Archive for June 2008

WP:PW newsletter

The next issue is ready to be delivered here. Thanks! ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 20:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:Pro Wrestling Newsletter

Hey there. I am having a problem with your bot that delivers the WP:PW Newsletter. My name is on the No Spam list, but I'm still getting the newsletter. Can you help? Thanks! -- Me^Holla! 23:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. A subtle bug in the delivery algorithm. You are listed in the memberlist as "Jasont82" but on the spam opt-out as "Me". As the bot first creates a complete delivery list (by subtracting one list from the other) and only follows redirects when actually delivering (without checking the opt-out again) it explains why you received the post.

Now we have two options. I can either try to accommodate for this situation (i.e. check for nospam on delivery instead of on preparation), which might not be as easy as it sounds (due to the nature of the bot's code). Or (the lazy approach, perferable for me :P) you can just update your username on the memberlist. Which will it be, then? ;-) Cheers, Миша13 19:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

HA! I thought that had something to do with it, but when I looked at the list, it was listed as User:Me I'll delete and readd and see if that helps! -- Me^Holla! 23:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Grawp-bot

Does your block-bot (kudos for having the skill to write it, and the balls to run it, btw!) also handle clearing up the pagemove mess afterwards? Because having edits like these in a user's page history honestly makes me sick. Since you're running an adminbot already, would it be reasonable to do poor-man's-oversight on each page replaced; deleting the page and then restoring everything but the revisions with the ugly page title? Being able to make such horrible vandalism disappear would go a long way towards fulfilling the I in WP:RBI. Just a thought - and if your bot doesn't do the cleanup, ignore the above (although perhaps it would be a sensible addition... you use pywiki, right?). Happy‑melon 21:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

What's interesting to know is that the bot's been running (quite silently) since around Oct '06 (times where WoW was still around). It used to be pywiki, but that's been thrown out of the window during the recent rewrite, due to speed issues (the framework is too slow with getting the edit token and posting the form - now it's being periodically fetched on a separate thread every few minutes) - now it's mostly just the brilliant Twisted framework.

Regarding cleanup, I never got round to write it, mostly because my long-time experience taught me that it's easy to botch it even when reverting manually (I once or twice deleted the actual page by overwriting it with a redirect, having a wrong checkbox ticked :P), much less with a bot.

Finally, there was at some point an idea that admins could delete individual revisions (pretty much like Oversight, only it would remain visible to other admins and in the logs) but it didn't seem to stick for some reason. Too bad, since for big pages deleting entire histories is stressful for the servers (a limit of 5000 revisions was introduced, which might make manual revision deletion impossible in many cases). Миша13 22:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Odd image deletion

Hi, Misza13. I notice you deleted Image:Terror of MechaGodzilla 1975.jpg because it was not used. And, indeed, the deleted image shows no article-links. However the image actually was in used at the article on the film Terror of Mechagodzilla. Perhaps the image description was not done correctly? If you could restore the image, I will provide a description/justification for it. Thanks. Dekkappai (talk) 22:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Done. Description aside, you should first and foremost include the image back in the article. ;-) Миша13 22:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, will do! Dekkappai (talk) 22:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)