User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2013/October

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Doesn't seem like anyone has asked... any reason why the bot isn't running? — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:30, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

This edit request to User:ClueBot NG/Run has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

I want to add a protection template (the little lock on the top-right corner of protected pages) because there is no template and the page is protected. Philroc (talk) 21:14, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Not done: It's already present, and was added with these edits. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:04, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

No, not that page, User:ClueBot NG/Run. Philroc (talk) 23:10, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Hardly seems worthwhile, but  Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:03, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

That'll cause it to see the yes in small=yes and so setting it false will no longer disable it. But I suppose that isn't that big of a deal since it was protected to keep people from changing it. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 08:59, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

How do I make it so Cluebot III archives into a user talk:Ross Hill/Archive 3 until it reaches 100 threads, then moves on to user talk:Ross Hill/Archive 4? Ross Hill Talk to me!  12:27, 4 Oct 2013 (UTC)

Bumping thread. Ross Hill Talk to me!  21:58, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Will the bot pick up an archiving configuration that's been transcluded onto the page that is to be archived? equazcion� | 21:12, 6 Oct 2013 (UTC)

I don't think so. The MiszaBots certainly don't. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:37, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Okay, thanks Redrose. Also, I'm not sure if this has been reported before, but ClueBot seems to intermittently add threads to archives without removing them from the original page. This ANI archival today didn't have an accompanying removal from ANI. Thanks for any help, and (to the relevant people) for ClueBot in general :) equazcion� | 21:41, 6 Oct 2013 (UTC)

The MiszaBots (which aren't running at the moment) do occasionally have similar problems, which is why I made this revert a few days ago. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:48, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

I recently set up ClueBot III archiving at Module talk:Convert (diff). ClueBot has made an archive, but there is a lot of junk in the index (see Module talk:Convert where there is a list of 500 items in the archives box, and see User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Module talk:Convert and User:ClueBot III/Indices/Module talk:Convert). I mentioned this at VPT because I found the same problem on another page and wondered if some template used by ClueBot might have been responsible. However, it does seem to be a ClueBot problem which I'm hoping you will investigate. Thanks. Johnuniq (talk) 03:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

I commented out |index=yes and |archivebox=yes and added {{archives}}. No more junk.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Per this edit to one of my archives, Cluebot III has pointed a 2011 ANI link to an unrelated 2013 discussion. MSJapan (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

This bot is strange, it talks to me. You know it's really cool though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.211.49.237 (talk) 14:20, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

ClueBot III archives my Talk page. I can't find instructions for changing the time period a section stays on the page; I want to lengthen that period to 240 hours. How do I do this? Thanks, Hordaland (talk) 09:52, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Umm, I think if you search for "age=144" in edit mode on your talk page and change it to "age=240" ???? Yngvadottir (talk) 11:53, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Yngvadottir is correct, as far as I know. Instructions are here, but I made the change for you, Hordaland. Feel free to revert if you want. equazcion� 13:04, 12 Oct 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Equazcion! --Hordaland (talk) 13:17, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

If an IP editor edits a disambiguation page and updates {{disambig}} (or similar) to {{Disambiguation}}, a false positive is usually generated. I wonder if this might be avoidable? Thanks. 27.55.211.171 (talk) 09:10, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Firstly, several other variables are taken into account so "usually" requires some quantification, secondly the former template points to the latter so it's not a vital change (if you're making these en masse). Anyway, please do report false positives where you see them Jebus989^✰ 10:31, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

However ... both the edit number generator and the report form are still out of order; see four and five sections up! (I'm wondering whether there may be a US gov't computer involved as a link in the chain.) Yngvadottir (talk) 11:49, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Oh, apologies I haven't been keeping track. Haha I don't expect that's the case but it is problematic that the small number of Cluebot devs have all but left the community, though it seems there won't be any serious discussion about that until the wheels fall off entirely Jebus989^✰ 12:56, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Is the dataset available (or can it be made available) for development of other anti-vandalism tools? (In particular, I'd like to use it to enrich the word-based scoring system in Huggle 3 which currently is fairly simplistic) Pseudomonas_(talk) 13:41, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

The article 35062 Sakuranosyou has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fall the criteria of WP:NASTRO and the WP:GNG. The single "reference" doesn't even mention the object.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. AstroCog (talk) 15:12, 14 October 2013 (UTC) AstroCog (talk) 15:12, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey dude,

Would we help to team up to fix and rewrite the articles as per here: Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations/FreshCorp619? Thanks man. FreshCorp619 (talk) 17:06, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, but this is probably not a task that any of the ClueBots would be qualified for, on account of not being dudes. – Wdchk (talk) 17:27, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi, your report thing is broken ("Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'bots-bsql01' (111) in /data/project/public_html/damian/includes/header.php on line 14 Error. Could not connect to database.") so I am reporting here. This edit by the bot was a false positive. Demon Cat >:3 (meow!) 02:19, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Ditto. 27.55.211.171 (talk) 08:44, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

The Mysql error is still appearing. Another false positive is here (ID 1676687). --Rybec 18:32, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Someone deleted the database server, after breaking the backups. Started up on an old copy of the database, should be working again (might be missing a 'few'... 6 months worth of... edits). - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 01:30, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. ... They did what? Yngvadottir (talk) 02:51, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

ClueBot III has stopped editing as of 11 October. If you could give it a nudge that would be awesome. Thanks , -- Diannaa (talk) 17:48, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Gave it a boot. - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 01:19, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

It looks like it stopped again (hasn't edited in 15 minutes, which seems odd for this bot). It seems like it is getting stuck (on Oct 11 and again just now) between actually archiving a page and "Setting detailed index" for said page. I don't know if that is any help. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 01:27, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Actually upon further looking at contribution history the bot doesn't do that for every page it archives. Also seems that it's started again, sorry to have jumped the gun. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 01:30, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

The main thing I was hoping for was archiving at WP:NFCR, but so far that hasn't happened yet. There's 64 closed discussions that need to be archived. -- Diannaa (talk) 04:08, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes. That page is just too darn big! -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 12:36, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Lately we are doing manual archiving at WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring since User:MiszaBot is no longer active. I would be glad to switch to ClueBot but it needs a 'key' parameter since the archives are not in a subpage of the noticeboard. (See the header of WP:ANI for an example of invoking ClueBot with a key parameter). Does anyone know how to request a key for ClueBot that would work at AN3? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 15:36, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

I fail to see why these edits are vandalism. I was putting this article in line with the Royal Mail's convention, which is to put the post towns in all capitals, which is followed by most of the other "postcode area" articles. Again, I am completely baffled as to why an edit like this would be "vandalism." If this gets reverted again, I may have to report it to the administrators' noticeboard.

Thanks,

128.206.197.199 (talk) 16:53, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello

From what I can see your edits were in CAPS, ClueBot has correctly reverted that as possible vandalism as generally editing like this would be deemed as shouting. If you need to make the edit again I'd suggest making the edits in lower case which shouldn't trigger ClueBot off.

The bot has acted correctly in this instance.--5 albert square (talk) 23:30, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm not related to the bot's operations or anything, but I see that it is based on machine learning. So to try to provide you with some reason: The bot learned from the past that most edits in (mostly) CAPS were vandalism (trained by the bot admins), thus it deemed your edits as as vandalism. Although your edits were correct, try to put it into perspective that this is one in a 1000 edits that adds all CAPS contents and is legit. Thereby the bot is still useful by only having to tackle one out of 1000 instead of 999 out of 1000 manually. This is the general deal with artifical intelligence: it is "fuzzy". Regards! --Methossant (talk) 19:36, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello Clue bot NG, you leave a text message on my talk page some minutes ago. I wanted to remove the Section Annual Events from the article 2013 in Pakistan. Because it has been copied or stole from a User Page Pakistan Celebrations 2013. You can see the user page ( See Now ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.160.119.4 (talk) 11:22, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello

If you wish to make an edit like this again, then please leave an brief explanation of the edit you have made. In all honesty I would have reverted that edit as well.--5 albert square (talk) 23:22, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Isn't user page content published under the wikipedia license and therefore legal to "copy" from there into wikipedia? This would mean that the section could be used. --Methossant (talk) 19:41, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

cluebot Please fix up the reference I have made in the History section of the "Glamis Castle" page Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.10.139 (talk) 12:16, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mike, I think I got it :-D Yngvadottir (talk) 12:45, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

ClueBot NG hasn't put a welcome message with a level 1 warning, XLinkBot does a job with a Welcome message and a AGF Notice, and BracketBot does it too. I wonder why CBNG doesn't have a welcome message paired with it's level 1 warning, hmmm Dreth Phantomhive [talk to me] 12:49, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi everyone. I wanted to revert the ClueBot NG revision here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MESI_protocol&action=history. However the revert ID the bot provides (1718572) is wrong. Is it a bug in its own? --Ahyangyi (talk) 07:54, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps related to the above message, ClueBot NG's revert ID's aren't being displayed in either its revert summaries or its talk page warnings. Graham87 04:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Bot couldn't talk to the database, so it couldn't get a revert it - should be working again now. - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 01:31, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

@DamianZaremba: Thanks. It was working correctly for a little while but after that edit it started displaying a revert ID of 0 for each edit. Graham87 02:24, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

It's not working now. There's no way to report mistakes. [[Special:Contributi@O� ����5.203.219|69.95.203.219]] (talk) 07:11, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Ditto. 183.89.118.75 (talk) 17:20, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Same here for false positive revert (with revert id=0) on 03:12 24 oct 2013 (not sure about timezone): revertDiff Hope that helps. Thanks for the work on the bot!! Fellow developer greetings! --Methossant (talk) 19:06, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

This should now be fixed - database table was full, so inserts where failing. Migrated it over to the new tools platform after a few spare min - should hopefully be better. - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:05, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

@Methecooldude: @DamianZaremba: Hasn't edited in over a day. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 12:41, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

@Cobi: missing Cluebot III :( -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 22:19, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Poked and fixed the script to check if it's crashed. - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:06, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

lowercase sigmabot III doesn't mind if you think it's too much trouble :) →Σσς. (Sigma) 04:42, 29 October 2013 (UTC)