User talk:Shubinator/Archive 23

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Hi, sorry everyone's always asking so much of you, but here I go again....

I had assumed that DYKUpdateBot used the |subpage= parameter of {{DYKmake}} to generate the |nompage= parameter in the {{DYK talk}} on the article's talk page.

But then I wasn't sure if that's what the bot does, and came here to check your talk page, but the only thing I found was a request that the bot ignore that parameter.

If you're already aware of this situation, I apologize for bothering you. In any case, thanks for all of your hard work! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:07, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Looking at the WT:DYK archives and the templates' diffs, the nompage links are added auto-magically by {{dyktalk}} and {{DYKmake}}. I remember talking about this with Rjanag; see #Talkpage tagging by DYKUpdateBot. If DYKmake and DYKnom are tweaked to support the nompage parameter, I can make a similar change to DYKUpdateBot to propagate the change. (No promises on how long that'll take though...) Shubinator (talk) 00:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

{{DYKmake}} shouldn't require any modification, and {{DYKnom}} isn't relevant here. {{NewDYKnom}} already adds a subpage parameter to DYKmake when the subpage name differs from the article name, but it only does so for the first article; so I think the only change required would be for NewDYKnom to add the subpage parameter whenever needed for all articles of a multi-nom. Then, when the subpage parameter is present, the bot would add it (prefixed with "Template:Did you know nominations/") as the nompage parameter for {{DYK talk}}. It may also be desirable to include nompage even when the subpage name is the same as the article name. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 02:08, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

You're right; I thought the code in {{DYKmake}} displayed an error message if three parameters were passed to it, but it looks like the error message only pops up if they're unnamed parameters. Yeah, in my opinion the nompage parameter should either exist everywhere or nowhere. Shubinator (talk) 02:22, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Done; if a DYKmake template has the subpage parameter, DYKUpdateBot will propagate it to the nompage parameter in the corresponding {{dyktalk}}. Shubinator (talk) 20:58, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Has something happened to the DYK bots? As noted at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Main page update on 6 Nov, at 12:00UTC, DYKUpdateBot missed the last scheduled update and the last update by DYKHousekeepingBot was at 06:33 (UTC). --Allen3 ^talk 12:41, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Replied there. Shubinator (talk) 14:19, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on File:Lesson One by Frederick Hammersley.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:44, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Looks like another communications hiccup may have occurred. DYKUpdateBot missed the 00:00, 10 November 2011 update and DYKHousekeepingBot has not made any updates despite several new DYK nominations having been submitted a couple hours ago. --Allen3 ^talk 00:24, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Bots restarted. Toolserver maintenance was today; the servers were all rebooted. I checked on the bots around 7 hours ago, saw them running, and mistakenly thought the maintenance window had passed without willow being rebooted. My bad. Shubinator (talk) 01:43, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

It seems that DYKHousekeepingBot hasn't updated Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count in more than 24 hours... --Orlady (talk) 04:08, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Looks like the bot was having connection issues. I've restarted the bot. Thanks for letting me know :) Shubinator (talk) 06:31, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

The bot missed the update of 00:00 UTC 29 December, but apparently self-recovered after that. Materialscientist (talk) 11:48, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Looks like another connection issue. If this keeps happening I'll try to get a more descriptive error description. (And yeah, the auto-reset kicked in.) Shubinator (talk) 00:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

• Once again, Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count is long overdue for an update. If you have access, could you please restart it? --Orlady (talk) 15:00, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Done. Shubinator (talk) 00:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)