User talk:Bryan/archive/2008/12

DRBot is not archiving the Commons Deletion request from July till October

Dear Bryan!

I noticed that the DRBot is not archiving the Commons Deletion request from July till October, 2008. Why ist that? --ALE! ¿…? 08:20, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

It might be that the toolserver's database is having issues. J.smith (talk) 17:53, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello Bryan! Are you there? Any answer? --ALE! ¿…? 10:18, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, I think. -- Bryan (talk to me) 22:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Hm, so far nothing happend. --ALE! ¿…? 18:05, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

The only things that I see are non-standard deletion requests where more than one image is requested or the same image is requested twice. Another one has the {{Delh}} header substituted, which won't work either. Nothing wrong I guess. -- Bryan (talk to me) 19:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, then probably most closed deletion request are non-standard for the months July to October?!? This is not so good, because it meens a lot of manual work. I'll see when I will have time for that. Sigh! --ALE! ¿…? 09:03, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Dear Bryan, it's me once more. Well I was manually archiving a couple of files. Doing that I noticed that a big amount of deletion requests were removed by DRBot from the daily listings but were never archived. Only one example: DRBot removed all these requests from Commons:Deletion requests/2008/07/08 but were never archived under Commons:Deletion requests/Archive/2008/07. So in principle the Bot works but does its job only to 50% ;-). Could you please fix this? Thanks! --ALE! ¿…? 22:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Any news on that? --ALE! ¿…? 08:29, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Some time ago we switched to daily archive pages, so that archive should be on Commons:Deletion_requests/Archive/2008/07/08. If I did it correctly it should have distinguished between "old-style" and "new-style archiving", but of course you can never be sure that I did ;) -- Bryan (talk to me) 19:11, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

I have "fixed" the Archives from July 2008 on. The monthly page now only links to the daily archive pages.I hope that is ok. Did the new style start in July? I never noticed that change. --ALE! ¿…? 21:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello Bryan, are you there? If you could look at this I'm sure you would make a lot of admins very happy. It's hard to work out what needs to be closed since it means scrolling through long pages of overdue deletion requests each time to find the remaining open ones that need action. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:01, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

The last edit of Bryan was on November 22nd, 2008. I hope he did not leave for good. --ALE! ¿…? 22:19, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I set it again to re-read all deletion requests from June on. It should then cleanup old deletion requests. Unfortunately it sometimes just starts to randomly skip pages and I have not yet found out why. -- Bryan (talk to me) 19:14, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Two questions about DRBOT

• In this diff, DRBOT has notified an uploader a second time, although I had notified him previously.

• Could we use DRBOT in order to notify the users who upload picture not themselves but by using an upload bot ? This would be very convenient because at present when you nominate a picture with the "nominate for deletion" link, the link's script posts the {{Idw}} warning on the upload bot's talk page instead of the user's talk page.

Teofilo (talk) 14:35, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Bot not workin

Hi there, I currently cannot access the Flickr upload bot. An error occurs when trying to access the website. It says: Page not found (404). Any reasons? Thanks. Mohsin (talk) 19:09, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm getting this as well :( --Closedmouth (talk) 14:37, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Me too :-( BruceMcAdam (talk) 20:33, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Flickr2Commons does almost the same thing. --Apoc2400 (talk) 22:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

OTRS

Graag je tussenkomst gevraagd bij OTRS. Ik heb op 24 november een toelatingsnummer gevraagd voor mijn foto's bij Category: Jacky de Maeyer en op 27 november voor mijn foto's bij Category:Gustaaf Sorel. Ik heb op beide aanvragen nog steeds geen antwoord gekregen. Is er bij OTRS zoveel werk of heeft men mij ergens over het hoofd gezien ? Kan je dit even nagaan ? JoJan (talk) 19:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Commons:Village_pump#Bot_running_weird

FYI. I guess user:CommonsDelinkerHelper is acting oddly. --J.smith (talk) 18:20, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Flickreviewr broken

It appears to be reviewing images (somewhere), and if they don't match the original, it uploads the correct size. That's fine, but it appears to be uploading the new images in new locations - see File:Undra tires 2.jpg as an example, or any of the notices of missing source/licence on the bot's talk page. -mattbuck (Talk) 16:12, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

I blocked the bot, please see [1]. When you fixed the bug give one of the admins a nudge to set it free again. Multichill (talk) 23:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

It is also claiming licenses don't match, regardless of whether they do or not. For example; this image. Not as big an issue, but looks silly to anyone checking the licenses. Ikara (talk) 02:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Flickrbot malfunction

Dear Bryan,

• Do you know what has happened to your flickrbot? Do you know that there is a backlog of 197+ images and counting here With Sterkebak gone, not enough Admins inspect them and flickrbot has not marked any images for 1 full week since December 14 according to this. So the backlog keeps getting worse. I hope you know about the problem. With kind Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 10:24, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
  • #Flickreviewr broken. Multichill (talk) 17:26, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

DRBot

Hi Bryan

Are you back? Could you have a look at #DRBot is not archiving the Commons Deletion request from July till October, above? DRBot has not been behaving well for some time. A query by ALE! has also been posted at Commons talk:Deletion requests#Archiving of requests. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Your bit is back on

Per your request. See this note. Welcome back, even if temporarily only. You were sorely missed! ++Lar: t/c 20:02, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Interesting problems with females whose usernicks are Bry*

A Google trend?

• User_talk:Brynn#accusations_and_trust_problems
• Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2008Dec#Template_assistance_needed.2Fnecessary
• Systematik Strasburger

-- carol (talk) 18:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

If you are around for a bit....

The category bot was so useful (even if only on Commons!) :). All the best for 2009 Bryan, regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:31, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

I hope you'll stay arround here for a long time.Best wishes! --ALE! ¿…? 21:15, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

mwclient

I have written a patch to mwclient that include noredirect (see) option to the move def. If you can put it in the official version it can be used by a script that i written for the italian wikipedia, sorry for my english --FiloSottile (talk) 15:11, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I used mwclient with this to Dload Fr-pronunciations. Now I would like to know if I there is any way to sync my repository against the server?

Thanks, 76.69.250.102 17:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

mwclient

Hi Bryan,

In http.py line 122:

   return self.pool.request(method, location[1], path, 
          headers, data, stream_iter, raise_on_not_ok, auto_redirect)

This didn't work for me because it sent out the redirected request but didn't get the response. I replaced it with the following line:

return self.request(method, location[1], path, headers, data, stream_iter, raise_on_not_ok, False)

I set the auto_redirect flag to false; this will prevent an infinite recursive loop.

Regards,

Karen

Cleanup time?

Hello Bryan, I bumped into this and I was wondering if we should cleanup that page once in a while or whatnot. I noticed that it has been accumulating messages for a long time now. Cheers, Patrícia ^msg 12:37, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi - maybe you can redirect this message if you're not the right person to contact.

I have a wonderful new idea and want to prevent it from being copyrighted or locked up by anyone else - how do I ensure that it remains free for all? It is:

"Obama's Law: Anything that can go right, will go right."

This is so intuitively obvious once you have seen it, that it may not need any protection in order to remain free to the entire world. But what do you think? I've already emailed it and mailed it do dozens of people, telling everyone that they can use it any way they wish (and they can make a profit from it if they wish).

Lucy Hahn lucyhahn1000@yahoo.com

Thank you!

Links naar doorverwijspagina's

Hallo Bryan, Op de Nederlandse wiki update je iedere week de lijst met links naar doorverwijspagina's, waarbij je bovenaan de pagina aangeeft hoeveel links er naar doorverwijspagina's gaan. Mijn vraag is of dit getal tevens ook in een apart sjabloon/pagina kan worden ingegeven met iedere update van de lijst? Bij voorkeur op deze nog niet bestaande pagina. Deze pagina wordt vervolgens ingevoegd in het portaal, zodoende, en is alleen bestemd voor het getal van aantal links naar dp's. Zou dit mogelijk zijn? Alvast bedankt! Groetjes - Romaine/Romaine (talk) 19:55, 17 December 2008 (UTC)