User talk:Jitse's bot

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Welcome, soulmate! Mathbot 05:28, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Bad formatting

There seems to be a bug with the formatting of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity. --Salix alba (talk) 01:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Physics

First, get well soon! Second, when you're better, would you be able to provide something similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity for WikiProject Physics? Mike Peel 14:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi, Mr. Bot

Wow, I really appreciate your contributions to WP:AFC, however, I'd like to point out that for quite some time now, you've been archiving everything off by one day! It appears that someone made a mistake in your coding, and you are placing archives in the current day, rather than the previous day. I would hope that somehow you could remedy this problem. Thanks! Patstuarttalk|edits 19:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. Somehow, I never noticed that. I tried to fix it; we'll see tomorrow whether it works. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:14, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feature request

If you ever add more features, here is one: track more of the article cleanup templates. For example Turing degree was recently marked with {{confusing}} which does not show up in the daily activity. Of course this is just a wish for a possible feature; the daily update is already great. CMummert · talk 02:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm - Turing degree showed up on the second daily update after the tag was added. Whether you changed anything or not, thanks. CMummert · talk 02:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
To save bandwidth, some sections are not updated every day but every four days. Have a look at the dates with this in mind and it should be obvious.
New cleanup templates pop up regularly and it's very easy for me to add them, so please do let me know if you find any. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 03:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expert-subject tag not tracked?

It seems that the expert attention needed list in Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics/Lists tracks only the generic {{expert}} tag for maths categories, not the more precise {{expert-subject|}} tag. Is this the case? If yes, would be good to update the bot to include a possibly large number of pages in the list. Stca74 19:37, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

This was caused by vandalism of Template:Expert-subject-cat and is now fixed. Thanks for the message. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfC Feature Suggestion

Hey Jitse, great bot! I had a suggestion for something extra that the bot could do when it's processing the AfC pages at the end of the day. Any chance you could get it to parse the page and replace any instances of [[Category with [[:Category instead? That'd keep at least the archived entries from constantly being in categories they don't belong in, incase we don't catch them while they're on the main page. Thanks! --Maelwys 01:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I changed the code so that it makes edits like this one. Let me know if you had something else in mind. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 23:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:WPM/CA minor feature request

When an AfD is closed, can you mark it somehow on the Current activity page? At first, I thought a strike-through would be good, but that might indicate the result was Delete. Perhaps a simple, "result was delete", or whatever. If this is difficult to implement, then there are no worries: there are only a few AfD's listed on current activity, and most are open. The boilerplate div with class including "xfd-closed" should be easy to detect for closure, but finding the result might be pretty iffy other than a string search for "The result was[^.]*" or something, stripping punctuation from the result. JackSchmidt (talk) 04:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that would be very helpful. I've actually thought about it before but I never made the time to implement it. At the moment I put any AfD I'm interested in on my watchlist. I'll bump it on my to do list, but no promises. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jitse Niesen (talk • contribs) 18:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfC

Hello, the bot did not do its job at AfC last night. Please could you check it. Thanks. MSGJ (talk) 19:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it seems that the whole network was down. No idea what was going on, but it looks like it's fixed now. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 12:18, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:WPM/CA not updated in March

Howdy, I noticed WP:WPM/CA has not been updated so far in March (but was updated Feb 29). Hopefully it is already fixed, and I just have my timing off, but it seemed like it missed it again last night after you said it was fixed for AfC. In either case, your bot does us a wonderful service, thanks for putting time into it. JackSchmidt (talk) 20:58, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No new articles for several days?

I see that daily updates of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity are continuing to happen, but the "new articles" section has not changed for a few days. What's going on? Michael Hardy (talk) 01:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

....and once again, no new articles for several consecutive days. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)