Interiot 16:48, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
That said, Essjay's counter is not entirely accurate, as every time I test it, it gives me ~500 edits more in the main namespace, and I've never gotten anyone to fix it.[9] [10] Titoxd(?!?) 18:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] NPR Rough Cuts

Hey there... I've made some corrections to the NPR Rough Cuts entry. Rough Cuts isn't a radio show - it's an online proving grounds for NPR to publish dress rehearsal of shows in development. It's currently publishing segments from Michel Martin's new show on diversity issues, and will soon publish segments from the new morning show for younger audiences. (These are two separate shows.) Clarifying info is being added to the blog, including an FAQ, which I hope will be online in a few days. Feel free to contact me if you need any more info. Acarvin 02:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User edit counter

Hello, I'm from pl-wiki - user Masur, I dont have my account here. I just want to report some strange problem with my data in Ed.Counter. I don't know is it due to lags or is it connected with sth different, but I have got -1 deleted edits. A proper number should be around 800 I think. If You could take a look on that, because I think that I'm not the only one with that. Thanks in advance. Masur my User Talk 141.5.11.5 09:04, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

same problem in de.wiki for i guess every account. but this problem exists at least since the toolserver went ballistic last year. maybe some problem with the database? --schlendrian •λ• 12:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Changed to "temporarily disabled", per above. --Interiot 17:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tool

Hi Interiot, first of all please apologize my bad english, but I'm from Italy. ;) I was wondering if exist an easy-to-use tool that calculate the whole number of pages created by a determinate user. Thanks a lot in advance! --Lucas (talk) 14:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Sure, here you go. --Interiot 17:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles

Hey Interiot is there anyway you can show me mine how many i have created? I know i created alot so maybe keeping track and modifying them would help since i lost track thanks :-) Nareklm 06:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course, here's yours. --Interiot 08:29, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Wow man thanks thats alot lol. Nareklm 16:46, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multiply Copyright violations

These images from this User are all copyright i tagged them you might want to review since he always uploads copyvios.

Tagged and verified from the website. (All from Armenianhighland.com)

  • Image:Haldi.jpg
  • Image:Nkar3.jpg
  • Image:Armeni-Sumerian.jpg
  • Image:Armenian-Mitanni.jpg
  • Image:Armeni-Sumerian2.jpg
  • Image:Armenian-Alphabet1.jpg Nareklm 06:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
These images were approved by Jkelly he says but i did not see the appropriate licenses or the confirmation notice since there is no notification on the website. Nareklm 06:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Where are they approved at? The copyright info on the images may be insufficient... they don't specify the copyright holder.
Also, it's best to tag images that are a problem with {{copyvio}} (if you're not sure whether the copyright is incompatible) or {{db-copyvio}} (if you're confident it's not GFDL-compatible), that way others can take care of it if they get to it first, so nobody has to wait for me to get back to my computer. --Interiot 21:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Well the user keeps on telling me he's going to report me im just trying to follow the rules no where does it specify it was approved therefore it does not meet the wikipedia qualifications i assume? Nareklm 22:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
As far as I know, armenianhighland.com doesn't indicate anywhere that its images are available under public domain or the GFDL or creative commons. It's certainly appropriate to post them to {{copyvio}} at least, since that gives the uploaders some time to discuss whether the site gives permission, and whether armenianhighland is the copyright holder. --Interiot 23:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
You might want to tell him something he is messaging a bunch of admins that i am removing information etc and i do not want to get blocked :-( Nareklm 23:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh, you're talking about Image:Armenian-Mitanni.jpg specifically. For that one, the image mentions that Armenianhighland.com isn't the copyright owner, so it doesn't matter whether it appears at Armenianhighland.com or not. (unless there's evidence that Armenianhighland.com really is the copyright owner, but that doesn't seem to be the case there) --Interiot 23:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Its alright i guess thanks. Nareklm 23:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

This one is not a problem they said. armenianhighland.com is not stated there, yet check the history Interiot. The history of the Mitanni seal image shows that User:Jkelly(who handles copyright imagtes) had seen the armenianhighland previous edit I made. Thats where if you check my link he saw it, and said "removing wrong copyright and putting right one" You see? [11] and here [12]. Ararat arev 00:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Narek had attempted to remove the image by putting "copyvio". This guy is vandalizing man. You discussing to him without checking what he did here. The admins approved of this. Its like me randomly going to a page and doing that "copyvio" and removing an image from there, when it was approved Ararat arev 00:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

As much as i know if thats the only place you can find the image of the seal unusually the same size than its a violation wikipedia has strict image policies. Nareklm 00:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Interiot, if it goes down to verifying with Dbachmann and Jkelly, please do so ? Thank you. Ararat arev 00:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] [edit counter] Asian databases

Hello. AFAIK the asian databases have been moved to Florida a couple of months ago (indeed the replication lag is the same for jawiki and dewiki), so there's no need to list them. --.anaconda 14:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks, I reduced it to just the two now. --Interiot 21:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit counter suggestion

Hello Interiot,

Your edit counter is pretty cool! I was wondering if it would be possible to implement another calculation: average edits per day, excluding days when edits were not made.

That is,

(totalEdits)/(currDate - firstEditDate - numDaysNoEdits)

where

totalEdits     is the total number of edits (already calculated by your tool),
currDate       is the current date,
firstEditDate  is the date a user's first edit was made,
numDaysNoEdits is a counter which adds 1 for every day no edit exists

All parameters should be stored as integers.

It is the last parameter, numDaysNoEdits which prevents me from writing this code myself—I am not familiar with how Wikipedia stores edit information, so I don't know how to check for days when edits are not made. (Also, I am not a great programmer, so my implementation might be inefficient even if I do learn how to check.)

Let me know what you think!

Twas Now 02:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

No? − Twas Now 08:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious what the value would be for my editcount. I support this suggestion. Annabelleke 15:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
The numDaysNoEdits would take some effort to calculate, and may be too slow for the normal edit counter. --Interiot 15:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SAYS I DO NOT EXIST

Whenever I try to use the edit counter to find out how many edits I have done it says "This user does not seem to have any edits, or they don't exist" what is wrong Yungur 05:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

The little replication indicator says the toolserver is replicated up to 2007/01/02 22:34 as of now. So, as of Jan 2nd, your account didn't exist, which is accurate. It'll replicate up to your first edit in a few days, but in the meantime, you might want to use another edit counter, possibly Tool1. --Interiot 05:32, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Straw poll

Please take a look at WP:MALL to which you have contributed, with respect to proposals to merge it with WP:LOCAL, to continue developing it, or to go ahead and implement it as a guideline. Thanks. Edison 21:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meso People

Just a quick note, I strongly believe that the Paul Krauss thing is a subtle attempt at marketing his book. I lost my father to meso a year ago, and I think marketing Meso is criminal. Because of that I'm generally against anything that smells like marketing on the meso page. (Or anywhere, actually.) However, I'm impressed with this group's tenacity and moreso that they seem to be actively trying to do the right thing with respect to Wikipedia. They aren't fly-by-night linkspammers. I think they could be worthwhile contributors, and so I've been offering them offhand support.

On the other hand, I'm aware that I can be stupidly naive sometimes, and I might just be feeding the trolls. I very much appreciate your handling of this, and welcome your opinions. --Mdwyer 21:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, of all the spam sites I've dealt with, mesothelioma sites are the hardest to figure out if they're spam or not, they seem willing to put some amount of time into them. Anyway, I'd like to see Paul Kraus AfD'd at some point unless its notability is made more clear. --Interiot 21:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Template talk:Downsize javascript hack

That bit of magic, is it readily portable to other Wikis? I'd like to propagate Template:Downsize to the fr Wiki, for example. And I take it the Downsize hack will also handle <sub> titles, such as chemical formulae (e.g. "H2O" would be downsized to H2O)? Urhixidur 21:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see it does indeed do the latter bit. Which leaves the first question. Urhixidur 21:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, it can be used on other wikis (we copied it off frwiki, actually). There's a bit of documentation at User talk:Interiot/js/RealTitle.js. And the code is at MediaWiki:Common.js, see the two functions under '"Technical restrictions" title fix'. --Interiot 22:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] admin IRC channel

Hello. All of this fuss about the admin IRC channel has, I confess, made me rather curious. I have registered the nickname ChickBowen, but I have not used IRC before today and may not understand the finer points (I'm using the Java applet). If you could sign me up for #wikipedia-en-admins I would appreciate it, and any advice would be appreciated as well. Thanks. Chick Bowen 22:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. Before joining, each time you login, you'll need to type /msg chanserv invite #wikipedia-en-admins. I don't have too much advice, other than don't forget the initial / on a a command that takes your password, because you'll tell your password to everyone in the channel (as I did on my first day on IRC). And for what it's worth, X-Chat is a decent Windows client. --Interiot 22:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks again, and I'll check X-Chat out. Chick Bowen 23:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem

Today, I went to check my past edits, but everytime I go to the edit counter the response always say "Invalid value". Is there some kind of problem in this? M&NCenarius 04:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Which edit counter? (i've got three...) this one works. --Interiot 04:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
It was this. M&NCenarius 07:09, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Ah, for some reason I thought that might be an invalid character. Should work now. --Interiot 07:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much! M&NCenarius 23:59, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles I've started

I'd be very grateful for a list of the articles I've started. Thanks! --Dweller 16:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy to. It'll be here in a few minutes. --Interiot 17:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks very much! Does it stay there permanently, or should I cut and paste it into my userspace? --Dweller 11:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit counter and time spent

Hello,
I was thinking about a tool that could give me an approximation of the time spent on Wikipedia.
I think it is possible to calculate an approximation based per contributions.
If you consider that a user is present on Wikipedia 5 minutes before each contribution, and between two contributions separated by no more than 20 minutes the contributor was still on Wikipedia, it could be possible to "approximatively" know how much time a wikipediholic has spent on Wikipedia and find an appropriate treatment for him :)
Is it possible? Thanks! Plyd ✉ 11:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

It's possible, though I don't know of a way to do it quickly enough to include it in my normal (Tool3) edit counter. Any HTML scraping counter should be able to calculate it without much more slowdown though. On the other hand, it's probably one of the features that would really get people up in an arms about requiring opt-in. --Interiot 18:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles created, cs_wiki, user Frettie

Hello Interiot, sorry for my bad English, i am from Czech Republic. Can you generate list of articles created by me, please? My nick at cs.wiki is Frettie, do you want any other informations? Thank you Interiot, and your editcount is very usefully! :) frettie from cs.wiki —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.31.33.214 (talk) 13:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

Happy to, it'll be here in a few minutes. --Interiot 16:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, that's great ! :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.31.33.214 (talk) 01:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Deleted edits

Which query were you using to count deleted edits? I know it became really slow, and while looking at Extension:DeletedContributions, it dawned on me that it could have become slow if there was a custom index on the toolserver's archive table, which was deleted upon a dump replay of enwiki. Any chance to find that out? Titoxd(?!?) 22:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

It's just SELECT COUNT(*) FROM archive WHERE ar_user_text=$username. I don't know, the entire toolserver was slow earlier. I've activated it now for the weekend at least, it seems to be working better for my editcount anyway. --Interiot 23:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
That most definitely doesn't have an index. The only indexed part of the table is the ar_namespace/ar_title/ar_timestamp trio. Titoxd(?!?) 05:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Could You Please?

Could you please show me how many articles I have created? I'm very grateful in advance!!! :) ~Gatorgirl623~ 05:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy to, here's the list. --Interiot 15:11, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Please update it. Thanks in advance!! ~Gatorgirl623~ 16:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Done. --Interiot 17:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toolserver sctipt

How hard do you think it would be to make a script on the tool server to query the DB to make a list of images that are orphaned, in a fair use cat and not in a cat for deletion? Thanks. BJTalk 06:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a tool like this already... it may be worth asking around #wikimedia-toolserver or the village pump. --Interiot 15:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mitsubishi i

I've been slowly working on this page over time, and it's reached the point where I think it meets the criteria of a Good Article, although with two copyrighted fair use images and only 13k of content, it's well short of being FA. The biggest trouble with expanding the article is that the car was only released 12 months ago, so I'm still waiting on a lot of info to become available (e.g. production/sales figures).

I didn't want to throw it open to the whole motley AutoProject community, some of whom may be compelled to "improve" the article by replacing metric with imperial measurements, adding badly laid out galleries of the rear of the car, reams of technical information in tabular or bulleted format, and expounding at length on the North American market perspective. Instead, I thought I'd just test the water by canvassing the opinions of some random auto editors who don't seem obsessed with making WP a Buyers' Guide.

Anyway, you think it's worth taking Mitsubishi i through the WP:GA nomination process?

This question has been copy/pasted to User talk:Kierant, User talk:Interiot, User talk:SteveBaker and User talk:BrendelSignature. --DeLarge 15:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Cheers for the response. Just an oversight on my part with regard to footnotes/links -- I actually reordered the external links and footnotes on Gasoline direct injection only a few hours ago, so I have no idea why I'd left the Mitsubishi i stuff as it was. --DeLarge 16:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help needed for edit count

Hi, I'm an Italian user from it.wiki and this is my discussion page. As you can see I edited it with the code as you explain here, but I still cannot see my "opt in" edit count (here). What do you think about? How can i solve this problem? Maybe the fact that my previous username was Oliver that now redirects to OliverZena? Thanks :) --OliverZena 17:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

You have to use the specific text in the edit summary. Anyway, I manually updated it, it should work now. --Interiot 17:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes, now it works! Thanks a lot --OliverZena 22:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] number of unique articles

Hello Interiot, concerning [13], does number of unique articles imply the number of new articles? If not so, how can I look for the number of new articles from a specific user? Thanks in advance. Ktsquare (talk) 12:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

It's number of unique articles edited, not created. I can run a report that creates the list of articles created... it's a pretty long-running query though, so for now, I have to start it myself to prevent a DOS. --Interiot 15:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editcount on toolserver

Hey, I found a small error on the etditcount-tool: There is a line:

Edit count is powered by Linux 2.6.19.1 and MySQL 5.0.27-max-log. Runtime: 70.69 seconds.

where Linux is linked to [14] does not make so mutch sense... ;-) --88.74.138.113 14:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Very observant. Okay, that's fixed, thanks. --Interiot 15:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal Proof Redirect

Thank you for bringing this policy to my attention, I will review it more closely to prevent further mistakes on my part. Cpuwhiz11 00:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Not really a problem, a surprising number of redirects like that get created (and recreated), just wanted to point out that it's speedyable. --Interiot 01:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User sock puppets.

This user 66.46.197.50, says "rv - nareklm you are removing big chunk with quotation and references" and "User Nareklm removes a big chunk of text" and by Dacy69, [15] there is way more things to point out but i won't is this necessary? Nareklm 17:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not clear what the question is. Regarding March Days, since there's some disagreement, it may be better to discuss specific issues on the talk page, or follow any of the other things mentioned in Wikipedia:NPOV dispute. --Interiot 17:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Well i can tell you this user is using sock puppets to support his own decisions i checked the ips same location however, User:Tengri and User:Atabek reverts with both same discussions likes to support his decision. Nareklm 05:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
If they're using sockpuppets to avoid enforcement of 3RR or otherwise clearly violating policy, you can request that a checkuser be run. Or, if they're clearly being disruptive but the issue is less clear, you can bring up the issue at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets. Though note that sock puppets in and of themselves aren't against policy, and some users may accidentally log out before making an edit. --Interiot 05:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
I saw his explanation on Khois page but thats not following the rules because i can tell he is not going to abide by the sockpuppet rules, i can check for sock puppets here i noticed, [16] Nareklm 00:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Never mind that I'll just try to enter to get privileges in the "CheckUser" function its just a way to crack down on people who use sock puppets, i don't think i need to be an admin, since i don't want to be one since im not qualified and its too hard. But that tool would help since im always constantly involved in edit wars, cracking down on people who use two accounts to maintain there editing ability is ridiculous, meats, etc if you know what i mean, thanks. Nareklm 00:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Access to channel

I would appreciate access to #wikipedia-en-functionaries on freenode, since while off-topic discussion is relaxing, I'd love to be part of a channel wherein Wikipedia is discussed analytically among regulars. My IRC nick is Gracenotes, and I have a Wikipedia cloak (wikipedia/Gracenotes). Thanks! GracenotesT § 22:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure I did the permanent-invite thing right since you have a cloak. If that didn't work, you may need to type /msg chanserv invite #wikipedia-en-functionaries before joining. --Interiot 22:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:

Thanks, im pretty familiar with wikipedia now :-) Nareklm 20:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Politico

I put "ironically" in there cause I kinda "stole" that line from the story co-owned WJLA did on The Politico's launch. Wasn't sure if it was ironic or not, but I thought I would throw it in there. :) Never was good with irony. :) - SVRTVDude 21:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Ahh, well if it came from a news story, feel free to put it back in. It's not at all a big deal either way. Though note that [17] says that politico.com journalists were on CBS with Katie Couric to analyze the State of the Union speech. That shows they were prepared for the speech, but I suppose doesn't necessarily prove intent to coincide the launch with the SOTU. --Interiot 22:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Desciclopedia

Hello Interiot. I'd try to install your /Tool2 at Desciclopedia (portuguese version of Uncyclopedia), but it doesn't work. So, can you help me? If the answer is yes, this is the page (and this is the prefix index). Thanks in advance and sorry for the poor english. --Slade (TheJoker) 23:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Tool2 doesn't work very well on non-English sites currently. It looks like the site supports &uselang=en (thanks again for suggesting it, Titoxd], though Tool2 doesn't yet work with it. I could probably update it to work, but I'm going to be busy for the rest of the evening. I'll try to do this in a day or two. --Interiot 23:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
OK, when it's done, talk me at portuguese Wikipedia, Desciclopedia or right here, at en: --Slade (TheJoker) 23:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Interiot, one week has gone. Do you get something? Sorry, Slade (TheJoker) 18:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, nothing yet, and I'll be recuperating from surgery starting tomorrow. I'll see if I can get something done today, otherwise it'll be a little later. --Interiot 18:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Get well soon. --Slade (TheJoker) 19:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Got something? Tx, Slade (TheJoker) 18:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I haven't gotten much time to spend on it, sorry. This might work, though I haven't gotten to fully test it on your system yet. --Interiot 23:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Mmm, I'm a great newbie with JS, so I ask you a last help: if you see the pages and tell me what's wrong, I'll be very grateful. Sorry for my incovenience, Slade (TheJoker) 17:53, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Legal prose

Thank you, it's always gratifying to know somebody appreciates my humor. --Michael Snow 18:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit counter

How often is editcount updated ? I mean after few hours or daily ? Lothar

Which counter? Tool3 is updated continuously, though it's often behind a certain amount. (nonetheless, it's constantly working to catch up, but the toolserver isn't able to). Tool1 is constantly up to date. --Interiot 23:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh I see, thanx :) I'll try to use the second 'wannabe_kate' tool Lothar —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.9.225.135 (talk) 23:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Transwikied articles

What should be done with articles that have been transwikied? Barn find, for instance, was a dicdef that I prodded (and maybe shouldn't have). I've been cleaning out Category:Orphaned articles from June 2006 and have run into several dicdefs. If these are transwikied, can they be speedy deleted or do they have to be prodded? Thanks.--Sable232 00:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Hrm, I'm not really clear on transwikiing yet, I've got more questions than answers, I'm afraid. I guess it's easier if transwiki is decided via AfD, because then {{db-transwiki}} will let the article be deleted right after it's transwikied. Otherwise, Wikipedia:Transwiki log says an article can be proded after the article has been transwikied. Though I have no idea how wiktionary decides whether it fits their inclusion criteria, and if they reject it, how we make sure it doesn't get deleted here. Or do some articles end up permanently stuck in transwiki:-land? --Interiot 00:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TurkeY and JRRTolkieN

Restored per your request. Thanks for the historical insight! NawlinWiki 17:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Wikipedia talk:Notability (news)

On the Wikipedia talk page for Wikipedia:Notability you expressed some opinions about whether things covered by news media should be entitled to Wikipedia articles for having met the criteria of multiple coverage in reliable independent sources I have created a draft of a proposed guideline Wikipedia talk:Notability (news) looking at the question of whether "newsworty" equals "encyclopedic." Your input is welcome. Thanks.Edison 01:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Functionaries

Interiot,

I think a channel like this is a good idea and I'd like to try it. My IRC nick is "Audacity".

Thanks, Λυδαcιτγ 18:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Do I need to be on IRC for this to work? Λυδαcιτγ 18:20, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Nope, you don't need to be on. Okay, just type /msg chanserv invite #wikipedia-en-functionaries before joining, you should be fine. --Interiot 06:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] irc admin channel

What do I gotta do to get an invite to #wikipedia-en-admins? Thanks! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 01:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Just let me know what your IRC nick is, and I'll add you. --Interiot 06:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unborn

Hey Interiot, I was looking around on your work at the toolserver and I was thinking the unborn-report was a good idea, but do you have any tips on how I should go on about customizing it for use on norwegian wikipedia? -- Atluxity 14:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, the source is here. In this case, the script looks for things that look like "Category:* Deaths", that's all it triggers off of. Does norwegian wikipedia have categories set up something like that? --Interiot 15:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, we have "Kategori:Fødsler i *" and "Kategori:Dødsfall i *". I see you use regex, could you help me with that, i havent learned that yet? -- Atluxity 15:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
.* means any string of characters (0 or more in length). [aA] is just a shortcut for case-insensitivity (eg. accepts either "a" or "A") since I wasn't sure how to turn that on otherwise. --Interiot 15:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
I found it to be easier for me in python and the pywikipediabot framework, but thanks for the idea anyway. :) -- Atluxity 23:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Browser statistics

Hi Interiot, maybe you can answer my question. I'm looking for some statistics about the browsers used for reading or writing in Wikipedia. Is there anything available? Thanks in advance, ThT 07:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Not that I know of. The people doing the hitcount statistics on the toolserver could probably generate it though. --Interiot 14:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reflist

Please see my reply to your discussion on Reflist here. Thanks! --Anthony5429 22:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles created by me

I hope your surgery went well. Last time I asked, the toolserver was down, but I saw someone's successful request from 1/18, so I figure it wouldn't hurt to ask again. Could you please run the articles created by me for my en. account, if and when you get a chance? Thanks.-Andrew c 02:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. And the list of articles you created should be here in a few minutes. --Interiot 23:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, kindly.-Andrew c 17:44, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Hey Interiot, quick question if i use an image under the Public domain, like the author died more than a 100 years ago, do i need an source? just wondering, hope all is well with your surgery. Nareklm 23:26, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Wikipedia:Image use policy#Rules of thumb says "2. Always specify on the description page where the image came from". Also see Wikipedia:Verifiability, which says that "any reader should be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source", eg. make sure the image is accurate, etc. --Interiot 23:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
One more question can i use this on, wikipedia and what license? thanks for all your help man, [18] Nareklm 17:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
If it fits the details listed at {{PD-old}}, then that's the one. --Interiot 17:34, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Oh i thought i can use the creative commons one, or which one is that compatible with. Nareklm 17:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
No, creative commons only applies when the original author explicitly licenses their work under it. Or am I misunderstanding the question? --Interiot 20:22, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Nope your right i created the image with PD-old and i put the photo tooken by elmada i emailed him on flickr and he lets me use his images. Nareklm 20:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
If you're discussing Image:Sovietarmeniamon.jpg, then {{PD-old}} doesn't apply, since elmada is still alive. --Interiot 20:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I fixed the license im sure this will work since he lets me use the images, with his name. Nareklm 20:41, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Okay. --Interiot 20:42, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Opt in

I was wondering if you would add in a feature to mass opt in. I do not want to do it on every wiki one by one. --Cat out 14:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

If you have so much accounts, you could create a small bot that will interact directly with your browser. (Be sure to save cookies on every wiki before running one.) — 87.236.197.182 16:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC) (w:ru:User:Kalan · Talk)
I can manually do it, if you give me a list of username/servers. It's easier to script on the back end, for what it's worth. --Interiot 17:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Feature requests

Hi! Sorry that I (may be) disturb you with my requests.

  1. Could you add some graphs to the edit counter? They will show more private information (but anyway, it's available from user contributions page), so, I think, there is a need in something like "OptIn level 2".
  1. A graph that shows daily activity of the user (something kinda this, but about number of edits;
  2. Same graph for the weekly activity;
  3. ~ for the monthly activity.
  1. I think it will be especially useful when replication lag will hit zero.
  2. AFAIK, it's easy to get number of bytes added/removed in each edit. Could you write a tool that shows the report like the edit counter does, but on the bytes added/removed, and with same opt-in(s) and graph(s)?

P.S. I've changed your picture on the top of this page to the cropped version. Do you agree that it's not necessary to download the whole picture when only top 100px are used, don't you? And sorry that I've taken your idea to my talk page. :) I think I'll take a new picture soon (and, probably, one especially for you... if you need ;)).

P.P.S. Sorry for my English.

— 87.236.197.182 16:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC) (w:ru:User:Kalan · Talk)

? — 87.236.197.182 10:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's possible, but I don't understand the details of why it would be useful, or the specifics of how it might be presented. --Interiot 11:27, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Hmm… try to imagine a curve plotter. It will raise up when user contributes, and will fall down when user is inactive. These graphs will show "personal" information, that's why something like "opt-in 2" is required. It will be userful for some purposes, e.g. for analyzing the user's contributions more effeciently.
What's about second feature… You know that many people take an edit count as an estimation of user's works on Wikipedia, that is not actually so. (And "Zen Wisdom" on the bottom of the page doesn't help :() Someone saves page 5 times per minute, fixing only several letters, someone spends hours making one big edit. Count of bytes that user had added (removed? :)) to Wikipedia (or any other wiki) is more objective quantity. Of course, if there are images and media, they will (probably) outdo them all, but it's not a problem because edits (creations, uploads) will be separated by sections (*** bytes added/removed in mainspace, *** in images, *** in categories, […]). (All you need is to copy the edit counter and change the values to bytes). A base of this method is the number of bytes that is represented, e.g., in recent changes, like (+87) or (-17 318) (omg, another vandal...).
Sorry for the late reply (my hub has burned down due to power faults :().
— 87.236.197.182 10:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
... — 82.208.10.16 09:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC) 82.208.10.16 09:04, 26 February 2007 (UTC) wtf? 87.236.197.182 09:07, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edicount

I agree to the edit counter opt-in terms Aliman5040 08:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

You have to do it on your own talk page... --Interiot 12:21, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Undead

Would you be so kind an attempt to run the undead report on the toolserver? The en-data isn't that old yet. -- User:Docu

Okay, done. --Interiot 11:27, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Great, thanks. It worked this time (8000 entries, 5000 with birth years =>1930). --User:Docu
I posted the update to Category_talk:Living_people#Undead_report_updated. -- User:Docu

[edit] Regarding dogsun06

First of all, I totally understand your reasoning behind deleting the page. In truth, I was unaware of that criteria for speedy deletion, though I'd be lying if I said I thought the redirect was totally legitimate. I did think it was harmless, but that doesn't justify having done it, so I apologize for causing you to have to take the time to delete it. I was wondering how you came across it. I sincerely hope it wasn't getting any exposure since the only reason I created it in the first place was I thought no one would ever see it, and therefore it wouldn't cause any trouble. -- Hinotori(talk)|(ctrb) 05:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I just ran a script that found all cross-namespace redirects, see User:Interiot/xnr for its output. For what it's worth, everything on Wikipedia gets downloaded by a variety of people on a weekly/monthly basis, and there are scrapers that duplicate the content elsewhere, so everything here gets at least minimal exposure. If you intend it to get less exposure, you may consider hosting it on a server that doesn't get quite so much traffic. --Interiot 08:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
It wasn't that I didn't want it to be exposed so much as I was somewhat worried that someone might come across the page and think it was a legitimate article. Not that it wasn't pretty obvious (the heading would have been a dead giveaway), but you just can never tell with some people. However, given that you used a script to find it, I don't think that's a serious issue. Thanks for the reply. Cheers. :) -- Hinotori(talk)|(ctrb) 09:29, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unknown namespace 102

Hi! I just want to say, that there's new namespace on Polish Wikipedia - "Wikiprojekt". There's also "Dyskusja wikiprojektu". So, if you can, please, fix it :) And I've got a question: is it possible to count how many articles a given user has started? -- Kangel 18:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, the new namespace should work now. Here's the list of articles you created on plwiki. --Interiot 22:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks :) -- Kangel 00:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your comments

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for your comments at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 February 17‎ regarding the Edit counter redirect (I'm guessing for obvious reasons you have Wikipedia talk:WikiProject edit counters‎ on your watch list!). I understand that cross-namespace redirects aren't allowed, however I really thought that this redirect was important for wikipedia editors. But as I've said, I can undertand your concern, and I won't persue a keep any longer RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 01:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, they aren't prohibited... WP:CSD#R2 only mentions User:, User talk:, and Talk: spaces, since that's all we have clear consensus for at this point. Also see User:Interiot/cross-namespace redirects#Wikipedia:, where there's lots of other XNR's. Personally, I think it should be obvious why cross-namespace redirects are mere clutter that need to be cleaned up, and that for every supposed benefit to XNR's, there's a better way to do it, but apparently not everyone sees it that way. --Interiot 01:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Opt in" in edit count

Hello, I've tried to Opt in daily/weekly graphs for my account at Russian wikipedia but received an error [19] I think that it's happened because my account name contains cyrrilic chars. How I can opt in daily/weekly graphs? Калий 07:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I can reproduce the problem... it looks like it's trigged by Maximaximax's edit summary while loading this page. I'm a bit stumped why XML::Smart is getting hung up on it though. I'll try to keep working on this... --Interiot 05:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
So, when you can repair edit count? :) Калий 09:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I haven't had time to find out what the problem was, but I've manually opted you in for now. Sorry 'bout that... --Interiot 13:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, thank you very much :) Калий 19:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles started

Hey Interiot, I'm user "DINO2411" on German Wikipedia (my discussion page is de:Benutzer:DINO2411). Could you prepare one of those great "articles started"-lists for me? Thanks in advance, --134.155.136.8 08:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC) (not registered on en:WP)

Happy to, here's your report. --Interiot 15:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Great ;-) --134.155.136.120 17:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, would you mind generate list of articles i have created on Finnish Wikipedia with username Zxc?. I've started around ~300 articles and i can only remember about third of them. --Zzzzzzzzzz 10:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure thing, here you go. --Interiot 14:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Would you please also update en:User:Agathoclea preferably mainspace only. Agathoclea 11:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Here's yours. --Interiot 14:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thanks again! Agathoclea 18:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit tools

The da Vinci Barnstar
I, Steptrip, award you The da Vinci Barnstar for developing numerous edit count tools that exhibit extraordinary performance and benefit Wikimedia Greatly. ~Steptrip 02:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much. --Interiot 02:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In case you have not been adequately thanked

Thank-you for the very useful and functional "count" tool. Jerry lavoie 05:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editcounter: partial opt-in possible?

Hi Interiot, is there a possibility to opt-in for the display of the percentage of edits in Articles / Img/Cat/Templates and so on but not to opt-in for the daily and weekly graphs? --C.Löser 22:55, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure can, but I have to do it manually. How's this? For what it's worth, the contribution tree can also be toggled on and off... I've toggled it on for you, but I can manually turn it off if you'd like. --Interiot 22:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Now that was quick! No, its just perfect as it is now. Thank you very much! :-) --C.Löser 23:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did I forget something?

Hello! I tried to "opt in" for your edit counter/analyser and I thought I did it right diff but when I refresh the pages it doesn't change. Did I miss some detail? Thanks! —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 03:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Elipongo is the one that's supposed to be edited. Anyway, I manually opted you in, you should be good to go. --Interiot 03:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Silly me. One of these days I'll learn to follow instructions properly. Thanks! —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 03:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editcounter l

Hello. A thought has crossed my mind when one of the Polish Wikipedia users asked me about editcounters in the local language - have you ever considered translating it into at least those languages which have the largest Wikimedia projects? If so, I would gladly participate in the work for the PlWiki users. Cheers. Wpedzich 20:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC) (Polish talk page preferred for reply).

I've considered it, though I don't have any experience doing localization, either in C or Perl. I guess [20] [21] [22] are decent documents to read that may help me get started. And [23] [24] [25] are various frameworks that can help. Okay, I'll look into whether I can implement the code changes.
(note to self: MediaWiki has one resource file per language, and it provides a function (eg. in MediaWiki, it's wfMsg(...)) that outputs the desired string in the current language). --Interiot 21:36, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


Hi. With PHP l10n is usually done with some array indexed with code names, so I'm just thinking if you could simply add some constants that would point to desired point in the array. So with C you could use something like:

l10n.h
#define TR_PAGE_TITLE 0
#define TR_NAMESPACE_0 1
//...
#define TR_LANG_NUM 2

static char *tr_arr[TR_LANG_NUM][] {
    {//en
        "Edits of %s -- Interiot\'s counter",
        "Articles"
    },
    {//pl
        "Edycje %s -- Licznik Interiota",
        "Artykuły"
    },
};
counter.c
#include "l10n.h"
//...
int lang;
lang = getLangNumFromBrowserPref(); // haven't used CGI so I don't know how to do this
/*
^^^ that could be already inside the above function
if (lang==-1)
{
    lang = 0; // default
}
*/

//...
pagetitle = sprintf (tr_array[lang][TR_PAGE_TITLE], username);

Not a very stable solution (it will crash when you add some variable to the main lang, so you would have to add to all languages).

In Perl you could use something like:

l10n/lang_en.pl
%tr_arr = (
    "Page title" , "Edits of %s -- Interiot\'s counter",
    "Namespace 0" , "Articles"
);
l10n/lang_pl.pl
%tr_arr = (
    "Page title" , "Edycje %s -- Licznik Interiota",
    "Namespace 0" , "Artykuły"
);
counter.pl
# include appropriate file
$lang = getLangCodeNameFromBrowserPref();
$filename="l10n/lang_$lang.pl";
if (exists $filename)
{
    eval "require $filename";
}
else
{
    require l10n/lang_en.pl; # default
}

# ...

$pagetitle = sprintf ($tr_arr["Page title"], $username);

But (as you may see) I generally don't use Perl, so there may be some rubbish here ;). I don't really understand how does this "require" work, so this just the basic idea. --Nux (talk) 19:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TV

Well, you finally succeed on getting your editcounter is on national TV [26]. I knew that was your plan when you created it. ;) Poor Essjay. Prodego talk 03:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Woohoo, I've got my 5 seconds of (unattributed) fame. :) --Interiot 04:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
The AP is saying that Essjay contributed "thousands of articles to the sprawling Web encyclopedia". Contributing to thousands of articles is vaguely right (the actual figure looks just shy of 1400, which I wouldn't really call "thousands"), but can we check how many articles he actually started? Anville 23:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if ze Germans will consider it a privacy issue to run it without his permission, but I'm curious also, so the report should show up here eventually. (the query is taking an awfully long time to run due his large number of edits). --Interiot 23:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Ha, the query ran so long that a toolserver admin killed the query. Hrm. I might try it later, but I'm not sure I can do it... perhaps someone else with a full database dump can run the query? --Interiot 23:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit counter - unique pages, not articles

Resolved.

Hi, I think your edit counter is great, but shouldn't it say "number of unique PAGES" rather than "number of unique ARTICLES"? ElinorD (talk) 11:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, done. --Interiot 16:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I need help

Dear interiot, i had tried idea to activate Opt-in to Opt-out.It was successful, But now it changed to Opt-in my page check this http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=jigesh&dbname=mlwiki_p ,Can u help me? to activate again Opt-out --Jigesh 20:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry about that. Once you opt-out, I have to manually opt you in. I need to make this system easier to use. Anyway, do you wish to opt-in to only specific things? (eg. I can turn off the bottom two graphs if you'd like). --Interiot 20:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, I tried again, it is working now. thanks for your support. --Jigesh 20:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lists redirected to categories

Hi - This is probably not the place to discuss it, but it strkes me that redirecting lists to categories generally shouldn't be considered to be a problem (re User:Interiot/cross-namespace redirects). Can you think of where this actually should be discussed (perhaps WP:VPP?)? -- Rick Block (talk) 19:54, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

The existence of the list doesn't mean any of the redirects are necessarily a problem (though WP:CSD#R2 does say that specific ones are clearly not wanted, and I think that sometimes it's clear that individual redirects were created as a mistake). Other than those two examples, there hasn't been clear consensus for deleting other types of cross-namespace redirects (see WP:CNR).
Cross-namespace redirects have been discussed in the past at WP:CSD, WP:RFD, and WP:CNR so perhaps there's some discussion in those artchives. If you have specific concerns, yeah, WP:VPP could work (or, if you're pro-deletion for a certain class of redirects, you can nominate an example for WP:RFD to see what kind of response you get). --Interiot 20:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A request...

I've listed all the best tools I know of on my tools page. Would you be so kind as to look it over to see if there are any especially useful tools that I've missed, or if there are better alternatives to the ones I do have listed? I'm really interested in your feedback. I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist   17:36, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I haven't been really active in the tools front for a while... Asking at #wikimedia-toolserver might get more informed answers... --Interiot 05:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles started request

Hello Interiot, I was wondering if you could do the article started tool on my account, so I can see the articles I've started. I can't remember most of them, and it'd be very helpful, that way I can work on the ones needing improvement. Thanks in advance. :) --theblueflamingoSquawk 22:07, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Of course, I'm happy to. Yours will be here in a few minutes. --Interiot 05:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
And the query got terminated because it ran too long. :( I'm not sure I can run it, unless someone bugs DaBpunkt to allow the query to run longer, or unless someone else can run the query on an offline database. --Interiot 23:45, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Agreement

I agree to the edit counter opt-in terms- Enzino 18:24, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I just try to opt-in, but it seems as not working. Some help? Thanks…-Enzino 18:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

You're supposed to do it on your talk page, not mine. Anyway, you're opted in now. --Interiot 03:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit count far off

My edit count displays 25 edits. I have almost 250. I can't figure out why my edit counter is stil lso far off or how to fix this (If I can fix it on my own). What do I do? --Scorpios 03:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

As the blinking red section at the top notes, enwiki data is only replicated up to 1/22/2007. At that point, you did only have a few edits. Until the toolserver starts replicating enwiki data faster, you may wish to use a different edit counter, such as this one. --Interiot 03:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

During the Super Paper Mario debacle, I lost my cool. While I should have and could have controlled my temper and not make sarcastic and/or rude comments, I did anyway, so I apologize.

Also, you really ought to archive your talk page some. Just some advice. - A Link to the Past (talk) 19:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I didn't mean archive all convos including recent ones. o.o - A Link to the Past (talk) 19:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:MacTonight glass.jpg)

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 11:15, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:ComputerSpace.jpg

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