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| == Essjaybot II on ] == | |||
| '''<span style="color:white;">R E T I R E D</span>'''</div><br>}} | |||
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| ] could use auto-archiving. —] (] • ]) 03:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| My comments here will be short and to the point: I'm no longer taking part here. I have received an astounding amount of support, especially by email, but it's time to go. I tried to walk away in August, and managed to do so for quite a while, but I eventually came back, because of the many requests I received urging me to return. Many of you have written to ask me to not leave, to not give up what I have here, but I'm afraid it's time to make a clean break. | |||
| :Bring it up on the talk page, and if the consensus is that it's a desired service, I'll set it up. Ping me whne there is a decision on doing it, and a time schedule, in whole days. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| I ask that the first steward to see this message please remove my various flags from this wiki, as well as from Meta, Commons, and Wikiquote, and remove the bot flags from my bots, which of course will no longer be running. My tools will be taken down shortly. I had planned to delete my user-space myself, but I don't want anyone to think I was going on a rampage, so instead, I ask that one or more administrators who are friends please delete the 288 pages that form my userspace (leaving only my userpage and this talk page). | |||
| == EssjayBot II flag == | |||
| I've enjoyed my time here, and done much good work; my time, however, is over, and leaving is the best thing for me and for Misplaced Pages. I walk away happy to be free to go about other things. I hope others will refocus the energy they have spent the past few days in defending and denouncing me to make something here at Misplaced Pages better. | |||
| You EssjayBot II to the list of flagged bots, but it ]. Maybe you forgot to flag it? —] (] • ]) 18:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| With love to all who have been my friends here, <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 03:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ::I can understand that attitude for antivandal bots, but shouldn't archive bots be unobtrusive? —] (] • ]) 03:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| :::Bot flags are to keep bots from flooding recent changes, not to hide them totally. This bot doesn't do enough to ever flood recent changes, so a flag is unnecessary; the rule is to only add restricted permissions (and bot is one of them) to accounts that need them. The archive bot doesn't. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :''Talk page history: , '' | |||
| == Remove an edit from userpage history == | |||
| Hi Essjay, | |||
| I noticed you had oversight rights, and I was hoping you could remove an edit from my user page's history. The diff link is , the vandal was just having fun (I know them in real life, it was all meant to be in good faith according to them and I won't be pursuing the case - ] was the vandal) but in the process they revealed a lot of personal information about me, most of which could be googled but I'd rather not have sitting around in my user page's edit history. I'd appreciate if you could delete the entry. Thanks, ] ] 11:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :If it hasn't already been done, I'll get it. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Editcounter bug == | |||
| So... who do I need to bug/bribe if I've found a bug in your editcounter? <tt>:(</tt> ]]<sup>(])</sup> 22:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :The "Report Problems" link on Essjay's edit counter directs a user to Essjay's email. Also, I think Essjay accepts bribes through PayPal :-) Hope that helps. -- ] <sup>]</sup> 23:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Not a bug, merely an inconvenience, but I've noticed that the '''Total edits''' link at the top of the page tries to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/nae - the apostrophe must be throwing something off. Thanks for the new version, though! -- '']']'' 18:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I'll have a look at it. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Tools == | |||
| You have created some very useful tools! To create tools on http://www.tools.wikimedia.de, do you need to download some sort of software, or do you write a code that is placed on the website itself? --] 18:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :You have to have an account on the toolserver, which are given out on an as-needed basis by the German Wikimedia chapter. See ]. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Monobook.js == | |||
| You say that it is easy to remove the admin functions in your Monobook.js. Could you tell me how to do this? I like to keep my Monobook as small as possible, heh. ''']''' <sup></font>]]</sup> 18:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :]. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Enhanced edit counter? == | |||
| I find the edit counter very useful. Would it be possible to produce one operating on similar principles that graphs edits by time of day, or time and day of week?--] 22:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| : Well, it's on the toolserver, so it would have the same problems Interiot's edit counter has: German privacy laws. ]]<sup>(])</sup> 23:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Indeed. Mine isn't intended to be as full-featured as Interiot's, either; it's just a quick little tool to keep things running while the database is broken, or if there are problems after it is fixed. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Block review == | |||
| Essjay, can you please review of ]. The block reason, and talk messae, is that this was an unapproved bot. I approved a trial run of this bot on ] on ]. It appeared to be a useful bot. Although they do not follow the scrict naming convention for bots, they did "clearly demonstrate that it is a bot" by marking ] as ''robot'', as well as to what it did. The bot operator has mentioned on ] if they should be renamed to a *bot name as well. Thank you, — ] <sup>]</sup> 23:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :You seem to be away from the project. I've gone ahead an this account so that it can continue it's trial run per ]. They will be requesting a username change as well. I will post this on the bot page, if anyone else objects I will reblock right away. When you return, if you want to reblock this account, I waive any ] complaints. Thank you, — ] <sup>]</sup> 00:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| I checked and couldn't find anything on the bot, and beyond anything, it was a policy violation on the name and should never have been approved without a namechange. However, if you're on top of it, I'm fine with whatever you decide. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Archiving Misplaced Pages:Changing username== | |||
| Your bot has archived some still-active ]! | |||
| ] 00:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| *I reverted the un-acted upon requests. Hopefully a beaurecrat (sp?) will take up the slack tonight. I don't want to ask to have Essjaybot II blocked; if it's only ] I can manually watch it for a day or two until someone gets the backlog. ] 01:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| That's the problem with expecting that someone will do the work; when the bureaucrat who does 95% of all namechanges has to spend some time in the real world, things go off schedule. If the other bureaucrats are picking up the slack now, it should be no problem. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Archiving ] == | |||
| Can you set your bot to archive entries at ] which have gone two days without any changes? In my experience, if no action has been taken within that time period, it's either been settled or has migrated to a different noticeboard. <b>]<sup>]</sup></b> 01:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :No problem, will do as soon as I can. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Board candidate forum == | |||
| Hi Essjay! Any update on the possible board candidate forum we were discussing before Wikimania? ] 14:56, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I've been away for a week, so I'm not sure. I'll find out as soon as I can. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==board stuff== | |||
| I would really like that discussion pages with candidates be on meta, rather than subquestions on their talk pages in local projects. Could you change this and open a sub page for each candidate on meta, where people can ask them questions and those interested can quickly go over answers provided rather than to have to fish them ? | |||
| Also, would it not make sense to suggest that candidates provide a bio ? | |||
| Thanks | |||
| Anthere | |||
| :I've been away for a week; I'll forward this on to the other two officials. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Locked myself out of my bot account == | |||
| I've just locked myself out of my bot account, ], by changing its password to something fiendishly difficult to remember -- and then promptly forgetting it. I've now indefblocked it. I'll create a new account, and re-apply for bot permissions for that account. -- ] 01:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :No problem. :) <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| ], a former NBA basketball player was arrested for pedophilia. ] was NOT arrested for pedophilia. Unfortunately, the accusation has made it's way to the wrong page. The current page is correct but there are history's that have the false accusation. Per Living Bio's I have seen entries with libelous claims get permanently deleted. I am not sure if this is policy or not but it may deserve a look. I am not sure if regular admins can do this or if it's a bureaucrats job. I'd do it myself if I had the tools. --] 03:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :What you want are people with '''oversight''' permission. Essjay is one but seems to be on a break. You can use to find another; there are 25 admins with oversight permission altogether. ] 05:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ]. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Meta == | |||
| Could you take a look at your meta talk? thx in advance. --] 20:14, 13 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :May be a day or two, I'm a bit involved in real life at the moment. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Request for ] == | |||
| Essjay, I'm trying to set up automated deletion of sections older than 14 days from the Village Pump archives. Unfortunately, Werdnabot doesn't do the deletion like Crypticbot used to, but I think I've got a system set up with ] that should work. Could you set up EssjayBot to periodically wipe ] like it would a sandbox? I think that's as close to automated deletion as we can get without Crypticbot running. Of course, let me know if you've got a better idea. If this works, I'll set up the other five archives of ] to do things the same way. Thanks and cheers!--] ] 00:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Hmm...Drop the idea on VP and if they go for it, let me know and I'll set it up. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
Latest revision as of 17:05, 18 October 2023
R E T I R E D
This user is no longer active on Misplaced Pages.
My comments here will be short and to the point: I'm no longer taking part here. I have received an astounding amount of support, especially by email, but it's time to go. I tried to walk away in August, and managed to do so for quite a while, but I eventually came back, because of the many requests I received urging me to return. Many of you have written to ask me to not leave, to not give up what I have here, but I'm afraid it's time to make a clean break.
I ask that the first steward to see this message please remove my various flags from this wiki, as well as from Meta, Commons, and Wikiquote, and remove the bot flags from my bots, which of course will no longer be running. My tools will be taken down shortly. I had planned to delete my user-space myself, but I don't want anyone to think I was going on a rampage, so instead, I ask that one or more administrators who are friends please delete the 288 pages that form my userspace (leaving only my userpage and this talk page).
I've enjoyed my time here, and done much good work; my time, however, is over, and leaving is the best thing for me and for Misplaced Pages. I walk away happy to be free to go about other things. I hope others will refocus the energy they have spent the past few days in defending and denouncing me to make something here at Misplaced Pages better.
With love to all who have been my friends here, Essjay (Talk) 03:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- Talk page history: last revision before departure, messages left after departure