User talk:Josvebot/Archive 2018

Unicode control characters

Hello. My thanks to you and your trainer for all the good work. I see there are quite a few edits like this one to John Kelby. It looks as if my use of WP:HotCat has been systematically adding U+200E left-to-right mark within links (which are still clickable and successfully put the page into the category). Is there a known bug in this area that I should report or work around? Certes (talk) 10:45, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

This is a known issue when copying anything and later pasting it. Depending on where you copied to string, and which computer and browser you use, you may incidentally copy a LTR or RTL mark unintentionally. Some mirrors of Wikimedia will not handle these well, and some screenreader will fail if hidden unicode characters are present, even if our version of MediaWiki seem to handle them fine. (t) Josve05a (c) 17:36, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. In case it helps others: I pasted into the HotCat textbox in Firefox on Ubuntu. I don't recall where I copied that text from; probably the category list at the foot of another Wikipedia page. Certes (talk) 19:33, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

There might be invisible characters in the category list at the bottom, to keep the list with non-breakable spaces and left to right no matter the characters. Might be a MediaWiki or HotCat-thing. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:36, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Unicode control characters?

Just curious where the Unicode control characters are or were in this edit. Thanks. —  AjaxSmack  04:29, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

@AjaxSmack: In e.g. between the words for ​​various there are two hidden U+200B characters; see Zero-width space. (t) Josve05a (c) 11:18, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Edit summary

Just spotted this. Thanks for the reply. I think it'd be useful if the bot's edit summaries explained things better for non techies like me, but you may have fixed that over the last year. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:16, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

The edit summary is the default one by Wikipedia:WPCleaner, which is what I got the bot flag permission to use. If I'm going to change the summary, it would need to configure the site configurations for everybody else using the tool, but I'll try and create a "help page" on this talk page. (t) Josve05a (c) 11:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

deleted the modification for the article "Fernand Melgar"

Hello,

You deleted the modification for the article "Fernand Melgar" that I've just done. Could you explain me why?

I provide references to reliable published sources. Could you explain me how to do in the right way?

Thank you!

--Fernand Melgar (talk) 16:31, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Fernand Melgar See this reply. Also note that this is the talk page for an automated bot that doesn't make conscious choices Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:24, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

bot mistake

Your bot seems to have got something wrong here. Easily fixed, but just thought I'd let you know. --NSH001 (talk) 14:55, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

The bot did not create the mistake (technically). There was already a space there, only it was a "non-breakable space" (a hidden Unicode control character), which the bot replaced with a normal space character. This in turn did create an issue with Wikimedia generating a <pre>-style box since it was a the beginning of a line, but that is secondary. I'll see what can be done in these extreme circumstances, except for a second run to clean up excess whitespace...Thanks! (t) Josve05a (c) 15:00, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt reply. Do you mean a "zero width no break space" (\uFEFF), in which case why not simply remove it? --NSH001 (talk) 15:09, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

@NSH001: No, it was a non-brekaing space, (\u00A0), which generates the same result as if typing &nbsp. I decided to replace it with a normal space, rather than than that html code, following the advise and regex found on User:Magioladitis/AWB and CHECKWIKI (see error row #16). (t) Josve05a (c) 15:19, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, v interesting. --NSH001 (talk) 15:41, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

chem error

Your bot produces chem errors: Failed to parse (syntax error). https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Oxygen_fluoride&diff=852196501&oldid=851514178 I fixed it. --Boehm (talk) 12:24, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Oh dear! I apologise for this. AWB is programmed to fix some general fixes which should be non-controversial, such as adding nbsp between degrees and amounts, but in chem-tags this breaks syntax. I'll be looking into how to avoid that in the [future.] (t) Josve05a (c) 19:10, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Who doesn't love baklava? Jmanlucas (talk) 04:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Josvebot thanks you for this well-deserved fika! (t) Josve05a (c) 05:58, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Recent edits

The bot recently performed edits with incorrect edit summaries, and one of the edits was in violation of Wikipedia:COSMETICBOT since the bot wasn't properly programmed (human error, I pressed the start button while still fixing the settings). I take full responsibility for this happening. (t) Josve05a (c) 21:43, 7 August 2018 (UTC)