User talk:NicoV

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I am mostly working on the French Wikipedia, contact me there if you want a faster answer


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[edit] Wikipedia Cleaner

Thanks for the program! It looks really good - I look forward to when I have time to use it. --Milton 19:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Cleaner

The link provided in the section (fr:Utilisateur:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner/Documentation (en)) leads to what appears to be a deleted French Wikipedia page.

However, upon further review, I noticed the link to fr:Utilisateur:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner at the top of the page, and followed it. Unfortunately, I don't understand French or what the page is designed to do.

I'm unclear on where the Java program exists, so that is why I removed the section, thinking it had been discontinued. I thought I was updating the page to reflect what was currently happening.

I think I may have acted too hastily and that there was a misunderstanding. Sorry for the confusion. Would you be so kind to explain where the program is to be downloaded / utilized ? Thanks. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 09:56, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

(P.S. I'm going to bed now, so I might not respond for 12-16 hours)

In retrospect, I suppose I was too bold and probably edited when I was too tired to make a logical decision. I probably should have talked to you first before making any stupid edits. Thanks for the explanation, and I look forward to using your program! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 21:05, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Cleaner

Great program. I've been using it for months and have disambiguated hundreds of pages with it. One recommendation I have, which I assume would be easy, is to be able to fix the redirect links. So when you right-click on one, you can change the link to the correct page. Even better would be a button that automatically corrects all of the redirect links to their correct pages. Having this would allow you to fix two problems at once. Another simple recommendation would be to have a change summary of what you have improved from the previous version, especially if there is a new feature that might not be very noticeable, but very helpful. There have been at least 5 updates since the first version I used, and I haven't noticed any differences in the features. Is there something I haven't noticed, or have they just been performance updates? MrKIA11 (talk) 20:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

  1. Yes exactly.
  2. That is perfect, but unfortunately I can't read French, so could you have an English version of it, most likely on the english page.
Thanks again, MrKIA11 (talk) 22:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Any article in the left list that is a redirect page shows as blue in the main text. This is obviously after selecting "Show redirect pages" in the option menu. In the Watergate scandal example, the first few are "18½ minute gap", "abuse of power", and "Assassination of John F. Kennedy". After looking further, I noticed that "other" pages are also shown in blue, so I will update the documentation to reflect that. Having redirect links in red as you said makes sense, so I assume that is just a small programing error. The reason I removed the parts of the documentation that are only on the French wiki version is because I assumed that they will not be used by users reading the English documentation, but I guess they could be editing the French wiki but using the English cleaner version, so I will leave that on the documentation. I do not know how to make an English equivalent to the French {{Page h}}, but I am going to try and see if I can find someone who can. MrKIA11 (talk) 16:11, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
I added {{Page d}}, the equivalent of {{Page h}}. I also updated the disambiguation Templates that are used. Also, for both the "Current Disambiguation List", and the "Watched Pages", what are each of the columns? They only have one letter, and I can't figure out what they stand for. MrKIA11 (talk) 18:28, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Great. I can understand your reasoning for everything. Thanks for describing what each column is, that should definitely help. MrKIA11 (talk) 23:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
That's great. But could I recommend placing it next to the Options button above the list, instead of down at the bottom. MrKIA11 (talk) 22:49, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Few problems/suggestions:
  • When a redirect is fixed, the Send button becomes inactive again.
  • Redirect links to disambiguation pages show as both a redirect and a disambiguation page, so if the redirect is fixed first, the page can not be fixed as it should be. Not sure how easy it is, but I recommend excluding all redirects to disambiguation pages so that they only show up on the main list.
  • When the {{dn}} template has been used, the Link to, Replace with and the other top-portion options on the context menu are not available, so someone that is able to fix the link can not chose what page, they have to type it.
  • Would it be possible for the {{dn}} template to have a small d. It does not affect anything, but that is the norm MrKIA11 (talk) 00:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello again. Couple of things:

  • I think you should change the wording for the Tools→Fix Redirects to Link ... to ..., instead of Replace ... by ...
  • When validate is clicked for a redirect page, the selection does not automatically move down to the next entry on the list
  • The Expand Templates window would be great, if you could do anything with it. Am I missing something, or is something to be implemented later?

Thanks, MrKIA11 (talk) 21:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I'm off for holidays, will take a look at this when I am back home.
Expand templates is just here to saw the expanded text of a page, I'd be happy to do more with it but I don't know how.
--NicoV (talk) 17:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I will see if I can show a page preview (that would be great), but I have to find something to render HTML in a Java program (maybe Cobra) --NicoV (talk) 10:09, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what's wrong, but version 0.61 is not downloading. I have restarted the program at least 5 times, but still nothing. MrKIA11 (talk) 23:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I know, I am on holidays and I don't have enough access to update it on my website, it will have to wait until the weekend. --NicoV (talk) 16:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
OK, no problem. I just assumed you had already since you updated the history of changes. MrKIA11 (talk) 16:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I just updated the documentation. The only thing, is that only internal links have contextual menus, external links do not. This is not a problem, but according to the documentation, they should. I also have some recommendations for different wording in the program itself:

  • In the analysis window > Tools menu > Fix redirects, "Link ... by ..." should be "Link ... to ...". I actually wonder whether "Fix redirects" should even be included in the tools menu anymore, as it is easier and better to do it directly in the main text.
  • "Occurrence" is spelled with 2 rs, not 1

Still a great program MrKIA11 (talk) 01:51, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "bethany erickson"

Hi. If you are NicoV of Jmol - Folding@Home, I am pleased to meet you again over here! I have just sent you an XYZ file for p4403.

A word of advice - on English Wikipedia, we don't just blank an unsuitable entry, as you did to "bethany erickson" (unless it contains a personal attack); what we do is add an appropriate speedy-deletion tag, in this case {{db-person}}. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 05:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

  • No problem, I am not too awake myself. Your Wikipedia Cleaner looks interesting, I might try it - I have been fixing links to DAB pages by hand occasionally. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 06:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ambiguous link

I am concerned by your change to {{ambiguous link}} permitting users to mark ambiguous terms in the form {{dn|Ambiguous term}}. This form is not recognized by disambiguation bots that typically search for [[Ambiguous term]] links, thereby making it harder for other editors to find and fix these links. Before making an issue out of this, I wanted to solicit your views and see if I am overlooking something. --Russ (talk) 20:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)