User talk:Xeno

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This user is addicted to Texas Hold 'em and is going all in with pocket aces.

The image

The big image of the blue sleeping man, when does it appear on the page? HeyMid (contribs) 14:19, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

{{lazy sleeping barnstar}} shows up whenever my talk page is below 500 bytes. –xeno^talk 14:20, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I looked through the code of your talk page and header, and can't see how it only appears then :p I see some magic about if the page size is less than 500, but I don't see how it effects (or doesn't effect) the appearance of {{Lazy sleeping barnstar}} :p It's a neat idea though, If I can figure it out I may just steal it for my own talk page ;P dmz^(public) 15:27, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

If PAGESIZE > 500, then display lsb; else - display top business. The ifeq statement doesn't end until the last line of the page. –xeno^talk 15:31, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I think you mean that if PAGESIZE is less than 500 bytes, then display the lazy sleeping barnstar template. The MediaWiki byte-size counter doesn't seem reliable, since the lazy sleeping barnstar template did not disappear until you replied, and the page history claims the page was already over 500 bytes when I created this section. HeyMid (contribs) 15:52, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Right you are - those pacmen and me never got along. And yes, sometimes the page needs a kick (or new edit) before the lazy giant will show up/go away - as the parserFunction needs to be re-evaluated after you change the size of the page. –xeno^talk 15:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Why yes, that is clever. Eventually I may get around to stealing it. On the other hand, eventually I'll get around to doing a lot of stuff that doesn't seem like it'll ever get done :S dmz 20:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

And I'm stealing it now, and while I'm at it stealing your Archive Index template because it seems pretty good :p Don't worry, I'm giving you attribution. dmz 21:01, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Be my guest. Attribution is nice =] –xeno^talk 21:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

And it is all set up, including some magic on my pagenotice to show my banner saying I'm not an admin there when the Lazy sleeping barnstar is up, since the banner ruins the page when it's that way :p Feel free to check it out any time, my talk page gets little traffic so once Miszabot gets around to emptying it it'll be that way for a while :p Also, thanks for letting me use the code, I learned a bit about MediaWiki Parser Functions while rewriting it to fit my talk page! dmz 22:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

For quite sometime I thought the images was a fox. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 21:07, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Question about Bot approval process

Not trying to be a complete irritation just trying to learn the process her but why is it that Admrbot got approved to do almost the same thing as I request in a matter of a couple days and mine is being dragged out for weeks? --Kumioko (talk) 14:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd guess that the fact the operator plans to always run in semi-auto mode was one of the factors for the speedy approval. But they also didn't have as much "extra" in it as yours does. That being said, sometimes BAG does need to be poked/prodded: iff you feel that you've addressed all the concerns on the BRFA to date, you can use {{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} and request approval for a trial. –xeno^talk 14:39, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I don't plan on running it in auto either, in fact I have mentioned multiple times that I didn't think it was appropriate. I also think its a little silly if mine was being held up becuase I was forthcoming about the edits I was making (which should be a requirement) rather than saying something like generic edits to talk pages that doesn't mean anything to anybody. As far as the trial goes, I am doing the exact same edits as I would be doing with the bot so if they want a trial they can look at my AWB related edit summaries. I don't want to seem like I have a bad attitude but its starting to be a little bit irritating when I see some that get approved quickly and mine drags on for weeks, which is exactly what I want to avoid. --Kumioko (talk) 14:50, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

It's not punishing you for being up front - you are admittedly using a lot of custom regex and self-built modules whereas Admrbot is (I think) running on the stock engine. –xeno^talk 14:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Maybe, it just has the err of the demoralizing admin request I submitted a couple years ago that almost made me walk away from WP altogether. To be honest this is exactly the sort of long drawn out discussions that I don't want and that I envisioned happening. If its this bad to get the bot running I can only imagine what it will be like when I edit some users favorite article or make a bad edit because the page contains a 1 in a million formatting problem that I never saw before. --Kumioko (talk) 14:58, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Man cheer up! My bot, took 2 months to get approval and by that time I was busy in real life. As I got some free time the task wasn't appropriate to do until months later, shortly afterwards some crat withdraw my bot for reasons that are still a mystery. Still Wikipedia is going to suck sometimes - that doesn't mean you have to take it personally. Everyone is a volunteer so it's a bit haphazard but with a bit of persistence it will all work out in the end. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 15:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh I know its life. Its just a drag sometimes. --Kumioko (talk) 15:40, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Dash vs negative sign

fyi:

• User talk:Jenks24#Dash vs negative sign
• User talk:Jack Merridew#Dashes and minus signs

Cheers, Jack Merridew 20:08, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I've nothing more to add about the dash/minus situation (of which I was woefully ignorant =)... And no problem with regards to the changing of the diff to use {{diff}}. I usually remember to use the url decoder script I have to rewrite it to a nonsecure link (which the secure server automatically translates to secure), but sometimes I forget. –xeno^talk 20:26, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Curiosity piqued... You referring to some other script than User:Snottywong/diffconverter? Cheers, Jack Merridew 20:50, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Yep... –xeno^talk 20:52, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

importScript('user:js/urldecoder.js') // decodes external links to be internal, rewrites secure links to regular ones
urlDecoderIntLinks = true             // helps me get rid of annoying underscores in internal links as well

Terima kasih; off to seek a victim-page ;) Jack Merridew 21:37, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm also a fan of urldecoder.js, which helps the original editor add the right kind of links to his comment. Now if only there were a way to help the *reader* deal with someone else's comment that is full of secure links.. EdJohnston (talk) 22:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

It's a wiki; refactor as needed on important pages. Both; try Snottywong's tool; it does {{oldid}}s, too. Cheers, Jack Merridew 00:22, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

User:HBC Archive Indexerbot

The template I stuck on my userpage doesn't seem to be working, mind checking it out when you get a chance? dmz 01:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

stop with false informationen!

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