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Hi Chris G. I'm looking for where SciFi space launch and space propulsion concepts might be talked about/discussed amongst interested Wikipedia editors. I see that your bot is the only entry on the page
Category talk:Fictional spacecraft. I work a good bit on the non-fiction side of
spaceflight in Wikipedia, but know little about the SciFi side of things. Would you have any idea where I might go to find interested editors so I might ask them a question about an article that crosses over, both non-fiction and SciFi aspects? Cheers.
N2e (
talk)
09:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I notice that Chris G Bot 3 has the (at the moment disabled) functionality to also clerk the pages. When enabled does it/can it check for other languages accounts, the way that AnomieBOT does at
WP:USURP? –
xenotalk14:36, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
No, but that functionality can be added if need be. I added it as a backup when SoxBot went awol hence it only does the same checks SoxBot does. --
Chris04:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Would you mind working on it, since X! hasn't responded to my query? Doesn't make sense to have two bots operating on that page anyway. –
xenotalk19:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Cool - I've done the needful. Just to confirm, will it also detect where global account doesn't exist but unattached accounts exist with edits? –
xenotalk18:13, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
It is, it just doesn't put notes on the requests that don't have problems. I've never really seen the point in that. --
Chris09:23, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the other-account detection mechanism. Is the source code published anywhere?
I would like to disable SoxBot as it is currently somewhat redundant, but I think some bureaucrats will miss the "No problems found" botnote - without it, we wonder if the bot has crashed and end up doing all the checks ourselves anyway. Could you add that functionality in, so SoxBot can be disabled? Thanks, –
xenotalk17:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
There is some parserFunction magic which detects when users have not replaced, but merely appended onto, the "CURRENT" and "NEW", so the bot sometimes makes remarks suchlike:
[4]. Can the bot also strip the "CURRENT" and "NEW" before evaluating? (Maybe only when both are still present, just in case a user requests a name to "New and Improved" or something) [Alternatively, I think we could probably have the CURRENT and NEW properly stripped during substitution, but I'll have to roll up my sleeves to look into that] –
xenotalk13:43, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
I want to change my username and have made a mistake in the process and now its all gone wrong...please help.ætheling1125 00:55, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Do you think you could make it check for illegal characters? ($,#,&, etc) Not necessary, but it would be a nice feature I think.
demize(
t ·
c)03:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
RE:
File:Riscos rool logo cog svgedit fitcanvastocontent.svg, the relevant article,
RISC OS Open, is now finally in namespace. I'm in a position to upload the file again, but was warned to discuss it first, as I'm proposing to upload again using the same filename. As this situation is new to me, it would be helpful if I could be directed to a policy/procedure or similar. Thanks. --
trevj (
talk)
09:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Feel free to reupload. Since it no longer meets the criteria for deletion (i.e. is no longer an orphan) you should be fine. --
Chris09:31, 28 February 2011 (UTC)