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I know it is a bit strange, but on English Wikinews we've got a bunch of old hand done archives for our Water cooler pages (We've actually got 5 different Water coolers). Anyways, we've decided to migrate to your wonderful automated archiving, and do so by month. So far, so good. Of course we'd like to move dozens of old archives in with this new system too, I tried but the bot ignored me. After re-reading your HowTo page, I saw the "key" option and I think that is probably what we need. Can I request said key, please? And will it work for all 5 water coolers? Or should I be requesting multiple keys. Thank you! --ShakataGaNai^_^20:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, a key is what you need, but you'd need a separate key for each archive. :/ I'll see if I can just prepare a batch manually (it's a one-off action anyway). Do I understand correctly that you'd like numbered archives for each of the 5 water coolers redistributed under date-based archives? Миша1321:07, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The record shows you deleted File:Alb helic BO-105.JPG and File:Albanian mig-17 UTI.JPG.
User:Gerd 72, the contributor who uploaded these images uploaded about one hundred images of Albanian military installations or equipment, one or two at a time, over the last two and a half years. Most of the image they uploaded were deleted, in one fell swoop, about a month ago.
I looked at User:Gerd 72's talk page. I thought they offered a very credible explanation as to how they got access to that Albanian military installations and equipment.
I could see that a small minority of the images Gerd 72 uploaded were scans of previously published images. Many good faith uploaders make the mistake of thinking they possess intellectual property rights to scans of PD material. I'd like to confirm that. Would you mind taking a look at these images, and telling me if they were scanned images, or an ordinary photos?
Well, it was six until this recent change. I had forgotten about the undated section, which Vegaswikian removed. I think five is OK, we'll just have to wait until someone adds a new section. Thanks – Sswonk (talk) 00:28, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Another of Miszabot's parameters is minthreadstoarchive, with a default value of 2, so you may have to wait till there's a 7th section. :-)
Stems from the historical 32k limit on page length, but I've always found it to be the ideal length for keeping archives readable. On some machines I edit from, pages much over 80k give me pretty heavy performance problems and the 250k monstrosities people sometimes archive to are entirely off-limits. Could you delete Archive 2 and Archive 4 and I'll put the page back to give the bot another go at it? Cheers. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk14:37, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's not right: there should have been an /Archive 3, and there's a gap in the history where those threads should be. For some reason the bot just didn't write the page. I'm speedying these archives and will get the bot to run over it again. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk19:24, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, is there any way to stop MiszaBot from changing < tags (see here and here)? I realize I could stick the tag inside <nowiki>...</nowiki>, but it would be great if I could just disable the feature. Thanks. Plastikspork―Œ(talk)19:58, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, it didn't do that in the past. Then I suppose someone's messing with the pywikipedia core again (or some software changes affect it). If only I had time to play with this... If this is pandemic (i.e. affects other bots), there's hope someone will fix it, though. Миша1315:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, could you find the time to have a look at the comment the bug report got? Someone there says that such cosmetic changes are disabled both for < and & and on all talk pages in the first place, so it must be something in the bot code itself. Miszabot is still doing it, so it wasn't a temporary glitch. Amalthea12:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
LOLWUT? Did you just hit Special:RandomAdmin to get here? Sorry, you can hardly call me active and I simply don't have time to do mediations of any kind. Why don't you have a word with him? (Note: it's a rhetorical question.) Миша1315:25, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
