User talk:Σ/Archive/2015/September

Edits by user is broken with no instructions on who to contact

Hi Σ , I was sent here from Wikipedia:Help_desk#Edits_by_user when I asked about this broken tool. Am I at the right address, and if so can this problem be fixed? It’s a tool that many editors rely on but which breaks regularly without providing contact information. Is there anything that cn be done about this? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 01:31, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, but not at the moment. The people who run Labs enjoy making changes that break things, telling the users to restructure their (recently) "unsupported" projects, and doing it all over again the next time things break. If it wasn't for the free domain and database access, service would be much more reliable. →Σσς. (Sigma) 07:38, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

So where do I go to to voice my concerns? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 09:21, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

If I ever find out, I'll let you know. →Σσς. (Sigma) 06:17, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Edit_by_user_tool. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:34, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Scottywong's tools

Hi Σ, I was sent your way by Kudpung to try to start work on Scottywong's tools. I've got an account on labs and am fluent in Python. :) Samuel Tarling (talk) 09:30, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Send me an email. →Σσς. (Sigma) 18:34, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done: Emailed :) samtar (talk) 18:43, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Do we have an update on this? There is some high level discussion going on (Arbcom/WMF) that needs data about NPP. Anything you can do would be much appreciated. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:19, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Right, so basically the current story is that the page that shows the size of the NPP Patrol Queue shouldn't be hard to clone. Unfortunately due to real life + poor timing + bad planning in response to all that, I'm not even at home right now. I just regained internet access today. I'm around 60% confident that I'll be able to scribble together a shoddy and extremely un-beautiful clone tomorrow. No clue when I'll be back to normal though. Sorry for this extremely untimely news. →Σσς. (Sigma) 06:06, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

If you clone the html the GUI should just be a beutiful as Scott's original. hat said, you are probably not aware of curret events but I assure you that this tool is urgently required. Perhaps you can get Python expert Sam to help you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:02, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I emailed him. →Σσς. (Sigma) 02:34, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

created.py on wikitech

Hi, Σ! A couple of days ago, I discovered a User box you created Template:User MadeArticles which I found very useful. As you know, it makes use of a script found on the Wikilabs site (sigma/created.py), which you made. It was working just fine a couple of days ago. After checking now, I noticed that for some reason it is down and I get a "No webservice" message. Is this something which you could rectify? It's a very useful tool and it would be great to have it up and running once again. Thank you. --Omer Toledano (talk) 05:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Monsanto legal cases

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Monsanto legal cases. Legobot (talk) 00:04, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Email

Hello, Σ/Archive/2015. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

-- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 05:02, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Edit summary search

I see that the Edit summary search link in MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer is no longer working. It's that something that is coming back up soon, or should the link be removed/commented out from the footer? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 05:45, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Look.

... the first socialist I know of who makes jokes involving a military (U.S.) aircraft firing missiles [1]. --Mathmensch (talk) 07:37, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Military aircraft in some contexts may be metaphors for unrelated and non-humourously intended things; sometimes, a plane is just a plane. →Σσς. (Sigma) 08:23, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, it's not a joke. I totally believe that. --Mathmensch (talk) 09:10, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Lowercase_sigmabot_III

Lowercase_sigmabot_III not working on my User_talk: JustBerry talk page as intended, suggestions? Please either ping me or leave me a talkback on my talk page. --JustBerry (talk) 15:53, 12 September 2015 (UTC)  Comment: To clarify, I had a section of my talk page unarchived from this past April not one week ago. I just want to check that it's working correctly --JustBerry (talk) 16:03, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Also, any ideas how any sections marked with Template:done can be auto-archived using your bot or another archiving bot/script? --JustBerry (talk) 15:54, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

 Comment: I'd actually prefer this way of archiving rather than time-based archiving due to unexpected Wikibreaks if possible. --JustBerry (talk) 16:03, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

skipping sections when archiving

Today (13 Sept 01:36) Lowercase_sigmabot_III archived two relatively new sections from Talk:Punjab region (Ordering of the largest cities in the Punjab by population 2015, Land of saints? 2015), but left four much earlier sections (Categorisation 2004, Rice and wheat statistics 2005, Haryana 2005, So, when was partition reversed?). The earlier sections are not marked for retention. Is this a fault of the bot? Apuldram (talk) 14:44, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Apuldram: I believe the sections didn't archive because the section headers were added years after the original posts and then this post wasn't signed. GoingBatty (talk) 20:30, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

never mind now. I've manually archived the ancient sections. Apuldram (talk) 22:16, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

My Talk Page.

My Talk Page is not being archived ,what can be the reason?-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan (talk) 10:34, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Aryan hindustan: Please see User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo for instructions on setting up automated archiving. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 02:07, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

RE:"is an uninhabited settlement in Croatia."

I wrote one-sentence-long articles because I couldn't write more of that. Before I have created new articles I looked similar older articles. Thanks. --BrunoMed (talk) 16:57, 20 September 2015 (UTC)