User talk:B. Wolterding

Wikipedia:Bot_requests#UnreferencedSortingBot

Hi there, I recently requested a bot to sort unreferenced articles and it seems yours does the job. (It can be based on categories rather than banners, right?) I was wondering if you could make this work in cooperation with User:SuggestBot? and use his dump processing to suggest articles without references someone might like to edit. Last time I checked SuggestBot didn't make an effort to get people to edit articles with issues.

Anyway, I think this is a great bot and that it should be linked on the unreferenced article cleanup project and perhaps get a write-up in the WP:SIGNPOST so more projects start using it. How do you run it? I would very much like to maintain a backup copy. (MacGyverMagic, being lazy - not logged in) - 131.211.211.97 (talk) 08:24, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi! The bot produces listings of unreferenced articles (and other cleanup-tagged articles) per WikiProject. A WikiProject is either identified by a project banner (i.e., a template on the talk page), or by a category that the talk pages are contained in. Cleanup-tagged articles are found by scanning the appropriate categories on the article page, for example Category:Articles lacking sources and its subcategories.

The bot produces a complete listing of these articles for each subscribed project, however with a limitation of 500 articles for size reasons. See here for example output. Selecting some articles at random, as you suggest, may be a nice idea, but you should know that the backlogs are typically very long - some larger projects easily exceed the 500 articles limit. (I can provide you with more detailed data if you like.) Setting priorities by date, article assessment, and/or other determining factors seems more reasonable to me than selecting them at random.

I think it should well be possible to incorporate similar functionality into SuggestBot. However, that would be a task for SuggestBot rather than for WolterBot. Namely, SuggestBot would scan the appropriate categories just in the same way WolterBot does, but a direct interface between the bots doesn't seem necessary.

For the technical part, the bot runs on my local computer, using a local (partial) copy of the WP database. I have not yet published the source code, and while I might eventually do so, it doesn't make much sense at this time because the bot is not well documented. Actually, much depends on the local database setup and not on the actual bot code (in Java); you might copy the bot code to your computer and it still wouldn't work. However, if you like a copy of the source code nevetheless, I can make it available to you. --B. Wolterding (talk) 13:13, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

External link boxes templates

hi,

Please see template talk:FreeContentMeta. At the conclusion, it was agreed that the template itself could remain but that derivatives should be presented inline. This obviates the need for category: external link boxes. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 13:29, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I responded on Template talk:Forgotten Realms Wikia. --B. Wolterding (talk) 13:20, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

AAB Error

ArticleAlertbot had an error in WP:WPBIO's PROD workflow today. I posted the log here, and it looks like it has something to do with the date. All of the other projects were fine. LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 02:33, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice - yes, there's a problem with a PROD nomination item that has an unspecified nomination date (don't know the precise reason). Will post a fix later today; this will fix the immediate problem, though it's possible that we still see some strange effects. --B. Wolterding (talk) 13:25, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Billy "Crash" Craddock discography

Hi, Where did you find the chart positions for the songs and albums? Izzy007 Talk 00:40, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

• I just merged the information from some individual album pages (which were not more than track listings). I didn't verify the chart information. --B. Wolterding (talk) 10:49, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations

Can you run an updated cleanup listing for WP:WPRS? Thanks! JPG-GR (talk) 17:25, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

• Not at this time, unfortunately. The latest available data dump [1] is of 8 October, that's what your current listing is based on. Once a new dump becomes available - I can't say when, however, and don't have any influence on that - your listing will be updated automatically. --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:14, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of New Zealand Sea Cadet Corps units

An article that you have been involved in editing, New Zealand Sea Cadet Corps units, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Zealand Sea Cadet Corps units. Thank you. -- saberwyn 07:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons/Forgotten Realms/Closure

Are you aware that Special:Contributions/71.194.32.252 is systematically restoring hundreds of redirected pages? This is why redirecting non-notable articles doesn't work; they need to be deleted. Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:49, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, when dealing with these articles a while ago, I first nominated some of them for deletion, only to be advised that redirecting would be preferable. I'm not quite sure; if these things are really so controversial, maybe we have to deal with them at AfD one by one. --B. Wolterding (talk) 13:48, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm more of the Transwiki-whole-WikiProjects view, these days. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:29, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the main contributors of the Forgotten Realms project moved to Wikia about 2 years ago, and I assume they have already transwikied anything that would be needed. I don't know whether the situation of other fiction-related projects is similar. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:27, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

 Great! bot

The Article Alert concept rocks! Fantastic! Congrats and thanks! --KnowledgeHegemony ^talk 08:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

ArticleAlertBot

Sorry if you've already addressed this somewhere else, but I've noticed that the ArticleAlertBot has not run since December 29. I know the WikiMedia toolserver had some issues about that same time, so I assume they're connected. Just didn't know if you were aware that it wasn't running, even though I think the toolserver is back up now. Thanks for the great work on the bot. Does it say something that it's only been down a few days and it's already being missed? :) Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 14:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I didn't add a specific notice, but in fact there's ongoing maintenance work on the toolserver - the database still seems to be down [2]. Since the bot relies on database access, it can't run currently. Let's see what happens this night at 0:00 GMT (that's when the bot is scheduled to run). --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:06, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup for WikiProject Motorcycling

Hi you once offered to generate a cleanup to-do list for WikiProject Motorcycling. We've had a refresh for 2009 so now would be great if you are still up for it? Cheers Thruxton (talk) 13:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I have generated the list, it's located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycling/Cleanup listing. Note that the list is based on data from last October - unfortunately, there has been no data dump yet in 2009. --B. Wolterding (talk) 00:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Extreme quality assurance

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Extreme quality assurance, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

WP:Notability

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Ismarc (talk) 03:02, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

User:ArticleAlertbot: Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Article alerts

Can a link to articles listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Peer review be added to Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Article alerts? Thanks. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 06:37, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

This is a project-specific workflow and I am a bit reluctant to include these, since the bot has more than 50 subscribers. But I have started a discussion regarding that at User talk:B. Wolterding/Article alerts#Project-specific review workflows; you may be interested. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:08, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Database snapshots

Hi there, I couldn't find how often your bot updates its database snapshots. The report that I had generated for the project I am involved with is really great (Wikipedia:WikiProject The Bill/Cleanup listing) but there have been many changes since October. Could you let me know how often this gets refreshed? Thanks.--Deadly∀ssassin 08:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

• Unfortunately it's only refreshed on an irregular schedule, and the last available data set at this time is from October. I've written a bit more about that at User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings#Frequently asked questions. --B. Wolterding (talk) 15:23, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Alert Bot

Hey B, I was wondering how I can get the bot for a project I'm involved in. Thanks, Grsz¹¹ 01:06, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

You need to place a certain template on your project page. See User:ArticleAlertbot/Subscription for details and examples. --B. Wolterding (talk) 15:25, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Buddhism

Hey, thanks for your awesome bot. Any idea why the cleanup listing has not been generated yet for WP:BUDDHISM? Thanks, Cirt (talk) 04:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm unfortunately quite busy at the moment, and did not start WolterBot for a couple of days. The report has been generated now. --B. Wolterding (talk) 15:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah okay thank you! Cirt (talk) 19:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Atheism/Cleanup listing

I am not sure what the problem is with this one, could you help out? Thank you, Cirt (talk) 08:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

At the time of the last dump (Oct 08), the project banner was not properly categorized. Should be fixed with the next dump (there are some indications that a new one might be started soon, after all...) --B. Wolterding (talk) 00:16, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanksomuch. Cirt (talk) 00:48, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup listing for WP:BARD

Hey,

cf. Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare/Cleanup listing. I can't figure out what's wrong. The banner is listed in Category:WikiProject banners with quality assessment, which is a member of Category:WikiProject banners, and prior to this latest run I'd moved our banner template to the standard capitalization (Wikiproject vs. WikiProject). Could you have a look and see what's up? --Xover (talk) 17:53, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

The banner is fine - but the problem is that I'm running the bot on data from beginning of October 2008, and at this time, the banner was incorrectly categorized. I'm urgently waiting for a new data dump [3] to become available - I hope this will be within the next 2-3 weeks or so. (Unfortunately I don't have any influence on that.) --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:28, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah. Hah hah. So that is why! Man, I was going half batty here trying to figure it out. :-)

Thanks for the help. --Xover (talk) 19:01, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Bug reports.

Any feedback on how the page is setup? Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 00:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

The design of the page is fine, much more structured than what we had before. Thanks a lot! --B. Wolterding (talk) 20:25, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

AAB Bug

Hey Bert, I posted a AAB error at User:Legoktm/AAB Report. This has occurred a few times before I could post the report. LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 01:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Lego, that's in fact a bug; but after investigating the code, I'd say it is a rather harmless one. This is caused by a PROD tag without valid date [4]. The bot fails to parse the nomination date in this case (which can't be avoided), but it logs this event in an incorrect way. In the future it will give a proper "WARN" message and print the title of the article in question. In any case, already in the current version, the bot should recover from the error without further problems.

By the way, for tracing errors like that, it would probably be best if the bot does not overwrite its log file every time. I could quite easily set up a log rotation scheme, so that it writes one file per day, and moves away the past logs rather than deleting them. Would that improve the situation?

Also, did you already find time to roll out the version of Feb 14 [5]? The reason I'm asking is that Headbomb wants to advertise the bot somewhat wider, and I'd rather have the rollout directly before than directly after these adverts (on Wikiproject talkpages). There are no major changes, but you never know... --B. Wolterding (talk) 20:36, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I did update the bot, and posted a new error below.

2009-02-27 00:02:40,758 [main] ERROR - Cannot process workflow GA_NOM for project WikiProject Poland; skipping.
java.sql.SQLException: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='
       at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1055)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:956)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3491)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3423)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1936)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2060)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2536)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2465)
       at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeQuery(StatementImpl.java:1383)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.WorkflowItem.doQuery(WorkflowItem.java:138)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.WorkflowItem.pageExists(WorkflowItem.java:125)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.wf.GoodArticleNominationItem.gatherNominationData(GoodArticleNominationItem.java:78)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.wf.GoodArticleNominationItem.gatherNominationData(GoodArticleNominationItem.java:1)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.WorkflowList.gatherActiveItems(WorkflowList.java:151)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.WorkflowList.doFullUpdateCycle(WorkflowList.java:200)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertReport.writeAlertsForWorkflow(AlertReport.java:131)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertReport.writeAlerts(AlertReport.java:107)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertReport.writeProject(AlertReport.java:215)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertReport.generateReport(AlertReport.java:245)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.reports.Report.run(Report.java:52)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.ReportBatch.generateAlertReport(ReportBatch.java:51)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.ReportBatch.generateSubscribedReports(ReportBatch.java:40)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.ReportBatch.runTask(ReportBatch.java:26)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runSubBatch(Batchjob.java:116)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.runTask(AlertsBatch.java:18)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.batchMain(Batchjob.java:26)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.main(AlertsBatch.java:11)
2009-02-27 00:02:40,879 [main] INFO - Generating project report for WikiProject Pharmacology

LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 05:44, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the report; that seems to be a similar bug like the one we had with AfDs before. (International characters, again.) I'll look into that. --B. Wolterding (talk) 00:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

On a different note, they are moving s1 from yarrow to rosemary [6]. I have already dumped u_legoktm_alertbot. Should we do anything else before they move s1? LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 19:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

u_legoktm_alertbot is actually on zedler (sql), not yarrow (sql-s1) [7] so we dont have to worry about it being moved. LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 20:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

OK. Since for the enwiki database, we use the alias for all I know, there should be nothing else to do when the database moves. --B. Wolterding (talk) 01:27, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I think I've fixed the above error now. Until the change is rolled out, it will keep occurring (unless the corresponding GA nomination, probably Żydokomuna, is closed). Should however affect this one project only. I'm not yet sure when I send the next version of the bot, there are a number of changes now; might be next week or so. --B. Wolterding (talk) 01:27, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured articles/Cleanup listing

You last generated this page in October 2008; would it be possible to overwrite it with a newer version now? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:44, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, no, not at this time. The problem is that I rely on database dumps, and there has been none for the enwiki since last October. I was hoping to get one by the end of this month; but currently, all dumps seem to be stalled since a week or so [8]. Unfortunately I don't have any influence on that. Maybe the technical village pump can be of more assistance. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:52, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks anyway ! (On the off chance that you're keeping a list of updates needed when/if a new database cump is available, please add FA :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

The list has now been updated. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Wonderful; thanks so much !! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Code of your bot

Hi,I've a bot that works on Persian wikipedia(Amirobot) would you mind giving your code of bot(this script) to me?,please E-mail me:ladsgroup AT gmail dot com.thanksAmir (talk) 20:34, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you really want, I can send the code - but I don't think that it would be useful to you. Much depends not only on the code as such, but on the setup and content of my local database; and unfortunately I don't have much documentation on that. In other words, even if you have the code, I fear you won't be able to run the bot, at least not without quite a lot of extra effort. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:46, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Tanks,I know a little about programming and please you send to me codes of bot and i'll try to run on wp.faAmir (talk) 14:04, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

don't need.I wrote codes :) باتشکرAmir (talk) 17:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion for small recalibration of bot

thanks for bot, seems to be running very well e.g. on featured articles cleanup. I recommend it does not include in cleanup category 'Potentially dated statements of current year' or 'Potentially dated statements of year-1' (currently, year-1=2008) as these, probably more often than not, do not need cleaning up, Tom B (talk) 03:52, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Changed meanwhile. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Updating instructions

I think you should update the workflows table to reflect the implementation of new features. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 16:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

They are implemented, but not yet rolled out i.e. not yet available to users. Once that is the case, I will update the table. --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

re Article Alerts

Moved from User talk:Headbomb

There seems to be some concern that WikiProject's redirected template alternatives ({{WPISRAEL}} instead of {{WikiProject Israel}}, for example) will not be counted / administered properly. Is this the case? I would presume not, but maybe you could have a word on WP:BOTREQ or the talk page linked to from there. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 09:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I responded there. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Notability of residential colleges

You previously commented at WikiProject Colleges & Universities about the notability of college/university residences and other campus buildings. A RFC has been submitted on the best way to deal with the existence of many Wikipedia articles on residence halls and dormitories at colleges and universities that may not be notable. Your input and feedback would be appreciated at the RFC. Madcoverboy (talk) 23:20, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

ArticleAlertbotSubscription

How does the discussion parameter work?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 00:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

If you change your subscription to {{ArticleAlertbotSubscription|discussions=1}} (along with the other parameters), then the actual discussions, e.g. for AfDs, will be included in the alerts list, as collapsible sections. Setting "discussions=1" will expand the sections with active discussions, while "discussions=2" will collapse all sections. However, I should add that this does not work very well together with the "display=columns" option which you have currently chosen (as the discussions are often too large to fit into the columns reasonably). You can see an example at WP:OHIO.

Technically, this works by transcluding the discussion pages, such as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maxwell Street Polish, into the alerts list; which is why it does not work for all workflows - not all of them use separate "nomination pages". --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:54, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I will use the discussion parameter after the columns problem gets worked out.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:38, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Is there still a problem with the columns after my last tweaks??Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 01:18, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Are you saying that you think I should be able to display discussions while using the columns now?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 20:33, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

There has been no change in that respect; you are able to use them, but I don't think that the result is what you expect. They won't work together well, except perhaps on extremely wide displays. That's just a matter of lack of space, I don't think that there's much that could be fixed. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:49, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

No. I was saying that you said there was a problem with the way the alerts were displayed at WP:Chicago, even after my last round of tweaks, which displayed it in columns (without using the |display=columns parameter). Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 19:19, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Paid Accounts on Toolserver

Hey Bert. River recently posted that to get some features on the toolserver, you will have to pay. I do not intend to pay to get a full toolserver account. A free account would get only 25 queries per day which means we either have to start getting some data from the API or condense our queries into a lower number. LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 03:34, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

What the hell? People will have to pay to give volunteer time. What a steaming load of crap. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 04:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Well, I think one should take into account the date on which this message was posted, right? --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

And the worse is I remember thinking "It's not April 1st yet, so this ain't a joke". Damned time zones. It better be a joke.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 22:16, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

LOL, stupid april fools day. I was all woried... LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 01:05, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

ISC Compilation Tapes

A year and a half ago, you changed a stub article called ISC Compilation Tapes (which would be better named International Sound Communication) into a redirect, stating on the talk page that the article could be restored if improved. Since I have most of the tapes, I thought I would try to fix it up and add track lists. There doesn't seem to be much of anything about this series on the internet that could be used for citation. It's not finished yet, though maybe it will be by the time you read this. Have a look at my sandbox and let me know what you think on my talk page. Thanks for your time. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 02:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and restored, renamed, and expanded the article. It's now called International Sound Communication. One thing I need to do is find which artists have articles and put in wikilinks. I'll be doing that over the next few days. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 21:24, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

AABot repeating error

2009-04-11 00:01:07,625 [main] ERROR - Exception occurred during batch job org.toolserver.alertbot.SubscriptionBatch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URLDecoder: Incomplete trailing escape (%) pattern
       at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:168)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.subscriptions.SubscriptionList.getParameters(SubscriptionList.java:104)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.subscriptions.SubscriptionList.readFromCategory(SubscriptionList.java:141)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.SubscriptionBatch.runTask(SubscriptionBatch.java:23)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runSubBatch(Batchjob.java:116)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.runTask(AlertsBatch.java:17)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.batchMain(Batchjob.java:26)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.main(AlertsBatch.java:11)
2009-04-11 00:01:07,627 [main] ERROR - Exception occurred during batch job org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch
name.bwolterding.wikibots.BatchFailedException
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runSubBatch(Batchjob.java:117)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.runTask(AlertsBatch.java:17)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
       at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.batchMain(Batchjob.java:26)
       at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.main(AlertsBatch.java:11)
2009-04-11 00:01:07,627 [main] INFO - Batch job completed; exit code 1

I currently don't have access to the toolserver so I won't be able to update anything, but I still receive cron messages. Legosock ^(talk) 14:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, this was caused by one particular subscription, which I've fixed for the time being. The bot should run again; no code change is necessary at this time. I'll put in a code fix for the problem later (I'm currently on a holiday). --B. Wolterding (talk) 11:33, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Re: Empty results for .22What links here.22 and .22What transcludes page.22

Your input would be appreciated here.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 07:11, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chess#Cleanup_listing

About 3 weeks ago I added the cleanum listing to the chess project, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chess#Cleanup_listing. However, I didn't give the full name of the project and 14 days ago it created a message saying that there was no "chess" project listed. Someone said that they corrected the name, but there hasn't been a cleanup listing since the initial one that didn't work due to my error. Is it correct now, and approximately when should the next listing be? Thank you, Bubba73 (talk), 03:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

There will be an update of the listings shortly, I'll have a look into it then. --B. Wolterding (talk) 20:28, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Bubba73 (talk), 01:37, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

It seems that this is working now. --B. Wolterding (talk) 08:26, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, I just looked at it and it gives the project a lot of useful information! Bubba73 (talk), 14:20, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup listing WikiProject Historic sites

Hi, I'm trying (and failing) to work out why Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic sites/Cleanup listing isn't working. Template:WikiProject Historic sites has now been added to 624 articles (with lots more to come) but no cleanup list can be generated. Any advice appreciated.— Rod ^talk 08:09, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

I think I can answer this one. The latest database dump that Wolterbot used is dated 6 March 2009. The Historic site project was created on 18 March 2009. Your project does not exist on Wolterbots database, which is why it cannot find it. (Wolterbot analyses the dumps, not the live system). The good news is that another database dump has just taken place, see my question below for further information. MortimerCat (talk) 16:24, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup listing for old GAs

I'm part of GA Sweeps and we're reviewing all GAs that passed a review before August 2007. We have a running page of articles left to be reviewed, and I was wondering if the bot is able to run a cleanup listing of just this page (there are only ~1,300 articles in the list compared to the current total of about 6,000 GAs). The listing would help to spot the articles that are most likely in need of being delisted or quick fixes that can be made to pass the article. The listing would be very helpful in completing our reviews. Let me know if you need further details or if there is anything I need to do. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 17:22, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I'm afraid that the bot takes its input exclusively from category information - it's currently not made to scan pages for lists of articles. You could put all of these articles (or rather their talk pages) into a specific category, then the bot could process this one - I'm not sure whether that's feasible in your case, however. --B. Wolterding (talk) 20:49, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

New database dump

Sorry to hassle you but I am getting excited! I noticed a new successful database dump is available. How long will it take before you start sending out the new analysis? MortimerCat (talk) 16:29, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for the delay - I missed that there's a new dump. In fact there's an even newer one, finished yesterday. I will start processing it tomorrow, this usually takes 1-2 days (it's really a lot of data...) --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:27, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Is the Wikipedia:ArticleAlertbot test page still need?

If, I'll send it to speedy.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 02:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

No, it's not needed, we have plenty of other examples. --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

WPEQ question

OK, so I see the WPEQ/WikiProject Equine cleanup page has a problem here: [9] My question is what to do. WPEQ is a redirect to WikiProject Equine, which has about 1500 articles in it. "WPEQ" is definitely the nickname everyone is using when inserting the banner, so how can we make your cleanup work without having to change or eliminate the WikiProject Equine template, which someone else (User Scott Alter, I think) was nice enough to design for us and we are now scared to mess with it!!!! All we need is to have pages flagged for fixes... and the one person who sort of understands the template is busy with a real job in real life and isn't on wiki a whole lot at the moment. So can you kindly help us out? Thanks. Montanabw^(talk) 06:40, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

The only problem was that Template:WPEQ is actually a redirect to Template:WikiProject Equine; this seems to have changed recently. It just needs an update to your subscription, which I have done a moment ago. The listing should be there within a day; please be a bit patient, as the bot is still processing the "first round" of reports for other projects. --B. Wolterding (talk) 07:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

So is it OK that we keep tagging new articles as WPEQ anyway? Thanks for your help, by the way! Montanabw^(talk) 22:49, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I can't see anything wrong with using {{WPEQ}} for tagging. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Groovy, thanks for your help. Montanabw^(talk) 20:10, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Refreshed cleanup listings

Bert, new listings seem to be running mostly okay, though i notice Kyoto Protocol isn't listed in the high number of categories sections of Wikipedia:Good articles/Cleanup listing‎, it is only listed in the unsourced statements section, i'm not sure if this is indicative of a wider problem, Tom B (talk) 14:30, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for mentioning this - indeed, there seems to be a wider problem: The categories "Articles with unsourced statements..." were not processed properly; the bot got confused because there are currently two categories for each month, e.g., "Articles with unsourced statements from May 2007" and Articles with unsourced statements since May 2007". I have hopefully worked around that in the bot code now; I'll need to re-run a number of my pre-processing steps, which will take several hours. If you want a corrected version of the GA listings, please tell me. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:59, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes pls and FA, thanks Tom B (talk) 23:34, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Done. Kyoto protocol is now listed at the very top. --B. Wolterding (talk) 08:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Ancient Near East cleanup list

The Ancient Near East cleanup list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ancient_Near_East/Cleanup_listing

seems to have recently acquired a lot of new extraneous entries. Like maybe two orders of magnitude more entries. Including some pages on Iowa (which I'm almost certain wasn't in the ANE). :-) Can't you check this for me? Thanks. If there is something you need me to do to fix this ... feel free.Ploversegg (talk) 00:30, 13 June 2009 (UTC)ploversegg

See /Cleanup listings#WP Ancient Near East - statistics broken. --B. Wolterding (talk) 13:22, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Assessment/Cleanup listing

Hi B Wolterding,

Could you please have WolterBot (talk · contribs) reupload the abovementioned cleanup listing; the subscription parameters did not include the importance and quality parameters previously.

Ps: Do you know why article alert bot does this?

Thanks for the great bots!

G.A.S^talk 05:49, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

The listing has been re-generated now. Yes, I realize that it's about time for me to have a look at the Article Alerts bugs; will do that next. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:39, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, B. Wolterding! G.A.S^talk 18:52, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

If you have time...

You might want to take a look at this. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 15:29, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi! Basically, I won't have frequent Internet access for the next two weeks to come, which puts me on kind of a wikibreak I think. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:56, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

That's alright. If others might do it while you're away. I also noticed that the cleanup listings have not been updated since the last dump. I dunno how hard and time consuming it is on your side, but it would be neat to have them updated (but there's still plenty of things to do with the older listings, so it's no biggie if you don't have the time).Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 22:03, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Data processing for the cleanup listings is now running (based on the dump of Aug 16), but given the volume of data, it will take another day or so until the listings are ready. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:04, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup listing

Hi B. Just wondering how one goes about getting the listing to show the appropriate information for FA/FL/High articles. It's not showing at the top of the WP:BIRDS listing, and I'm sure it's something dumb I've forgotten to do! MeegsC | Talk 18:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Parameter added, the cleanup listing just needs a refresh. G.A.S^talk 05:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks GAS! MeegsC | Talk 07:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Elements

Due to a change in the templates only halfe of the articles show up in the new report. Is it possible to fix it for the next run? Uptil now only the

• Template:Chemical Element

was used for the project, but due to the resurection of the isotop project the second template

• Template:WikiProject Elements

is used for all elements and isotopes now. Is it possible to get a combined report to the same page like before? Or do we have to change something to make it possible?

--Stone (talk) 20:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

--Stone (talk) 11:34, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I'll take a look at things.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 16:03, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts for WP:CHICAGO

I sent a query the bugs report, but WP:CHICAGO has not had an alert update since July.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:52, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

AAB Error

2009-08-12 00:11:18,371 [main] INFO - Starting batch: org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch
2009-08-12 00:11:18,372 [main] INFO - Running sub batch: org.toolserver.alertbot.SubscriptionBatch
2009-08-12 00:11:19,702 [main] INFO - Logged in as: ArticleAlertbot
2009-08-12 00:11:26,805 [main] ERROR - Exception occurred during batch job org.toolserver.alertbot.SubscriptionBatch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URLDecoder: Incomplete trailing escape (%) pattern
        at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:168)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.subscriptions.SubscriptionList.getParameters(SubscriptionList.java:104)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.subscriptions.SubscriptionList.readFromCategory(SubscriptionList.java:141)
        at org.toolserver.alertbot.SubscriptionBatch.runTask(SubscriptionBatch.java:23)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runSubBatch(Batchjob.java:116)
        at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.runTask(AlertsBatch.java:17)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.batchMain(Batchjob.java:26)
        at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.main(AlertsBatch.java:11)
2009-08-12 00:11:26,806 [main] ERROR - Exception occurred during batch job org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch
name.bwolterding.wikibots.BatchFailedException
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runSubBatch(Batchjob.java:117)
        at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.runTask(AlertsBatch.java:17)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.doTask(Batchjob.java:106)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.runBatchInstance(Batchjob.java:88)
        at name.bwolterding.wikibots.Batchjob.batchMain(Batchjob.java:26)
        at org.toolserver.alertbot.AlertsBatch.main(AlertsBatch.java:11)
2009-08-12 00:11:26,807 [main] INFO - Batch job completed; exit code 1

LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 00:16, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Problem with subscription for WikiProject Lists - will hopefully be OK in tonight's run; let's see. --B. Wolterding (talk) 20:20, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

It hasn't run since July 31st actually. Legoktm seems to be absent. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 20:47, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Uh, well look at that, he's back. Lego if you read this, you should update your wikibreak banner. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 20:57, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

If ArticleAlertbot is officially back up and running, you may want to remove some of the notices like this one from Article Alert pages. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure which notices you are referring to? --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:03, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, looks like it has been removed. It essentially said that AAB hadn't been updated since July 31, I believe it was. It looks like someone removed it. All is taken care of :) Take Care...NeutralHomer • Talk • 22:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

He was talking about these notices. This is a section transcluded on each alert report so we can let people know that the alerts are down. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 01:03, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Wolterbot counts things weirdly

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Physics/Taskforces/BPH/History/Cleanup_listing#Featured_articles. It says that the History taskforce has 120 feature article (it has none, although it does has a featured list), and the list of article makes no sense at all (Battle of Midway, Edward III of England, Treaty of Devol, ...). What's going on? Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 14:56, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Seems like it is picking these articles up from Category:FA-Class history articles... (and per User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription, the bot will normally try to auto-detect the assessment categories from the name of the project or work group. Not sure how to fix that myself, though. G.A.S^talk 15:09, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, wrong choice of categories it seems. Following the name of this taskforce, the bot looks in Category:FA-Class history articles, which does indeed have 120 entries. Maybe you want to use the "assesscat" parameter in the subscription. --B. Wolterding (talk) 15:12, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Tota Rani

You created this page but have not provided any references or links. Please revisit with more information . . . and a map, perhaps? Ed8r (talk) 15:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I think you're mistaken; the creator of that article is User:Samardeepthapa. --B. Wolterding (talk) 20:26, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

New bot dump.

Just a quick note, there's a new bot dump for Wolterbot to go through. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 01:14, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, they seem to come in every 5 days now. However I was away from the machine where WolterBot runs. Will try to catch the next "fresh" dump, around Oct 15. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup Listing

Can you have Wolterbot update Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Cleanup listing? I saw that it had updated some but not all of the cleanup pages and was wondering if you could get around to this one? Spiesr (talk) 16:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

The subscription template had been removed from the project page, therefore the listings were not updated. I have re-added the subscription, you should see the updated listing soon. --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:56, 28 October 2009 (UTC)