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Essjaybot II on WP:MCQ

Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions could use auto-archiving. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 03:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

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. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

EssjayBot II flag

You added EssjayBot II to the list of flagged bots, but it doesn't have a flag. Maybe you forgot to flag it? —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 18:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No, it's an archive bot, so I didn't want it flagged; users should be able to see what it's doing. I added it to the section for maintenence bots without realizing that it was a sub-queue of flagged bots. It should be moved down. Essjay (Talk) 01:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I can understand that attitude for antivandal bots, but shouldn't archive bots be unobtrusive? —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 03:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

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. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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 - User:Sp0kk 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, Draicone 11:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

If it hasn't already been done, I'll get it. Essjay (Talk) 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? :( Tito xd 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. -- Psy guy 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! -- nae'blis 18:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll have a look at it. Essjay (Talk) 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? --Gray Porpoise 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 m:Toolserver. Essjay (Talk) 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. Kalani 18:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Essjay/user/monobook.js. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. And welcome back, from your, er...break. =) Kalani 02:55, 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?--Runcorn 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. Tito xd 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. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Block review

Essjay, can you please review your block of User:JAnD. The block reason, and talk messae, is that this was an unapproved bot. I approved a trial run of this bot on WP:RFBOT on August 2. 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 WP:RFBOT if they should be renamed to a *bot name as well. Thank you, — xaosflux 23:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

You seem to be away from the project. I've gone ahead an unblocked this account so that it can continue it's trial run per WP:RFBOT. 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 wheeling complaints. Thank you, — xaosflux 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. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Archiving Misplaced Pages:Changing username

Your bot has archived some still-active change requests! 203.94.144.226 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 WP:CHU I can manually watch it for a day or two until someone gets the backlog. Thatcher131 (talk) 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. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Archiving WP:3RR

Can you set your bot to archive entries at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR 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. Tijuana Brass 01:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem, will do as soon as I can. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Board candidate forum

Hi Essjay! Any update on the possible board candidate forum we were discussing before Wikimania? Haukur 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. Essjay (Talk) 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. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Locked myself out of my bot account

I've just locked myself out of my bot account, User:The Anomebot, 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. -- The Anome 01:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem. :) Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Eddie Johnson (basketball)

Edward "Fast Eddie" Johnson Jr., a former NBA basketball player was arrested for pedophilia. Eddie Johnson (basketball) 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. --Tbeatty 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 Special:Listusers to find another; there are 25 admins with oversight permission altogether. Thatcher131 (talk) 05:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFO. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Request for EssjayBot

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 Misplaced Pages:Village pump (assistance)/Archive that should work. Could you set up EssjayBot to periodically wipe Misplaced Pages:Village pump/Archival dump 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 WP:VP to do things the same way. Thanks and cheers!--Kchase T 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. Essjay (Talk) 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)