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General, AltEdit, Checklinks, Dab solver, Dablinks, Dabfix, and Reflinks I'm available in ##dispenser (webchat) typically between 15:00 and 4:00 UTC Afraid's DNS is down. Use http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Main_Page in the meantime.

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Toolsaver

been using the toolsaver to DAB links the last week. The counter and points have stopped working for me. I also keep getting the same pages to edit back, so they are blank (as they've already been finished). What's up? Am I doing something wrong? I sign in with the credentials everyday, BTW. GenQuest 15:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Problem in ruwiki

Hi. Welcome back to wikipedia :) Please, check this topic: User talk:Dispenser/Dablinks#Problem in ruwiki. Thanks in advance. --Rave (talk) 16:52, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikiminiatlas and ml.wikipedia

Hi,

It is known from meta:WikiMiniAtlas that you are maintaining the text label database for that. What is the frequency of updating the database? Now, the data used for ml.wikipedia is pretty old. Please update it if possible.

With regards --Vssun (talk) 02:20, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Non-titles can have redirects

tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=Russonorsk_() is telling me "Russonorsk () does not exist on wikipedia:en". True, but that is no reason why it should not look for redirects! Please fix soonest. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Jinki disambiguation

One part of your edit here is a redlink.

• Jinki Fortress, part of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps

Perhaps this small mistake comes from the 1241 "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the Case of Abdel Aziz, Abdullah Mohammed" at p. 7 which mentions the Qala-al-Jinki Fortress battle?

I have removed the link here. --Ansei (talk) 19:23, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Safari bug on wikimapia.org links in geohack

Hi there.

I stumbled on the following bug, browser-specific, as it pertains to Safari 6.0.* and perhaps the earlier versions (6.0.4 in my case on Mac OS X 10.8.3):

When you choose the Wikimapia as the map provider, clicking either Map or Satellite link fails to position you at the mapped site, instead, in my case, I get the map of Chicago, where I happen to be (and my Wikimapia profile points to, but I only set that up yesterday; the bug predates my profile location-setting in Wikimapia). No problems with Google Chrome doing the same operation. Perhaps the geohack code needs to generate a slightly different URL for Safari? Safari does fine with the other map services such as Bing and Google Maps.

Best, --Mareklug 21:32, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Mareklug and I talked on IRC. This problem appears in the mobile interface and on Safari 5 (Windows). The problem was solved by adding lang=en to the URL. If anyone cares there's ~50 other wikis that need this change. — Dispenser 23:09, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Language parameter and location title in geohack

Hi Dispenser,

It seems that Google Maps URL generation works differently for various languages. Location title (in parentheses) is not generated when language=en or when the language parameter is not set at all.

For language=ru the location title is generated correctly.

Example:

The following two links do not produce location title for Google Maps:

The following link works correctly: [Link to ruwiki GeoHack

Best regards, --Klimov 14:02, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Works on the phone now, thanks!

It would be also nice, if the users would see a marker in desktop Firefox too.

All the best,

--Klimov (talk) 18:23, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Your recent changes to Geohack have broken the page. Selecting a link to Google Maps now does not work properly and Google says that it cannot find the page. It appears that Google will accept only the latitude and longitude and not the page title. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 18:10, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

It seems already fixed. --Klimov (talk) 18:25, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Looks like it is OK now. You must have been working on it even as I wrote. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 18:34, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Your changes to Geohack still do not work properly with Google Maps for names with parentheses in the title. Try this one: Adlai E. Stevenson High School (New York City), then click on the coordinates and then on Google Maps in Geohack. You will see that Google Maps cannot find the object. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 18:51, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

This seems to be fixed too. Works in desktop Firefox, but doesn't put a marker there yet. Thanks --Klimov (talk) 19:50, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Not fixed. Google Maps cannot find the desired object. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 20:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

So this was introduced in May 2010 and removed 9 months later, because it never quite worked right. So I test the following undocumented schemes:

• lat,lng - Show a green marker that often blends into the background. It also searches for a nearby point in the database and places a noticeable red "A" balloon. Users often get confused when looking at parks.
• Title near lat,lng - This performs a search for "title" in the area and marks the top 10 results
• Title@lat,lng - Unpredictable behavior
• lat,lng (Title) - This is what we what. Show the point without jumping to a nearby street and pull up the "information window location" with &iwloc=A. However, if there are two open parenthesis it wont work. I could get GeoHack to substitute them with a Unicode lookalike, but Internet Explorer doesn't show them.
• loc:lat,lng - This is what I've settled on. Works better than what we originally had, but lacks title information.

Thanks for baring with me. I've learned more about Google Map's URL parameters than I even care to really know. — Dispenser 02:44, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Webreflinks is 404?

http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Reflinks

The page you requested was not found on this server. This could be because:

You followed a broken or outdated link

You typed the page address incorrectly

The page no longer exists, or has moved to a new address

If you followed a link from another page, please inform the owner of that page about the broken link. Your browser sent this as the referring URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Dispenser/Reflinks

If you think you are receiving this page in error, or you have a question, please contact the owner of this document: dispenser toolserver org. K7L (talk) 01:41, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

See Misplaced Pages:Village pump (technical)/Archive_111#FYI: Toolserver web tools and bots down. GoingBatty (talk) 02:02, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Another bad Geohack link to be fixed

While you are in the business of fixing Geohack links, how about trying to fix the link to the National Map Viewer at National Map Viewer? It has been broken for a long time. Thanks. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 19:59, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Error running RDCheck

I got the following (copy/pasted) running rdcheck on Shuttlecraft (Star Trek):

for m in (bar.finditer(html, html.index(""), html.index("")) if in html else bar.finditer(html, html.index(""), html.index(""))):

<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: substring not found

Is there something on the page that's causing this? – Cbbkr (talk) 21:05, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

rdcheck.py failing with the option 'redirects only'

Hello Dispenser.

tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=A_Room_with_a_View_(1985_film)

gives an error message instead of the expected list of links.

This was reached by doing 'Whatlinkshere' on A Room with a View (1985 film) and then clicking on the option 'Show redirects only'. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 15:31, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

It's not just this one page - I was trying it with several templates yesterday and had the same problem. GoingBatty (talk) 23:05, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

It seems to be completely broken at the moment. ~KvnG 15:34, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Someone else brought it up at Misplaced Pages:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_112#This_is... GoingBatty (talk) 04:02, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Transcluded changes

I'm getting a SQL error on Transcluded changes - Template:WikiProject Globalization:

<class 'oursql.ProgrammingError'>: (1317, 'Query execution was interrupted', None)

--Meclee (talk) 13:45, June 6, 2013‎

watcher tool

Hi. This seems close to an XSS vulnerability. I'm not sure it is (I don't think I'm sufficiently clever to inject a <script> tag), but the un-sanitized output really ought to be addressed, I think. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:29, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Maxed out

Unable to use the tools for several hours now since the id is maxed out at 15 connections. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:02, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

The server was rebooted and wiped out the custom query killer program. This wont be happening again as I've finally figured out how to automatically launch screen from a shell and manipulate it. I've also added automatic JS reloading to a few more tools. The problem is partly exacerbated by browser increasing simultaneous connections from 2 to 6, reducing my simultaneous users from 7.5 to 2.5. — Dispenser 05:30, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Username

Hi Dispenser, your username is confusing. Lotje (talk) 11:12, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

What? --MZMcBride (talk) 01:21, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Dab Solver

Are there any plans to move dab solver onto labs. With the unreliability of the toolserver and how good a tool this was just wondering if you were considering it.Blethering Scot 18:25, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Upcoming migration to Labs

Hey, if all goes well, I'm hoping to migrate all my stuff to Labs next week. How does this affect you, what kind of coordination do you need from me? I can leave the scripts running on Toolserver as long as you like; I see no reason to shut them down once I've started them on Labs. Let me know if you need anything. --JaGa 03:47, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Recent change tool

This tool is excellent transcluded changes. Wondering if there is an easy way to determine how many changes are made to the main space of medical articles per day? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 13:39, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Checklinks is down

http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py answers with 404