User talk:Tedder

Malcolm Thomas at Pepperdine

I saw your revert of my edit on Malcolm Thomas at the Pepperdine University page. I kept his name on the list of alumni but removed the photo, since it seems silly to show him playing for another school. How that's an acceptable compromisePrincetoniac (talk) 21:33, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

It's isn't really about compromise- I don't care what photos are shown, but the user attended the school. tedder (talk) 20:04, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Edits at Cal Poly Talk pages

Please be aware that you're restoring comments of blocked/de facto banned editor Mangoeater1000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · logs · block log · arb · rfc · lta · SPI · cuwiki). He or she has been disrupting those articles for quite some time now and has proven quite adept at dodging blocks. You really shouldn't be supporting or enabling him or her by allowing him or her to participate in a discussion that is specifically aimed at protecting the articles from his or her block-evading editing. ElKevbo (talk) 19:17, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for making me aware of that, but keep in mind the context of banned editors isn't immediately apparent from edit summaries like this. Next time can you WP:AGF, please? tedder (talk) 20:04, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I wasn't trying to be aggressive or confrontational about your edits! I assumed that you didn't know that he or she was a sockpuppet; that's why I left you a message. :) ElKevbo (talk) 20:33, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay, it's all good- I read into the "you really shouldn't". No problem. tedder (talk) 01:56, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Odd behavior of TedderBot

Not quite sure what triggered this diff, but the bot seems to be removing newer rather than older articles. Choess (talk) 05:17, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

This is not an isolated incident. Happened here as well Regards, Illia Connell (talk) 14:58, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Confirmed. The bot is malfunctioning ([1]). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:32, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Noted the same. The last new articles were added on 24 March, and were from 23 March, after that the bot has progressively been gobbling up the newest articles in the list. Since the new article function is very useful and much appreciated, it would be very appreciated if you could have a look at this. Regards, Tomas e (talk) 12:08, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry folks. I'll dig into it when I have a minute- I've been working 7 days/week. tedder (talk) 14:38, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Happens too on User:AlexNewArtBot/NorwaySearchResult. Thanks in advance. Geschichte (talk) 20:16, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Since the bot is so important to a number of projects, and breaks down every few months, could you make the code available for others to fix? I am not sure how this works, but as much as I appreciate your assistance, it would be nice if others could step in when you are too busy and fix this. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:14, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Piotrus- it's already available on Github. I'd be thrilled if someone read through and figured out what was wrong. Otherwise I'll try to get to it later this week. tedder (talk) 14:53, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

A change was made in MediaWiki 1.21/wmf12 (installed on en.wiki March 11, 2013) that affects how the QueryContinue functionality works in the Java class WMFWiki11.parseQueryContinue(). They changed the attribute name from "rcstart" to "rccontinue" and added an additional value to the end of the timestamp to make it unique. I noticed that TedderBot is using the legacy QueryContinue. There is a new version mw:API:Query#Continuing_queries. Here is the MediaWiki change includes/api/ApiQueryRecentChanges.php diff for this bug report API uses non-unique value for paging for some modules. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Whoa! Thanks Bamyers99! I'll update my java api, I'm sure that will fix it. tedder (talk) 02:06, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Tedderbot

Hi Tedder, I'm a designer and the Wikimedia foundation and I just discovered Tedderbot! This is fantastic and its everything I've ever wanted. I would love to chat with you a little bit about some ideas around the articles collected by Tedderbot, I believe it has tremendous potential.

Vibhabamba (talk) 00:32, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Tedderbot enhancement

I don't know if it is viable for Tedderbot to tag the talkpages of the NewArticles with appropriate Wikiprojects, as in most cases it return perfect results. I guess using the same dataset and codes (I am not from a computer background) after some modifications, it will be able to add those tags very easily. Please consider adding this functionality to the code. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 03:29, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

User:TedderBot/NewPageSearch/Album/archive

I'm trying to fix one of the links on it (Do It ('Til You're Satisfied (album) got moved to Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) (album), which to my mind is an implausible typo), but it keeps coming up with Wikimedia error. Could you try making the edit?--Launchballer 22:31, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, is tedderbot still working? The pages I usually follow no longer get any updates. --Soman (talk) 22:21, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

It's disabled for a short time because it's using an API that was changed underneath it. I need to update the code and put it on a different machine before restarting it. I'd hoped to do so this weekend but so far I've had no weekends (where weekend = "not working long days") recently. It'll be soon- I saw the underlying code was updated, so getting it running should be easyish. tedder (talk) 22:32, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the rapid reply! --Soman (talk) 22:33, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Still not updating.  Buaidh  14:27, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Not yet.  Buaidh  14:36, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

We're dying out here! Must...must have...must have new articles...  Buaidh  20:11, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Please, I know it's broken. Posting daily isn't helping. tedder (talk) 20:40, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Just teasing. I know this isn't how Wikipedia currently works, but perhaps we need multiple editors for significant bots. Thanks for all your work,  Buaidh  02:54, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

New pages

I keep expecting TedderBot to add new pages to User:AlexNewArtBot/MedicineSearchResult, but it's been a while and doesn't seem to have happened. Is there a problem with the bot? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Yup, there's a problem with the bot. Look above this message. It'll return soon (this weekend or next, hopefully). tedder (talk) 01:31, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Good work

Just want to thank you for Tedderbot. Ive used its history to find lots of older articles to add to the San Francisco Bay Area task force. I check it regularly, its extremely useful, and the search terms you programmed into it are pretty comprehensive (I don't think i have any to add). good luck on getting it running again. I can wait. User:Mercurywoodrose99.31.167.180 (talk) 17:29, 21 April 2013 (UTC)