User talk:A proofreader/Archive 2

Compression software

 * This section was originally posted on User talk:PNGOptimisationBot.

What compression software does this bot use? 18:48, November 28, 2011 (UTC)

I found the following line in the source: Translation: It looks to me like it tries using optipng, advpng, and advdef. It later checks the output of each compression program and reuploads the smallest file generated. 23:16, December 5, 2011 (UTC)

Y u
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpihi1u1DT1qewacoo1_500.jpg 22:37, January 30, 2012 (UTC)

how dumb can you get?
the information on that page is wrong. we dont need to have a tea-party to discuss it because it is wrong and i explained that in the edit, so why the hell did you undo it? im not going to start a discussion and im not going to revert it but if the people who run this wiki want to revert edits that remove inacurate information then i will definately not be using it as a resource any more. sorry if im posting this in the wrong place maybe i should go to your user talk page dicussion page and dicuss the validity of the dispute first.

siggy
ur siggy pwns. really cool thingy :D (btw, you should add a z-index to the collapsed box, because it can get under other elements when there is something further down the page with a relative/absolute position, which makes the 3rd link unclickable) 10:47, January 31, 2012 (UTC)

Re: Silly me
I noticed cause it when I saw the values for 82 and 83 were the same, you submitted 82 yourself a few weeks earlier. Keep submitting data, errors can be caught. 19:07, February 2, 2012 (UTC)

Everything else
01:38, February 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * A_proofreader has quit (Quit: Time to go to Ubuntu. For everything else, there's User_talk:A_proofreader (I'll check my watchlist emails soon I promise))

Something I'm too lazy to type
<@Liquid> ProofGuest, you there? <@Liquid> the join/quit log needs some work. A name should be placed in there only if it hasn't been in the quit log last week <@Liquid> I can try to program something of that sort, or, I can just remove the data of people who quit.  Liquid: yeah  I'm here  oh  well it should be doing that automatically <@Liquid> it doesn't. <@Liquid> well, not for all the quits at any rate  It does it based on which names are present in the previous week's data and not in the current week's (for quit)  or vice-versa for join  if it's present in both or neither, it doesn't do that, at least in my testing <@Liquid> Matt's been on every quit list <@Liquid> I kicked him in the first week <@Liquid> and he STILL shows up on the quit list <_< <@Matthew2602> What did I do? :O  hmm  I shall look into that then  but after I recover my data  I also want to see whether an installed Ubuntu would work on this computer; it seems to need lots of "disable ACPI/APIC/LAPIC" etc. flags, and I'd like to investigate that  can you post this request on User talk:A proofreader? http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:A_proofreader  it'd help me, I'd have a record of it

Cheers, 03:07, February 5, 2012 (UTC)

Helm
The whole liquid helm nonsense started here. 07:00, February 14, 2012 (UTC)

ImageRenamer
Could you run the bot for the files in Special:WantedFiles? Thanks! 06:56, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * I requested a file... 07:41, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * Wait, do you need custodian rights for the bot to work? 07:44, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * LOL, okay. I will request more later... 09:38, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * LMAO!!! 10:27, February 15, 2012 (UTC)

Hai
[20:44]  this is the fancy little message I made for when non custodians edit your request page http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-32 =D [20:44]  On a side note, you may wish to split the requests for moving and requests for updating references into two different pages [20:45]  that may be a good idea for later, but that would double the load on Wikia from my bot because of checking two request pages [20:46] <Matthew2602> I'm just thinking that the abusefilter disallows all non-custodian editing [20:47] <Matthew2602> and that stops normal users from requesting updated references [20:47] <Matthew2602> meh [20:48] <a_proofreader> oh... [20:48] <a_proofreader> that's right :\ [20:48] <a_proofreader> post on my user talk about it, and I'll look at it later [20:48] <a_proofreader> it's 04:48 here, I'm hungry and tired [20:49] <a_proofreader> would usually have been time to sleep for me 2 hours ago ;) 09:49, February 15, 2012 (UTC)

User:RSW image renamer/Requests
There are some things that confuse me with this. So... here are my questions Sorry about this, I just don't want to kill all our files when I use the bot. Thanks! 13:18, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) I need to confirm this, just so I don't start messing things up. When I make a request, this fixes files that have already been moved, or will it move it?
 * 2) What exactly does  and   do.
 * 3) You do have to have custodian rights for this to work?

Image move request #5272495
RSW image renamer 23:07, February 19, 2012 (UTC)

Images being renamed
I am VERY sorry about this, but after discussion in chat, I have decided to not Rfd them for them being historical images that could be used on Graphical updates. If it is possible, could the process be stopped and reversed either by the requests page or any other way? I am very sorry for this again, and causing trouble. 04:28, February 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think that would be for the best. Thanks again. 05:22, February 20, 2012 (UTC)

Image move request #5273479
RSW image renamer 05:04, February 20, 2012 (UTC)

Signature
Hello. I noticed your signature, and I think it's amazing. It looks like the Runescape right-click menu. Would you mind if I edit your code (on my signature page) to match Zurwyn? I would immensely appreciate if I could.

Thanks in advance, 14:23, February 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, I'm fine the way mine is. That would be too similar to yours, and in my opinion, mine's good enough.


 * 14:38, February 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, good to know. Thanks! :) 13:30, February 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * Ahh, I think your signature is nice too. Do you mind if I edit your code on my signature page?

19:39, March 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * You've given permission for anyone to use that style? w00000t!

19:44, March 17, 2012 (UTC)

You know what, I'm just going to leech off of this header because why not. Is your signature still free for people to use? (Hey, things might have changed in the last couple months...)--Dramartistic 21:49, May 31, 2012 (UTC)

nuuu
you removed the examine button in your signature D: 16:39, February 22, 2012 (UTC)

Family Photo
http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i463/hairrazerrr/Wewantyou.png

User:TyA/RSW Family Photo 00:42, February 23, 2012 (UTC)

GE price data-mining

 * 1) Somehow get access to day-to-day median prices of all Grand Exchange items going back as far as possible (approx. four years)
 * 2) Format data so it's one day-one price, and partitioned by item
 * 3) Calculate the PCC for every pair of items (and their price data) listed
 * 4) If one item has a longer history than the other, truncate the longer one so the dates match
 * 5) Output to text file, hopefully in form {id<1>, id<2>}:"PCC", like {5313, 5386}:"0.51546"
 * 6) If possible, order by value of PCC, high to low


 * 1) Repeat, except before generating, ignore/remove the first n data points of list A, and the last n data points of list B (this has the effect of shifting the correlation so it looks for predictors). Do the opposite as well (removing the first n points from list B and the last n points from list A). Do both up to n = 30.

Thanks!

10:43, February 24, 2012 (UTC)
 * Read this. Once the vandalism is removed, assign a price to a date on a one-to-one basis. If there are two correct prices for the same day, take the latest one. If there is no price given for that day, take the price from the day before it. Hope this is doable. 06:07, March 7, 2012 (UTC)

== I am about to go to sleep, but before I do I felt inclined to leave this very long topic header on your talk page so that I could for no reason at all extend the length of your table of contents box by a healthy portion. And I'll date it but I won't sign it. Just for kicks. And I'm getting bored now. So good night. ==

^ 08:51, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Corrected because Wikia is silly. 08:57, February 27, 2012 (UTC)

Image move request #5295816
RSW image renamer 11:40, February 27, 2012 (UTC)

Re:duplication
Sorry D:. I guess I should actually see first if there is not such a file name. -- 04:55, February 28, 2012 (UTC)

Image mover bot error?
I'm sure you already know it, but the image mover bot got all angry with me, presumably because I tried to move an image to a location that already had an image (the result of calling a chainskirt a plateskirt). I don't know the finer details of how your bot works, but it failed to remove the entries from the request list, possibly because of the errors. 01:56, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry, I missed your reply inbetween the bot's spam on my talk page. Didn't realize I was supposed to remove the previous requests first. 01:58, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, to clear something up; if there are requests that have not yet been processed by the bot and I want to add new requests, should I be deleting the old requests? Does the bot look at the current version of the page or revisions or what? Thanks, 02:11, February 29, 2012 (UTC)

Image move request #5304959
RSW image renamer 01:46, March 1, 2012 (UTC)

Removing previous requests
Sorry for not deleting the requests before, I was not sure if the bot had done it or not. Is there a way of getting the bot to delete the requests it has completed?-- 20:10, March 1, 2012 (UTC)

Image renamer
Just though I'd double check - but does User:RSW image renamer work on Template: namespace? Not sure if I'm just catching it mid way through it's task. Cheers 15:11, March 3, 2012 (UTC)

Hello
Just wanted to say congratulations on User of the Month @@@@@.

Lets to some Corp. to celebrate :p

Raglough 10:01, March 4, 2012 (UTC)

PNG Opt Tools
Cheers, I do use PNGGauntlet, but it is quite slow and your compression does appear to work better. I have to say, very nice wiki bots. Would've saved me a bit of time if you were here a while back. ;) Keep up the great work, mate. 21:39, March 7, 2012 (UTC)

re:I r a nubsaus :3
^yus u r ^_^

PS: upd8 your siggy to use the classes as in Template:Choose Option so it has more kewler effects when hovering over each link ^_^ 08:48, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Btw, I see Blue h'ween mask is broken atm, so could you please get your bot to move, then update filelinks, then move the next, then update filelinks, etc. That would prevent it from leaving redlinks in huge tasks like the one it's doing now. It's not a big issue, but it would probably be better to have it that way. 08:57, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm liek 99% sure the template will stay. But, for siggiez it's best to use the tags with classes instead, because then the page loads faster when you use your siggy (and it's easier to modify n stuff). Also, I'm going to ask an admin to add User:Joeytje50/rsfont.css to the common.css (after I've tested some more things) so the template has the runescape fonts. That would automatically be added to the class then (and you can use it by adding  or  ) which would make it look even better ^_^ (also remember the   for the 1px text shadow that's in runescape too :P)
 * About the table thingy you posted, nevermind about the redlinks thingy. 1 day is better than 1 month max. Maybe you could add a notice on the bot's account that people can update filelinks themselves if they want, but the bot will update the filelinks within 24h after moving the file (only if it is a big task). 09:40, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Btw, why does the bot only move about one file per 10-15 seconds? When using AWB, it's like one edit every 3 seconds when it's at its slowest (like for big pages), and when testing my merge script, the move and delete apis were about the same speed as editing apis, so I'm wondering, what makes it so slow? 09:52, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * And why did it stop? Shouldn't it be moving over 9000 filelinks by now? 11:19, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Second the implementation change to move ONE file, update all the filelinks, move ONE file, update all the filelinks, etc. If a redlink exists for 10 seconds, it's livable. If redlink exists for minutes, it's not. If redlink exists for hours, it's too ridiculous for comment. -- 20:16, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll third that. And remove the time limit between edits or reduce it to a more practical amount such as 1-3 seconds (fully aware of the very strange bug that deleted an image).  20:18, March 9, 2012 (UTC)

Image move bot
Yeah, I put that too the test, huh? And with such a wonderful edit summary *rolls eyes*. I did notice the table you put on Joey's page though. Is the task too large? (hey, you did say to go ahead with the 3000 moves or whatever when I asked if the limitation was gone).

However, I did notice this edit here, where a wikian fixed some red links. Going back to the table on Joey's talk, how does the bot currently function? Would those red links have been there simply because the bot hadn't yet gotten around to them, or what (if there's even any way to know)? Also, I seriously need to remember those asterisks ("Oh, god, I did that again?"). Anyway, interested how long it will take the bot to complete that 4.5k images task (must be tens of thousands of pages to edit and move). 10:26, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, not at all. I actually realized that the "new" edit summary would be used shortly after I pressed the submit button and proceeded to immediately perform a facepalm. Too late by then. Perhaps a useful feature in the future would be a way to somehow abort a request if the bot hasn't started processing it yet. Might be impractical though, depending on the rate the bot checks the request page. I've gotten to used to using the edit summary as a means of summing up the edit I made, forgetting that in the request page's case, it gets spread onto, oh, a couple ten thousand pages. Fun stuff for whoever digs through the page's histories (and seriously, anyone digging through the page histories probably needs a good laugh).  10:43, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Regarding Cook's request to stop the bot part way through, when the bot is optimized for large requests, which I assume means doing files in packs, will you request the rest of the moves or shall I? 19:44, March 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * I posted on YOUR talk page. I would never expect you to read MY talk page for my reply. However, I did COPY my post to my talk page. My post is in the section "re:I r a nubsaus :3 ". -- 00:55, March 14, 2012 (UTC)

Image move request #5354951
The following errors occurred while processing your request.

Some references towards images could not be edited on pages. Below is a list of these pages, as well as an explanation for each failure. RSW image renamer 04:16, March 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * File:Amulet of glory (t).PNG not fixed to point to File:Amulet of glory (t).png on:
 * User:Hairrazerrr/Sco (MediaWikiException: hookaborted: The modification you tried to make was aborted by an extension hook)
 * File:Cleaner.Png not fixed to point to File:Cleaner.png on:
 * User:Manyman/Varrock Cleaners (IOException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.)

RE:Image move request #5356696
Ah thank you for explaining, I was wondering what was going on. <.< You are fantastic, by the way. (: 05:27, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

Image move request #5359974
Your request completed successfully. RSW image renamer 10:16, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

Image move request #5360451
Your request completed successfully. RSW image renamer 10:58, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

Image move request #5360453
Your request completed successfully. RSW image renamer 10:58, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

Red links
Just noticed File:Commander Zilyana.PNG showing up in Template:Featuredimage but nothing in RS:RA about an unsuccessful move to. Thought I'd let you know in case there might have been a glitch or if it was missed. 14:42, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

Uppercase extensions: new list
So, if you're 100% certain that the bot is ready to go, I've got a brand new list of all files to be moved just generated. Just wanted to be certain the bot is ready for them and all, before actually requesting them. Perhaps we should just give it 201 or so of the images first, see how it does them, then feed it the rest? 19:43, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

compressbot
http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Log?page=File:Wizard_guild_basement.png why did it compress twice? I've checked, it's the exact same filesize for both. I don't know if this happened for any other images, but it could have. 20:53, March 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * ah okay, that's okay then. Btw, you should change your siggy to to give it the runescape font and hover effects :3 21:40, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

RE:
Really? It displays fine for me, but I guess I can revert it. 22:50, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

Move bot results
So the move bot dumped more errors on my page. There's a lot of legitimate "page exists" errors that will have to be manually assigned another name, however, there's also a very strange <tt>org.mediawiki.MediaWiki$UnknownError: Unknown error: ``fileexistserror</tt> error on a few images. There's no image existing in the move location, so no clue what that means. And to be sure, there's just on talk page post for the entire request, right (so that means the 201 images are done)? If so, I'll put the rest of the request up. Besides the aforementioned error, seems to be working fine. 16:42, March 11, 2012 (UTC)
 * The error happens if the "new" name has cache errors. Even an admin cannot move the file. Wikia has to fix their broken cache. -- 20:35, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

Other wikis?
I was wondering if this optimizer could come onto my wiki? ^Aah, the wiki link is thepawk.wikia.com. 19:03, March 14, 2012 (UTC)

Minor change to the error output of your image mover bot that will be summed up underneath the line which adores the bottom border of this lengthy header
Instead of using two left and right apostrophes in outputting the error, perhaps you could use the left and right quotation mark characters (eg: “fileexistserror”), U+201C (alt + 0147) and U+201D (alt + 0148) respectively. The reason for this is because, for whatever reason, your right double apostrophes are being replaced with regular apostrophes, which makes them an italic tag. In the regular lists, they won't show up at all, while copying and pasting the error code inline makes the text after the double apostrophes italic, which is unintended. 21:09, March 15, 2012 (UTC)

Upper-case PNGs
I've got a list of all the upper-case PNG files on the wiki here. Perhaps your bot could utilise this list when moving the upper case PNG files. 10:43, March 19, 2012 (UTC)

Incorrectly capitalised file links
Hi, I've been working through WantedFiles for a while and noticed numerous occurrences where file names were incorrectly capitalised on pages affected by a file move from the file move bot. An example was, the correct name should be File:Teak pyre logs.png. This also occurred on Raw Bass, Raw Cod, Raw Mackerel, Raw Lobster, Raw Manta ray, Raw Sardine, Raw Pike, and some other pyre log files. I don't know whether is was an isolated event from those batches of files, but perhaps you could look into it. Thanks, 05:52, March 24, 2012 (UTC)

Testing new mandatory signature script
non-minor edit, monobook, unsigned: got the warning

minor edit, monobook, unsigned: got nothing

non-minor edit, monobook, signed: 20:52, March 25, 2012 (UTC) got nothing

minor edit, monobook, signed: 20:53, March 25, 2012 (UTC) got nothing

non-minor edit, wikia, unsigned: got the warning

minor edit, wikia, unsigned: got nothing

non-minor edit, wikia, signed: 20:55, March 25, 2012 (UTC) got nothing

minor edit, wikia, signed: 20:56, March 25, 2012 (UTC) got nothing

(there is a comment here, view the wikitext to see it)

non-minor edit, monobook, unsigned (with the comment above): got nothing

bet this works

tasteless, immature and stupid
Support... 04:11, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

Wat the...
Your signature. Impossible. 16:24, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

nub js question
I'm trying to make a toolbar to give me a hand with the general stuff I do on the wiki, but I'm having a little trouble with it. So.... I thought I'd ask the wiki's resident coding guru.

I figured it was easier to test off wiki, so I borrowed some other code and managed to come up with this. I then tried adding in the relevant links using <a href="URL OF LINK">LINK TEXT</a> or <a href="URL OF LINK" target="_blank">LINK TEXT</a> for links to open in a new tab. Unfortunately it didn't work as I intended and couldn't find anything to copy to use instead. Any ideas? 20:12, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * This is all fixed now btw. 12:26, April 14, 2012 (UTC)

Thread
It was closed with option 5 being selected. 16:05, April 10, 2012 (UTC)

Ummm

 * This section contains elements copied inline from other talk pages. This is intended to help guide users who would otherwise not know what's going on.

What on earth? 12:25, April 14, 2012 (UTC)
 * (User talk:Edmyg) Meet the new bug, same as the old... (Ctrl+F book.png in that thread).


 * Basically, Cook's latest request included a rename of Book.png to Book (Shield of Arrav).png. If this Book.png, as well as Boot.png etc., is among the last of these highly unspecific file names, and is being renamed to a more specific one that's unlikely to be contained in the name of another item, then that's the last we'll hear about that bug for a long time. I can't see, for example, an item named "Something book (Shield of Arrav)"  19:34, April 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * So (to my understanding) the bot found every instance of "book.png" and changed it to "Book (Shield of Arrav).png"? I only found this mistake by chance btw, I've no idea how much damage the bot has caused until Wanted Files updates in around 4 hours, but seeing as the book list had around 50 mistakes this minor file alteration could take hours to fix by hand. I would suggest using "File:Book.png" as the item to search for but that's clearly not going to work with templates like drop tables. Hopefully this is going to be a rare occurance, otherwise we need to amend the image policy to stop files like this being named as such. 23:32, April 14, 2012 (UTC)
 * (User talk:Edmyg) It is indeed just the really unspecific names like Book.png and Boot.png. Anything whose name ends in " book" or " boot" will be affected right now, but not later. Most of the files are specific names, so wanted files should be less busy this time than the last. 00:11, April 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * ... and they'll be less busy next time than this one, of course. And your understanding of the bug is correct.  00:43, April 15, 2012 (UTC)

XML<
<room id="1" name = "Parlour">

<ITEMID> ... etc

http://i.imgur.com/QA4qV.png

Glacor drop rates from Advenuters' Logs
Okay, so it's considerably more complicated than I would have hoped for. To go through the Adventurer Logs for boots drop rates, you'd have to do the following:
 * Go through each page of the hiscores go to the page  for each of the names listed on the hiscores.
 * Skip the page if it doesn't include "After killing a Glacor, it dropped a pair of". (Skips pages without boot drops)
 * Skip the page if it doesn't include "and many glacytes to go with them." (Skips pages where people have kills turned off)
 * Skip any pages where the boot drops aren't immediately followed (i.e. before, time-wise) by a mention of killing Glacors. (Skips pages where people turned off kills some time during the Adventure Log reporting period. This might be over-sensitive but it's the best I can think of)
 * Once you have a complete list of Adventurer's Logs that fit the mould, report every mention of killing Glacors or getting boot drops to a central list. I guess I can handle the calculations from there.

It's not a perfect solution compared to how effigies were prior to two months ago, but I think it'll give a reasonably accurate (+/- 20%) drop rate for Glacors. Thanks. 11:49, April 20, 2012 (UTC)

Image renamer summary
The aforementioned bot has been the subject of some discussion and this discussion touched briefly on the bots impact on page histories (mostly in regard to multiple revisions). When looking at a page history recently, it occurred to me that the bots edit summary causes it to take up two lines in the history, whereas a shorter summary may only take up one line, thus having a less apparent impact when viewing a page history.

Put simply, I was wondering if the summary could be changed to something shorter, such as: (Semi-automated) Fixed link for 1 moved file(s)

That's pretty much all I have to say about that. Could have been less wordy, but I figured you wouldn't mind some good old fashined words. Bye now. -- 16:37, May 2, 2012 (UTC)