User talk:KingpinBot/Archive2011/March
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Hey Kingpin. Looking at the AFDBIO list, I see that Kingpinbot has listed both Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Politicians and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canada as AFDs in the Biography category. I'm betting someone added the raw category to a Candadian Politician, and that was transcluded onto the sorting pages, which added them to the category. The pages were added on the 20th of February, here. At present, there are no politician AFDs with the Bio category on them (other than via the template), so the category should fall off - but it hasn't. Not a major bug, and I'm sure it'll fall off eventually - but is there a way to filter the deletion sorting pages, as we did with the logs a while ago? Thanks! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 14:25, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
- Hi again Ultraexactzz, sorry for taking a while to get back to you, suffice to say I've been fairly busy recently :). However, I've now configured the bot to also skip any pages beginning with "Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/". I actually thought I might as well move the configuration for skipping page to be on-wiki. So set up a page at User:KingpinBot/afdskip.css. If the page title matches the regex at User:KingpinBot/afdskip.css then the bot will skip it. So feel free to play around with that page (or ask me if you don't read regex :)). It might be an idea to change it to something like "^[^Wikipedia\:Articles\sfor\sdeletion/.+]" which I believe (haven't tested) would make it only list pages starting with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/". - Kingpin13 (talk) 09:15, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not a huge regex guy, but that looks like it would work - if I'm reading it correctly, which is a coinflip at best. The current run looks good, and it might be that we've caught all of the errors we're likely to get - so we could probably leave it as is. But go for it if you want to give it a proper test. Thanks again for putting this together! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 13:17, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I've tested it with that, seems to work fine (i.e. no change because all the titles before started with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/" anyway, but this should avoid any nasty surprises in the future :). - Kingpin13 (talk) 00:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not a huge regex guy, but that looks like it would work - if I'm reading it correctly, which is a coinflip at best. The current run looks good, and it might be that we've caught all of the errors we're likely to get - so we could probably leave it as is. But go for it if you want to give it a proper test. Thanks again for putting this together! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 13:17, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
- Best way to test it would be to add something silly to the bio category right before the bot runs - if it catches it and doesn't add it to the list, you win. Not a big deal either way - it works, which is the important bit. Thanks again! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 14:17, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps we spoke too soon - See here. I tracked down the wikiproject link, but some of the sorting categories have eluded me. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 13:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, that was me being silly and forgetting that [^x] would only apply to one character (so the bot thought anything starting with "W" was okay). After a bit of fooling around with that regex, I decided it would be easier to just use a "require" match, rather than an "exclude" match. so now anything which doesn't match User:KingpinBot/afdrequire.css will be skipped. This time I actually did some testing, and it seems to work. Best, - Kingpin13 (talk) 22:53, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps we spoke too soon - See here. I tracked down the wikiproject link, but some of the sorting categories have eluded me. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 13:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Looks good to me - and a few days of runs confirms. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 14:04, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
File mover permission requests
Hello, Mr KingpinBot - I see that you already handle the archiving of requests at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions. Could you also incorporate the new "file mover" user right and see that those requests are archived as well? Kelly hi! 22:13, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Heh. Came here to say this. :) PS: Until working on FM, I'd never noticed this bot before: Thank you, Kingpin! --joe deckertalk to me 23:46, 9 March 2011 (UTC)