User talk:Σ/Archive/2013/September

category X2 nonprotection and new blank line

Your edit of category X2 (Edit Summary: "(Adding protection templates) (bot)") is puzzling, since all that was changed was that a blank line was added to the top. The category was protected at some level until recently, but the category was repurposed and I think the intention (proposed) (answer) is that it not be under protection, either full or partial, any longer. Can we do without the protection and would there be any problem if I delete the new blank line? Thanks. Nick Levinson (talk) 16:03, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, this is a bug. I will deal with it later. →Σσς. (Sigma) 00:02, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I didn't know which way you meant the "yes", but nothing else happened, so I deleted the blank line and I hope the page won't be reprotected. Good luck with the bug. Thanks. Nick Levinson (talk) 16:50, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

The bug should be fixed now. →Σσς. (Sigma) 01:58, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

1. Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
2. Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
4. Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
5. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
6. Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
7. Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
8. Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), Dana boomer (submissions), Status (submissions), Ed! (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 05:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Lower Case Sigma Bot down

Hi, Σ. The above mentioned bot has not edited since Aug 30. I was wondering if you could get it running again? Thanks, -- Diannaa (talk) 23:07, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. Thanks. →Σσς. (Sigma) 23:45, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I love the way it templates protected pages, -- Diannaa (talk) 02:27, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Heh, no problem. →Σσς. (Sigma) 22:57, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

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Backlog

Hi, where does lowercase sigmabot (talk · contribs) get its data from? I ask because although it's clearly running, the number of edits per hour has been small (27 in the last 24 hours), yet Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates contains 492 pages. Is there a problem with data collection? --Redrose64 (talk) 19:09, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

It gets the list of newly protected pages from Special:Log, and had some downtime for a week. I will do a manual run over those pages later today. →Σσς. (Sigma) 23:03, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

I've done almost 25 today. Some of these prots had expired several weeks ago - one expired 00:00, 1 March 2013. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:08, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

OK. Due to a sudden change in plans, I will be unable to finish this task until Friday evening. Sorry for the delay. →Σσς. (Sigma) 07:18, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Double tagging pp-move

Lowercase sigmabot is adding {{pp-move}} to pages that already have it. 117Avenue (talk) 04:56, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. I'll take a look. →Σσς. (Sigma) 01:43, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Bot problems

LCSB1 should be running like it used to, now. →Σσς. (Sigma) 22:35, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Lowercase Sigmabot II adding multiple sandbox headings.

Lowercase Sigmabot II is inserting multiple sandbox headings. I have removed some, so that only 1 is left. Please fix the bot.2Awwsome^{Tell me where I screwed up. See where I screwed up} 20:57, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

This should be fixed. →Σσς. (Sigma) 07:56, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Double tagging

User:lowercase sigmabot just double-tagged Dota 2 with Template:pp-semi-indef. ref revisions 574122455 & 574125008 — Gmt2001 (talk) 02:34, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Argh. I'll deal with this tomorrow. →Σσς. (Sigma) 03:08, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done →Σσς. (Sigma) 03:16, 29 September 2013 (UTC)