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Encoding problem with edit counter hu translation

The Hungarian interface for your edit counter is apparently written in ISO-8859-2 but sent to the browser as UTF-8, causing a lot of errors. example Could you please re-encode it? Thanks --Tgr (talk) 09:29, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

PHP seems to have lots of issues with UTF characters, so things get encoded wrong and whatnot. I'll look into this. (X! · talk)  · @938  ·  21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

I corrected the encoding (along with other things) at your translator form. I accidentally submitted it twice, the first is half-finished. --Tgr (talk) 19:34, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, it works fine now! --Tgr (talk) 18:52, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Finished translation for Edit Counter

Finnish translation

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image protection

The MPUpload bot is protecting main page images with a protection time of indefinite. Shouldn't it be for only 24 hours?

MPUploadBot

Howdy. Is there any chance that User:MPUploadBot can check to see if the Commons Image's license exists here before it copies the image over? The reason I ask is because for about roughly 5 hours, 3 of the images on the main page (, , and ) had no valid license on them. The images should probably still have a license tag even though the images were all freely licensed and possibly only here for a day.--Rockfang (talk) 06:09, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

If you have a moment, could you please respond?--Rockfang (talk) 18:49, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

On a somewhat related note, this bot uploaded this image without a license. Please respond, because they are both somewhat big issues.--Rockfang (talk) 05:22, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

It has done it again.--Rockfang (talk) 00:44, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

I've started a discussion regarding your lack of response here.--Rockfang (talk) 03:49, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

User:EyeEightDestroyerBot

They appear to have approved User:EyeEightDestroyerBot, please use it, please.--IngerAlHaosului (talk) 17:41, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

It was approved for a 1 time run that was completed long ago. There's no use for it now, unless someone asks for more limited deletion tasks under I8. (X! · talk)  · @951  ·  21:49, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Documentation

Do you suppose you could add to the Peachy documentation info on how to make a "Hello world" edit to, say, page "Sandbox" after the bot has logged in? I can probably figure out the rest from there. I'm creating a new bot and have been resorting to wikibot, which kinda sucks because I don't want to invest in a different bot framework when we've already chosen the superbotframework. Tisane /_stalk 22:09, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Done @ . (X! · talk)  · @989  ·  22:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

In order to idiotproof people's getting started with this framework as much as possible, I recommend making a .tar.gz file, and possibly a .zip file, available from http://compwhizii.net/peachy/Download . If you want to change $wgFileExtensions to allow those file extension(s), I can upload it. I have also compressed r151 (today's revision) of the file and put it at http://libertapedia.org/w/images/3/35/Peachy.tar.gz if you don't feel like compressing it. Tisane /_stalk 03:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

What's not idiotproof about SVN? (Come on to IRC at #wikipedia-BAG, we can discuss this quicker than talk pages) (X! · talk)  · @188  ·  03:30, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Some bot users might not want/need to use SVN. For one thing, not everyone likes to use Linux or even the Windows command line, so they would probably end up using TortoiseSVN, which involves unnecessary hassle. It's just easier to let them download it; MediaWiki.org provides a tar.gz for that very reason. OK, I'll head over to IRC. Here's a possible logo for $wgLogo, by the way. Tisane /_stalk 04:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Template Undeletions

Hiya X!, could you do me a big favour and restore the templates substchecktop and substcheckbottom except the last revisions on both of them? Thanks pal. :) Set Sail For The Seven Seas 351° 51' 45" NET 23:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

I'll just ping you on this one! Set Sail For The Seven Seas 169° 35' 30" NET 11:18, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Why? They were deleted for "it is a useless template that brought havoc to Misplaced Pages". Why do you feel they should be restored? (X! · talk)  · @950  ·  21:48, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Basically, I created them and there were some problems with their implementation. It was assumed that templates were at fault, but it has been realised that this wasn't the case. The reason, "it is a useless template that brought havoc to Misplaced Pages" was exaggerated due to the aftermath of these events. You can check the code and see that they could come in handy. Also, I could demonstrate the usage of the templates to you if you want. Thanks. :) Set Sail For The Seven Seas 345° 18' 15" NET 23:01, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

RPED plugin

Hi X!, Thanks again for your help yesterday. I have created an rped plugin. I would like to commence testing/debugging, but am not sure how to properly instantiate the RPED class from the bot .php file once $wiki has been set. Any advice on this matter? Thanks, Tisane /_stalk 03:57, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I've fixed it up to Peachy plugin standards. Here's how you use it...

Peachy::loadPlugin( "rped" );
$rped = RPED::load( $wiki );
$rped->insert( $page );

(X! · talk)  · @497  ·  10:55, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I got the rped plugin to work, so it's tested and ready to commit. What's the full svn command that I should use to check out the code in a way that will let me commit? (With mw:Commit_access#Getting_started_and_set_up, you have to use svn+ssh; if you just use the http://, it won't let you commit.) Is there anything else I need to do, like change ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub? Thanks, Tisane /_stalk 06:09, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

The instructions are at http://code.google.com/p/mw-peachy/source/checkout (X! · talk)  · @498  ·  10:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Oh, OK. The instructions for the https didn't appear at first because I wasn't logged in. It's all good now. Thx Tisane /_stalk 17:37, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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edit counter help?

Month counts User has not yet opted in. If you want to see graphs, please create User:Wiki ian/EditCounterOptIn.js with any content. Alternatively, you can create meta:User:Wiki ian/EditCounterGlobalOptIn.js to opt-in across all Wikimedia wikis. Top edited pages User has not yet opted in. If you want to see graphs, please create User:Wiki ian/EditCounterOptIn.js with any content. Alternatively, you can create meta:User:Wiki ian/EditCounterGlobalOptIn.js to opt-in across all Wikimedia wikis.

Once I have created editcounteroptin.js do i have to add any code to the page itself? or is it meant to be just a blank page? Wiki ian 03:32, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't matter what's on the page as long as it exists. Regards, {{Sonia|ping|enlist}} 03:38, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

I created the page and I'm not seeing anything new on the edit counter..... Does the new page only reflect future changes and not past changes? is there any reading material online regarding the edit counter? cheers Wiki ian 03:53, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

MPUploadBot for FP's

I'm not sure if something changed recently, but the bot is deleting the local file pages for featured pictures after being displayed on the page. Instead of deletion, it should be restoring the previous version with FP and POTD tags intact. I recently discovered we are slowly losing our index, and am working to correct it. Is there something you can do? Jujutacular  18:37, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit count translation

I translated edit count Esperanto interface three times. But my translations are not shown. Please notice Unicode "Ĉiuj redaktoj:" should be "Ĉiuj redaktoj:". Is it possible to see translation history? Thanks Arno Lagrange ✉ 11:14, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Misspelling of rape?

"The string cannibal has a comment associated with it:this misspelling of "rape" is often deliberately used by vandals"

There's no way you can misspell rape as cannibal. --mboverload@ 05:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Soxred93 Test Upload.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Soxred93 Test Upload.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, we also need to know the terms of the license that the copyright holder has published the file under, usually done by adding a licensing tag. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Misplaced Pages:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged files may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Misplaced Pages:Fair use) then the file will be deleted 48 hours after 12:58, 5 July 2010 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:58, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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Please install extensions, etc.

I recommend installing the following on the Peachy wiki:

• SyntaxHighlight — Allow highlighting of source code using <source>
• Various gadgets (via Gadgets, which I see you have already installed). See also mw:Manual:Using_content_from_Wikipedia#Gadgets and Misplaced Pages:Gadget for more info on individual gadgets. Here are a few particularly useful ones:
  • HotCat
  • Twinkle
  • Friendly
  • Popups
  • WikEd
  • UTC Live Clock/Purge tab
  • Exlinks

Thanks, Tisane /_stalk 16:57, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

I emailed FinalRapture to install SyntaxHighlight GeSHi about a week ago, but he's incredibly busy IRL so he hasn't gotten to it yet. (X! · talk)  · @973  ·  22:20, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Peachy Barnstar

		The Peachy Barnstar
		X!, For your great work on the Peachy bot framework, you receive the Peachy Barnstar. Tisane /stalk 21:25, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

RFA Thank spam

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which failed with 10 support, 26 oppose, and 13 neutral. Your comments were much appreciated.

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Edit Counter showing reverts?

Hi. That Edit Counter is amazing. Is there any way it could also show how many reverts an editor has made?  HWV258.  22:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit counter: add new category "admin"

Hi, at interiot's counter there was an addional count for administrative edits (see e. g. File:Michiel1972edits.PNG). Is it possible to add this count into your counter? Gerald SchirmerPower (talk) 10:31, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

What exactly are "administrative edits"? (X! · talk)  · @612  ·  13:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

In the picture it's the red bar. I think Interiot has meant actions like delete a version or block an user. I can ask for that at the German Misplaced Pages. Best regards, Gerald SchirmerPower (talk) 10:24, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I got a fast answer. That are the admin functions delete/undelete, block/unblock and protect/unprotect (see your box here above left). Gerald SchirmerPower (talk) 10:56, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Barack Obama approval ratings file

Hello X!, I am posting to ask you about the Obama approval ratings file on the United States presidential approval rating article. While I think you did a fine job and appreciate the work that goes into making the charts, I think the Obama chart should be uniform with the rest of the charts for the other Presidents. Both visually, and by using only Gallup weekly polls as the source for the numbers. If you could either fix your chart to reflect this, or change to the old chart for the time being, it would be appreciated. Dave Dial (talk) 19:25, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

While I do see the benefit of having uniform graphs, it is much easier for a bot to generate the line graph instead of the other type. Additionally, I personally find the "additive" style of graph to be more confusing than the line tests, but I guess that's just me. But when I get a chance, I'll try to work on a bot-friendly graph. (X! · talk)  · @509  ·  11:13, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Tool

Hello X, there's a problem with your tool on the german wikipedia. If I open your tool Pages created by Niklas555, which is my nick in the german wikipedia, there is just one aricle created by me, which is not shown in the statistics. Kind Regards, --LP mAn (talk) 09:45, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

It seems that Niklas555 has only five edits on dewiki. Does that look right? If so I dont think it's a problem with X!'s tool, since it seems to be reflecting what it sees on the user contributions page correctly. —Soap— 10:07, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, the nick was Niklas 555. Greetings --LP mAn (talk) 12:33, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Errors in edit counter's Bengali localized texts

Hi buddy, I informed you about some issues of your new edit counter's localized texts. Remember? We met on IRC too about this matter. :) I am afraid, something wrong has happened. All the localized texts have changed, and turned into something that is not Bengali anymore, scrabble rather. For you information, when you launched this counter, It was me who provided the localized texts first. Then when you updated with that translations, it was pretty good. Unfortunately some days later I noticed that some texts were wrongly changed. Then I informed you about that here. We use your edit counter by default, so it is an important issue to us.

Can you let me know please, what is the problem? And feel free to ask any kind of information or assistance if you need. I will give my best. And I will be glad if you respond in my talk page, because my exam is running and I am on a rush. — Tanvir 13:24, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

If you need a fresh translation, than I can provide that here. Your choice. :) — Tanvir 13:27, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

MPUploadBot for FP's 2

The bot continues to fail to restore local revisions for featured pictures. Could you restore them manually please? Logs for FPs since the beginning of July that need restoring:

Any progress on fixing this? Jujutacular  15:44, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Judging from this log as well, the bot seems to be malfunctioning. If we don't get a response soon, I may have to block it. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:39, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I have manually gone through and restored the pages, as I am not an admin. I understand that you are busy, but please acknowledge that you've at least read this. The bot has worked correctly the past two days. Is it fixed now? (I'd like to stop worrying about this). Jujutacular  19:14, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it is fixed. Thank you for fixing those images, I fixed the bot and neglected to finish the work. Sorry about the trouble. (X! · talk)  · @942  ·  21:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Great! Thank you! Jujutacular  21:54, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

your editcounter

I've used your editcounter. It works really fine on all projects, except commons. What I'm doing wrong? Thanks for your help --Joergens.mi (talk) 17:30, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Please explain

See my post of 22:11 12 July and explain. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:13, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Responded there. Also asked BC/Delta on his talk to explain what is at a minimum forum shopping. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:32, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

As far as I'm concerned what Betacommand did was sneaky and underhanded. But that's his pattern and we'll be seeing him again. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit count translation -bis-

Did you notice my post : Edit count translation ? Thanks to taking care of it. Arno Lagrange ✉ 11:06, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit counter error

When using your editcounter with user names containing spaces, the link back to the user page contains plusses (+) instead of right escape characters (for example underscore (_), i guess), and so makes the link direct to the wrong (possibly missing) page. Please fix that, thank you! – 79.220.180.230 (talk) 11:55, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Encoding problem with RU translation of editcounter

Hello. The Russian language interface (example) is garbled for a couple of weeks now: trabslated parts are displayed in meaningless symbols while all non-article namespaces are displayed properly. Is it possible that somebody was trying to improve the translation and somehow the browser submitted wrong data? Thank you in advance if you decide to look at it. — AlexSm 20:34, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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Edit counter

FYI, it's still showing autoreviewer instead of autopatrolled. Kayau Voting IS evil 13:27, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

What do you mean? (X! · talk)  · @943  ·  21:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Kayau is referring to this. The userright "Autoreviewer" has been renamed "Autopatrolled". ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 21:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

In that case, I can't really change it easily. In the database, it is still "autoreviewer", which is where it gets its data. It just looks like "autopatrolled" because that's what the MediaWiki page says to display. (X! · talk)  · @948  ·  21:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit counter memory error

When I access your edit counter from this URL it repeatedly fails with Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 47 bytes) in /home/soxred93/public_html/pcount/counter.php on line 197. Probably due to my total number of edits, would you be able to fix it? Thanks Rjwilmsi 08:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Homoneura sp wb2.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Homoneura sp wb2.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Misplaced Pages takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. —mono 00:55, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Automated edit counter

Hey X!, I know you're busy, so by all means assign this the "when I'm in the mood" priority level! I just thought I'd let you know that your automated edit counter has a field for Igloo but doesn't seem to be recording Igloo edits. For example, I've done a lot of Igloo-assisted reverting with my alternative account (probably into the thousands), yet the counter says I've never made an edit with it. Not urgent, just thought I'd mention it. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:32, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

SoxBot and File:Sexsex.JPG

SoxBot seems to be recreating File:Sexsex.JPG and tagging it with {{badimage}}, despite the fact that no file exists under that name. It appears that this has been going on for nearly two months, considering the deletion log. Is there a way you can stop the bot from doing this? — ξ 01:17, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

speedy deletion of Klemmer.jpg

I uploaded a new version of the COL Klemmer JPG on the article 142nd Field Artillery Regiment (United States). I included the source, author and license information. Please remove the immediate deletion tag. Thanks 15:57, 19 July 2010 (UTC)Damon.cluck (talk)

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Edited SoxBot talk page

It is still a redirect, just that I blanked the warnings. AboundingHinata (talk) 15:27, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

FYI

WP:A/R/CL#Request for clarification: User:Betacommand. –xeno 17:05, 20 July 2010 (UTC)