User talk:AndreasBlixt/13 May 2006 - 20 May 2006

Bot
If you can make a bot, your work would be extremly useful and appreciated. Let me know if you need anything. If it gets working, give me the word and I'll give you bot access. I tried myself but my coding knowledge isn't up to par for something like that. If there is anything you need to do it, let me know. -- M a s o n 1 1 9 8 7 (Talk - Contributions) 17:17, 13 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Looks like you're already starting. If you need anything server side, please do let me know. I'm not too sure how a wiki bot works, but I of course could host it on the same site. Zorlac 07:41, 14 May 2006 (PDT)

Question: can you get your bot to run through and change instances of sentience/sentient to sapience/sapient (of course with manual verification)? Most people use the first when they mean the second, and it's a real bugbear of mine. --Daxx (T C) 08:46, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Certainly possible. It's even possible to take it as far as to make a customizable find and replace filter list with regular expression support.
 * -- Andreas Blixt 09:02, 16 May 2006 (PDT)
 * -- Andreas Blixt 09:02, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Certainly a good idea, I knew Daxx would ask about that ;). -- M a s o n 1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 09:52, 16 May 2006 (PDT)

hah
I had a good laugh when I found out xpore made their own "sporewiki", kinda anti-wiki if you ask me. Zorlac 07:41, 14 May 2006 (PDT)

title case
might be useful: Category:Improper_case_title -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 12:44, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Yup, noticed it when you made it, it'll be useful indeed!
 * -- Andreas Blixt 12:46, 16 May 2006 (PDT)
 * -- Andreas Blixt 12:46, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * I'll leave the article renaming to the bot you are working on, but cats require more manual labor to get it going right, can't just redirect to a cat. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 12:49, 16 May 2006 (PDT)

Title case list
I see you listed some categories, how exactly does/will your bot rename categories? Since just moving them doesn't quite work, wouldn't all members of that cat need to be changed to the new one? -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 13:11, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * My idea is to make the bot change all links found in the articles in the list at Special:Whatlinkshere/name_of_page. I'll make sure to make it ignore links in &lt;nowiki&gt; and &lt;pre&gt; tags when searching. I can't think of any case where it could possibly be wrong when changing the links.
 * -- Andreas Blixt 13:17, 16 May 2006 (PDT)
 * -- Andreas Blixt 13:17, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * If it's a cat, the new cat page still needs to be made though, wouldn't it? -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 13:52, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Categories work fine without actually existing ( Like the category I just added this talk page to ). But the bot can easily make a new category page by editing it and inserting the contents of the old category.


 * O I know, just wondering if it could do that other part, and if I give it sysop status, it could delete the old one too, right? -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 14:10, 16 May 2006 (PDT)


 * I can make it do everything that's possible for any human user, so if it had sysop privileges, it'd be able to do the same things as any other sysop would. So the short answer is: Yes.
 * -- Andreas Blixt 14:20, 16 May 2006 (PDT)
 * -- Andreas Blixt 14:20, 16 May 2006 (PDT)

Introduce yourself
If you like, you can introduce yourself in the Welcome room that has recently been set up. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 18:47, 17 May 2006 (PDT)

Creature of the day
Let me know what you think about the implemenation of it Main Page/WithCofDay. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 06:49, 20 May 2006 (PDT)


 * I like it! Maybe the header ("Creature of the day") should be changed so that it looks the same as all the others on the page, but I can do that if you want.
 * -- Andreas Blixt 06:52, 20 May 2006 (PDT)
 * -- Andreas Blixt 06:52, 20 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Sounds good, go for it, I'll get some more details tuned up, then I'll switch it in for the main page. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 06:53, 20 May 2006 (PDT)