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hi ia any one tell me what this is
Ali11300 (talk) 16:27, 7 July 2011 (UTC) |
Collapsing threads on auto-archived talk pages
A while ago I think I saw an instance where the bot mangled a talk page that had a bunch of collapsed sections, where the entire section (including the heading) was collapsed. Is this a case that's meant to be handled by the bot, i.e.
- {{collapse top}}
- level 2 heading
- bunch of text
- {{collapse bottom}}
- next level 2 heading
I think what the bot did was archive heading to heading, leaving the collapsetop on the page but archiving the collapse bottom with the archived section. I'd think the bot could uncollapse sections as it archives and recognize collapsetop-heading-...-collapsebottom-next heading as something that should be archived without the collapsetop or collapsebottom, and when done should delete the collapsetop through the matching collapsebottom (there are cases where uncollapsing within a section is not the right thing to do, but I'd think uncollapsing entire collapsed sections would be OK). -- Rick Block (talk) 02:59, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Why did your bot archive a talk entry that was only 14 days old?
I noticed MiszaBotI archived a section on Talk:Horizon Air that I posted, saying that it was older than 14 days. I find it outright stupid that your bot would archive something that new, and besides I posted it on June 27--less than 14 days ago. I reverted that edit, but I want you to make sure your bot doesn't do that again. What gets me is that it didn't archive a talk entry on that page that was posted in 2008. (I moved it myself, btw) Why did your bot do this? Could you make sure it doesn't happen again? Thanks, Compdude123 (talk) 19:43, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- The section was dated "23 June", so it really was 14 days ago. The other section wasn't archived because its datestamp lacked the "(UTC)", so Miszabot didn't recognize it as a valid date; sections without dates don't ever get archived by the bot.
- I tweaked the bot to wait longer, and added an archive box so that there's a link to the archive page.
- —WWoods (talk) 05:09, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
- I noticed you had it wait only 30 days before archiving. I changed it to a year because this talk page doesn't get new entries very often. (Not sure if I did it right, please check) —Compdude123 (talk) 21:34, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- "|algo = old(1yr)" won't work; Miszbot only recognizes hours or days. You could change it to "|algo = old(365d)". Personally, I don't think there's reason to make the archive-by age longer than a few months; the bot won't ever wipe the page bare unless "|minthreadsleft = 0".
- —WWoods (talk) 23:09, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- Now that I realize that, I changed the archive-by date to 90 days. —Compdude123 (talk) 01:21, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
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Archiving bot missing sections
Can anyone see why the bot isn't archiving the top three sections on Talk:Rape during the occupation of Germany? It's run several times, but it keeps skipping those. I can't find any hidden datestamps.
—WWoods (talk) 20:01, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
- They bear L3 headings, instead of L2. –xenotalk 13:49, 17 July 2011 (UTC)]
Possible oversights of MiszaBot III
Hello there. I hope you don't mind me mentioning something. If a user uses MiszaBot III to archive, then it archives anything on user's talk page given the user set parameters. However, some templates like the block/request-unblock template says "Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked." I've noticed a few instances where MiszaBot III archives the unblock review, and removes it from the users' page. What would you recommend I do in such a case? — Fly by Night (talk) 00:40, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
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Wikinews importer bot suggestion
Hi, I appreciate that you're not editing much here at the moment, but I have a suggestion about this excellent bot of yours. It still wikilinks the dates of the news items it imports, a practice that has really gone out of fashion on WP in the last few years. It can look odd on a portal to have no linked dates anywhere apart from in the Wikinews section, so I wondered whether you'd be able to tweak the code accordingly. A further request, although this may harder to implement, would be to give people the chance to specify whether the news item date should be in "May 1" or "1 May" format - again, some portals look odd with a mixture of dates. Apart from that, carry on the good work! Yours,
- Bringing this back today (21:00, 19 July 2011 (UTC)) from the archive with a future time stamp in the hope that you might see it in due course. BencherliteTalk 20:59, 19 November 2011 (UTC)]
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Wikinews Importer Bot
Hello ! I think there had a problem on it May you check it, please ? You may reply here, thx. 86.67.6.50 (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Curious Question
MiszaBot II archived an unresolved AN/I thread to the AN/I archive which had an ongoing and unclosed poll. I've gone ahead and restored the unresolved thread upon request from another user after its archiving. My question is this: is there any kind of tag that will cause MiszaBot (I or II) to skip that section when analyzing for archiving, or cause it to wait a longer time before archiving it? Polls can take a matter of days and 24h might not be long enough to test for archiving an ongoing poll if it's meant to last for, say, 7 days and the thread is archived before it's closed. CycloneGU (talk) 00:44, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
{{Do not archive until}}
. Stick that in the section with an appropriate number of days.- —WWoods (talk) 03:59, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the tip - I tried the fake sig. trick for now, apparently someone used it on this very page as well, but I'll do this instead. =)