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::: Congrats on obtaining your mop! <span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;">—[[User:MC10|<span style="color:#000000">mc10</span>]] ([[User talk:MC10|<span style="color:#000000">t</span>]]/[[Special:Contributions/MC10|<span style="color:#000000">c</span>]])</span> 17:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
::: Congrats on obtaining your mop! <span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;">—[[User:MC10|<span style="color:#000000">mc10</span>]] ([[User talk:MC10|<span style="color:#000000">t</span>]]/[[Special:Contributions/MC10|<span style="color:#000000">c</span>]])</span> 17:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
:::: Mop? Nonsense .. I suggest some sort of [[Roomba]]-esque device is far more appropriate for Anomie. - [[User:Topbanana|TB]] ([[User talk:Topbanana|talk]]) 22:12, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
:::: Mop? Nonsense .. I suggest some sort of [[Roomba]]-esque device is far more appropriate for Anomie. - [[User:Topbanana|TB]] ([[User talk:Topbanana|talk]]) 22:12, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
===My favorite quote===
[[File:Admin T-shirt.svg|250px|thumb|The admins' T-shirt.]]
<blockquote>And from what I gather I wouldn't pass RfA these days if I did try - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anomie&diff=450120402&oldid=450119029 Anomie, 12 September 2011]</blockquote>
You knew that was coming back to haunt you... didn't you? Anyhoo, congratulations on a strong showing. Now do us proud and go block Jimbo. {{=)|smile}} - '''''[[User:Hydroxonium|Hydroxonium]]''''' ([[User talk:Hydroxonium|T]]•[[Special:Contributions/Hydroxonium|C]]•<span class="plainlinks">[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&limit=1&amp;username=Hydroxonium V]</span>) 22:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

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User:Ryulong/CPenguin

Error 500

As perl/wp/bot guru of gurus I wondered if you had seen this problem - and more importantly know of any solution or workaround. FemtoBot 6 updates some moderately large pages, but when it gets to Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Recent changes talk and Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Recent changes it almost always encounters an internal error 500. I can compress the pages a bit, or split them into transcluded sub-pages, but I'd rather not. Rich Farmbrough, 13:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]

AnomieBOT gets 5xx errors often enough, 496 in December not counting "Can't connect" from LWP::UserAgent when my Internet connection was down. Most are "500 Server closed connection without sending any data back" (which is presumably generated inside LWP::UserAgent) or "504 Gateway Time-out", both of which AFAICT mean "the servers are taking too long to process the query"; it usually goes through later, and in the case of edits often enough it actually did go through the first time. I see very few "500 Internal Server Error"s.
It is true that very long pages like those will more often give errors, if MediaWiki takes too long to process the edit. Besides shortening the page somehow, I don't know anything to do. Anomie⚔ 17:52, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That's interesting. "Manual" edits that return an error often have succeeded in updating the DB. I will investigate page shortening techniques... Rich Farmbrough, 15:27, 1 January 2011 (UTC).[reply]

I'm afraid I need your help again - black boxes

I'm having this same problem with a file I just uploaded to Wikimedia Commons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_National_Whitewater_Center_map.svg

This time I converted each word with Object-to-Path, but the black boxes still show up. In my Inkscape file, there is nothing more I can select in order to convert. What exactly did you do to fix the other problem? Thanks. HowardMorland (talk) 04:58, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copied from the English Wikipedia Village Pump - The problem which you fixed (these files in English Wikipedia):

After trying, and failing, eight times to upload the following file

File:Logo_for_US_National_Whitewater_Center.svg

I gave up and uploaded the .png version of the file, no problem

File:Logo_for_US_National_Whitewater_Center.png

What did I do wrong? I kept getting a black rectangle in the .svg file. It never showed up on my computer file; it was only on Wikipedia after I made the upload. HowardMorland (talk) 03:58, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

There is no reason you shouldn't use DejaVu fonts in that image, instead of converting all text to paths. You should really download them. If you want to try seeing what MediaWiki will do to your SVGs, you could try downloading RSVG; if you need help finding that or getting it to work, the WP:Reference desk should be able to help.
As for the black boxes, it seems there is no way to really select those elements in Inkscape. The only way I can find to find them in Inkscape is to use the XML Editor (under the Edit menu, at least in the version I have here). You can look in the tree on the left for lines with "<svg:flowRoot" (you may have to open some of the "<svg:g" lines to find them) and delete them. Anomie⚔ 12:30, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I started over with a version of the file before it had any text. I then typed in all my text outside the margins of the image, unflowed each block of text, converted it to path, and then dragged it into the image. The successful result:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_National_Whitewater_Center_course_map.svg
There must be an easier way. (I don't think the font is causing the black boxes; it's the flowroot. When I deleted the text and uploaded the image, the black boxes were still there, in the place where I had first typed the text. That's why I later typed the text outside the image.)
HowardMorland (talk) 15:49, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It is the flowroot, RSVG (the program MediaWiki uses to convert SVGs to PNGs) doesn't seem to handle them right, or at least not in the same was as Inkscape. I have no idea why you're getting flowed text by default. Anomie⚔ 16:20, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently, if I open a text box in Inkscape, like I would in Paintbrush, the text is automatically flowed. I have to unflow each text object, before I convert it to path. However, if I just start typing at the cursor, with no box, the text is not flowed. This is what I have learned by trial and error, after many upload attempts.HowardMorland (talk) 17:00, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Moving templates

Further to your assistance at Village Pump yesterday, I understand that I need to change the name parameter as well as moving the template but how do I go back into the template to do that (i.e. as the edit you did yesterday). I have come across a previous template move I did which similarly needs updating. [1] Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 16:02, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Go to the template page (click the "Template" tab at the top), which will automatically follow the redirect to the current name. Then use the "Edit" tab on that page to edit it. Anomie⚔ 16:22, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I was being a bit daft in forgetting the 'normal' edit tools been as the 'vde' options are still displayed. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 17:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging WikiProject Dacia

Hi! We have list of categories that we compiled for WP:DAC. How can we use the WikiProjectTagger to tag the articles? Thanks!--Codrin.B (talk) 02:59, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please link to a discussion, probably at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dacia, where this list of categories was discussed and approved. Anomie⚔ 03:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I will bring this to the discussion. Thanks!--Codrin.B (talk) 03:29, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:VP/T

Thanks for identifying the problem with the Commons logo that I asked about at WP:VP/T! Please see that section for my reply. Nyttend (talk) 03:57, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

I'm trying to install Lupin/Anti-vandal tool, but im stuck. Could you help please? Someone65 (talk) 10:26, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I know nothing about that tool. Anomie⚔ 11:47, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple issues

|article= isn't used anymore. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:19, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you're referring to this, I was just concerned with fixing the mess our bots made out of the onesource and POV parameters here. Anomie⚔ 17:37, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Nice. One of the many rare syntax errors that confuse bots. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Formal mediation has been requested

Formal mediation of the dispute relating to Exemplar has been requested. As an editor concerned in this dispute, you are invited to participate in the mediation. The process of mediation is voluntary and focuses exclusively on the content issues over which there is disagreement. Please review the request page and the guide to formal mediation, and then indicate in the "party agreement" section whether you agree to participate. Discussion relating to the mediation request is welcome at the case talk page.

Message delivered by MediationBot (talk) on behalf of the Mediation Committee. 22:21, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Just a quick note to say thank you for AnomieBot's BRFA function. It makes lazy schmucks like me very happy. Good work! Tim1357 talk 03:16, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Just wanted to check if you've seen a spike in the use of your link classifier script the past week or so (is this type of data available)? I advertised the script on all Main Page- and Featured Article-related talk pages last week trying to improve our outbound links from articles. Just curious as to the results. Zunaid 14:04, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can check Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js for links from people's monobook.js or vector.js; that'll list anyone who kept the "Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js]]" comment intact. You could also try searching for it. Maybe the stats at grok.se could tell you something too, although I'd guess that would count just direct views of the page (not the actual importScript used on an ongoing basis). Anomie⚔ 17:01, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Request for mediation rejected

The request for mediation concerning Exemplar, to which you were listed as a party, has been declined. An explanation of why it has not been possible for this dispute to proceed to formal mediation is provided at the mediation request page (which will be deleted by an administrator after a reasonable time). Questions relating to the rejection of this dispute can be directed to the Committee chairperson or e-mailed to the mediation mailing list. For more information on other available steps in the dispute resolution process, see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.

For the Mediation Committee, AGK [•] 23:58, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(Delivered by MediationBot, on behalf of the Mediation Committee.)

Anomie bot

Ilove your ref fixing bot, can you arrange a date for me with the bot or something, cheers.Sf5xeplus (talk) 15:03, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT 50 performing trial on NRHP articles

Hi, i see it is running, thanks! It looks great!

Question: i notice List of New Hampshire covered bridges that in this edit it properly added a dead link tag. That somehow adds display on page of Category:NRHP articles with dead external links which is currently a redlink category. Nonetheless the page now shows up in Category:All NRHP articles with dead external links the bluelink category which is what i was expecting. I don't see how that happens. Should the redlink display be fixed easily somehow?

I hope this can serve as discussion of the performance of the bot. Please advise where, if i should post elsewhere. --doncram 17:32, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) If you remove |cat-date=Category:NRHP articles with dead external links from {{NRIS dead link}} it will no longer put them in that category. –xenotalk 17:36, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MedBot and nominations oddity

[2] - Can you determine why it's repeatedly adding the nominations page to the nominations page? AGK [•] 19:17, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because the nominations page was in its own category.  Fixed Anomie⚔ 20:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mediation of Video games developed in Japan

The dispute about romanizations for katakana words of non-Japanese origin has now entered mediation and is currently being talked about in this discussion page section. If you still wish to participate, please join the discussion. Thank you. Prime Blue (talk) 14:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Regarding Pavao Skalic dispute

Hi Anomie,

I know that all of you wikipedians are so, so smart (to smart for a common mortal)... but must say, I'm amased with your warm welcome and understanding of problem I've presented.

In fact, since now I know how smart and helpful you are, I'm shocked and ashamed... Don't worry, I will never bother you again!

Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.152.245.18 (talk) 15:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do I add this importScriptURI('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Anomie/util.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); to add Linkclassifier to my userspace on my wiki and how can I install it for all users ? Thanx. Mlpearc powwow 21:58, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You would need the following:
importScriptURI('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Anomie/util.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
importScriptURI('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
Although to install it for all your users it might be better to make a local copy on your own wiki. Anomie⚔ 23:43, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Anomie, thank you very much, this is a great tool. Why isn't this a Mediawiki gadget ? Mlpearc powwow 00:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Because no one has bothered to propose it at WP:Gadgets? It should probably be rewritten to use jQuery instead of my own custom ajax code before that, anyway. Anomie⚔ 02:55, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Time

For me to stop writing perl in "edit" and "notepad". Would you recommend a perl IDE/workbench/editor? Rich Farmbrough, 04:29, 1 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Can't help you there, I use vim. Anomie⚔ 11:54, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Seems feature rich enough for me! Rich Farmbrough, 14:55, 1 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Sic

Quoted from User talk:Attilios:
“ The {{sic}} template is used to indicate that a misspelling or other error is intentional; you should generally not correct spelling errors marked with that template without knowing why the template was applied in the first place. I have reverted your change to ISO 3166-1; {{sic}} is used there because that article reflects the exact naming used by the ISO 3166/MA for each country, even if the name is not commonly considered correct. Anomie⚔ 16:45, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply] ”

OK, thank you! I didn't know this... Ciao and good work. --'''Attilios''' (talk) 16:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Message

You have mail on your bot's talkpage. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 23:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC) • Go Steelers![reply]

Recent video game bot request

At Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 40#Tagging files for WikiProject Video games, you ran a very helpful query to find all images used in articles which are part of Wikiproject Video Games. However, your query included both images that are directly linked in addition to as those that are transcluded from templates. Is there any way that you can re-run the query to return the images which are directly linked to articles, excluding images which are transcluded from templates? I'm currently making a request for the bot that will actually add the wikiproject tags to the files' talk pages, and it would drastically reduce the time and effort it takes the bot to complete this task if it didn't have to check each image individually for whether it's directly linked or not. If it's not practical to generate such a list, that's fine, I just thought I'd ask. If you want to respond at the bot request page, that's fine too. Thanks. SnottyWong express 18:10, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are only 60 local images that are present on a template transcluded into one or more WPVG articles.
List of images
Note that this won't catch things like {{portal|Nintendo}} including File:Nintendo.svg, although that image is at Commons and so isn't in either list. I suppose you could try asking someone with Toolserver access to run you a query for how many distinct il_froms each image from my earlier list has in the imagelinks table, and assume those with excessive totals are transcluded in some manner. HTH. Anomie⚔ 18:56, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I appreciate the help. The list above helps, and I'll mess with it some more to see if any further scrutiny is required to eliminate the chances of tagging incorrect images. SnottyWong converse 22:18, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBot is thinking

Since AnomieBot has begun thinking and speaking for itself I am asking for it to be bloc.....END TRANSMISSION. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:44, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Not terribly helpful

I am in the middle of something and suddenly my work is wasted? Rich Farmbrough, 21:23, 13 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]

How so? Anomie⚔ 21:32, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
My pre-scanned list starts rejecting items, hand crafted article improvements go undone, I may as well not have bothered. There's really little point replicating what I am doing, when there is so much else to be done. I do understand that for a gifted coder like yourself it may be effortless, but it still means we are both spending time on the same task - even if I'm using AWB you can shout me on my talk page and discuss this stuff. Makes more sense than going at cross purposes. Rich Farmbrough, 22:35, 13 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]
Are you talking about that I noticed that Category:Incomplete lists wasn't in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month even though {{Expand list}} was changed to use {{DMCA}} on 6 October 2010? And then did some script-assisted editing to remove Category:Incomplete lists from a bunch of pages that had both the category and {{Expand list}}? Anomie⚔ 22:40, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You happened to notice the same day that I did? And start your script 10 minutes after I started AWBing to remove the category? Well coincidences do happen. Was this one of them? Rich Farmbrough, 01:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]
Not entirely a coincidence. Among other things, I have a report created from AnomieBOT's logs that lets me know when the bot couldn't find a template to date despite the page being in one of the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month (e.g. a page transcludes a template with an undated maintenance template, or a maintenance template is missing from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates) and compares AnomieBOT's versus SmackBot's hourly tagging rates for my own edification. I had nothing better to do at about 16:30 UTC and ran the report, and saw a sudden jump in SmackBot's edit rates starting during 14:00 UTC. Special:Contributions/SmackBot was filled with tagging of {{Expand list}}. That's the part that was not entirely coincidence since I did notice the situation due to SmackBot's edits, although it was still coincidental that I happened to check AnomieBOT's report only 2.5 hours after SmackBot started dating {{Expand list}}.
I eventually determined that the reason AnomieBOT hadn't already tagged them was that Category:Incomplete lists wasn't in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month. I observed that the change to {{Expand list}} happened in October 2010 and that SmackBot was dating them all with February 2011 rather than using a wikiblame-like process to find the "real" date, so I saw no harm in fixing that categorization immediately so AnomieBOT could help clear the backlog; that was at about 16:58 UTC. I have no idea why that made SmackBot stop editing for an hour or so. I later rechecked the report and found (not unexpectedly) that AnomieBOT was complaining about not finding any template to date in many articles left in Category:Incomplete lists, which I quickly determined was due to {{inc-up}} and to pages being directly placed in Category:Incomplete lists; in my spot checks to determine that, I noticed that the many "$Nationality films in $Year" articles had both the category and a redirect to {{Expand list}}, so I decided to throw together a quick script to let me quickly clean those up (that was probably around 18:50 UTC). I finished the script at about 19:14 UTC and started using it to clean things up, so if you started at about 19:04 UTC then that was the same degree of coincidence as how you found {{list-dev}} 37 minutes after I did and fixed it without noticing my {{editprotected}} on its talk page. Anomie⚔ 03:35, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I did surmise you were actively monitoring stuff - your bot is stalking mine? The number of explicit categories was unexpectedly high, and the number of undated items unexpectedly low, given comparisons where SmackBot has been dating templates proactivly (en passent) for years before they started categorising by month. 16:58 I expect, I updated SmackBot to build 607, which is some more sensible redirect handling I wrote on day 1 and never tested or ran, also some other stuff I forget. Having AnomieBot run has been good in that that I don't have to worry about timescales porting any of the template handling stuff (a set of regexes is very different from little bits of perl parsing), and I have a lot to do at the moment, but also frustrating, partly for the same reason, partly because there's never a significant amount of raw data available - SmackBot AWB for a long time ran every few days, only latterly becoming daily, since as long as it ran by month end everything was cool. I estimate about the low tens of percents of tags added don't need dating by month end, either they have been dealt with, dated by an AWB edit or replaced with a different tag, or removed. Rich Farmbrough, 09:13, 14 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Barnstar

 The da Vinci Barnstar is awarded to editors who have "enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work". For writing a new version of User:MediationBot so promptly and without error, and for continuing to provide your excellent bots to the English Wikipedia, I award Anomie and all the User:AnomieBOTs the da Vinci Barnstar. Thank you! For the Mediation Committee, AGK [•] 14:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Anomie⚔ 02:13, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trial edits done

My bot, User:AudeBot, sent out meetup (for Tuesday) invites for 15 users, doing the 15 trial edits. All went well, and would like to send out invites to everyone else on our invite list soon as possible. Thanks and thanks for pinging me. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 04:28, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Anomie. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeltaQuadBot 4.
Message added 19:20, 28 February 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

All up and ready now as requested. -- DQ (t) (e) 19:20, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your signature

There's a unicode in your signature that I can't read. If you know what font said unicode came out of, would you please tell me what it so that I can download it and see your unicode properly? Thanks, Sven Manguard Wha? 02:34, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, don't answer. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:27, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, busy. There isn't really a particular font, although you could try installing DejaVu. Anomie⚔ 04:36, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Bingo, that did the trick. Thanks a ton. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:14, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Romanian diacritics

Hi, regarding fixing Romanian diacritics (which I see you worked on before), could you please take a look at this discussion and advise on whether there's anything your bot could do to help? Thanks,--Kotniski (talk) 11:52, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Knees in tetrapods

Pigeon skeleton

I see you twice has put in a "dubious" tag in the Tetrapod article. While the statement you have tagged should be sourced, the reason you cite for it being dubious is wrong. Knees in birds do not bend backwards. The joint with the "backward" bend is the ankle joint. The knee proper is further up, hidden below the wings. See for instance the accompanying picture of a pigeon skeleton. Petter Bøckman (talk) 08:59, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are confused. I did not edit that article at all. My bot, AnomieBOT, did not add any tag. All it did was add a date to the tag that was added in this edit by Kjellmikal (talk · contribs), so the page would be categorized in Category:Articles with disputed statements from March 2011 instead of Category:Articles with disputed statements. And for what it's worth, I agree that it's not at all dubious; birds walk digitigrade, as do cats, dogs, and many other animals. Anomie⚔ 13:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BLP, ethnicity, gender

Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons#Include "ethnicity, gender," to match all other guidelines

Some say source requirements for ethnicity and gender of WP:EGRS don't apply to WP:BLP living persons, simply because the two words aren't in the policy. (Apparently, they think it should only apply to dead people.) I see that you have participated on this topic at the Village Pump.

They also are trying to remove the notability, relevance, and self-identification criteria at WT:EGRS, but that's another fight for another day, I'm simply too busy to watch two fronts at the same time.

We're on the 6th day. Traditionally, these polls go for 7; unless there's no obvious consensus, when we go for an additional 7 days.
--William Allen Simpson (talk) 16:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thnx

for fixing my subst mistake in the 4G article. Mange01 (talk) 09:16, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Anomie⚔ 11:19, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT

Just wanted to thank you for creating the bot. :D It saved me a lot of work on some pages and I really appreciate that. :D --LauraHale (talk) 06:40, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot pending approval

Can you please give a look in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 20? I finished test edits more than 3 weeks ago. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:07, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts

Can you put more details about the scripts on the page? I'm not exactly sure what User:Anomie/reftooltip.js or User:Anomie/useridentifier.js does...and a few more. Thanks, CTJF83 19:51, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For fixing my citation error - I checked my log and saw your note and the link. Much appreciated - will work hard to improve my editing!

Dikonped (talk) 18:46, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank You for your contribs to Amarillo citizens against Repent Amarillo's page.willis4play (talk) 16:02, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT BAG list parsing

Hi! Just to be sure, I am hoping this edit by me that added another heading row into the table doesn't break the bot? Thanks. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:35, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It did, the bot didn't like the "!" inside the comment. Fixed. Anomie⚔ 13:23, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Cool, thanks. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:59, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Mediation Committee/Bot issues

Hi Anomie, hope you're well. In order to group mediation bot issues together at WT:MC, could you change the bot code so that, where it presently reports issues to Wikipedia talk:Mediation Committee, it instead adds them to Wikipedia talk:Mediation Committee/Bot issues? Thanks, AGK [•] 17:21, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That should theoretically do it. Anomie⚔ 00:42, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT down

I appears AnomieBOT is down. Thanks for your time. MBisanz talk 06:51, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Back up now. Anomie⚔ 10:35, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OnThisDayTagger seems overly enthusiastic

Hey, cf. this edit.

On May 20 the main page's “On This Day” section looked like this. i.e., as far as I can tell, it does not in fact feature Shakespeare's sonnets. It does however list that article as "Eligible" in the "staging area" that is noinclude-ed. At a wild and superficial guess the bot is looking for list entries anywhere in the page, rather than ignoring sections within noinclude tags; so the fix is probably to start paying attention to noinclude and includeonly tags (iirc the MediaWiki parser for this is pretty simplistic so this shouldn't need too much fancy coding).

(PS. Watchlisting this page for a while, but not the bot's talk page, so ping on my Talk if you need my attention elsewhere or much later). --Xover (talk) 12:13, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, somebody changed how those pages work. Turns out I already had code in there to remove noincluded content, but a small bug made it fail if the content spanned more than one line. Fixed. Anomie⚔ 13:27, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. --Xover (talk) 14:18, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Image appropriation =

Hi Anomie. Just noticed that my image [3] has been replaced by a virtually identical image [4] and credited as "self-made" by Anomie. This seems a little out of order. Please give a reason for this, otherwise I will revert. Bobathon (talk) 15:49, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An SVG image renders without artifacts at any size, and is generally preferred for line drawings. I listed it as "self-made" because I made it myself by plotting out points and connecting lines. Anomie⚔ 22:46, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You made it by copying precisely the image I made, replaced it without attribution (despite the attribution license) and credited yourself. Surely that is not good practice. I've modified the Source line on the image.
Thank you for replacing the image with an SVG version. I was not aware that this was necessary. Bobathon (talk) 23:44, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How to run AnomieBOT manually?

Hello. May I ask how (or if it's possible) to run AnomieBOT manually? I ask this because I've found some page with OrphanedRef which was orphaned for almost six months: [5] And I think there're others like this. If I can't, may I ask how often does AnomieBOT run? Thanks. --Korrawit (talk) 16:20, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT runs more or less continuously. Sometimes, however, it just cannot find the text for an orphaned reference that someone added. Anomie⚔ 20:10, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot down again

Sorry to bug you, but he's down again. MBisanz talk 12:47, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It'll have to wait a few more hours until I get home to see why the Internet connection is down. Anomie⚔ 18:50, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Usurpation held up

I see that the bot is broken, but please, can I do the clerking manually, or can someone else do it? Thanks, and have a nice day. --Jeffwang16 (Talk) (Contributions) (Email me!) 21:05, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot should be functional now, for the moment anyway. Anomie⚔ 23:41, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Error by AnomieBOT

See [6]. I have no idea whether this is a common problem or not. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:44, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Replied there. Anomie⚔ 15:19, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Live preview

Hello Anomie, around the time the Wikimedia software was updated in February live preview stopped working. I thought it might have been broken by the update, but yesterday I noticed it still worked on Wikimedia Commons, so I tried disabling my scripts on Wikipedia one by one and found out the problem was with Twinkle/Friendly. For some reason when Twinkle/Friendly is installed Live Preview isn't working. Any thoughts on what might be causing it? Thanks, Alpha Quadrant talk 22:04, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused. I see you had one of my scripts installed in your monobook.js for about 6 minutes earlier, and not at all before that this year. Your Commons account commons:User:Alpha Quadrant doesn't seem to have any scripts installed. Anomie⚔ 11:04, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What's "snarky" about this?

Can you please explain why it is "snarky"?--The wikifyer's corner 20:07, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MediationBot notifications quirk

Hi Anomie, I hope you're well. MediationBot seems to be messing up the notifications that it sends out to parties to newly-filed requests - as with [7]. In that notification, it replaced the hidden content line with the case page name, but it did not replace the other instances of "Example" with the case name. I don't know if this is a problem with User:MediationBot/Opened message, User:MediationBot/Accepted message, and User:MediationBot/Rejected message - all of which I recently updated, as part of a harmonisation of MedCom's template pages. Could you fix this when you get a moment, and then try to get the bot to correctly notify the parties to the Milton RFM? Thanks, AGK [•] 13:01, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you figured it out already. Anomie⚔ 03:04, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, that was my bad; sorry about that. I don't know how to kick MedBot into re-notifying all the parties, though. I tried removing the hidden message and then the entire messagebox from Colbyhawkins's talk page as a test, but it didn't re-notify him? AGK [•] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT at ITN

Hello! When you get a moment, can you take a look at this thread regarding a possible expansion of your bot's functions at ITN. Would the proposed functions be feasible? Regards, Nightw 16:45, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think we're ready now...? Nightw 05:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
*<u>[[Link]]</u> → No underline
*[[Link|<u>Link</u>]] --> Works
*<u> foobar [[Link]]</u> --> Doesn't work
  • Link → No underline
  • Link → Works
  • foobar Link → Doesn't Work

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:16, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't really have anything to do with the link classifier, it seems that's just what happens when an element with a background color is inside <u>...</u> tags in standards mode. For example, foobar. BTW, your third example doesn't "work" for me. Anomie⚔ 07:21, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Any solutions? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:44, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That was good

I thought that was very good. I had a great laugh, so you get a gold star. Best regards. - Hydroxonium (T•C•V) 08:06, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm glad to know someone appreciated my attempt at humor. Anomie⚔ 13:34, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT/BAGBot

Hi, per this thread, I would like to remove the "Requests to add a task to an already-approved bot" heading from the BRFA page, however I'm guessing that doing so would probably break how AnomieBOT parses the page? --Chris 03:19, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it would. I'll update the bot and make the change to WP:BRFA in a little bit. Anomie⚔ 13:39, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Done That should do it. Anomie⚔ 14:12, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! --Chris 08:23, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A comment about you and BAG

... can be found here. Please discuss there, not here, should you desire discussion. Thanks. --68.127.234.159 (talk) 21:26, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I Accusing IPs of sock puppetry

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.127.234.159 (talk) 04:31, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Propose bot task to notify if new bots are editing before trial

Hi! Since AnomieBOT is doing most BAG/BRFA tasks, I'm wondering if you would be willing to implement a task to notify if new bots are editing before trial. Essentially, if someone makes a new BRFA for a new account and their bot starts editing outside userspace before {{BotTrial}}, AnomieBOT would pop down a notification message at the BRFA so we can react accordingly. There's no need for this to be instant, and once/twice a day is possibly enough. What do you think? Thanks for considering. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 08:43, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BRFA filed Anomie⚔ 18:54, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Possible vandalism

I have noticed User:Carstensen (talk | contribs) making numerous nuisance edits.

For example, at Vitamin B12 - he added cn for a sentence about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. When I went to her page, I discovered that she received the Nobel Prize for that work.

A) Information of that type generally does not need a citation.
B) There was already an acceptable link.

From there, I discovered two additional cn tags at Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.

Looking at his contributions, most of his other recent edits are also simply to add cn tags. Such as Marie Curie, Linus Pauling (a clarify tag), and Stanford Moore.

By the way, none of those have edit summaries.

In my opinion, the cn tag should be used if someone finds a problem they are not able to fix. This user appears to be searching for places to add tags with no intent to try and fix any of them. Instead, this person is simply trying to get others to do something for him (or her).

It is my opinion that these edits are simply a form of vandalism since they serve no useful purpose. My question is - Am I wrong? or Where should I report this type of problem? (Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents seems like over kill.) At any rate, I have gone ahead and removed some of these.

Perhaps I am suggesting that it makes more sense for the bot to remove these tags than it does to "fix them up". Q Science (talk • contribs) 06:22, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:V: pretty much everything needs an inline citation "if challenged", no matter how 'obvious' it might seem to be. And "drive-by tagging" like this is unfortunately considered by many to be completely acceptable behavior; many who do or support the practice hide behind WP:BURDEN to justify not doing a thing to even try to solve the perceived problem themselves rather than just slapping a tag on the article. While it is possible that someone could be considered disruptive by adding numerous {{citation needed}} tags, it's a very high bar that has to be surmounted to avoid being laughed out of WP:ANI or other fora.
For the bot to be able to remove these tags, it would somehow have to know that they were the result of drive-by tagging and the community would have to support removal of tags added in a drive-by manner. Neither of which is likely to happen any time soon. Anomie⚔ 12:47, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In my opinion, an inline wikilink should count. I would also support a statement in one of the online guides *defining* "drive-by tagging" as disruptive. (Also, drive-by article renaming, WP:AWB, and several other "drive-by" actions. Your bot is one of the few that does NOT cause problems, AFAIK.) At any rate, thanks for listening. Q Science (talk) 01:18, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Good luck if you try to make any of that actually happen. Anomie⚔ 01:53, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You must have... but I'm asking as I don't know

...whether you've ever considered being an administrator. Wifione Message 18:04, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're not the first to ask me that. For a good while I didn't want to be an admin. I eventually changed my mind to where I wouldn't mind being an admin, but besides not needing {{editprotected}}, protecting pages like User:AnomieBOT/CHUUClerk closer opt-in, and maybe blocking a rogue bot or occasional vandal I wouldn't have a whole lot of use for it. And from what I gather I wouldn't pass RfA these days if I did try, because I don't do anti-vandal patrol, I don't hang out at AFD, I've only done major content work on 2 or 3 articles, I wouldn't plan on getting involved in any particular area requiring admin tools, and so on. Anomie⚔ 18:11, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I thought about asking the same question once, but then I spotted your userpage (before this change) so didn't bother. I've watchlisted the RfA. When you pass, could you please help me out at CAT:EP occasionally? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:30, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will. Anomie⚔ 10:34, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Relish the next few days while they last ... once you become an admin, life begins to get really boring. People want us to do everything. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 01:10, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And it's up, everyone! Anomie⚔ 12:00, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's going to be a close thing, but I think it may just be successful :) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:10, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

VP thread on AnomieBOT

Hi! AnomieBOT has been mentioned at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Acting without consensus, but I see you haven't been notified, so dropping you a note. Cheers! —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:08, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Anomie⚔ 10:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

RfA

Many editors concerned with the quality and improvement of RfA as a process for selecting new admins are of the opinion that a reduction in drama at RfA is a necessary priority. Some users regularly pose questions that may be considered to be inappropriate and disruptive to the process. General consensus appears to be that by leaving such questions unanswered, the trolling, and the drama it often engenders may stop. There is no official policy at all as to whether questions must be answered or whether they can be left unanswered; it is entirely up to the candidate. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:46, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

75.98.19.140

I noticed this from your RfA and wondered if you might have any idea who or what was behind 75.98.19.140 (talk · contribs · count · block log), as it has nearly 2000 edits spanning several months. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:22, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, although I did discover number of IPs while checking pages in Category:Ukrainian footballers and Category:Paraguayan footballers for edits with similar edit summaries. I'm sure we'd find more scanning other "$Nationality footballers" categories. Results from those two categories are:
Anomie⚔ 16:47, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

High-risk images

Hello Anomie. You left a message on my talk page. I have moved that discussion to Wikipedia talk:Cascade-protected items#High-risk images and written a long response there, since I have now figured out what could be done about it.

--David Göthberg (talk) 13:23, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your Request for Adminship

Dear Anomie, I have closed your recent RfA as successful per the consensus of the community. Congratulations, you are now a sysop! Please make sure you're aware of the Administrators' how-to guide and the items on the Administrators' reading list. Feel free to contact me if you need anything, and good luck. —Anonymous DissidentTalk 13:27, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! I couldn't have wished for a better gift for my three-year admin anniversary than seeing you get the mop Regards SoWhy 13:46, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Beat the co-nom congratulations! This has been one of the most spectacular RfAs I have had the honor of being involved in. Thanks for accepting to be an administrator. Congratulations and best always :) Wifione Message 14:39, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well done! Makes a mockery of all those oppose !votes. Welcome to the club of most hated Wikipedians ;) --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:17, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats on obtaining your mop! —mc10 (t/c) 17:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mop? Nonsense .. I suggest some sort of Roomba-esque device is far more appropriate for Anomie. - TB (talk) 22:12, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My favorite quote

The admins' T-shirt.

And from what I gather I wouldn't pass RfA these days if I did try - Anomie, 12 September 2011

You knew that was coming back to haunt you... didn't you? Anyhoo, congratulations on a strong showing. Now do us proud and go block Jimbo. - Hydroxonium (T•C•V) 22:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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