User talk:The Earwig

Bot 1, Task 4

Hi, Earwigbot 1 appears to be causing problems with timestamps on AfC requests, e. g. here. Didn't want to stop the bot in case this has already been fixed or is caused by something else. Alexrexpvt (talk) 23:30, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me about this. The bot is already done with this task, for now. The problem was caused because the closer of that submission subst'd {{AFC submission}} when they weren't supposed to. It's not the bot's fault. I will fix this; are there any other cases where this happened? Thanks, The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 23:37, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Happened here and here, but I've fixed both of those (I think). Alexrexpvt (talk) 23:41, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Yep, those are fixed now. Apparently, it was a small error that could've been prevented if I had known that {{AFC submission/declined}} was in use, even though it's not supposed to be. It's so minor though (3 submissions out of a total of 2,000 untimestamped submissions). The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 23:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I need your mentorship

Hi,

I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.

I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.

The goals of the WikiProject are:

1. Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Wikipedia
2. Complete the existing outlines
3. Create an outline for every subject that is extensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields). There are thousands of these.
4. Recruit as many editors to work on these as possible (we need thousands of editors working on these)
5. Surpass portals in number by the end of the summer, and leave them in the dust by the end of the year
6. Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
7. Increase the OOK to higher quality than Britannica's Outline of Knowledge (published in its Propaedia volume).

I was hoping you could comment on how to achieve the goals above.

Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. So how do I do it? Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your help.

I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).

Please recommend anyone you know who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this. Or ways to reach groups of editors. Or ways to reach all editors. I welcome any and all recommendations and advice you might have.

And any thoughts on attaining the WikiProject goals above.

I look forward to your reply on my talk page.

The Transhumanist    03:38, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. Thanks, The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 20:19, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Copyvio bot

I followed the link from Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Leadership Initiatives to the bot's report, but the page was empty. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:56, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Interesting. This happened because the submission's writer removed the copyvio, but did not reset the template afterwards. Naturally, the bot removed the report from the log page, but there is nothing in its programming to check if the submission's template itself was reset. This would be an interesting feature to implement. Thanks, The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 09:56, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh, so it keeps checking? I thought it would just check once when the article is submitted. I think that's fine then. Maybe just a note on the log page, that if the report is missing then the copyvio has been removed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:59, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, if the bot didn't check more than once, it wouldn't be able to update the log page, would it? I added a note to the log page, hopefully that should make it clearer. The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 10:09, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh no! That picture on your userpage is horrible ;) By the way, I've added you to Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Active participants so that people can ask you for help if necessary. If this is not okay, please revert. Cheers, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:01, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I have no problem with the addition there, thanks! Oh, and about the image: well, it is an earwig, after all. The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 17:05, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't suggesting you take it away. It's great ... just gross ;) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:10, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I understand... OK, I'm keeping it! The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 18:16, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

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