Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Kingbotk plugin/Archive 1

message: If i've archived any section that still needs to be active, feel free to move it back to User talk:Kingbotk/Plugin Reedy Boy 19:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: FYI

message: I can't unzip your file for it isn't the right zipping format for Winzip 9.0. Lincher 01:05, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aargh... I made it in Winzip. Maximum compression. What's the error message? --kingboyk 09:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

text: I've just downloaded it from my web site and it opens in Winzip for me. I'll do the next upload with a lower compression level in case that's the problem. --kingboyk 09:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The message is This is not in the Zip 2.0 format. Lincher 11:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We're both using Winzip 9 so I'm not sure of the problem (and Google doesn't help). However I'd hazard a guess that it's compression levels so I'll not use the maximum (but not so portable) compression level next time. I'll get to work now so hopefully there'll be a new upload later. --kingboyk 12:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ZIP file 

message: Hi, I want to use AWB to tag novels and biographies that still have no  or  tag. When I make a list from the appropriate article category, AWB says it's the wrong namespace (of course it does). So how do I tag these articles when I do not want to select every article by hand? Errabee 00:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do a right click on one of the articles in the list generated by AWB and choose "Convert to Talk pages" - that should do it --plange 00:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that worked :) Silly me for not trying that :) Errabee 03:38, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple question 

message: I wrote on User talk:Plange:
One little glitch I just found: Talk:Michael Jackson contains a valid musician tag, and an invalid WPBio tag. It finds the valid musician tag, so it assumes that's job done and processes the page. The plugin wasn't programmed to run the "second chance" looser regular expression if it found a valid tag, I mean why would it?! :) I'm changing and testing that now - even if it finds a valid tag it will run the second chance regular expression to look for bad tags. I don't think it will impact performance noticably as these regular expressions seem to be very fast. --kingboyk 14:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Next version of plugin will always run the second-chance regular expression, even if it finds a valid template 

message: Awesome work! I just used the manual assess for the first time and it worked really nice! I especially loved how it works well with Generic templates too (marking something that needs an infobox also added that param to my generic tag). I could only find one bug, but it didn't stop my ability to use it. It seems that whenever the plugin finds something to clean up on the page and I then preview it and then click Save, a popup comes up that says I need to supply an edit summary even though I'd left the edit summary at the default of "clean up" -- I hit ok and it moves on to Talk and does record a summary... this again happens if I check that I want to leave a comment (great feature, BTW!!) and I don't have any changes to the talk page template (so I hit ignore) and the edit summary warning pops up (even though nothing's changing on that page).
Anyway, great work!! I have some "nice-to-haves" that I'll just list but by no means is this essential, etc., so if it's hard or you're short on time, don't worry about it :-) 
* If I'm doing a manual assess, is there a way to add activepol to the popup assessment? What I'm doing as a workaround is that I read the article and see that they are active, so I then click on the Bio tab so I can check that box, and then move on to the talk page to assess, which works fine, except for my wee brain keeps forgetting I'd checked that and so then I accidentally tag the next couple of very dead politicians with it :-)
* On the comments thing, which again, is very cool!! I thought of a couple more auto-flags: 
**Expand lead per WP:LEAD
**Format the article per WP:MOS with appropriate section headings
Thanks a ton!
--plange 06:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool! I didn't know about the context menu, that should work perfectly! No need to change the assessment popup for 1 project... On comment auto-flags, definitely will use them, esp. the lead one --plange 15:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll get a new version out this weekend with the new buttons for those 2 flags. Have done a bit of coding today for updates to, and a fix for, the WP Australia template, but it's slow going as I'm not feeling too well... Probably tommorow then. I'll also allow the "nudge" feature to be turned off, if I can find somewhere to squeeze in the checkbox and label! --kingboyk 22:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm unexpectedly a bit tied up with FAC work, so I'll attend to this as and when. --kingboyk 17:17, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roadtest 

message: I've been working through the physics articles, tagging them with auto-stub enabled. The plugin has been classifying a number of articles as stubs, where they aren't, for example The Wigner Medal. The settings I'm using are:
* More options: none selected
* Start: none selected, custom summary
* physics: name 'physics', importance 'importance', Cats 'Cat', templates "NA', auto-stub (in template properties), auto-stub (configuration)
* Plugin: skip: N/C
Mike Peel 22:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The plugin doesn't know if an article is a stub or not. If you have auto-stub turned on in the config section, it'll tag it as a stub, end of story. The idea is you only use that feature on stub categories. (For the plugin to auto-stub "intelligently" would mean having to load each page as well as each talk page, and then looking for a template name with "stub" in it. I could add a feature like that, but I'd take some persuading that it would be safe to run it in bot mode). --kingboyk 22:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah, OK, I've misunderstood that function. I thought that it used the "intelligent" method. Thanks for the clarification. Mike Peel 22:34, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not terribly useful I think, because stub templates already add articles into cats. Just tag your stub cats seperately. Job done. Now go clear up your mess! (not too many I hope!) :) --kingboyk 22:36, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It makes sense now that I think of it, and I'm now working my way through the stub categories with auto-stub on before moving on to the other categories. The 'mess' I made is all cleared up - it was only a couple of dozen articles. Mike Peel 11:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. Thanks very much. --kingboyk 12:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug with auto-stubbing 

message: I now read in detail your edit about your bot in the Wikiproject history of Greece. I am a bit ignorant about these things! So, I have some basic questions: Before downloading, do I have to ask to be allowed to use AWB in Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage? What is a AWB folder? I create it where? Should I add parameters of the banner of the Wikiproject History of Greece ()? I know this stuff is boring for you, but I'd appreciate any clarification of my current confusion! Thanks in advance!--Yannismarou 10:36, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I'll be back in case I need further help.--Yannismarou 18:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Your advice 

message: Hi Kingboy, the plugins menu has disappeared in the latest version of AWB. Any suggestions? -- Lost(talk) 07:11, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know Martin was going to make some changes to the plugins API, so maybe it's that? I don't really have time to work on the plugin at the moment so my advice is to roll back to the last known working version of AWB (perhaps the one I supplied?) If Martin has removed that version from the "current" list I'll ask him if I can put it back on. Failing that I'll have to look into it, won't I? :) Thanks for the headsup. --kingboyk 10:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.. I'll ask him for the link to the previous version -- Lost(talk) 10:10, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. Please keep me posted. --kingboyk 10:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Kingboy, Martin says that its better to use the version that would be available with your package as he is not sure which version is most compatible. Now where is your package? I can see a link for the plugin download but does that contain the AWB also? -- Lost(talk) 15:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I downloaded an old version from sourceforge and its working ok now. Thanks -- Lost(talk) 15:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But, yes, for future reference my package contains AWB too. --kingboyk 16:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok thanks a lot. -- Lost(talk) 17:53, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB 

message: I'm willing to give SVN access to VB.NET developers who want to help with development. In particular, if you want to add features to wikifunctions2 or fix any of the known bugs. Give me a shout if you're interested and let me know your level of competence. --kingboyk 15:47, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVN 

message: First very good tool!!! Really useful! Some comments/questions:
# How do I filter away pages that is already assessed?? Or maybe I should do this is some other way, I use a category to get the pages to assess, can I find not assessed pages in a better way?
# If I assess a page that is already assessed the popup box should already have the current values filled in?
# It would be nice with a standard comment where the assessment parameters where added, like assessed using plugin, High, B-Class
# I guess this is more of AWB, but anyway, it would be nice if you could pre-read the talk page, so that the change to the talk page is faster, I guess it is mostly bandwidth dependent now.
# And of course, it would be VERY nice to not even have to go through the AWB handling of the talk page, just have the popup and assign and then go on to the next page, but that I assume needs major changes to how AWB works?
Anyway very nice tool, now only 500 more pages to assess :-) Stefan 02:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments from first time user 

message: Thanks Kingboy and Reedy Boy for your help with the India plugin. I see a completely new section called... What exactly does that section do? Also, I did a small test run. Its running great except for one thing. It is not adding the template to red talk pages. Do I need to check something somewhere? Thanks again  — Lost(talk) 15:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Figured it out — Lost(talk) 15:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ...and all is OK? --kingboyk 19:11, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its working great!!! Thanks. And the log is happening too.. — Lost(talk) 14:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks!