User talk:TheJosh

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[edit] Thanks :)

Thanks for your work on the Template:Infobox Town AU - I was sort of hoping someone would know better than me how to make it look nice and tidy, but within one day is fantastic. (And just noticed your comment on my talk page - yeah that's cool!) Orderinchaos78 18:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair point - just modified it on all pages that hadn't already been. I think the problem is that I was using a template based on one of the early pages to create the new ones - all sorted now Orderinchaos78 07:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks good, although the location ones should probably still be within the main one as they're part of the "snapshot" the infobox offers first-up visitors. Just my thoughts. Orderinchaos78 21:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up! Wow, that came out of nowhere. Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 03:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know. I am just a bit busy right now to contrinbute meaningfully byt the talk discussion looked well structured. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 10:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• Ug! The founder of Wikipedia made LOST wikia. I dont understand there logic -Iron Chef 17:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Place

That's cool - I was actually doing it for a completely different reason (I'm actually trying to move some stuff from the long-deprecated and now limping Perth template onto Australian Suburb for future bot conversion) and noticed there's literally under 20 using Australian Suburb, so it's a quick business changing those then migrating some of the Perth suburban ones across. (Some also use a yukky manual one, esp in NSW) Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 07:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, some of them have a "bring your own wood" approach to infobox building. :S I will be just converting those to Australian Suburb anyway so they'll be in just one standard form for future conversion. Good point re Perth. I'll do any *new* ones I write for perth in Australian Suburb though to reduce the work for later as thanks to HiddenStructure being completely disabled, the optional colour bar thingies up the top are breaking it and I had to comment them out.

Doesn't look like anyone has bothered with your bot approval?!? Frustrating. Is there anyway to bump them along, 'specially now that you have added the obsolete tag to all the templates?SauliH 08:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real quicky

Good work with the template. (Edit: Argh, already addressed, just wasn't in print version! :)) (t|c) 10:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Another quicky - For some reason one or two of your recent changes changed < to &lt, > to &gt and " to &quot ... Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 11:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thought so, that's why I let you know ASAP... sorry if it sounded terse, I was just trying to push it out quickly :) Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 11:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blank fields

The work you are doing on the template is excellent. I think blank fields should be left in when it is added to articles so that data can be added later more easily. I saw the update to Captains Flat, NSW. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 18:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi what I was referring to was in this edit you removed some fields. I realise you are doing it by hand, but the suggestion I have is that the info box has all fields present in an article even if many of them are not filled out at present. Thus am hoping to see all fields as per Template:Infobox Australian Place/Blank in articles but say at Littlehampton, South Australia or Captains Flat that isn't the case. I guess this is what a bot can do but by hand it is too tedious. Happy to help if I can but a bot seems to be the answer and hence I will wait and hope for its approval. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 21:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

You are doing a great job and I didn't mean to sound critical. If they were mistakes rather than intentional no problems. Bots don't get tired so I am hoping it will get approved - there are an awful lot of places out there to be migrated. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 22:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In recognition

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your contribution and role as a "driving force" in getting the Template:Infobox Australian Place going from beginning to end. Keep up the excellent work! Orderinchaos78 (t|c) 00:52, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• Excellent work. Thoroughly deserved. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your fine contribution in seeing the Infobox Australian Place Template through from idea to actuality. SauliH 00:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Locator map

TheJosh, I posted the following to the template talk page but was usure if you've seen it: Are there any plans to implement a facilty where a locator dot is placed on the locator map according to latitude/longitude values? Like {{Infobox protected area of Australia}} (eg. Organ Pipes National Park). Even better is {{Infobox Indian urban area}} (eg. Mumbai) which as a label also. — Moondyne 14:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC) — Moondyne 05:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bot - talk page messages

• Hi - I'd just like to say thanks for the talk page messages the bot is leaving about info that has been not included in the translation. It is really useful. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 20:58, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wodonga, Victoria

Just so you know, TheJoshBot replaced the & with a " in Ovens & Murray Football League on the Wodonga, Victoria page, creating a red link. I've fixed it on that aritlce, but it might be doing the same in other places. Blarneytherinosaur talk 02:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superimposed dot on Adelaide map

Ahh, the last change for the red dot made Adelaide sit on the border of VIC and SA. Not sure if the co-ord's are incorrect, or it is my computer.

Same with Wistow, South AustraliaSauliH 04:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Now Adelaide has been relocated to Robe! Also see my note at my talk page SauliH 05:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bot - talk page messages again

• Hi these don't seem to be always happening now - see for example [1] but no corresponding edit about the historic populations, river and railway. Another way to do it may be to leave the fields at the end which are not blank in comment tags - eg for Avoca <!--- - |firstexplored=1836 - |pop1911=1,232 - |pop1981=1,032 - |river=[[Avoca River]] - |railway= 1876-->

--Golden Wattle ^talk 23:59, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jellybeans

You have been awarded these Jelly Beans from -The Doctor- Please, enjoy them.

Here are some Jelly beans for you. I love jelly beans as they have sugar in them and most people love sugar. But on the other hand just receiving somthing from somone else just makes you happy and also just giving this to you makes me happy. I hope to spread the jelly beans all over Wikipedia, so here, you can have this lot. Please enjoy them. (I like the lime ones.)

Editors need a bit of a sugar high too.

An apple a day keeps -The Doctor- away. Or does it! ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template help

I saw you were in the category "Users who understand ParserFunctions" and was wondering if you could take a look at this and let me know if there was a way to make the rows ignore each other. In other words, the text won't take up two lines when there is enough space in the row, even if the other lines have long text. --blm07 01:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

This is hard to explain, so I've put an example on my talk page. Notice when there is long text in one row, it effects the other rows, causing the text to take up more than one row. What I'd like is to make it so the rows ignore each other and use all of the empty space. I'm not sure its possible. --blm07 05:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, a friend helped me figure it out, he did this and it works for what I need.

{{#if: {{{Park 1|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}} | {{!}} colspan=2 {{!}} <span style="float: left"> '''{{{Park 1|''no park specified''}}}''' </span> <span style="float: right"> {{{Park 1 Opening|''opening date unknown''}}} </span> --blm07 06:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. -- RM 19:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Per Ram-Man's final approval [2], I've granted a bot flag to your bot. Cheers, Redux 16:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image sizing

G'day TheJosh. I've just seen the JoshBot's version of the Town of Victoria Park info-box. There may be a problem lurking in the JoshBot with image sizing, 'cos it appears to not apply any. I noticed it 'cos I made the locator maps for the Perth municipalities, which were being shown as reduced or thumbnails in the old info-boxes. It's possibly my fault, 'cos I didn't care about anything except a not-too-big, not-too-small size in the originals. But anyway, if there are large images, then the info-box could become rather obese fairly quickly... I would suggest that the JoshBot impose a 300px default size so surprises aren't unpleasant  :)  Gordon | Talk, 13:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Consider me enlightened -- I didn't bother to chase down the template coding, so I didn't know about the default image widths as they don't show up on the edit page.  Gordon | Talk, 13:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IAP

Someone made a heap of changes last night to IAP which screwed it up - I reverted them but might be worth trying to figure out what they were trying to do as they appear to be a good faith user. Oh and BTW thanks for the barnstar!

I'm a bit tired this morning - our government just started daylight saving for a 3 year trial and this is the first day of it. Orderinchaos78 00:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image removed from User:TheJoshBot

I've removed Bender.png from TheJoshBot's user page. I'm sorry, but according to Wikipedia's fair use policy, fair use images can only be used in the Main namespace. If you have any questions or concerns, ask at my Talk page. --Slowking Man 13:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] typo in TheJoshBot talk page message

"This update has been automatically preformed" should be "This update has been automatically performed" - the typo is in the word "performed". Graham87 07:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whinge

Why can't Wikipedia have a programming language for templates? I can see the politics one I want to do getting very messy very quickly - the mockup (with no code whatsoever) is at User:Orderinchaos78/Australian Politics Box - ideally the process would be:

• switch on entry from, say, "ALP" or "LIB" to the correct value ("[[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] with the correct coloured box).
• sort by percent in descending order
• print according to one of two formats depending on what option is specified (one is the table, the other displays on one line so you can pile them easily)

The way it's looking one will still have to put them to the template in the correct order, and 5 separate switch operations will be necessary. Thought I'd mention it to you in case you can see something blindingly obvious that I'm missing here. :) Orderinchaos78 13:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds cool! BTW - have a look at User_talk:Scharks#Quick_request_for_help - I've been trying to get a template to work, with near-complete, but not complete enough, success. I'm starting to think my problems are caused by a mediawiki bug or something. Orderinchaos78 12:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Perfect! Thanks heaps for that :) Orderinchaos78 12:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Now at {{Australian Politics Suburb}}. Now the fun begins - trying to find the damn things wherever they may be in their ugly manual form :@ Orderinchaos78 14:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Enjoy your break!

Hi, hope you have a great time whatever you're doing / wherever you're going! Look forward to seeing you around again soon - and if you need any help getting your proposed Wikiproject set up, I'd be happy to volunteer. We've just gotten Wikiproject Western Australia up and running in the last week or so, it's been a learning curve the whole way! Orderinchaos78 12:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] oops

joshbot seems to have made a bit of a mess of Canberra suburbs by transposing the suburb navigation box east to west amongst others. Examples I've already fixed include Macquarie, Weetangera, Page. 59.167.63.205 22:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:The LOST Wikia Logo.png)

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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes

Hi there. I've finally gotten around to starting up Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes. The project page itself is still pretty bare, but at least we now have a central discussion point for this sort of work. Please join! - 52 Pickup 13:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automation department

Hiya Josh. We've just set up an automation department at the WikiProject Australia, and as you're someone who has experience in bot operation, I thought I'd invite you to take a look and see if you might be interested in listing yourself as a participant for any future tasks we might have. Thanks,--cj | talk 00:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:TemplateObsolete

Hello. I've come across your Template:TemplateObsolete, as well as Category:Obsolete templates and Category:Pages using obsolete templates. I've redirected Template:TemplateObsolete to Template:Tdeprecated, as that does the same job and is much more commonly used. It seems rather pointless to me to have multiple templates doing exactly the same job. If you disagree with this, please let me know why. Also, I would like to tag the categories for speedy deletion as unused. Do you have any problem with this? Thanks. Mike Peel 20:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:Film infoboxes

I put the request on the page to see if anyone was interested in helping add the infobox our project has already developed. Our project is attempting to put the {{infobox film}} on all film articles and I wanted to see if any members of an infobox project where interested in helping to add them to our articles that don't have one. Our infobox is already modified as we want it, but we need users to help assist in the backlog. It is not really a formal request, just an offer to anyone who is interested in helping. If your project is solely for developing infoboxes and improving the box itself, my apologies. Let me know if you want me to clarify further. --Nehrams2020 03:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Using Templates

I enjoy your userbox list — I took some of them for my own!

I recently did some major editing on the Infobox U.S. County template, putting in the 50-state switch statement so that the US map with the state highlighted would automatically show up correctly. This got me to thinking that someone else somewhere may want to use a state-to-abbreviation switch statement, so maybe I should create a template that simply displays a state abbreviation when a state name is passed in. This seems like it could be "reusable code" that someone else may need at some point, but I don't see a precedent for such a thing. Do you feel like the proposed template is a good idea? Does this fall within any guidelines? Or have I lost you altogether? Let me know!

Thanks timneu22 (talk · contribs) /Timneu22 02:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

(your response) Hey, I dont think you should create a state name->template thingo, because that will be nearly pointless. It be flexible it would take up more space than a switch statement. Better is to educated people on the use of the switch statement. --TheJosh 02:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, not a problem. However, I'm just curious in general: are there any templates used as functions? I don't see any precedent for it, but it seems like it might be really necessary. My proposed template would have been nothing more than a switch showing the State Name based on the State Abreviation (or vice versa)... I haven't seen anything like this on Wikipedia but I have created a few for my internal wiki at work. Thanks again timneu22 (talk · contribs) /Timneu22 23:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another template question

Here's one I hadn't considered. Can you tell me if this is possible?

In a template, I have a variable named {{{person}}}. I want the following to happen:

• if the user creates the page with {{{person}}} = [[Michael Jordan]], just use {{{person}}}
• if the user creates the page with {{{person}}} = Michael Jordan, render the page as [[{{{person}}}]]

Is this doable? /Timneu22 13:09, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Devils Elbow, South Australia

FYI, ive redirected this page because of lack of content ...maelgwntalk 11:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup on 23rd April 2007

Hi Josh,

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but I'd like to let you know that the second Adelaide Meetup will take place on Monday 23rd of April at ZUMA Caffe, 56 Gouger Street, Adelaide. The meeting is at 7:30am for breakfast with Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 2 for more details and indicate if you might attend.

Thanks,–cj | talk 13:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Infobox FYI

Hi Josh,

There is a debate that involves infobox design and standardization to replace manually constructed infoboxs. You may have missed this post from 52 pickup at WikiProject Infobox but it bears repeating and as a member of the project, your input would be appreciated.

Instead of repeating all the points, I'll just direct you to the discussion here. In the interests of consistency, and taking on a few new ideas for infobox design, I would like as many people as possible to get involved.—MJCdetroit 00:58, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox needed

There is discussion about deleting the Infoboxneeded template. I thought you might want to chime in. Timneu22 00:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Rat, South Australia

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[edit] requesting help with parser function ;)

Hi

I'm using a local installation of mediawiki and I use templates from wikipedia. the problem is that any template that includes parser function syntax such as #if is being rendered on the page as regular text.

It's as if the parser function syntax is not available in the wiki do I need to install/import something?

Might you be able to help please?

Thanks!

[edit] Maybe you can kill 2 birds with one stone

I also have a problem with parser functions.

I'm just taking a random shot to see if you might be able to help me out with "parser functions" since you're on the list of Wikipedians_who_understand_ParserFunctions @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_who_understand_ParserFunctions.

If I'm a bother, I apologize in advance. If not, I'd love some advice. I installed my wiki 2+ weeks ago & have been having problems with the templates because I think I lack parser functions. I'm not sure. Thanks,

Brandon cdibrandon@gmail.com -- if you wouldn't mind emailing me here, I'd sincerely appreciate it. I do like 2000 things a day & might not remember to come back here. I hope I remember, but an email would be very appreciated. p.s. I went through this page, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions, added the 3 .php files & added the line of code to the localsettings.php file & got lots of errors -- tried both lines of code.

Gargamel573 17:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)--

[edit] Gwenn Teir Bronn

What are you doing? (A) You put the speedy delete/patent nonsense template on the wrong page – the talk page. (B) The article does not remotely meet the criteria for patent nonsense. I've actually spent a good bit of time and effort trying to salvage something useful and informative on this article: ploughing through internet sources, translating material from the French article to the English one. If you don't agree with something there, please help improve it. Q·L·1968 ☿ 11:36, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:PhaserFunctions.gif listed for deletion

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Mount Barker Google Maps Layers.png

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[edit] Canvassing for your RfA

[3], [4] Josh, canvassing is a very bad idea and is frowned upon by many wikipedians. I've undone those edits. —Moondyne 01:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

My personal advice would be to wait a bit. Your template development work at WP:IAP is absolutely first-rate - we literally could not have done it without you - but from current and recent-past RfAs, in general they will expect to see a lot of evidence of admin work. Also you get some people who will oppose (IMO incorrectly) on "does not need the tools", and you need to think carefully what you would use deleting/undeleting, blocking/unblocking for and in what circumstances. I would suggest looking at 1 2 3 4 past RfAs and seeing how the answers were constructed and what points came up. Other points - 5000 edits, preferably 1 FA, no canvassing (however adding your username to the Announcements section of AWNB is quite acceptable), probably better to wait for someone else (preferably an admin) to nominate you rather than self-nom. Orderinchaos 01:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RFA - comments

Josh, I think you should withdraw your nomination an editor with 1500 edits has only a 5% chance of being successful additionally your recent activity is very low with most of your edits occuring over a period of two months almost 4 months ago. Also one line answers to questions in the RFA nomination are considered to show a lack of knowledge of Wikipedia and its policies like this one, I suggest you have a look at past RFA that have failed to see what to expect in the coming days in the way of responses. Gnangarra 01:28, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Barker gallery

Hi Josh. I've deleted Mount Barker, South Australia (Gallery) as Wikipedia is not a gallery. I've instead transferred it to Commons, created Category:Images of Mount Barker on Wikipedia, and added a link to the Commons gallery in the Mount Barker article. Regards, --cj | talk 15:03, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Random Smile!

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[edit] TurboDual 3D

Thank you for tagging pages for speedy deletion, however I have removed your nonsense tag from TurboDual 3D. It's many things... crystal ballery, unreferenced, etc... but it's definitely not nonsense. I could have supported a speedy for advertising, perhaps. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. Thanks for your work on the 'pedia. - Philippe | Talk 04:41, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Declined Speedy Deletion of List of One Day Cricket Records for New Zealand

Hi TheJosh. I've declined the speedy deletion request for the above, as the article really did not fall into CSD G3 or any other criteria (it was substantially improved since your tag). You may of course wish to {{prod}} the article, which is up to you. best. Pedro |  Chat  14:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NewPagePatrol always disabled

Hi,

I've been using your NewPagePatrol script for a while now. However, it has just broken in a minor (but annoying way): it is always in the disabled mode. Looking at the history log of the script page, I believe it was your last edit that did it (when you defaulted it to disabled). The problem, if I'm not mistaken, is that you didn't update the cookie-reading logic to match; it still checks to see if the cookie is 'no' and disables the script if it is. However, since it defaults to disabled, it should be checking if the cookie is 'yes' and enabling the script if it is. I think that the following block should be changed from

if (document.cookie.substring(c_start, c_end) == "no") {
    npp_enabled = false;
}

to

if (document.cookie.substring(c_start, c_end) == "yes") {
    npp_enabled = true;
}

Cheers, Blair - Speak to me 00:19, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Damn, you're quick. Thanks for moving Talk:Artificial intelligence/Structure proposal. Sorry I dropped it in the wrong spot. ---- CharlesGillingham 23:05, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy Deletion of Alfred Dolge

Hi TheJosh. I've declined the speedy deletion of the above, but you may well wish to take it to WP:AFD. Best. Pedro :  Chat  12:58, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newpage and Camino Compatability

Hi TheJosh,

Just wanted to let you know that you're a genius, and that your Newpage script works perfectly under Camino (I'm on 1.5.1) under OS X (10.4.10). Thanks for such a useful tool! --jonny-mt(t)(c) 12:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do NOT sign things for me

I greatly resent having words put into my mouth as you did here: [5].

I try to write with care on WP and I do not take kindly to having words put in my mouth no matter how insignificant the change you believe you have made. I did not raise the issue of having aboriginal place names in the template as a proposal to be voted on and I most certainly did not write "support" to my own idea. To anyone who hadn't seen this page diff it would look like I was summarily proposing a straw-poll to bypass consensus discussion. You should know what this would look like very poor form to the community and you should CERTAINLY know better than to sign someone's name against something that they hadn't written themselves. Not only did you sign my name and add a "support" but you "created" votes for two other people (who had not "voted" but were simply discussing the issue at hand). If this were a journalistic or academic institution that would be considered fraud.

I have made this point at the discussion page and will now point this out to the two other people that you "voted" for. Please do not do this again. Thankyou. Witty Lama 11:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NewPagePatrol.js configuration problem

I'm trying to change the npp_enabled, npp_num_pages, and npp_refresh configuration in my monobook.js, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Here's the code I'm using in my monobook.js file:

// [[User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js]]
importScript('User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js');
npp_enabled = true;
npp_num_pages = 10;
npp_refresh = 10;

Am I doing something wrong, because I'm still getting it disabled by default and refreshing every 5 seconds. Thanks! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 20:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I saw that those variables are hard coded at the top of the scripts, and I think that's what's overwriting the custom settings. You should be able to do something like:

if( typeof( npp_enabled) == 'undefined' ) {
    npp_enabled = true;
}

to make sure you're not overwriting the custom ones. That's how Twinkle and Friendly handle their custom settings. Hope that helps! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 04:53, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Now that you've fixed the configuration variable problem, it appears that the enabled/disabed setting is overriding what's kept in the cookie. It would be nice to have NPP and RCP use the enable/disable variable setting only if the cookie isn't set. For instance, the way it works now, if you click the "disable this box" link and have npp_enabled set to true, the next page that you browse to NPP becomes enabled again. Do you think you could change this behavior so that the cookie overrides the variable for enable/disable? Thanks! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 14:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Noooo problem! You're more than welcome to do the same thing with my tool: Friendly. I saw that you have Twinkle installed, so you might want to give it a whirl. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 15:37, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Support for patrolled pages

Hi again,

Just wondering if you had noticed the new patrolled pages feature of the new pages list. Basically a user can mark a newly created page as patrolled once they have checked it; any that haven't been patrolled show up highlighted in yellow on the new pages list. Would it be possible to build some kind of support for this into your New Page Patroller script? If not for the highlighting, the URL for the links need updating - all unpatrolled pages have a 'rcid=(some number)' attribute added to the end. Without this attribute the 'mark this page as patrolled' link doesn't show.

Thanks, Blair - Speak to me 23:27, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The da Vinci Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		In recognition of how much easier you've made my life with your scripts, I hereby award you this barnstar. Wear it proudly, and keep up the great work! --jonny-mt(t)(c)Tell me what you think! 03:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The banner on your userpage

Hi TheJosh,

I just wanted to drop you a quick note about the banner on your userpage linking to needgod.com. Basically, I'm a little concerned that it might not be appropriate under WP:UP, particularly the section on inappropriate content, which references WP:SOAPBOX. I don't know if you're aware, but Prester John just had his userpage deleted for comments related to religion (the MfD discussion can be found here), and judging by some of the user comments in there it can be a touchy subject.

I don't find it offensive enough to remove myself or nominate for MfD (or even offensive at all--I mean, it basically told me I'm going to hell, but since I'm looking forward to partying with Jimi and John I'm actually all right with that), but I just wanted to give you a heads-up and suggest you either remove it or at least tone it down a little. Thanks! --jonny-mt^(t)_(c)I'm on editor review! 04:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks jonny-mt, I toned down the box - although I could not bring myself to remove it, I guess that's just the evangelist in me! I read the comments about Prester John's page, and it sounds a whole heap worse than a link to an evangelistic website. If I get any other complaints, I guess it will have to go. Thanks for your concern by the way. Also, while i'm here, do you want to talk about any of this stuff (aka the content of the website) at any time? --TheJosh (talk) 10:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AIV report

Hi there. Thanks for your vandalism report regarding User:Azndragon 69; the last warning on the editor's userpage was from May, so it's not really a blockable situation at the moment. I'll keep a watch out for any further problems. Tony Fox (arf!) 06:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects on new pages

I think it would be better if your new pages script (which is just addictive, by the way) could show the redirect page itself (&redirect=no) instead of the page it redirects to, that way we can actually patrol the new page not the old one. -- Mentifisto 23:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Mentifisto 03:17, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Some other things

The scripts don't seem to handle non-Latin characters well. The titles are displayed in the sidebar but when they're clicked on Wikipedia fails to find it - for example 'Sen no Sōeki' is rendered 'Sen no S%u014Deki'.
And if you need the info the scripts work in Opera as well, although Twinkle doesn't much so it's not that useful when patrolling new pages etc.

Also, can you make another script similar to the other two but displaying new users? Thanks! -- Mentifisto 18:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! ^_^ I hope it wasn't too hard for you to make, but in any case now it's useful! -- Mentifisto 16:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AWB

Thanks for the warning. Some broken redirects are caused because some articles about certain cities are yet to be created. Others are a mess-up in capitalization. I will go back and revert those! Thanks for the warning! Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

Adelaide Meetup Next: TBA Last: 20 Apr 2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Hi Josh - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time here. Thanks! ~ Riana ⁂ 12:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

Adelaide Meetup Next: TBA Last: 20 Apr 2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Hi TheJosh - after some planning we've decided to hold the third Adelaide Wikimeetup on Sunday, 17th February, 2008. The meeting will be held at Billy Baxter's in Rundle Mall at 11:30AM. Further details and directions are available on the meetup page. Please RSVP here by 20:00UTC on 15th February 2008 (that's 6AM Saturday for our time zone) so that we can inform the restaurant about numbers. Hope to see you there!

You are receiving this message because you are in Category:Wikipedians in South Australia or are listed at WP:ADEL#Participants. If this has been sent in error, please accept our apologies!

On behalf of Riana ⁂, 11:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Revised

Hi Josh - since Sunday is inconvenient for many people due to church, we are rescheduling for Saturday. I hope this will enable you to attend! Best, ~ Riana ⁂ 11:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reminder

Just a gentle nudge towards the meetup page, hoping you can confirm your attendance before the day is out. We'd love you to be there. :) ~ Riana ⁂ 18:27, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Cornerstone college logo.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Cornerstone college logo.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot (talk) 01:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot activity

I was going over the list of bots and noticed that TheJoshBot (talk · contribs) has not edited in a very long time. Is this bot still active and if not, would you object to it being de-flagged? Please post your comments to Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Dead_bots since this is a rather widely-posted message. MBisanz ^talk 02:25, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Australia incorporation meeting

[edit] New Page Patroller

Just to let you know, I have forked your new page patroller to add a few features. I made the following changes:

• Remove redirects from the list
• Pages that haven't been patrolled yet are highlighted yellow as they are at Special:NewPages
• For pages that haven't been patrolled there is a patrol link next to the name of the article

You can see the changes at User:Bradv/NewPagePatrol.js. Feel free to use this if you like, and thanks very much for the code. —BradV 20:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your chook picutre - what tree is that?

Re this: Image:Chooks_Sleeping_in_a_Tree.jpg - what tree is that they're roosting in? Peter1968 (talk) 13:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Nope, that's no mulberry. I've been told it's a plum or something very close to the plum, a damson or some such. plum. Thanks anyway. Peter1968 (talk) 02:32, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I've forked RecentChangesPatrol.js

This is just to inform you that I forked RecentChangesPatrol and modified it for the Norwegian wikipedia, and removed everything that is patrolled. After trying to get this to work, I requested a change in the API on Bugzilla so that I could get only unpatrolled changes from recentchanges, and implemented that code. Feel free to take back your own code ;) Laaknor (talk) 10:30, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

That is fine by me thanks for letting me know I am glad it was of use to you. Perhaps now I will update the other scripts to put all the language stuff in one place so that they can be translated easier. --TheJosh (talk) 01:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Page Patroller

I put the script into my monobook.js but its not showing the sidebar.Whats wrong? Mr. Green^{Hit Me Up}Userboxes 17:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I did the hard refresh thing, but I still don't see whats wrong. Mr. Green^{Hit Me Up}Userboxes 15:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Ummmm....I have Internet Explorer, but I'm not sure on the version and I don't knw what the OS is. Mr. Green^{Hit Me Up}Userboxes 15:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you did, but its working right now.Thanks for your help. Mr. Green^{Hit Me Up}Userboxes 15:24, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] a shiny

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For creating an AWESOME newpage patrol script, I, J.delanoygabsadds hereby award you this da Vinci Barnstar. Seriously, this was exactly what I was looking for. J.delanoygabsadds 14:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC)