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Questionable Zen Linux edits

Why are you persistently adding an exclamation mark (!) to the disambiguation section of the Zen Linux article? This would appear to add nothing, and since Zenwalk Linux's article does not include an exclamation mark as part of its name, I am at a los as to why you are adding it. --Maru 23:44, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen it as a sentence. And on the end of a sentence like "Do not..." normally a exclamation mark is placed! Furthermore I just wanted to adjust this section in Zen Linux and Zenwalk Linux and an other article to look equal. If there should be a convention of not using ...!, then sorry for possible circumstances! But for me it was like correcting a misspelling. --Melancholie 17:57, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
/chuckles. Ahh, if only most people had such creative reasons. I'll just take this opportunity to set you straight: generally, we try to avoid exclamation marks: both for NPOV reasons, encyclopedic reasons, and because the stylistic rules are derived from Strunk and White's Elements of Style- which advises strongly against exclamation marks when discussing factual or empirical subjects, and to reserve it for personal reactions. --Maru 21:32, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gratuitous FreeBSD Content Removals?

There were a couple of removals of content that seems useful from 209.217.123.158 on FreeBSD tonight. Since entering a revert war is not exactly my idea of spending a weekend, what is the best way to protect the page from similar things in the future — especially from changes that remove content without any sort of log message? — Keramida 00:43, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the edits to Template:Female adult bio

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you for your work on the Female adult bio template. Excellent work! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 18:24, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Last Preview Version (Skype)

Hi. You've added a reference to "Last Preview Version" on the Skype article. Do you mind removing the reference again? At the moment, Skype has preview version available. Thanks. --Valentinian 12:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hiding undefined lines

regrettably for IE and Dillo it is simply not possible to hide a parameter if undefined (only if empty) --you, 21 October 2005

See how it works now at Template:Infobox OS ;-) --tyomitch 19:44, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of templates

For what reason did you tag a whole lot of "Template:Latest preview release/xxx" pages for speedy deletion? enochlau (talk) 09:06, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I second the above qestion. None of the ones I have looked at appear to fit any of the Speedy delete criteria I am removing thsoe deelte tags for which i can see no reason. I would ask that you use one of the speedy delete templates that provide a specific reason in future, and stick narrowly to the CSD reasons. DES (talk) 17:01, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you are getting the message. I believe your tags are OK but please: a) do not use a simple delete tag; use {{db|reason}} with reason explaining what you are doing. b) add a note at the top of Template:Infobox Software2/updates to explain that it is not a true template but just a work in progress list to control these moves (if that is the case) - it would have been better to place that list in the user namespace. See also User talk:StephenHildrey#software infoboxes. -- RHaworth 21:03, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I tagged those templates for speedy deletion, because they are not needed anymore (->they had been moved; the most of those templates only had been redirects; no article used them anymore). --- Best regards, Melancholie 01:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Monobook.js

I think you're confused. MediaWiki:Monobook.js doesn't call on the loading of MediaWiki:Edittools. MediaWiki:Edittools is only loaded if you are on an edit page. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-01-17 04:03

  • Actually, I didn't even know that it tried loading MediaWiki:Edittools before I moved the content to Charset.js. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-01-17 04:10

Bit of help on the html on my userpage

Hi Melancholie!
I'd like to ask you a favour. I'm OK with HTML but I've gone over my depth with the image linking thing. What I have is that little icon of me in my banner linking to a larger pic:


<td colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#484848"> 
   <table border="0" width="780" id="table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#484848" >
     <tr>
	<td width="612" height="96" align="right" bgcolor="#484848">[[Image:Fir0002 banner 01.jpg]]</td>
	<td width="168" height="96" align="left" bgcolor="#484848">{{click|image=Fir0002 banner 02.jpg|link=:Image:Fir0002.jpg|width=168px|height=96px}}</td>
     </tr>
    </table>
</td>


(Sorry for the mess!)
But problem is the image I'm using to link with is over 100px wide (168px). I was wondering if you could help me out? Thanks! --Fir0002 www 00:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks a lot! I was beginning to think you'd give up on it! Here's a little token of my gratitude.
Thanks for your help --Fir0002 www 08:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help --Fir0002 www 08:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And yes I do take all the photos I upload (except the edits for FPC voting). I'm glad you like my userpage/website! --Fir0002 www 08:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alemannisch translation

Hello! Would you be able to translate for me the opening paragraph of my Wikipedia user page, and the splash page of my web site into alemannisch for me? — Nicholas (reply) @ 11:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot

Your bot account has been blocked as an unathorized bot. Bot accounts require permission at WP:RFBOT. Please see the instructions on that page. If you have already gone through this approvals process, our apologies, please leave me a talk page message, or an email if you got hit with an autoblock. — xaosflux Talk 04:53, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but I disfavour bureaucracy that leads to unnecessary queue time. --- Best regards, Melancholie 15:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox Software

Hello, I'd like to ask you the purpose of the following change [1], because the template {{click}} has been proposed for deletion. Thanks! --surueña 15:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging of Template:Latest preview release/scWiki

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Template:Latest preview release/scWiki. I do not think that Template:Latest preview release/scWiki fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because The A1 and A3 criteria are for articles not tempaltes, and this seems to be part of a workign or possibly working tempalte family. If it needs to go, WP:TfD is the route. DES (talk) 17:03, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:LPR/syntax

A tag has been placed on Template:LPR/syntax requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{tranclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:LSR/syntax

A tag has been placed on Template:LSR/syntax requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{tranclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

...for the usurpation. Much appreciated! Cheers, Daniel (talk) 22:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot

Hi. Could you register your bot on Samogitian and Lithuanian wikipedias? It may be blocked if will run without any information. Thank you. Hugo.arg (talk) 16:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Bot at ln:

Would you mind to read this, please: ln:Discussion_Utilisateur:MelancholieBot. Thank you. ln:User:Bombo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eruedin (talk • contribs) 15:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Q about page counts

I saw your comment at User_talk:Henrik#updated_dump_of_wiki_stats_for_WP_0.7. I have become very confused, as I explained there. Also, do you happen to have a long-term archive of all the page count data (not just top 1000)? If so, I would deeply appreciate a copy of it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there will be a long-term archive (monthly and eventually yearly dump), see answer at User_talk:Henrik#updated_dump_of_wiki_stats_for_WP_0.7. --- Greetings, Melancholie (talk) 20:24, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Metrics - Georgian - Ossetian Conflict

Thanks!! Akindofmagick (talk) 20:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks!

For holding the fort on my talk page in my absence. It is much appreciated! (And yeah, I've just been away doing a lot of other stuff than spending too much time on the intertubes for the summer. However, it is now fall and I'm back!) henrik•talk 18:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That are great news :-) --- Glad to see you back, Melancholie (talk) 20:49, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Speaking of the stats, you don't happen to still have a copy of the data for July 14 to July 31? henrik•talk 04:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I should read my e-mail before doing other stuff, just saw yours :) Thanks, I've written a request to Erik. Hopefully he can find some way of sending me the data. henrik•talk 05:06, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tool and the tip

Thank you, Melancholie, for the wonderful tip and the tool that you provided. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 07:51, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise, thanks for creating and pointing out this. It's kinda sad how many hits come from popular lists that got deleted. But there are lots of viable search terms as well that can be redirected.--ragesoss (talk) 21:09, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Would it be possible to expand Wikipedia:Most missed articles to cover the next several thousand search terms? There were a lot of valid redirects in the first batch, so already thousands of hits per day will be sent to the correct place instead of the search page thanks to your work. Cheers!--ragesoss (talk) 19:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All blue-links will disappear with the next update. I will do an update when my yearly dump contains the full November data (may take up to one week). --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 20:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
P.s.: I will try to make the list longer next time. By the way: You could add the JavaScript mentioned on top to MediaWiki:Common.js, as this will improve the quality of the list a lot (in future). --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 21:01, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Polish Wiktionary on mobile phones

Hello, I've seen your message on Polish Wiktionary about the mobile version. I wonder why does pl.wiktionary look so different from de and en - namely, there's no search field, so Polish version is completely unusable. Do you know how this can be fixed? --Derbeth talk 18:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page view distribution

This is great. Comparing that against the total page stats yields that 8.7 out of 15.4 million Wikipedia pages are viewed on any given day. That's a pretty good ratio, but probably alot of old stuff lost in the corners of project space that is never seen. The article results aren't as clear. I'm guessing that your stats are including redirects in the 5.9 million as opposed to only 2.6 million actual 'content pages' listed on the stats page. Is interesting that redirects get hit more often (at least 3.3 million times) than the content pages themselves. --CBD 15:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hey- I just noticed you responded to my post on Henrik's talk page. What I mean by the statistics being unavailable for December 2008 is that in the drop-down menu it doesn't offer "200812" as an option...to see any December hit counts for a page you need to manually type in the date into the URL search bar (which is a big inconvenience and a bit annoying). I knew that the stats were available, what I would like Henrik to do is fix the drop-down menu so that it reads 200812 instead of 200712. Hopefully s/he fixes it soon though. -Jrcla2 (talk)(contribs) 21:50, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cipotânea

You mentioned this article as an example of (old, missed) vandalism. (The "missed" vandalism you pointed out had been there only a few hours, I note.) That article now contains much non-english (Portuguese, I presume). You might want to check it out. - Hordaland (talk) 08:11, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I remember some better examples, but cannot find them easily in the logs anymore, like I wrote. And I think 4 hours is much! (if Numbo3 hadn't corrected it, how long would it have taken for the next? Coincidence is not a good friend ;-) --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 08:15, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
But the article as it looks now. Does that qualify as vandalism, or what? It's been that way since 27 December. - Hordaland (talk) 08:36, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ah :-) Now I see :-) This article became a real prime example ("") ;-) --- Thanks, Melancholie (talk) 09:12, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Template:LSR/syntax and Template:LPR/syntax

There are a lot of bug : - example : Pidgin (software) :

only http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Latest_stable_software_release/Pidgin_(software)&action=edit and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Latest_preview_software_release/Pidgin_(software)&action=edit

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

— Neustradamus (✉) 01:01, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Neustradamus, if "|name=Pidgin" is given, the destination will be .../Pidgin, else it will be the page name (title). It actually should work now, I hope. Unfortunately, the whole system to update figures still has to be improved, yet. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 12:37, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, this is a mistake because PAGENAME is a page name not a name ... You can look French models. — Neustradamus (✉) 00:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Removing PAGENAME from this might not be that easy, as many articles may depend on this yet.(?) I intend to improve the update process of software versions etc. in future anyway if bugzilla:4547 doesn't get fixed soon. --- Nice regards, Melancholie (talk) 01:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
since 2006-01-10 01:27 :D never fix ... Have you look French Templates ? — Neustradamus (✉) 03:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

@problem #1 (PAGENAME): The "|name=Pidgin" thing has been a change by the community, I think (my initial template only used PAGENAME like yours)
@problem #2 (&preload): Yes, you are using #ifexist: to remove &preload=..., but actually &preload doesn't harm, I think. Not sure what's better, to use a expensive? parser function or to just let there be &preload. But feel free to add your optimizations also to the local template. --- Nice regards, Melancholie (talk) 03:55, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

LSR and LPR templates are protected :( Regards — Neustradamus (✉) 05:01, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, that's true. Only sysops can edit those templates. I'm not an admin here to, unfortunately. Maybe Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard would be a place to request this? --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 14:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Templates no answer, can you help me ? Thanks in advance, Regards — Neustradamus (✉) 22:20, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, not sure how to help in such a case. I would wait some more hours. If nothing happens, you may ask the community on the village pump page to have a look on that. But like I wrote, your #1 was a community decision, so this seems intended. And #2 seems controversial/disputable. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 23:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dumps, missing months?

Hello, I tried http://wikistics.falsikon.de/dumps.htm as you suggested me but I got an error for september, august and july; have the files been removed?

Danke!

Eugenio2 (talk) 15:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, 2shared seems to delete those files after few months. You can use the RapidShare links behind for the moment (the r links); those will work. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 10:39, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
thanks! Eugenio2 (talk) 17:18, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It seems like the RapidShare links are broken now, too. Can you please make it available somewhere? Many thanks! Cyberfishee (talk) 20:58, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
See also the answer at meta:User_talk:Melancholie#Dumps_links_broken? I will do that tomorrow. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 22:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is it available now? :) It would be very nice of you if you can make a version of the dump with articles with less than 2 views, since I will be using it to determine what articles to exclude from a distribution (to save space), and I suppose the most gain would be from articles with 0 or 1 views. Excluding all articles that don't appear in the log is a bit too risky for me... Thanks! Cyberfishee (talk) 05:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am uploading the dumps right now. I feel very sorry for letting you wait so long! You now can download the latest monthly dumps listed at http://wikistics.falsikon.de/dumps.htm again (yet, those that are printed in bold). Via RSS you will be informed shortly about the other available dumps then.
It is not possible for me to provide dumps containing "1 hit wonders", though (they would be huge, contain a lot of 404 garbage). There is no problem with "excluding all articles that don't appear in the log", as all pages are contained (if > 1 (mostly random) hit per day); nothing important is missing. Note that this is even the best method, as there are some pages that do not get any hits at all (<= 1) per day in a month. But note that there are also page name lists (e.g. this or Special:AllPages) you may use. You should compare my logs with a page name list, if possible, to filter out all non-existing (404) page titles (that got many hits somehow) anyway. --- Very best regards, Melancholie (talk) 00:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay. Thanks! I wasn't aware of the 404 issue. Cyberfishee (talk) 08:51, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Any chance the yearly dump(s) can go up, too? Many thanks! Cyberfishee (talk) 22:35, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Upped yearly Wikipedia-only dumps, http://wikistics.falsikon.de/dumps.htm (do you need non-Wikipedia data too?) -- I hope to be able to update the dumps pretty soon. --- Kind regards, Melancholie (talk) 23:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I only need the Wikipedia dump for my project. Cyberfishee (talk) 00:23, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for your wikiStics. I added it to my toolbox ([2]). --FocalPoint (talk) 18:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

47%

Thanks for answer my query on Henrik's page. I'm adding your talk page to my watchlist so hopefully I can keep up a bit on the stats bonanza. Fascinating stuff. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:16, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The best thing probably is to watch Wikipedia:Statistics, I think ;-) --- Kind regards, Melancholie (talk) 04:34, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Something wrong happened with the most missed article page.

Hey, I was removing blue links (see this: [[3]] when this happened at the conclusion of that edit: Wikipedia:Most missed articles. I am not sure what is up? Are the links meant to stay there or something? Is it something on your end. When you click edit on the page the list is still there, just you cant see anything when looking at it normally :s. Calaka (talk) 11:31, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed that. The reason was the equal sign, breaking the wiki template structure. --- Kind regards, Melancholie (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ah good catch! Calaka (talk) 12:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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