User:Milk's Favorite Cookie/Admin coaching

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[edit] Milk's Favorite Cookie Admin Coaching

Here are the questions that "automatically" come with the RfA. When you create the RfA page you will need to answer these.

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
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2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
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3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
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4. How have you improved since your last RfA? How have the concerns others users sought been changed?
A. Since my last RFA, I have almost quadrupled my # of edits. Also, I have gone through Admin Coaching[1], in which I have learned many other rules and guidelines of wikipedia. With the suggestions from my first RFA, I worked on many admin tasks such as articles for deletion (AFD), and I have found many copyrighted articles, in which I have promptly brought to the attention of admins to delete. This month I had edit summaries 100% of the time! Ohmpandya (Talk) 01:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

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Answer these and we can work from there.   jj137 ♠ 19:18, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I did a self-nom yesterday as a matter of fact. Someone recommend Admin Coaching so I signed up. The questions are available here|[2] I don't not think the RFA will succeed. Ohmpandya (Talk) 19:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

OK. A few suggestions I have, firstly: try to make better use of edit summaries. Some people like to see 100%, so work on that. Also, please ignore Kurt Weber's oppose comment. He does that to all self-noms he votes on. I'm not sure whether it will succeed or not, so if you end up needing to run again, try to have around (at least) 2500-3000 edits. These are just some of the things most people try to look for. If you do these, you should probably be in good shape.   jj137 ♠ 20:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. I currently turned the thing on so I will be warned when I'm entering a blank edit summary. Also, I currently have a little over 2200 edits. I plan on running again... maybe at the end of January? Thanks! Ohmpandya (Talk) 00:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Probably sometime late January or later. Most people want at least 3 months or so (or maybe 6 in some cases) of active editing (which involves maybe at least 500 or so edits in a month). Don't worry, we will have plenty of time to prepare.   jj137 ♠ 00:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. At oppose being double support, chances are slim. But then again... How do I create an archive for my messages? Or rather: Do I need one? Also I need a little help creating a bot, for a highly tedious task. Can you help? Ohmpandya (Talk) 01:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
To archive, cut and paste however many of your conversations on your talk page to a subpage (probably User talk:Ohmpandya/Archive 1 for now). Alternately, you can have a bot automatically archive your talk page; if you would like that, I can help set it up. As for the bot: there are several alternatives to doing this; the easiest way would be to use AutoWikiBrowser for the bot or a command line script (see m:Pywikipediabot). I think those are the two easiest and most effective ways to run a bot (although, AWB is much simpler). Before you do anything else, create an account for your bot while logged in by pressing this link, and fill out the little form for creating your bot account. When you're ready to ask approval for your bot to do a task, take the request to WP:RFBA. I think that covers all of the bot basics. Any questions?   jj137 ♠ 02:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Note: you can also find two effective bot pages here and here. Those are very important; you may want to read over them.   jj137 ♠ 02:05, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I already have approval, but I'm having trouble creating it. Can you create one for me?
You have to get separate approval for your bot account, and to do that you have to go on trial/approved bot at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval. What is it you are trying to do?   jj137 ♠ 02:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
If you check my contribs, you will see I have been redirecting pages. What I'm trying to do:

(example) WHen you search, say for example, When you search Yardley, Pa... there is no page that exists. With a bot I want to redirect all of these states in the United States, to their articles. Ohmpandya (Talk) 03:12, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

That sounds like a pretty major task. I know some are already done, but you would need some way to compile a list of all of these.   jj137 ♠ 03:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes some are already done, manually mostly by me. I did the whole state of Massachusetts, (whew!), and half of the state of California. Ohmpandya (Talk) 03:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Did you use AWB for that? That's a pretty major task! Well, when you run a bot with AWB, you can choose to let it automatically run.   jj137 ♠ 03:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't know why AWB is not working. I tried though: It keeps saying: "Unable to find AutoWikiBrowser.exe and "Nothing to Update. The Updater will now close" Any suggestions? Ohmpandya (Talk) 03:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
For the first one, chances are you probably didn't download it correctly (or it is in the wrong file). For the second, you are opening the updater and not the actual program.   jj137 ♠ 03:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you can give me step-by-step? Starting from download the file...do this...this...etc. Ohmpandya (Talk) 03:54, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Let's see. Firstly, search through your files to see if you can find it; if not, you can download it again from here. You should probably create a folder named "AutoWikiBrowser" or "AWB" or something of the sort because it comes with a bunch of files. The actual program tile has a small picture of the Earth and simply says "AutoWikiBrowser".   jj137 ♠ 03:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes Done. I extracted the file. I see the earth... What do I do next?Ohmpandya (Talk) 04:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Click on it and it should run properly. You can read over the user manual if you like, but I find it pretty self-explanatory (just remember to log in and save your settings when you're done).   jj137 ♠ 04:07, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Same error message... Any other suggestions? Ohmpandya (Talk) 04:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes it says AWBUpdater Ohmpandya (Talk)

You think right!! It Worked!!!!Ohmpandya (Talk) 04:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

There's another question someone will definitely ask you (probably not in those exact words, but something similar).   jj137 ♠ 01:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Someone will probably ask you about the number of redirects you made; that did contribute largely to your number of edits. Chances are, the more you edit until your RfA (not creating redirects), the more people will be willing to support you. I mean, if they see someone with 7000 edits and 5000 of them are creating redirects, they will probably question that. If you spend some time editing in different namespaces (you probably already have been), that will definitely help.   jj137 ♠ 01:28, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to go work on AFD. Sound good? Ohmpandya (Talk) 01:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
That should help. Users definitely like to see good work with AfDs.   jj137 ♠ 01:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)