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Revision as of 16:22, 25 December 2006

Tawker is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Misplaced Pages soon.

Ok, the bot takes care of almost everything I do, I'm swamped with work right now. I'm outta here. If you need anything urgent, email me. -- Tawker 01:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

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Sugestion

I am going out on a limb here, but I seriously think that you and your associates who came up with the idea for AntiVandalBot should consider writing a wikipedia article for it. This bot is abviously one of the most widely accepted (beloved?) bots ever written, and it does have quite a history here; probably going all the way back to the birth of Misplaced Pages. It seems to me that an encyclopedic entry on vandalism and this automated response would be welcomed here. TomStar81 (Talk) 08:25, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, WP:ASR does kick in, and its not my bio to write. Chaos results when people write bio's about themselves, and I rather not go there (and IMHO, the bot isn't notable, nobody external has written about it). As for the beloved / accepted, it's only been around a year, so in wikitime I guess it's middle aged but I think it has its hate club as well as it's fan club. Who knows, if someone writes it the talk page would be something else :o -- Tawker 08:41, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I Need some Support

As a member of the BAG I think we need to give cyde our full support in a statement or something. Cyde is getting flak for his WP:CFD/W work we have given him the nod for this task but haven't full officially approved it though and he is taking heat over it. I thought we could draft a statement as the BAG showing our support. See: User talk:Cyde#Deletion_summaries for the full issue Betacommand 18:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Smile!

WHeimbigner has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

WHeimbigner 18:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Bot

Will you please help me set up a bot on wikipedia?--§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 20:12, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Traffic

Hi, I have an idea to increase traffic to Misplaced Pages significantly. Many people are now using Misplaced Pages as a search engine. Misplaced Pages's searching has a snag which needs some good coding. There are perhaps more than 1 million misspelled searches being made every day... how do i know? I don't, it could be much more than one million, you find out. My idea, which has probably been thought of before is to supply a - Did you mean Such as Such? - by matching misspelled words and terms to their most relevant article. At present this is in place suggestion for terminology sorting based on relevancy, but not for misspellings. Please let me know what you think, and if you could assist with proposing it. Thanks. frummer 00:54, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

The thing is, external companies do such a good job (big names include Google and Yahoo) that there isn't a major need to enhance WP's built in search. Why re-invent the wheel? Anything to the search functionality would need to be done at the MW level, which isn't exactly my cup of tea. I might suggest you hop on freenode's #wikimedia-tech -- Tawker 09:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)