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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by AdamRetchless (talk | contribs) at 02:16, 22 February 2007 (Status of Wikireason -- other projects). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This page has a backlog that requires the attention of its owner, who is working for a startup and is very short on time at the moment.

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Feel free to leave a note on this page in the usual manner. When I reply, I usually move your comments onto your talk page, along with my reply, to keep the entire conversation together. I only keep stuff on this page if it requires further action from me, just to keep things tidy. Other memorable comments are moved to one of the above subpages. Feel free to copy or move the conversation back if you need to reply on the same topic, or just post your reply; I'll know what you mean, and I can always check the page history if memory fails me. -- Beland 22:47, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Graphics tutorials in the project namespace tagged for copying to Wikibooks

Please discuss the disposition of these articles at Wikipedia talk:Graphics in two modes/move. Uncle G 14:13:57, 2005-09-05 (UTC)

I am currently looking for help (a perl script) to parse and separate red and blue links for various lists at Missing encyclopedic articles. I have made a request at Wikipedia:Computer_help_desk#New_cases, but it has languished for over a week. There was a script that does some of what we need it to do developed by Avar, but it only works on a few of the many lists we are currently working on. Specifically I'm looking for something that would separate and sort a list like this:

  1. Link 1 External search for link 1 Comment about link 1 with link to another article]
    Nested comment about link
    Second nested comment
  • Wrongly nested comment
  1. Link2 Notice space has been removed
  2. Link3] Malformed links with [malformed link
  1. Link4 Renumbering because of space
  2. Link 5
  3. Link 6

into a list like this

Red links

  1. Link2 Notice space has been removed
  2. Link3] Malformed links with [malformed link
  3. Link4 Renumbering because of space

Blue links

  1. Link 1 External search for link 1 Comment about link 1 with link to another article]
    Nested comment about link
    Second nested comment
    Wrongly Fixed nested comment
  2. Link 5
  3. Link 6

This is a worst case example. The current script works well, but it evaluates link by link, not line by line and so [comments] about the link would be removed.

See separting reds and blues for more comments.

Your help would be greatly appreciated. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Follow ups

Re Bluebot + tags

Hi, basically bluebot tags with {{wikify-date|xxx}} or {{stub}} as when it comes across those articles while doing other tasks, most often this is when it is bolding the first occurrance of the title. For a while I had it scanning new pages as well, which was fairly successful, but I don't leave my computer on all the time, and it was tagging sooo many as wikify (many of which would get deleted) that I began to think it was better to just work off database scans, as these tended to be older, and therefore less likely to be copyvios or other candidates for deletion. The criteria for adding a tag used to be calculated from the number of links dived by article length, but I found this doesnt work too well, so now it only tags if there are less than 4 links as well. thanks Martin 10:43, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it has been my ambition to get every article that needs it to be tagged with {{wikify}}, but there are soo many that it would be too much to do them all in one go, I was aiming to do a few thousand a month. Maybe we should set a target for the size of each wikify-by-month category? I would say 3000 is probably about right. Martin 14:52, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisource inclusion

I noticed you have recently tagged some articles for moving to Wikisource. I wanted to talk to you especially about the splitting off of data from and article and then tagging it for WS. The English Wikisource community has recently decided to exclude all data and reference material which is not attached to a larger work available on Wikisource. Although we have not yet deleted the material which currently exists at WS, please be aware this sort of material will no longer be accepted. --Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 03:52, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't remember doing this recently; which articles do you mean? Is this new policy explained somewhere on Wikisource? I poked around a bit and didn't see anything, and I'm not sure I entirely understand the decision. -- Beland 04:01, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The data I remember seeing was some kind of immigration figures. I believe s:Wikisource:What Wikisource includes#Reference material has been partially updated, there is still some disscusion about the details. Basically if we had the entire report that include the immigration data we would accept it, but we are not accepting unaffiliated reference material. The original disscussion can be found at s:Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2006/04#Inclusion of reference data on Wikisource. The decison to exclude this material met with no opposition and only one neutral editior, let me know if you have any further questions.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 13:53, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I poked through my contributions for the past month, and I don't see anything being tagged for Wikisource, but I'll take your word for it. I think I see why wikisource considers reference material outside of its scope; probably you'll want to transfer that information to Wikibooks. -- Beland 15:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
United States immigration statistics was the article I removed the move to wikisource tag from. The history shows you created it and the tag was there in the earliest version. It was not yet moved to WS so I wanted to point it out to you since it seems you thought it did not belong on WP. I imagine the change in guidelines will cause some confusion for a while, so I am trying to slowly spread the word. --Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 23:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Cleanup of Category:Sociology

I agree with you. See Talk:Sociology#Category_cleanup. It would be good if we can work out a way to depopulate and organize this cat.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:34, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Interesting project?

Hi - Have you seen Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Broken "anchor" links? It's not clear to me whether you still download the database or have any time for this sort of thing, but if so it seems like a Beland sort of problem. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:26, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles to be merged

Hi, I saw the sorting work you (your bot actually but hey) did on Category:Articles that need to be wikified. Great, it makes it much nicer this way. Is it also possible to this on Category:Articles to be merged. I just discovered this category today, and boy does it has a backlog. Sorting by month would be helpful there. So you know if it's already discussed for a while (or not at all). Garion96 (talk) 20:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw your backlog notice on this page. Ignore the msg above for a month or more. :) Garion96 (talk) 22:17, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture

Many thanks for your recent reply about the erroneous articles appearing in the to do lists on this wikiproject. I'm having a look at the categorisation to help ease the problem. We have created a new Wikiproject called Wikipedia:WikiProject:Urban studies and planning . If it's at all possible, I'd be very grateful if you would redirect your bot to add all items in Category:Urban studies and planning and it's subcategories to this wikiproject and remove them from Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture.--Mcginnly 00:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Bot request

Hello! I was told I needed to contact you to get the bot to run for a new page I set up called Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Military people? Thanks! plange 05:41, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to meet you in the lunch line...

Just a quick note.... also, the Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group can be found at http://wikipedia.meetup.com/5/

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 18:33, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Categories

The categorization system is having growing pains. There seem to be several different view about what our category system should be; a way to browse, an index of articles, a classification system, and/or a database search tool. Each of these views leads editors to different conclusions about how categories should be populated, and many conflicts result. To deal with these problems, Rick Block and I have been working on a proposal to add the ability to create category intersections. We think our proposal will address these problems and add some very useful new features. We are asking editors and developers concerned with categorizaton problems to take a look. We'd appreciate your feedback. Thanks. -- Samuel Wantman 06:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yet another analysis project that screams "Beland!"

Hi - I've proposed a wikipedia wide project to find and eliminate instances within infobox-style templates of the anti-accessible technique of creating multiple visual rows withn a single row by embedding matching HTML breaks in two (or more) adjacent columns in a table, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability#Infobox accessibility issue. So far, no one has signed up or in any way acknowledged that this is a problem worth pursuing (screw them blind folks - who needs em!). In any event, if you could whip up a little analysis program to find likely instances (difficult to be exact, but perhaps references to templates with multiple parameters whose values include an HTML break - being exact requires either looking at the rendered HTML or interpreting the template) it might help folks realize the magnitude of the problem. I'm pretty sure this is very widespread, and I've verified with a blind wikipedia user that it is a problem. If you could help, I'd appreciate it. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the description of the problem to Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Infobox accessibility and started a list of likely templates for manual checking (geographical infoboxes). -- Rick Block (talk) 03:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
I, Smeelgova, award this barnstar to Beland for Beland's kind attitude and professional demeanor. Thank you. Smeelgova 02:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC).[reply]

(feel free to add to your user page if you like). yours,Smeelgova 02:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Photo please?

You say on your user page "if you need a picture of anything in the Boston area, let me know." I'm gonna take you on literally :) and ask you for snaps of Harvard Yard. I love the university (I'm applying there right now) and I would love seeing pictures of the place. You're busy so take your time, or just ignore this completely (hey, you could also start a /stupid requests subpage). My email is lestatdeliban@gmail.com. Thanks a million. LestatdeLioncourt 19:20, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The da Vinci Barnstar
For outstanding achievement in the field of bot operation. Pearle is a brilliant bot. Here's to you, Beland. Sharkface217 01:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]




You've earned it.

Pearle request

Hey Beland,

I was looking at Pearle, and it said you can generate reports showing the tree structure of categories, including articles. Does this include a report of how long the article in the categories are?

I ask because I used to use CatScan all the time. I spend a lot of time working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs, which has a huge amount of short stub articles. CatScan was really useful in identifying and listing stub articles, and I liked being able to start with the shortest, most incomplete articles first.

However, CatScan hasn't worked in many months (since April 11th!), and it appears permanantly offline on en.wikipedia. Is it possible for you to use Pearle to come up with a list of the shortest articles in Category:Dinosaurs, preferably sorted by size? The category depth would have to be about six, because there are around six levels of depth. Can it be done? I can use pop-ups, but it takes hours because there are between 1,200 and 2,000 dinosaur articles; I've only sorted letter A, and am not relishing the thought of B thru Z.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide, Firsfron of Ronchester 22:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello? Firsfron of Ronchester 02:15, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Wikipedia:Translation

Hello,

I'm currently renovating the old Wikipedia:Translation into English. I'm on the way of porting what I've done for fr:Projet:Traduction (it's not 100% translated yet, but don't worry)

I came accross Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask and noticed that it fit perfectly with what I intend to do. Could we add a new task for User:Pearle :

Send me an email if you need any information.

Jmfayard 11:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Filmmaking PNA

Did I do something wrong with Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Filmmaking? Because it doesn't seem to have been included in the November 3 update. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 12:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

{{unreferenced-date}} ?

I noticed you said you have very little time at present, so feel free to tell me to go climb a tree. Would it be feasible to have Pearle (or a copy thereof, maybe I could run it) do for {{unreferenced}} what is currently done for {{cleanup}}? The documentation says it is able to go back through old contributions to the article to discern when the tag was added. This would be a major help with what is being talked about here. No rush to reply, there's 30k or so to get to eventually... -- nae'blis 22:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PNA enhancement

Add Category:Articles with unsourced statements to Pearle PNA tasks, per Template talk:Fact. -- Beland 18:36, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Search engine access to commons

I don't see any images from Commons showing up on Google or Yahoo images search. Does anyone know why? Is this intentional? -- Beland 02:42, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a known problem, but not exactly intentional. Search engines fail to index our pages properly, because the URLs end in things like "jpg", which they tend to think are images rather than image pages in our case. Sorry, we share your disappointment here though. :( --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 03:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for adding the to-do list to the Sex discussion page. I figure you must have read both my comment on that talk page and the question I asked on the science reference desk. Or maybe great minds just think alike. :) --24.11.177.133 17:46, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PNA run dropped "Expert attention needed" entries

When Pearle was given the PNA sorting update in early November (much needed - thanks), I noticed that Pearle seems not to be producing any "Expert attention needed" list entries -- all the PNA pages I've seen have 0 entries. For instance page Tenant-in-chief still has an {expert} tag but is no longer in any list on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Business.

Now I see that someone else has commented on this problem. As PNA is the topic-sorted access path, this "Expert attention needed" list is one of the more important article lists to have on PNA.

BTW, there are a few new pages that Pearle/PNA could process. I'll try to put together a list for you to feed her. -R. S. Shaw 04:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of PNA adds for Pearle's next cleanup-sorting run

Here are formatted new PNA pages ready to be added to Pearle's list of pages to process for cleanup sorting: 

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Artists
Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/California
Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Filmmaking
Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Military people
Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Philosophy
Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Writers

-R. S. Shaw 23:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Above list updated. -R. S. Shaw 01:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pearle Bot Code

Have you released the new code for Pearle bot for 1.9Alpha yet? Shane (talk/contrib) 07:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Open access

OK, wait. If you look at the articles on the different types, the definitions are clear, and that iz not whatthe controversy is about. The policy is what is not clear.

But I understand how this comes acrosss as somewhat arcane. DGG 22:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A question about a Perl script...

There's a script that User:Cedars used to run that's written in Perl I think that used to maintain the main WP:GA page. The problem is, Cedars just left suddenly after some fair use on publicity images thing, and now I don't think anyone knows how to use it :/. I was told you might be able to help tell us how the script works, at first I thought it was just something that you put in that file everyone has that loads when you log in that can change things, but just reading how he's commented his code, it looks like this is some indepedent application that's moving around files and needing some odd file opening protocols. Its all User:Cedars/gaauto.pl, and the thing is, it's about the only reliable and easy way we have to keep the GA list properly mantained. If there's anything you can tell us about how to use this script, I know i'd appreciate it, and although I can't speak for all the other GA editors i'm mostly certain they'd be thankful as well :). Homestarmy 18:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think i've managed to get cURL installed and showing up properly under Perl's libraries, but it still won't let me run the script, claims the cURL commands still aren't recognized.... Homestarmy 00:31, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about Perle

User_talk:Pearle#Update_to_Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention.2FSexuality.3F --Strait 15:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maps for Wikipedia 1.0

Hi, I saw your posting on the core topics COTF a while ago, but finally got time to reply. I am interested in this idea, especially since I reviewed all of the country and global city articles for Version 0.5. Theoretically it should be struck from the nominations list as it is not a core topic article, but I think you're right that these maps are "core" material for our CD releases. If you can outline exactly how people can help with this, and exactly what is needed, I'll vote for it myself, and maybe we can work on it. The description here is probably fine for people at the map project, but I think I would like to see a couple of map examples of what you think is good, and a couple that are not good enough. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Walkerma 04:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Luas

Hi Beland,

I saw your post on the talk page for Luas - not sure if you're still watching that page or not. You were asking about a map that showed the layout of the stops and where they were in Dublin, instead of just floating in white space. I'm from Dublin so I said I'd give it a shot but I can't seem to find any maps that are free to use for this sort of thing. If you had any idea where we could source a free map of Dublin I could mark the stop locations. Beyond that, it's not looking good - for some reason there don't seem to be any proper maps with stops marked on them on any of the Luas-related websites. Rmkf1982 | Talk 22:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

help running wisebot?

Hi, I tried running your bot code on de.wikipedia, but I have problems with the bot logging in. If I just set the cookies you describe on your page, the server doesn't recognize me in the first place. I do get to the edit page if I also set dewiki_session, but it complains about session data being lost when the bot tries to save the page. I wonder if you can help? --08-15 11:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Neglected articles

It looks like you are the orginal owner of the project Wikipedia:Neglected articles It has been nominated for potential delete. You can view the discussion here Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Neglected articles Jeepday 14:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs

Is there a good reason not to remove articles from the list on Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs when they are no longer stubs? Jeepday 14:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

open access disam

Unfortunately the reasonable-sounding change you made on the "open access" disam page completely lost contact with the main open access article--open access publishing is a subsidiary article. This has happened a few times, and clearly indicates the need for a name change to eliminate he confusion (at one point the confusion became great enough as to lose both history and content. I've proposed a name change to Open access movement, but I want to hear what the other eds. think--there are many links to redo. I've put a note on both talk pages, and notified the rather prickly main editor of the page. Perhaps there will be consensus. DGG 07:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation.

Heya, I noticed that you are listed on teh LGBT noticeboard as being interested in LGBT issues, and was wondering if you would like to join WikiProject LGBT studies? We're probably a hell of a lot more active than when you last looked! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 16:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Status of Wikireason -- other projects

Hi Beland. Wikireason is "in hibernation" due to lack of participation. I've been offering advice to the admin of Chains of Reason, which seems to have similar goals to Wikireason and I think has a better chance of developing a sustainable community. If you are still interested, please check it out. You may also be interested in Debateopedia--which is more focused on documenting public debates, and less focused on developing logical arguments. AdamRetchless 02:16, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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