User talk:Hethrir

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Desired bots
This page lists many desired bot functions that would be useful for Wikibooks and have actual effects on the activities here. Only double redirect fixing has been handled locally. – Adrignola discuss 03:29, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * These look interesting, I will begin working on them after I finish a few things. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 19:33, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Possible improvement
Consider the edit concerning the wikification of subtype. It would be interesting to have the bot check the first use of a wikified word on the page text it is working on and move the wikification to the first appearance of the word. A second improvement would be to remove duplicated wikifications on the same heading if the page is large or on the hole page if its size is small. Since keeping extra wikilinks may be relevant when the page is split.

This would be extremely interesting as the bot revisits pages over times. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:38, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean, you want it to look for the first occurrence of a wikilink, then it should only modify that? Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 07:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * No, it would check the first occurrence on the text of the word that is wikified and move the wikification there (and remove duplicated wikifications of the word as stated above). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 15:36, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Bot flag
I do not understand the reasons behind the resistance to grant the bot the flag, since much of what people are opposing has been addressed, and it would be extremely easy to remove the flag if any claim of damage was made. My advice is that you remove your request (close the discussion on that basis), and put the burden of a future discussion in anyone that sees the bot actions as detrimental to RC patrol. The time and effort on the discussion to inform participants has gone beyond the reasonable and since the objections outnumber the support I do not see any benefit (to you or the bot) in proceeding. You have done your due diligence if anyone feels troubled by the notifications on the RC log they should take initiative and start their own process to get the flag for the bot. You can however attempt to avoid flooding the log but do not make that a constrain to your productivity. I would also point out that if you need to test the bot (or have extra time to run it) to look into the transwiki namespace and find orphaned imports that do not have a valid (by the requester or by an active admin) request for dewikification and run the wikification function on them (and other non objectionable functions you feel reasonable). Even if some of the work may not result in someone using the content the activity on those pages may prompt adoptions or administrative deletions. You could also place a notice on the transwiki related pages on your bot availability for reactivating the wikilinks of imports. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 02:12, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * That seems wise at this point, perhaps in the future if someone requests a large amount of work I will get it, I will also leave a link on the transwiki page, per your advise. The transwiki pages seem like a good testing grounds, although I'm not sure if everyone would want to link back to wikipedia? or is this common? Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 04:07, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The links are part of the imported content, logic dictates that if they could the links would continue to function. Some people do not like the excessive linking (hence my previous idea for improvement) or had any other possibility to mass resolve the red links and so used the (previously) only available tool to perform dewikification. The Wikilinks are in themselves useful content and even important for inter-project coordination and promotion. Aside for esthetically reasons, that can also be done even after you rewikify them, I do not see a particular motive to continue the default practice of removing them. In any case you can have the freedom to use the bot on orphaned traswikied pages, even if the usefulness may be a tentative point, as I stated above, the edit activity will bring more visibility to those pages, even more since the bot will be listed on the RC log. Orphaned transwikis are pages that remained non-utilized for more than lets say 4 months, if no one acted on them for that long chances are they will remain unused until they are deleted, heck you can even find something that you can even merge yourself with a valid book. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 05:17, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Transwiki:Nonverbal communication
The same as all ways :), if you have the the extra time do a new pass on Hypnosis especially in regards to the unfolding of contractions. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:53, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * After another fix (errors seem to randomly pop-up), both are finished. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 01:23, 30 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Check you loop conditions and recursion, how the the accumulator variables change. One error "ethologist Iraneus Eibl-Eibesfeldt" is when wikilinks are consecutive, resulting in "ethologist Iraneus Eibl-Eibesfeldt]]".
 * The parser also seems to continue to process the already fixed links (like something ). Does it check for the target's existence ? If not the logics would be to seek the next ]] with a notion noticing a new Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Interesting, fixing now. It does check the target's existence, although it doesn't know what "w:" means, so I'll fix that too. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 17:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Transwiki:Drowning and Transwiki:Campfire
Keeping the bot feed :) --Panic (discuss • contribs) 02:08, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Do-It-Yourself/Campfire It appears as if someone else has transwiki'd it, although this is now rewikified. Transwiki:Campfire rewikified Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 23:51, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I was going to use it in several works with a focus on the When It Hits the Fan (the Do-It-Yourself/Campfire also seems a bit of a mishmash but I have a lot of work pending so I will not start a move to merge parts of that work with others) How to build a sword would also be fine in When It Hits the Fan in the weapons section for instance, the snap look I gave to the Do-It-Yourself seems to indicate that it is something like the CookBook but with Do It Yourself Guides. I may merge part of the rewikified article with the copy there but for now will not take any further action. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:17, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Sign posts
Don't forget to sign you posts. (Cryptography) --Panic (discuss • contribs) 00:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you, accidentally forgot :) Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 02:09, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Transwiki:Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis of Puységur
Needing bot action. The same setup as always. Thanks. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 23:57, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Transwiki'd, unfortunately I lost my files that did a few of the other tasks, so I'm currently making those again. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 00:29, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

LGBT Young Adult Literature/Annie on My Mind
Would your bot be able to rewikify LGBT Young Adult Literature/Annie on My Mind, please? --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 09:04, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

And also Ukrainian/Diaspora?--Thereen (discuss • contribs) 09:06, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * This is finished, my bot seems to be having trouble with links in image descriptions. Also, sorry for the long wait, I had tons to do, on top of the bot needing re-design in an area, should you need future rewifying it should take nowhere near as long. Unfortunately the first rewikify request clashes with my world-view.
 * And so you refused it? I suppose that's your prerogative. Thanks for doing the Diaspora request. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 23:30, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Algebra/Absolute Value
Page needing rewikification. Thanks. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:24, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Rewikified Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 02:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Iranian History/The Islamic Republic of Iran
This page needs rewikification. Thanks. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 09:04, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Finished (one of the larger pages I have done). -- Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 22:57, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Rewikify International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog/Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
The last editor added Wikilinks but did not perform the needed redirect to Wikipedia. You can post in his talk to inform you that you can be requested to rewikify pages... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 02:32, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Request for rewikify Transwiki:Knights Templar
Thanks. Same settings as previously. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 12:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunatley, I lost my source while transfering OSs, so I am currently re-writing it, so there may be a minor delay. But it shouldn't be too long, as I am only re-creating it. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 16:57, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * You could use a web mailing system to backup that sort of projects, from time to time just email yourself a version of the project (and delete the previous one). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 17:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'm currently using github to store all my source code, although I had forgotten to update it before I transferred. But for larger file that works really well, akthough I'm always wary of a service going down, like MegaUpload did recently. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 18:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This is finished, code re-created and uploaded to Github. Upon a cursory glance it appears to be rewikify'd pretty well, but please tell me if theres anything it missed. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 19:56, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Will do, thanks... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 19:59, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Request for rewikification of Transwiki:Military order
A new one. The same as always, note that for instance links like something are not being properly handled (turned into something ). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 04:48, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Request for rewikification of Transwiki:Pandemic
Yet another. The same... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 04:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Also finished. It shouldn't be rewikifying things that contain a # at all, looking into the problem now. Hethrir (discuss • contribs) 18:57, 2 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. The bot is attempting but misses adding the w: this occurred again in Mortality from infectious diseases . --Panic (discuss • contribs) 02:17, 7 May 2012 (UTC)