User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2007/December

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Would it be possible to use ClueBot on the Hebrew Wikipedia? דוד 08:14, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

dude your a scokpuppte bring back john howard —Preceding unsigned comment added by Impeach Kevin Fvcking Rudd (talk • contribs) 13:04, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry Mate, I didn't make any editing to the "muscle" article.You are wrong.

I noticed that u reverted my edits to IFC article. I added a real and legitimte show to the list of programs that are currently airing on the channel. It is actually the first original series made by the channel and is notable to be listed on the article. It may have a harsh name, but it is still a real and legit show and should be listed. 99.236.63.51 05:40, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

DUDE YOUR A FLIPPIN RETARD WHY DONT YOU SHUT YER YAPPER —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.96.192.166 (talk) 00:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thought you may be interested to see User:ClueBot/FalsePositives/Reports/Webb Traverse. I've currently posted Webb Traverse as a sockpuppeteer... The Rambling Man (talk) 13:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I said it has reruns. That was my mistake. Sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sampo Sheep (talk • contribs) 22:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

are you the poop? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.161.10 (talk) 23:50, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

how do you do it so fast —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.58.5 (talk • contribs) 00:00, December 5, 2007

ClueBot is a bot (piece of software), not a human. --Nn123645 (talk) 05:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I noticed in an edit summary, ClueBot is saying vandalism is being done by, for example, "Special:Contributions/1.1.1.1"- why not have it print "Special:Contributions/1.1.1.1|1.1.1.1" so that it renders more neatly? Just a suggestion. 130.101.20.156 (talk) 20:34, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The page has a section on "User emergency shutoff", but the shutoff is admin-level protected, so consider changing the text to indicate that. 66.254.241.199 (talk) 02:59, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

That is because people kept abusing it. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 08:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Jenny Karns is a FAKE article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.149.174.29 (talk) 14:30, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot is possibly the best bot on the site, but what confuses me is how it manages to differentiate between vandalism and non-vandalism. For example, I can do some extreme pruning on an article that removes 4000k+ words, and the bot doesn't jump at it, but when a vandal types a single sentence which labels Elizabeth I as a 'sexy porn star', or replaces the word 'civilian' with 'cavalry' in an article, the bot can find it?

Just me being curious. RedZion^X 17:32, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

(ec) Well, first off, the bot won't revert any established regular, like yourself. Second, the bot looks for small changes and large changes. In these changes it looks for bad things about them, for example, uppercase text, no capitals at all, or bad words ("porn", "sexy" are both back words, IIRC). There are a bunch of algorithms and I have oversimplified them here. To see them in full detail, see ClueBot's source. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 03:44, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

The bot doesn't revert editors with over 50 edits :) . Mønobi 03:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

cluebot is ruining wikipedia, one reverted truth at a time.

remember. we make the truth...not you, cluebot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.103.45 (talk) 06:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cobi,

I sent you an email through WP a couple of days ago, I hope you received it (I left you a message on your talk page too).

Regards, Odedee (talk) 11:23, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I responded :) -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 04:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm hoping I can find a friendlier place to report a ClueBot false positive. The /FalsePositives page is confusing and also says "Reports not following these instructions will be deleted.", so it sounds like the owner isn't too patient with mistakes.

I'd like to report a false positive on this revert. The user added a table with all the frequencies for US and Canadian Marine VHF channels. While unreferenced, and formatted with HTML instead of Wiki markup, it's useful information and should not have been reverted.

I can't figure out how to use the /FalsePositives page here, I'm reporting a reverted edit by an anonymous IP user, but I'm told to enter my IP address. Why must I enter my own IP Address?

If I use the "for registered users" section, it looks like the assumption is I'm the one who made the edit. I'm not; I'm just the one trying to report errant behavior.

What's the best way to proceed? How can I help update the /FasePositives page so that it's more approachable? -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The reason the bot reverted it was because of all the uppercase, which is often indicative of vandalism. The warning is because people tend to just submit a blank template or a "fix your bot" message with no indication as to what went wrong or where. Also, vandals tend to post hate messages there. I will see what I can do to make the /FalsePositives page more user-friendly. Thanks. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 04:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

If not, it should. That's a really common feature of vandalism. In fact, any large amount of the same uninterrupted character over and over again is...--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 20:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

It does. See here. Specifically:

                        '/(.{1,4})\1{30}/'                      => -10,  /* Ugg .. the same letter(s) several times in a row. */
                        '/!{5,}/i'                              => -10,  /* No wikipedia article needs '!!!!!' in it */
                        '/!!+1+(one)*/i'                        => -30,  /* No wikipedia article needs '!!!11one' in it */

-- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 04:28, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

for the adult swim edit you nailed me on: I meant to hit "preview", not "save", sorry for the trouble. I was just curious how someone managed to add over 800,000 characters to an article (people like me must have a lot os spare time on their hands). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.108.96.136 (talk) 12:29, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm very impressed with ClueBot's performance and judgment. When it suspects vandalism, it's always been right in my observations. As a result, its warning message is too polite and perhaps too wishy-washy. Instead of "If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. ..."

Instead it might say something like "You're caught sucker!" I know, Three Laws of Robotics must defer to humans. ....Do vandals count as humans?... :-)

Anyway, on User talk:137.164.220.245 ClueBot created a duplicate section for "December 2007". Just thought you might like to know. —EncMstr 22:31, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi I submitted my user and user talk pages to both of these pages and when I tested it ClueBot did not revert, what am I doing wrong? Alexfusco5 15:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot will never revert an established user. If you really want to test it, you need to logout and do it anonymously. Thanks. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 17:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay but when I created a new account and tried it it still didn't work I will try again Alexfusco5 12:15, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thedeadmanandphenom (talk) He is ruining IDRP —Preceding comment was added at 19:31, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Anybody know how to run cluebot on your own server (using mediawiki)? I keep trying but cannot seem to get a bot on my Mediawiki. I mean my server. Do you need some special program other than mediawiki to run a bot? 70.187.128.5 (talk) 21:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC) I know, my ip is displayed blah blah but still
Same here, the source isn't good enough∂☺1♂K∫ ₪&+(_)+ (talk) 21:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Same here. I also want to know how to run cluebot on other wikis using mediawiki software. Tbo ¹⁵⁷(talk) 21:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot is a very complex piece of software. If you don't know how to program in PHP, you probably should not be running it. ClueBot runs as a separate process with the CLI PHP interpreter. For ClueBot to run on another wiki, you will need:

1. An IRC RC feed.
2. Shell access to a Linux server with the PHP interpreter.
3. Api.php
4. Query.php
5. A MediaWiki installation.
6. Knowledge of the workings of PHP.

You will need to create a MySQL schema based on the queries to it in ClueBot's source. You will also need to change the domain name in wikibot.classes.php to reflect your domain name. And, be sure to give me credit ;) -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 21:57, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Blessed editing, and...

Happy Holidays from Marlith ^T/C

Credits: This card was inspired by Macy's123, assistant of V's Shop

Marlith ^T/C 03:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot acccused me of an edit i didn't do

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to EastEnders, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: EastEnders was changed by 81.79.206.232 (c) (t) making a minor change adding "!!!" on 2007-12-11T17:48:49+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I didn't do that

81.79.206.232 (talk) 20:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Someone at your IP address made this edit. —Random832 21:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed a couple like this:

The edit was correctly reverted as vandalism to the Pluto article. Again, correctly, the vandalising user was warned on their talkpage. What's misreported (as far as I can see) is that though they added "PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET!!!!!!!!!!" the warning on their talkpage read making a minor change adding "!!!" . They obviously added more than just "!!!".

I can't remember the details of the other one I've seen like this, but it also involved some insertion of something ending with "!!!!!". Is this intentional behaviour? If so, could the reported addition report the start of the added string with an ellipsis ("adding PLU...") rather than the end? Tonywalton ^Talk 01:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I just noticed. The section above in this talkpage is the same again - added string is "foobarbozzork!!!!!![stuff]" and the report says "adding !!!". Tonywalton ^Talk 01:51, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure why this happens but I have noticed that on some talk pages. I think that is the way the bot is programed and !!! represents inappropriate text or nonsensical text Alexfusco⁵ 01:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be better not to claim anything at all about the exact content (just "making a minor change"), then, if the bot isn't actually reporting what it's really seeing. I don't see "PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET!!!!!!!!!!" as nonsensical, to be honest (misguided, perhaps, nonsensical, no). I'd vandalise a few articles with various different strings to see what happened, but then I'd have to report myself on WP:AIV and block myself ☺ Tonywalton ^Talk 02:01, 18

Misreporting again. for a change to Freemasonry made by User:Rasmr1013, it states "minor change adding "!!!", but the edit is neither tagged as minor nor is it simply exclamation points. I'd suggest not commenting on the edit content, because it can be found as long as the diff is tageed in the autowarn. MSJapan (talk) 18:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey! I'm Kongisking, and what I did to Terminator (character Concept) was merge it with the Terminator character article! I was in the middle of learning how to delete the page!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.91.184.187 (talk) 22:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC) africa is number 1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.90.45.199 (talk) 02:19, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

How do you make your own userbox? --RayquazaDialgaWeird2210 (talk) 23:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Totally wrong place to ask questions like that. Go to userbox and click on the link at the top where it's in italics. --Seans Potato Business 15:57, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot II hasn't removed redlinks from Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations in several days. They're starting to build up. If that function could be re-started, that would be great. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 02:37, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

That was quick! Thanks! -- JLaTondre 02:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with the article Combustion Man, and I will be editing out the warning lables that threatens the article with deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.101.9.145 (talk) 10:54, 23 December 2007

The bot has never had contact with you. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 20:59, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I Totally agree with the man up there. This bot should be taken away directly, it sucks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.230.37.50 (talk) 08:43, 24 December 2007

Page blanking is vandalism and the bot was correct to revert you. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 20:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Too liberal use of "vandalism". I substituted 'died childless' to a more accurate "died leaving not immediate heirs' - a more acceptable standard for this miss-mash melange of information (for Samuel de Champlain). Get rid of this bot- it's useless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DownUndr (talk • contribs) 10:47, 24 December 2007

This bot has never had contact with you. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 20:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

You might as well stop calling it an encyclopedia anyone can edit with this around. Using language like "warning #1" and reverting a helpful edit is quite rude and discouraging. Please get rid of this bot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.134.52.64 (talk) 12:43, 23 December 2007

Oh no! - what a shame! - you can't even vandalise wikipedia now! what's the world coming too?! StuartDD _{contributions} 23:04, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Have you ever seen me vandalize anything? Why would you say such a thing? These sorts of bad attitudes ruin any collaborative effort.

ClueBot's changes are showing up in recent changes whether bots are set to be hidden or not...bug?--CastAStone/^/(talk) 15:08, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

The BAG decided not to give ClueBot the bot flag because they wanted the bot's edits to always show in Recent Changes. If you wish to get that changed, please talk to them. Thanks. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 01:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

I am an active user for another wiki, Uncyclopedia, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to teach me how to make my own ClueBot for it. Would it be as easy as copy-pasting the bot's API, or would it take more work? --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 20:35, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, ClueBot is quite advanced. It's source code is here if you want to take a look. You are certainly free to try to adapt ClueBot to other wikis, but I am currently working on adapting ClueBot to work on all of Wikia, which includes Uncyclopedia. Thanks. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 01:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

I have not been able to revert much vandalism with this thing around and it is frustrating. Reverting vandalism is one of my favorite things to do on Wikipedia, and this bot is taking that away from me. I can't do it anymore. I'm crying right now. What am I supposed to do? It has beat me to the punch many times, taking away most of my potential contributions to the project. Savie Kumara (and Nini Kastoa) 03:01, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Please respond on my talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Savie Kumara (talk • contribs) 03:03, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

I reported a false positive (under my IP address) several days ago, reverted the CB edit, and then didn't revisit the matter for several days. Checking up on it, I couldn't find my IP on the list of "Resolved false positives", and when I tried manually entering my IP (like so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot/FalsePositives/Reports/65.190.89.154), I couldn't find anything either. Are old entries removed from the page and not archived, or what? I'm curious about what happened with/to my report. Am I missing something? 65.190.89.154 (talk) 01:07, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

It was archived here. They are archived after I have read them and thought about what I can do to make ClueBot not make that kind of mistake again. If there is a way, I implement it. Since your IP seems to be relatively static, I have added you to ClueBot's whitelist. Thanks. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 19:16, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! 65.190.89.154 (talk) 05:35, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

It is not clear what feedback editors get when reporting false positives [1] when the reports are archived without response. MikeHobday (talk) 19:02, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/216.48.128.60 details the work of a chronic vandal. Can Cluebot undo the mischief or does it need to be done manually?

How can I notify Cluebot of vandalism to cleanup?

Dark Gravity (talk) 20:22, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

I am very sorry about what happened my little sister got on and changed a lot and got carried away.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Commanderdragonmanlaaa (talk • contribs) 18:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)