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[edit] nl.wikinews

Hello,

Can you run your calander bot also on the dutch site?

Thnks,

84.87.184.247 20:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews Bulletin

Here is the latest Wikinews bulletin. Enjoy!

Wikinews:Wikinews Bulletin/2008-3Anonymous101 :) 12:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Calendar Bot

Hi mate, would it be possible to get you to run your calendar bot for the Portal:Australia. Thanks Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 10:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Where is CalendarBot

Adambro pointed me at the contributions, they stop May 29. Bring back our day-dealer! --Brian McNeil / talk 22:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Something about me migrating CalendarBot to SUL might have broken... anyways, it's all updated through June so !! enjoy! :) (→Zachary) 04:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you give me a run down on how to create a calender on Wikinews? Kingjeff (talk) 21:47, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sports standings

I noticed you run that sportsbot. Major League Soccer season standings haven't been updated this season and there should be 3 tables there. Scottish Premier League standings doesn't have any teams in it. Kingjeff (talk) 15:01, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] interlang link to ja.wikinews

Hello. When your bot generates en.wikinews date pages - Wikinews:2008/July/12, would you add interlang link to ja.wikinews date pages - ja:ウィキニュース:2008年/6月/12日?

ja.wikinews date page' s naming convention is [[ja:ウィキニュース:Y年/M月/D日]].

Thanks. --iwaim (talk) 16:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews Bulletin delivery

Wikinews:Wikinews Bulletin/2008-4

[edit] Template:Crude Oil Prices

Dear Zachary, Could you please share the code you use on English Wikinews to update crude oil prices? I'd use it in the Hungarian Wikinews. Thanks, Peti610 (talk) 14:06, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Encoding error with it.RSS

Hi, Zachary! I'd like to acquaint you with an encoding error with it.RSS. First of all, there's a problem with letters like à, è, ì, etc. (often used in italian, for example: Estrazione del Lotto, martedì 29 luglio 2008 → martedì, tuesday). Anyway, the page can be opened without problem, the problem is shown only on the aggregator). A bigger problem is the page with /, such as this (should be this). Do you think there is a way to fix it? --Tooby (talk) 10:28, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FlaggedRevs

If you have not already seen this, please look, comment, and vote both here and on bugzilla. Further assistance such as contact information for Google would be a very useful detail to share and help in petitioning for a listing in their news index. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:00, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you add this parameter to the bot for future date page creation so that it does not have to be done manually? Cirt (talk) 00:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IRC bot to watch Review category

Hey there. As the brains behind the Wikilinker bot, I was wondering whether it would be possible to create a bot similar to the helpmebot in #wikipedia-en-help, that watches a category on a wiki and reports on it in IRC. In particular, I think it would be helpful if we had a bot that listed articles in Category:Review. I'm not sure if it would be better to send the output to #wikinews or one of the side channels, though. What are your thoughts? Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 12:36, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

An interesting idea, would probably be run in the #wikinews-en channel, I can look into it this weekend. (→Zachary) 21:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flagged Rev

Brianmc was wondering if 'CalendarBot has been updated so that it will continue to only show flagged revisions in the DPLs'? Cheers. Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 20:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I've updated the source code, so starting in September the DPLs it generates will show only stable versions. It doesn't apply to this month's pages, since they were created before we had flagged revisions, but I believe that someone has already updated those manually. (→Zachary) 21:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinker

Hi Zachary, for some reason Wikilinker seems to have left #wikipedia-nl. Pity... Wutsje (talk) 14:50, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, sorry it was killed the last time the Toolserver rebooted, but I didn't notice it until today. It's back and running again. (→Zachary) 09:32, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Crude Oil prices

Zachary Bot began to malfunction with this update of {{Crude Oil Prices}}. Cheers, --SVTCobra 11:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Again! See that messed up HTML stuff (since 8:00, for hours now). --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 15:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok I've fixed it to retry when it just spits out a bunch of html stuff. It seems to work the second time it tries to get the information, but not the first. (→Zachary) 14:59, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I did that manual update and protection before you updated this talk page. Cheers --SVTCobra 15:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot malfunctioning

As seen in the page history ZacharyBot isn't working properly and adding random code to Template:Crude Oil Prices, as a result I have fully protected the template. Feel free to downgrade the protection to semi once the problem has been fixed. Anonymous101talk 16:58, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I've repaired the busted bot. Should be a-okay now (see above). (→Zachary) 14:59, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SportsBot

While you are here ... The SportsBot (or is it ZacharyBot) needs to start updating the NFL standings as the new season has begun. Cheers, --SVTCobra 15:08, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, that's right. It'll be updating now. (→Zachary) 15:38, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] showcurid in daily article pages

Hey Zachary,

We need to modify the bot so it includes the string "showcurid=true" on the daily page creation (see http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:2008/September/20&diff=prev&oldid=695545)

thanks. Cary Bass (talk) 22:44, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Bad idea. Doesn't spider... sorry. If you did it please undo it :) Cary Bass (talk) 02:10, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
I hadn't gotten around to it yet, was gonna do it today but I guess now I won't. (→Zachary) 15:24, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Do to changes in DPL, This would be useful now. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
OK Done. (→Zachary) 23:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinker

I don't know wikilinker on the dutch IRC is your bot too, but the bot went offline... Probably you already knew, but I saw it a few minutes ago and was disappointed to link all my links myself now ;)

Well, sorry for my poor english... Sumurai8 (talk) 17:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Saw wikilinker is back. (Thanks, I suppose) Sumurai8 (talk) 16:03, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wikilinker on another channel

Hi Zachary. For a wikipedia nl project, we started a separate irc channel, #wikipedia-nl-molens . We noticed it would be handy to have wikilinker there as well. Would it be possible to have wikilinker join that channel as well? Akoopal (talk) 21:23, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello Zachary, for some reason Wikilinker has left #wikipedia-nl-molens a few days ago. Any reason for this? It would be great if it were to return! Greetings, Wutsje (talk) 18:13, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] calendar interwiki

hello, please, can you add to new categories cs interwiki too? JAn Dudík (talk) 08:53, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:EPL

{{EPL}} seems to be broken. All I see (with Mozilla) in Portal:Sports is a lot of source code. I have commented it out in Portal:Sports until you or another expert can review the situation and restore it. --InfantGorilla (talk) 15:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Teaching Wikilinker more languages?

Hi, I tried to catch you on #wikinews, but it seems you're not at the moment. We were talking about using Wikilinker on #wikipedia-fy, though it's not normally all that busy. But that got me thinking: Wouldn't it be possible to localise Wikilinker? I took a quick look at the code, and from what I've seen the commands are already in a list, so that's easily swapped. Would it be a matter of gathering the repsonses, and printf-ing the arguments into them for output? Mysha (talk)

OK, I now have a linkbot that understands and speaks Dutch and Frisian, or whatever locale one would add for the channel. Not perfect, but it's a start. What do I do with it? Mysha (talk)

[edit] Cal Bot isn't running

We hit the 31st of December and Jan 1 (also included from the front page, just in case) wasn't created. Just as an FYI. --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 00:03, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NHL standings stalled?

Noticed that Sportsbot hasn't updated {{NHL}} since 31 Jan 2009... is a restart needed, or is the bot on hiatus for a bit? DL+1613 (talk) 01:34, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Well the bot relies on me updating a scoreboard on a database every night, which unfortunately has not been happening lately. I'll get it up to date though pretty soon. (→Zachary) 04:46, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] SportsBot

I added

<noinclude>
[[Category:Sports templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
</noinclude>

to the templates the SportsBot is using, but they got deleted when the bot visited the pages. I was wondering if it could leave the categories in place somehow? I'm trying to get rid of all the uncategorized templates. Thanks! (You can reply here; I'll follow this page.) Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk) 09:59, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Are you reading your talk page at all? A response would be nice. Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk) 12:07, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't think this user is very active here currently - he has only a few edits in the past year. Perhaps you could try emailing him if he is still unresponsive, he has email enabled. tempodivalse 13:23, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I still lurk around in IRC all the time. And I do get emails for talk page changes. I've just been away from home for the past week or so..
But I did make the change you asked for. (→Zachary) 18:20, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
I noticed it, thanks! Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk) 01:50, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] calbot missed April 27

Just a heads up, Calbot forgot to make Wikinews:2009/April/27. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:12, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A penny for your thoughts

Okay, not really, but I am requesting your participation in the following Water Cooler Discussion: OR and Broadcast report. The discussion involves the need for specific policy concerning how Original Reporting relates to information recieved from a broadcast report of an event. This can include both news-style reports and non-news reports, such as a sporting event. Thanks and again, please share your thoughts on this so we can get as many people involved as possible, especially since this relates to an important topic such as OR. —Calebrw (talk) 05:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] {{CCC}}

Can you update the Sports bot to general the new Category:Association football. Thanks Calebrw (talk) 21:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Zach, please set it back to Category:Football (soccer) per this DR. Thanks. --SVTCobra 23:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bot discussion

As someone listed as having an active bot I would like to draw your attention to the following issue. This may not affect you unless your bot edits sighted pages - eg in the Template namespace - but as a bot operator your input is likely to be better informed. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bot discussion

As someone listed as having an active bot I would like to draw your attention to the following issue. This may not affect you unless your bot edits sighted pages - eg in the Template namespace - but as a bot operator your input is likely to be better informed. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:33, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Arrrrisseeeeeeee Arrrrrissse

Come on Frankenstein, less MMO more WN-o. --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 08:30, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

But reality bYtes!!! (→Zachary) 08:31, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Norm Coleman article

I don't understand why it's copyvio, the content was released under a CC license: "Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License." Could you elaborate? Thanks, Calebrw (talk) 18:30, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

I was not aware that the article on the site was released under a free license. Sorry. Feel free to restore the article. (→Zachary) 21:39, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Date linking

Hi. I'm not sure I'm the right area, but can I ask you about the edits that are happening at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Science/News/Wikinews? Following the date-delinking debate during 2009, the community has overwhelmingly rejected the linking of dates (and date fragments). Accordingly, a bot is moving through WP article space and removing date links. Unfortunately, the page I mentioned above keeps getting date links reinstated. Would you know who I can talk to to have this behaviour reversed? Thanks. (My account on WP is HWV258.) 202.124.73.184 (talk) 05:45, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

w:user:Misza13 is responsible for the bot in question. Zach's bot does stuff on wikinews. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:52, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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