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AWB-related request @ my talk

Hi! There's a message on my talk page that was meant for you: User talk:Dekimasu#Dismbig finding tool. Dekimasuよ! 01:13, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm not specifically sure myself, will have to do a little bit more digging. Something like how the MW API formats it would be fine - [1]. You can even use the MW XML file to simplify it for you.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apfrom="B&amp;BH" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="3783" ns="0" title="B" />
      <p pageid="4340988" ns="0" title="B! Machine" />
      <p pageid="7757638" ns="0" title="B! Machine5" />
      <p pageid="14281046" ns="0" title="B&quot;" />
      <p pageid="17474819" ns="0" title="B&quot;H" />
      <p pageid="16062794" ns="0" title="B$" />
      <p pageid="1991240" ns="0" title="B&amp;A" />
      <p pageid="18618744" ns="0" title="B&amp;ALR" />
      <p pageid="334938" ns="0" title="B&amp;B" />
      <p pageid="18466297" ns="0" title="B&amp;B: Bella y Bestia" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
</api>

So

<pages>
  <p title="B" />
  <p title="B! Machine />
</pages>

would more than suffice. Thanks! —Reedy 15:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

In the AWB WP:TypoScan project, we actually borrow a PHP script from the mediawiki repository to deal with the xml parsing - [2]

		case 'displayarticles':
			header("Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8"); 
		
			$wiki = @$_GET['wiki'];
			if ($wiki != 'en.wikipedia.org') ReturnError('This project is not supported', 'project');

			$query = 'SELECT articleid, title FROM articles WHERE (checkedout < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 3 HOUR)) AND (userid = 0) LIMIT 100';
			
			$result=mysql_query($query) or die ('Error: '.mysql_error());
			
			$xml_output  = Xml::XmlHeader() . "\n";

			$array = array();

			$xml_output .= Xml::openElement('articles');
			while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
			{
				$array[] = $row['articleid'];
				$therow = $row['title'];
				$xml_output .= "\t" . Xml::element('article', array('id' => $row['articleid']), $therow);
			}
			$xml_output .= Xml::closeElement('articles');
			
			$query = 'UPDATE articles SET checkedout = NOW() WHERE articleid IN (' . implode(",", $array) . ')';
			$result=mysql_query($query) or die ('Error: '.mysql_error());
			
			echo $xml_output; 
			break;

It basically does XML parsing and building for us, so we dont need to worry about escaping things (spaces are fine, for example, as the text would be within quotes). Redirects are fine served as is, (ie no attribute needed for them), however, if you wanted to include a redirect="" or similar if it was a redirect, that would be alright, and give us something to use if requested later (although, i suspect, most users would want all links redirect or not). Probably keeping it as one file, with something like &format=xml makes more sense to me. —Reedy 13:06, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

<?xml version="1.0"?>

Great, thanks. I will look at getting this into use (need to work out exactly how, as per the users request). One minor thing, could you add the text above to the top of the page, before the actual XML? It just then means that browsers such as FF will render it and such. Thanks! —Reedy 21:09, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

OK, I put that in. I also put a "Content-Type: text/xml, charset=utf-8" header in, which made Firefox happy. IE forces you to download. Is that a problem? --JaGa^talk 22:13, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Image Deletion

Hi JaGa,

It appears your bot deleted an image I posted claiming that it was a scaled down version of another image. However, it didn't tell me where the larger image is located, which is a little bit frustrating because I can't remember. Could you look that up and let me know? (See my talk page for detail) Thanks! --Davidkazuhiro (talk) 05:49, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for finding it =). Yeah I agree, it's weird they didn't include it. I find the message as a whole to be quite ugly actually. Do you know where the template is? --Davidkazuhiro (talk) 06:49, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it's {{Db-redundantimage-notice}}. --JaGa^talk 06:55, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Notability of Law Offices of Sam Bernstein

Hi JaGa,

Thanks for taking a look at the Law Offices of Sam Bernstein page. It is my first, so editorial help is always welcome. Wondered if you could help clarify how to update the notability of the page. Your note indicated a need for secondary sources to show interest in the subject. I have used a variety of Michigan newspapers as references, but wonder if I need to show more. For instance, much of the information included in the page was covered by several newspapers over several months. How should I incorporate that?

Your help is most valuable. Docket42 (talk) 16:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)Docket42

The article is well-written, I'm just not certain the cases are truly notable - they don't seem to be major precedents or anything like that. Could you find references to the court cases in nationally published law reviews? Or non-regional news coverage of the firm? --JaGa^talk 19:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

This has been sound advice. I have had a difficult time accessing law journals to support the cases represented, but I have found other sources outside of Michigan that speak to the cases included in the article, including the New York Times, CNN, USA Today and various Wisconsin media as recently as today (2/17/09). --Docket42 (talk) 19:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Lonely Pages

Just like to say my Lonely Pages bot is now back up and running (thanks to your toolserver generated pages). If you take a look at the contribs of User:Addbot you should see how well it is working already :). Thanks and if you want to reply to this please do so on my talk page. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 12:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Yee :) And also where is the text version of your "Adopted orphans" page and the update link for it? :P, I will try to add something for that also. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 13:17, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Just wondering, Could you make a similar page for my bot for un-categorized pages? (without tags)? Then my bot can work on them also :). (reply on my talk page pleasey) =] ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:23, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey again, any chance you can take a look at this question as I don't acctually know the answer =] ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 21:04, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

BRFA now re filled for my bot per request here Feel free to comment. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 09:08, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi there, Is there any chance you can just check to make sure the list that my bot would be reading from (the txt list) is only 0 linked orphans? If so I think I can get this BRFA shifted. Maybe have options in the referesh url? "?count=5000&link=0" or something. Thanks again ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 08:42, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Bot running again, please do not change the page the bot reads from to anything other than 0 links in :). There ares still plenty for it to tag at this stage. Managed to do anything on a similar list for pages with no cats and no uncat tag? Would be awesome if you could create an easy bot readable page for every type of maintenance .e.g.

• A page has no links coming off of it and no wikify tag
• Orphan as we have it
• A page has no cats and no uncat tag on it
• A page is short enough to be a stub yet it has no stub tag on it
• A page is long enough not to be a stub but still has a stub tag on it
• e.t.c :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 17:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey JaGa. Please take a look at User_talk:Addshore#Addbot.27s_orphan_tags_on_court_pages. Thanks should just be a small change in what the bot ignore and should hopefully be able to be done :). ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 08:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I think this is another question for you. link ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 17:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey again, Just a little bug been found in the orphan list my bot uses, see User_talk:Addshore#History_of_Blackpool_F.C.. For some reason the list seems to be adding it even though it has the dablink template on it. Get back to me ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 18:45, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh and thanks for helping me answer questions on my talk page :). ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 20:31, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm this section is getting long, might start a new one soon. Do the lists skip pages that contain Category:Disambiguation pages? Please see User_talk:Addshore#Taniwharau ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 21:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

It skips all articles in Category:All disambiguation pages, which all pages with disambig templates ({{disambig}} etc.) are automatically a member of. --JaGa^talk 23:11, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for spamming your page but should the list be showing subpages? I promise I will start a new section with the next message :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 21:51, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it should, I just haven't got around to taking it out yet. It's been useful to me so I can find what /-in-the-title orphans Addbot has skipped over, and add the orphan template myself when appropriate. For the article namespace, the database registers zero difference between a legitimate subpage like Russian_apartment_bombings/Temp and a regular page that happens to have a slash in the title, like The Gardeners of America/Men's Garden Clubs of America. --JaGa^talk 23:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Couple of notes - (1) By all means, spam away! I want this to be robust and well-understood (2) I'm going to be out of town for the weekend, but should still be able to check up on goings on from time to time. --JaGa^talk 23:11, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Just a quick side-note, you probably know this already, but there are no subpages in article space. So both of those pages are just pages with a slash in the name. (Obviousley the /temp one was intended as a draft - but such drafts belong in talk space.) (See Wikipedia:Subpages - allowed uses number 7 vs. disallowed uses number 2, and articles don't have subpages) Zodon (talk) 07:03, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah. People were complaining, so I decided to take slash-in-the-title articles out of the script Addbot is using, and leave them in Lonelypages, to remove manually. Really, people shouldn't be creating these "subpages", but it was easier to accommodate than argue. --JaGa^talk 07:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Pagemove bug

What bug are you referring to? seresin ( ¡? )  07:58, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Bug 17276 in Bugzilla. --JaGa^talk 08:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. seresin ( ¡? )  08:04, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Ystwyth

Hi. You recently added Ystwyth, Ceredigion, to Ystwyth. I've not heard of this location. Maybe you mean this instead? TTFN. ~Geaugagrrl ^talk 09:30, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, good. I was trying to fix an errant link in {{Ceredigion}}. It has links for both Ysbyty Ystwyth and plain Ystwyth. So there's only the one village? --JaGa^talk 09:37, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes and no. There is no Ystwyth there is also Cwm Ystwyth. I have re-directed the diambig to Ysbyty Ystwyth and will delete the template reference to Ystwyth if nobody dissents Velela (talk) 13:22, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Splendid. :-) ~Geaugagrrl ^talk 18:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

No dissent here. Thanks for straightening things out. --JaGa^talk 18:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for cleaning up lots of those redirect errors; at least you didn't get the grief I did for starting the cleanup. Cheers, Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:20, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Got your e-mail

Hi JaGa, I got your e-mail. I think that you are right in that there needs to be a wider discussion of the role of orphans on Wikipedia. I was one of the more active editors at WP:O last year, but yes, I am sort of moving on. However, I am still interested in the project, and I do think it's important, and certainly one of the more underappreciated projects. Also, it's one of the least active; one of my earliest edits to the WP:O page was removing an inactive tag that someone added. I'm glad you and Zodon have started becoming active there.

I would say the best course is to open a formal RFC, either on WT:O or on a subpage, and post announcements on the Village Pump and WP:CENT. I think it should be a pretty open-ended RFC. Basically, we should be asking several questions:

1. What is an orphan?
2. How important is it if an article is orphaned?
3. How important is it to place a tag on orphaned articles?

Those are the major points of contention right now, I think. Once those questions are answered, I think the role of Addshore's bot will be easier to establish. Given the controversy, maybe we should hold off on tagging by bot until the RFC is concluded.--Aervanath (talk) 07:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Of course, we may come up with something over at WP:O that pleases (virtually) everyone. I've adjusted Untagged orphans to only display zero-link orphans (counting lists as valid links as well), so he's only tagging indisputable orphans. --JaGa^talk 07:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, I guess if we can come up with something locally on WT:O that settles people's objections, then that'd be easier to deal with than a community-wide RfC, unless it becomes a much bigger issue. At the current time, though, it does only seem to be a few people, so hopefully we can come to a sort of consensus on that small scale, put it into action, and see how far we can go with that.--Aervanath (talk) 13:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Bug in disambig tool?

I noticed that if I edit one of the templates listed on http://toolserver.org/~jason/templates_with_dab_links.php, and then refresh that page, the template I edited disappears from the list (even if I didn't fix all the disambig page links on it). Is this a bug? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, if not a bug, definitely a weakness. I wanted to make sure that when people went to the page, they only got templates that haven't been worked on yet. My solution is to tell the page not to display any template that has been edited since the last update. So, if you fix a single DAB and refresh, the template will disappear. But, it will reappear the next day after my template script runs again. --JaGa^talk 18:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

You could do like Special:BrokenRedirects and strike through the edited templates, instead of disappearing them. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:33, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll check it out. Right now, the Orphanage is more or less on fire, so I've got to focus on that. Thanks for the suggestion! --JaGa^talk 23:12, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

One more thing: today, the list is showing {{Ethnic and social groups of the Punjab}} containing a link to disambig page Hashemi -- but Hashemi is not a disambig page and has not been edited in the past month. Probably you are incorrectly picking up {{surname}} as indicating a disambig. It is recommended that you use Mediawiki:Disambiguationspage as the definitive list of templates used on disambig pages. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:20, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

RfA

Hi. Would you like to attempt an RfA in the near future? I could nominate you if you want. -- Mentifisto 20:23, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for that. I do very much want to be an admin, but I don't want to subject myself the pummeling frequently handed out by RfA right now. I need more time. Thanks, though. --JaGa^talk 04:48, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

List and Bot

Probable bug in the list here, Morgan (given name) still shows up here even though it has an orphan tag. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I gave it a null edit - we'll see if it reappears tomorrow. --JaGa^talk 17:53, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok :) As you can tell my bot is now really done with that :P It will continue to run though to clean up any new articles and stuff. Hows the uncat list coming along? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 17:57, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Good. I've been testing it, and want to tweak it a bit. I'll probably release it tonight. Here's one issue - it would designate an article that has a redlink category as uncategorized. I've tagged some as such myself an haven't heard any complaints yet. What do you think? --JaGa^talk 18:02, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Ill go ask the Uncat project people :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:03, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories/uncategorized#Red_Cats ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello, JaGa. You have new messages at Addshore's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 11:23, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Can we make a simple exception for Spezial:Beobachtungsliste ?. See the last section on my talk page. It should technicaly be out of the article space but the Spezial(gemran) namespace doesnt exist. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 15:03, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Please see User_talk:Addshore#Incorrect_orphan_tags ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 11:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

*pokes the link above* ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 07:29, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Lonelypages - No Project

Hi JaGa. I had been meaning to ask about the possibility of making the lonelypages tool list articles that don't have a project assigned. I was thinking that if the lonelypages template becomes popular with WikiProjects, then an obvious place for the orphanage to focus would be on pages that don't have any project assigned. (Of course it might also be useful to those interested in assigning project tags, etc.)

It looks like you may already have done something similar with untagged_uncategorized, although what I was thinking was untagged, whether categorized or not [thought might be able to apply the untagged filtering to the lonelpages tool].

I'm not sure. Perhaps if the orphan's talk page doesn't have any template links we could infer it? That would probably miss a lot of articles, though...

Also, is there a way to tell the lonelypages tool that you want all articles in subcategories of a category (to a certain depth, e.g.)? Thank you. Zodon (talk) 07:29, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

I've tried the subcat thing before. I'm sure it can be done, but I keep running into memory issues in PHP when recursing subcats. If I did do it, it'd have to be in a stored procedure, and it would be very slow. --JaGa^talk 08:57, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thought the subcat thing might be expensive, even with a depth limit. No big deal, just thought it might be handy sometimes, e.g. when I was trying to find if there were many orphans among the Category:Minor planets.

Don't quite understand what you said about pages with no project. What I had in mind was those pages that didn't have any WikiProject templates on talk page. (Which would be approximately the complement of the set of all articles you could get using lonelypages|project=something or other )

Just pages without talk pages, or pages with talk pages with no templates would give a substantial subset.

Is the problem with identifying which templates on the talk page are WikiProjects? (There certainly are a fair number of those Category:WikiProject banners, especially if you include all the redirects to those banners). Although one might want to ignore non-topic related WikiProject templates.

Are there other ways of assigning WikiProject-ness?

Anyway, just a suggestion to consider sometime if it isn't too difficult. Thanks. Zodon (talk) 03:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the ideas. Articles with no talk pages/no template links on their talk pages would be easy enough. And maybe there's some categories we could use to build a list of project templates. Let's keep this on the back burner (but remember to come back to it later because it's a fine idea) until we get the project on track. --JaGa^talk 09:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

SIAs and Dab lists on Toolserver

It looks like your dab tools on the toolserver are detecting set index articles as dab pages. While this is technically true, set index articles are intended to be another form of list article, so it should be acceptable to link them. Since WP:DPL is using your tools to do their cleanups, it would probably be a good idea to either remove SIAs from your tools, or exclude them by default and provide an option to include them. As an example, Kid Flash is a SIA and shows up on your lists and there have already been one removal of the link from {{Flash}} since the article was changed to a SIA. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 16:15, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable. I'll bounce it off the DAB people. --JaGa^talk 22:53, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Done. Kid Flash is out of my toolserver reports. --JaGa^talk 05:00, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi, JaGa! Can you tell me when (or if) the SIAs (and, hopefully, the surname articles) will stop being included into the (orphan) cleanup listing? I was under the impression that work was being done in that direction, but I can't find anything resembling a progress report or whatnot. If you could give me a brief update, that'd be greatly appreciated. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:31, June 30, 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ezhiki. For now, I don't plan on changing my scripts until there is agreement beyond the Orphanage on how to treat surnames articles. Specifically, I'd need signoff from the Disambiguation and Anthroponymy projects. I don't see a consistent classification for these articles and if I don't draw a line somewhere I'm just going to have one project after another hassling me to do a rewrite every few months. --JaGa^talk 10:30, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I understand. If I pester you specifically about removing the articles tagged with {{SIA|Russia}} and {{SIA|Russian inhabited localities}}, is that going to be all you need, or do you also need to have some kind of discussion on WT:RUSSIA just to feel on the safe side? Please let me know what needs to be done to have the articles tagged with those two tags removed from the list. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:14, July 5, 2009 (UTC)

Clarified

I know that I sometimes can seem as a very unpleasant individual to deal with, but that only happens when I am truly passionate about a topic. That's one of my vices I recognize and try to keep in check. Please accept this note as my sincere assurance that I meant no disrespect nor was accusing the participants of the SIA debate on WT:DPL of any ill will towards either me in particular or to WP:RUSSIA in general. I also added a note to that effect to the actual discussion. Please accept my apologies for not communicating my previous frustrations with certain members of WP:DISAMBIG community more clearly. That was a long post, and I guess I got a bit tired by the time I was finishing writing it :) Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 22:26, February 27, 2009 (UTC)

No worries - by the contrary I was happy with the civility of your post. I was worried, though, that people could react defensively to the "holiest" bit, and we'd be in danger of losing focus, so I thought I'd post to reaffirm that we're all on the same team here. Thanks much for the message. --JaGa^talk 22:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Regarding The_Gardeners_of_America/Men's_Garden_Clubs_of_America

JaGa:

You recently tagged

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gardeners_of_America/Men%27s_Garden_Clubs_of_America

as an "orphan". I posted this article about this national organization, and am a member. Can you explain why a comprehensive and self contained article about an organization must have links from other Wikipedia articles? Given all of the Categories assigned to it, there are obviously several Wikipedia index links to the article.

Are orphan articles eventually removed from Wikipedia?

Thanks,

--Lou (talk) 00:30, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Lou, thanks for the message. Being an orphan is not a qualification for removal from Wikipedia. It's just a marker to let other editors know we need to link articles to this one if possible. As it stands, we only place the tag on articles with zero links, so I found one (Leon C. Snyder, you may want to double check that I got it right) and removed the tag. --JaGa^talk 01:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

JaGa: Nice try, but Garden Club of America cited in Leon C. Snyder is a different organization from The Gardeners of America/Men's Garden Clubs of America, and there is no article on it in Wikipedia that I could find. If you click on the link in the article you cited, it goes nowhere. But my original question still stands: Why should any other article in Wikipedia necessarily link to a subject with such a narrow focus? It seems to me that comprehensive links provided by Categories are sufficient. I find "orphan" a negative label that suggests "no one really cares about this article, but here it is anyway". Is this a matter I should bring to the attention of Wikipedia's policy folks for discussion? Thanks for your attention, Lou (talk) 16:49, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

The orphan tag has been a part of Wikipedia for a long time. If an article is isolated and can't be reached via links from other articles, it's unlikely to be seen. To improve an article's visibility, we label articles that aren't part of the web so other editors can link them and make them more accessible. Are you certain it's impossible to link your article from even one other article? --JaGa^talk 19:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Leon C. Snyder, are you looking at awards and recognitions? It mentions both "The Men's Garden Clubs of America" and "Garden Club of America". --JaGa^talk 19:26, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Darn! You are absolutely right about the Snyder citation. Sorry. Regarding linking another article to mine, that isn't out of the question, but it would be forced instead of natural on my part. I'll contact the national organization and see what they say. If they suggest something that makes sense to me, then I'll do that. Thanks, Lou (talk) 15:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Toolserver problem?

Have you noticed problems with your toolserver pages? The list wasn't updated yesterday (I remember noticing "This list is updated once daily; the last update was 28 hours ago.") and now the table is missing: "Database error: Table 'u_jason.dab_link_count' doesn't exist." I've been using the list almost every day, and it's been a great help, so I hope everything is all right. Dekimasuよ! 05:51, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

They changed out the hardware on the toolserver, and now the scripts aren't working correctly. I'm trying to figure out how to work around whatever bug was introduced with the new hardware. --JaGa^talk 17:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:Phoney orphans page

Hi. I was exploring the documentation of other projects, statistics, etc. Came across this page Wikipedia:Phony orphans. As far as I can tell it is totally out of date, and assume with the new tools it will probably become pretty boring. But thought you might be interested if weren't already aware of it. Zodon (talk) 06:29, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Another thing

Hey again :). Can you take a look at User_talk:Addshore#Pulpit_Rock_.28The_Dalles.2C_Oregon.29, somehow the artile in question has been showing up on your lists. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 20:27, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm looking into it. The toolserver switched database servers, and subsequently deleted all of the tables in my userspace, causing the list update to fail and causing Addbot to get stale data. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, because my scripts should have re-generated the tables long ago, BUT there's also a newly-introduced bug where my scripts now cause replication lag on the toolserver, so script execution is getting killed before it can re-create the tables. So Addbot should probably not query my stuff until I can get this straightened out. Also, I've blanked the lists and will add error-checking to make sure this "stale list" scenario can't happen again. --JaGa^talk 21:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

k, thanks for the reply. Please drop me a message when and if the lists come back online 100% :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 21:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Lonelypages - Stubs

Another thought of a possibly useful filter for lonelypages - stub status (yes/no/either).

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-11/Growth study suggested that links from regular articles to stubs may be of different importance. (Not suggesting tracking source of links, but
• Members of other maintenance projects, like stub sorting or WP:WikiProject Integration might prefer to look at just stubs (or just non-stubs).
• Those who are concerned about the orphan template overwhelming stubs might want to focus on deorphaning stubs first.
• Non-stub articles might be easier to deorphan (more context provided).

Stub status could be determined by presence of one or more stub templates or being in a stub class. Currently one could do some of this using the stub categories or project class assignment, but that won't get you non-stubs, and have to deal with each stub type class separately.

Again nothing urgent, but might be handy if it isn't difficult to add some day.

A side question - is this a good place to suggest ideas for lonelypages? Would you prefer suggestions elsewhere? Zodon (talk) 20:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Deadend pages

Cool page! Thanks!

I've been scratching my head on how to get this list into AWB for tagging, and Reedy suggested if you could make an XML formatted page it would be easy. Is this possible? Do you have another suggestion? TIA!--Fabrictramp | talk to me 16:14, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad you like it! I'm not sure about how to make the XML page, but I do a lot of AWB tagging for some of my other pages, for instance Untagged Uncats - a list of uncategorized articles without tags. For that page, you click "Regenerate" to get the up-to-the-minute list, and then download the list, which can be loaded into AWB via Make list Source: Text File. I'll add this functionality to Deadend pages. --JaGa^talk 17:53, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

That would be fabulous! I'll shove a plate of chocolate chip cookies into my USB port -- you should have them soon. :) --Fabrictramp | talk to me 18:03, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, all done. I also made it an "untagged only" page, since that's really what people are going to want. Try it out, let me know how it goes! --JaGa^talk 19:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Awesome! I'm starting to work through the list as I type. --Fabrictramp | talk to me 20:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Articles with the most links to disambiguation pages

Russ, of RussBot fame, pointed me your way regarding a question I had about some new toolserver reports that I'm finding very interesting. Most specifically, I was wondering about the Articles with the most links to disambiguation pages report. It's great, but when similar reports used to be actual Wikipedia space pages, you could move entries around or make notes to indicate that the incoming links are actually correct. For example, List of named tropical cyclones is currently the top rank on that report, but I think the very nature of that list means that it should be full of dab pages — those names get reused regularly. However, there's no way that I can see to leave a note about that for other people who might be trying to clean articles that are in the report.
There may not be a lot of situations like this, but there will definitely be some. I was wondering if there is any kind of invisible comment that can be added to the article in these situations so that the report doesn't include it, or if you have any other thoughts about how it might be possible to handle this situation? Mlaffs (talk) 01:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

You touch on something that's always bothered me about that page as well - it doesn't get interesting until you've passed the first 50 or so. That script does not read article text, so an invisible comment wouldn't work - but a hidden category or template would. What would you think about doing something like that? --JaGa^talk 02:29, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

You mean something like, Category:Articles with intentional links to disambiguation pages? Yeah, that's a reasonably elegant solution — I think I'd lean toward category over template, but I don't know why. Do you know how to create a hidden category? Mlaffs (talk) 02:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, check out Wikipedia:Categorization#Hiding categories. You just add {{hiddencat}} to the category page. If you want to create a category, I'll filter for it. (But maybe shorten the name - like "Articles with intentional disambig links" or something like that.) --JaGa^talk 03:01, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Category:Articles with intentional disambig links it is, and done! I'll add it to the cyclones article so that you'll have a test case when you create the filter. Mlaffs (talk) 03:55, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Great! I've implemented the changes on my side as well. I incorporated the filter into the script, so articles marked with your new category won't drop out until the next day, after the nightly run. Also, I should note - I don't normally give people such easy control over the content of the generated lists, and if it gets abused (I'm not worried about you, but others), I'll be forced to remove the filter. That aside, I hope you are fairly liberal with your list-cleansing. It's always great to see this stuff I've put together put to good use. :) --JaGa^talk 06:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, and keep up the great work with these — I think it's a fantastic evolution to the amazing stuff that Russ has been doing. Beyond applying the category where appropriate as I get time, I'll also add it to my category watchlist so that I can monitor whether it's getting misapplied to any articles. Mlaffs (talk) 13:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

What would you think of Category:Templates with intentional disambig links for the Templates with disambiguation links report? Mlaffs (talk) 05:24, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, maybe. Are there many that need it, though? That one is near and dear to my heart, so I'm a little more reluctant to change it. I really like what you've done for Articles with links to disambiguation pages, BTW. --JaGa^talk 05:33, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks — there were a lot of easy ones right off the top. I'll pop back and forth to see if I can find others. Not sure on the templates, but I think that {{Turkic topics}}, {{Big Brother}}, {{BibleRelated}}, {{Prophets of the Tanakh}}, and {{Demographics of the United States}} definitely qualify, and {{Forts in India}} might as well. Mlaffs (talk) 06:26, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I've thought about it, and I've decided to hold off on making the same changes for the templates page. I don't think it's in as much need of help as the Articles with links to disambiguation pages report, and I've seen instances where seemingly unfixable templates were fixed - such as Template:Close relationships regarding the Abuse dab. --JaGa^talk 02:02, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough — they're your babies, after all. Keep up the good work, and we'll see you around the water cooler! Mlaffs (talk) 02:29, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

ARA Independencia

Just curious, but why did you tag ARA Independencia as being an orphan? It is a disambiguation page, rather than an article. Thanks, — Kralizec! (talk) 04:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Kralizec. That's due to some clarifications from the land of disambiguation. Set-index articles, along with surname and given-name articles, had been counted as disambigs, but apparently should not. See:

• #SIAs and Dab lists on Toolserver
• Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links#Should we count Set Indices as disambig pages?
• Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links#Toolserver update and question
• Wikipedia:SETINDEX#Set index articles

When you look at more developed set-index articles like Kid Flash and given name articles like Alexander, it makes sense. --JaGa^talk 05:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar

		The Minor Barnstar
		For your minor edits that are so major towards this project. -download | sign! 05:20, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. I appreciate that. :) --JaGa^talk 05:28, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Extending disambig tool

Hello, I have two questions regarding your nice tool at tools:~jason/disambigs_in_an_article.php. First, is it possible to extend it to other Wikimedia projects, or maybe share the code so other people can do it? Second, would it be posssible to make it also return results in JSON callback format, so it could be conveniently used directly from an article with a userscript? —AlexSm 04:39, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Alex, thanks for your comments about my disambig reports. I've looked into extending the tool to other wikis, but I don't think it would work because the reports depend on Category:All disambiguation pages which seems to be unique to EN wiki. As far as JSON goes, I've never worked with that before, so I'd need some guidance on what you are looking for. --JaGa^talk 21:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I wonder what can be so unique....

Details on the callback: a userscript cannot make standard Ajax request to the toolserver because of the same origin policy, so it has to use JSONP, that is, import another script from toolserver:

importScriptURI('http://toolserver.org/~jason/disambigs_in_an_article.php?title=Rabbit&callback=myFunc')

and toolserver should return the text

myFunc(['page1', 'page2', 'page3'])

so that myFunc (defined in the same userscript) gets the data for futher processing. The same approach is used in api.php (look for "callback" parameter) for inter-project API requests (example output). —AlexSm 03:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Atlanta Exhibition

I was woundering why I recived that nomination for deletion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.117.120.162 (talk) 20:16, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Check out Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atlanta Exhibition. --JaGa^talk 22:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Atlanta Exhibition

i am the one who made that page about the Atlanta Exhibition and i do appoligize for just copying and pasting it i was going to go back and edit the page with my own words but i am only 14 so i got caught up with school and other things i couldnt find the time if i could get the help of someone i could recreat the page and put my own words into it and i am very new here so im not sure how to work everything yet —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninja71494 (talk • contribs) 02:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem. And no offense was meant by the nomination for deletion - it's just a sometimes unpleasant maintenance task we have to do around here. You don't need to create the page from scratch - that's already been done, except with the title Atlanta Compromise. --JaGa^talk 02:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

The first Wikipedian meetup in Ohio

Thanks! --Rkitko ^(talk) 20:23, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Former use of a given image

Hi JaGa. What do you think about creating a tool, that allows finding out the former use of a given image, even if it was deleted? I think, the same method as in this tool could be used: showing some edits by the user after uploading the image. --Leyo 06:48, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

That sounds pretty straightforward, but it'll be a while before I can dig into it; I've just moved from the US to the UK and everything is craaaazy. But in a good way. Thanks for the suggestion. --JaGa^talk 21:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

There is certainly no hurry. All the best for your life in Europe. :-) --Leyo 06:10, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

I hope you had a good start in the UK. Might I dare asking if you are still planning to create such a tool? --Leyo 05:57, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

DAB Challenge report

Minor bug: clicking on my username on the "standings" page takes you to the following link, which is invalid: http://toolserver.org/~jason/ch/user_results.php?user=R%27n%27B . The correct link should be http://toolserver.org/~jason/ch/user_results.php?user=R\%27n\%27B . --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for letting me know. --JaGa^talk 21:28, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

When can we expect the list to update for May? Also, one technical question: there are (I think) five pages tied for the 250th spot -- are you just going to cut it off at 250, or are you going to extend it to 254 to include the ties? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

First, the easy one: it cuts off at 250 exactly, with the articles sorted alphabetically. Here's how the monthly update works. At midnight UTC on the first of every month, I clear out some cached results and do one last leaderboard update. Because I've deleted my caches, this update will probably take several hours. Then I determine and store this month's winners, and then I calculate the new monthly list. So unfortunately with this model I can't say exactly what time the monthly update will occur. If you need an exact time I can look into changing the workflow.

Also, if you'd like a different format for the monthly list page I gave you, just let me know what you need. Thanks, --JaGa^talk 09:21, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Jason, the Challenge pages now say "May" but they still contain the page list and edit data from April. I saved the 1 May "top 250" list on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/May 2009 if you need to recover it. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:06, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh crap! I've been so busy adjusting to my new life I hadn't checked the challenge page lately. It should've updated long ago. I'll fix this. Thanks for letting me know. --JaGa^talk 21:58, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

I see what happened. The admin at toolserver decided to reboot the server that was running my process at 1AM May 1, and I wasn't watching to restart it. The only thing is to run it as if the contest ended May 2, so the process will kick off again at midnight May 3 UTC. I'm terribly sorry for messing up the challenge's maiden voyage. Going forward, I'll be available to keep an eye on things; this was really bad luck - the one time I'm not checking multiple times per day is the one time the challenge gets tripped up. --JaGa^talk 22:23, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Good luck with your new adventure across the pond! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:41, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi. There's another issue with the leaderboard. About a day ago, my dab fix total declined by over one hundred. One problem is that all my fixes for LAPD have been dropped from my count. That may have coincided with someone moving LAPD to the Done list recently. I'm not sure if there are other reasons, but that's the one I noticed. --JamesAM (talk) 17:09, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey - great idea on starting the challenge. Thanks for your work on this - it makes it much easier to fix links to DAB pages. One question - I was showing up on the leaderboard for May, then as of yesterday, my name vanished. Last I saw, I had just over 100 fixes. Any idea what happened? I know there's no "winner" or "prize" - it's just nice to be able to see my own progress. If I was removed for some reason, please let me know (I don't think I did anything improper, and that certainly wasn't my intent). Thanks. --Transity ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:10, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Transity, I notice that, like me, many of your fixes are for LAPD. So I think we're being affected by the same problem. --JamesAM (talk) 17:54, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I worked on finishing up the LAPD links, and also a few templates (which I don't think I ever saw show up in my count). I moved LAPD to done - was I supposed to leave it up top and add it below without deleting it from the original list? --Transity ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I'll check it out. Could each of you give me a page you fixed that later disappeared? Also, just to let you know, my scripts don't interact with the "Done" list, so moving items there will not affect the results. I'll make the scripts to a full re-analysis in a few minutes, and we'll go from there. --JaGa^talk 08:53, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

One of the first few I changed for LAPD was List of Jim Rockford's answering machine gags. That was definitely on my list, until my name disappeared entirely. --Transity ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I see what's going on here. Check out my comments below - same problem with Lloyd George. --JaGa^talk 20:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Repairing links to E3 disambiguation

Just a note, since your repairing various links that pointed to the E3 convention to "E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo)", the article was moved in the final days of last month to just "Electronic Entertainment Expo". You may want to bear that in mind instead of putting the old name in. -- Sabre (talk) 11:06, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. --JaGa^talk 09:45, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Adopted Orphans & Park Plaza County Hall

Please see this discussion. I will keep an eye out to see if any other incorrect listings show up. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 11:13, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

There is something definitely wrong with the report. It is showing 23 articles on the webpage, but the "adopted orphans list.txt" has 25. The extra 2 are Lassen Creek and SCFX. Both of these are articles tagged for AFD. The first one is NOT an orphan (no article links at all. -- JLaTondre (talk) 22:03, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I ran the list, but skipped those two. Now the webpage shows none listed, but they are still listed on the "adopted orphans list.txt". -- JLaTondre (talk) 22:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Hm, that's troubling. I'll take a look at it. --JaGa^talk 22:58, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Another problem. Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack is showing up on the report, but it has no links. -- JLaTondre (talk) 16:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

disambig tool

All my edits to clear Lloyd George disappeared from the running count. They haven't been undone, is this a bug? Geoff Plourde (talk) 15:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

It's looking like a bug. You may have the same problem that's victimized the LAPD fixers above. I'm looking at the code now, hopefully I can get to the bottom of this soon. --JaGa^talk 18:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, I see what happened. Lloyd George is no longer a disambig page (similarly, LAPD (disambiguation) isn't either. They're now redirects, and the scripts ignore any page that isn't a disambig. I'm going to run a quick trial where I revoke the "disambig only" rule. You'll get your points back, but if we start seeing odd results, I'll have to put it back in place. --JaGa^talk 21:29, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Understood, I don't particularly care about my points, just concerned about any potential bugs that might affect performance. Geoff Plourde (talk) 15:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, cool. I may have to make some more tweaks in the future, so any bug finds are greatly appreciated. (And I do very much want to give people their due credit.) --JaGa^talk 16:36, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Orphans & Surname Pages

Can you please see the discussion at Orphanage about surname pages? I think it would good to update your orphan reports to no longer treat these as orphans.

Also, have you looked into the problem I report a couple of sections above. The "Adopted orphans" report is consistently listing pages that are not orphans.

Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 22:17, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

This originally came up when we were treating surname pages as disambiguation pages. I was asked not to treat them as DABs, but as stubbed articles. OK, if that's true, then they're articles, and hence qualify as orphans. So are they DABs or orphans or ...? (I'm sorry I can't look closely into this right now as I'm at work.) --JaGa^talk 08:51, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Orphan#Criteria which clearly states: "Pages containing the templates {{surname}} and {{given name}}, and set indexes ( {{SIA}} ), also should be orphaned, as incoming links should usually be amended to target one of the items listed. Please do not place the {{orphan}} template on these pages either." Please stop including these pages on your lists. Thnx. :) 20.133.0.13 (talk) 09:16, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

That was added yesterday. Should I rewrite my code, and rewrite it again when someone changes it later? We need real consensus - meaning input from other projects, and perhaps an RfC. --JaGa^talk 19:42, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

No, we don't. Please see this comment. While I agree leaving it sit a few days to see if there is disagreement is fine, no input from other projects is needed. Nobody is arguing that they are dabs; they are arguing that they are not orphans. Other projects are irrelevant to that. -- JLaTondre (talk) 01:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, we do. I also write the scripts that list disambiguation pages with links. If a surname page is not an article, then is it a disambig? If so, I need to add it to those lists. But they don't think they're dab's, either, and if I make the change to make the Orphanage happy, then I'll have the DAB people on me. So we need consensus. And anyways, I don't think different projects should have different interpretations of what a surname page is. --JaGa^talk 12:18, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

I looked down the pages at http://toolserver.org/~jason/untagged_orphans.php - the majority now seem to be surname pages. Some well-meaning editor is sure to set about orphan-tagging these before long... Please exclude {{surname}} and {{given name}} pages from this list, so that it becomes useful again. Cheers - Hebrides (talk) 06:04, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

You are trying to tie two things together that are not the same. Simply because something is not an orphan does not make it a dab page. Surname pages can both be not orphans and not dabs. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:28, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Get that statement agreed upon outside the Orphanage - along with the question, if it isn't an orphan candidate, but not a DAB, then what is it? - we'll talk change. Before that, no deal. I'm sorry, but I'm feeling bullied now. I don't think asking for consensus is unreasonable. --JaGa^talk 10:33, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but both parts of that statement are a bit bizarre.

Find a statement that says an article has to be either an orphan candidate or DAB. It doesn't exist. You are making that one up. If it's not an orphan candidate or DAB, it is what it is - a surname page, a list, a subpage, etc.

Bullied? You find people engaging in discussion with you to be bullying? People disagreeing with you and explaining there rationale is not bullying. That is how Wikipedia is supposed to work.

Asking for consensus is not unreasonable. However, consensus has been shown. The change was debated, multiple voices agreed, Wikipedia:Orphan was updated, and no dissent to that change has been given. You are the lone voice. You are being asked to abide by consensus.

However, given your attitude, I'll post at the Disambiguation and Anthroponymy projects. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:30, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

By the way, what about the report incorrectly reporting adopted orphans? It is still regularly reporting pages that have less than three article links. Examples from current list: IHTFP has 2, Katkad medi has 0, Medi meena has 0. -- JLaTondre (talk) 01:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't know why these are showing up. I see two were created yesterday, so there may be a data-sync issue - do they show up again tomorrow? The other, it's possible that it had 3 links when my script ran, and one of those links have been removed since. --JaGa^talk 12:18, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

I figured IHTFP, it had a dab template. I should have saw that. The other two are now gone, but replaced with Alen (0 links) & Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (3 links, but one is from a dab page). The results are pretty coincident in listing containing pages that don't match the criteria. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:34, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Still broken. It's showing a new problem now, too. It's had Alan Keele listed for a couple of days. That article had it's orphan tag removed on the 2nd. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:30, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Evesham high school

. --Kudpung (talk) 08:24, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

DAB Challenge

I've been trying to cut down the length of the page and simplify WP:DPL today, because I've been noticing more and more that it's rough to navigate. Can you have your bot put a column break between editors 10 and 11 in the User:JaGa/Short leaderboard? It would reduce the amount of whitespace and shorten the page a bit overall. Dekimasuよ! 04:39, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll check it out. We're under deadline here at work, so I may not have time to do it soon. --JaGa^talk 19:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Surname Pages & Orphan Criteria at Disambiguation, Anthroponymy, & Orphanage

Per your request, a description of the surname and orphan criteria discussion has been posted to the talk pages of the Disambiguation, Anthroponymy, & Orphanage projects. I believe I captured your position correctly, but you may wish to review and add comments as necessary. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 16:00, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

It's been listed on all three projects for a week. All the responses having been supportive of not marking set index pages (including surnames) as orphans. There has been no disagreement. Disambiguation project members have specifically stated that whether or not such pages are marked as orphans is unrelated to their status as disambiguation pages. Your request has been complied with and the agreement you were looking for has been demonstrated. It would be appreciated if you changed the orphan reports to be consistent with the orphan criteria. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 20:30, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, JL. I exclude disambigs based on the hidden category All Disambiguation Pages. Do you know what category I should use for Surname pages? Is Category:All set index articles to your liking? --JaGa^talk 13:46, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I already commented at the Orphanage, but I thought I'd add here that JLaTondre is correct in his assessment. Cheers, --Aervanath (talk) 05:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Why don't you use MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage as a criterion? It includes a section Set index article templates at the bottom that includes surname, given name, SIA, etc., and is used by many scripts and bots. Using this as your criterion also has the advantage of being more future-proof. Just an idea… -- Hebrides (talk) 19:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

How do scripts get the information from this page? My scripts run against a copy of the Wikipedia database - I don't do any parsing of pages, and am not in a hurry to learn. Also, has it been decided that all set index articles are not orphan candidates? And, if so, are you OK with links FROM these articles no longer counting towards an orphan's article count? --JaGa^talk 20:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

You might find the discussion about surname pages on the MediaWiki_talk:Disambiguationspage talk page interesting, as it brings up a lot of these classification issues. As for scripts and algorithms, I did a quick search and found Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests/Archive_4#Disambiguation_all_links under AWB, though it's only pseudocode. But various code authors discuss the usage of MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – see, for example, Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_39#Links_to_disambiguation_pages_.28Warning_when_linking_to....29. Didn't find you the code to do it, sorry. -- Hebrides (talk) 21:38, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I think pulling from Category:All set index articles is fine. Keep it simple. The discussion included SIAs in general. In keeping with that, links FROM those articles shouldn't count towards an orphan's article count. -- JLaTondre (talk) 21:48, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

A.K. Khandker

Hi

There seems to be two pages on A K Khandker. One as A.K. Khandker and one as A K Khandker. Is it possible to delete one of them? or combine it? Otherwise it is confusing. I am new to Wikipedia and I don't know how to go about it otherwise I would have done it myself.

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by RR79 (talk • contribs) 04:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

 DoneI have redirected A K Khandker to A. K. Khandker, and copied the previous content to Talk:A. K. Khandker for interested editors to merge as they see fit.--Aervanath (talk) 19:07, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi JaGa,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:New River Gorge Bridge.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 27, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-07-27. howcheng {chat} 03:57, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Deadend list broken?

I went to your fabulous dead end list this afternoon, and I get "Database error: Table 'enwiki_p.page' doesn't exist". Help! I'm going through withdrawal! ;-) --Fabrictramp | talk to me 20:10, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Yay, it's working again! I'm a happy camper.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 16:57, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

DAB Challenge down?

It hasn't gone up for August yet. I want my July win, darn it. :-D --User:Woohookitty ^{Diamming fool!} 04:22, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm finding that I'm not able to access any of the DPL-related pages on the Toolserver–I get an error message or a blank page–but somehow the Dab Challenge results are still being updated by your bot. Do you know what's going on? Dekimasuよ! 13:17, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Should be sorted now. They migrated the Toolserver to Solaris and it inexplicably made one of my (very simple) user-defined functions fail. Thanks for the heads up. --JaGa^talk 21:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)