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I'm downloading the latest dump. Once downloaded can you explain how I might go about updating WP:TYPOSCAN with the latest information? I'd like to know how you create the list of articles from the database dump and how that list can be re-uploaded into the TypoScan list. Regards, Sun Creator(talk)00:32, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Reedy. I understand that you are the primary person responsible for the launching of wikis that were developed in the incubator and which have been approved by the Language Committee. I would definitely appreciate your assistance in the launching of the Hebrew Wikivoyage. If for any reason you are unable to help launch the Hebrew Wikivoyage, please refer me to someone else who would be able to do so. Thanks. ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 14:11, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
They will get done in time as is the case with any and all new wikis. The request is barely 4 day old (at worst, they've been a few weeks old when I've dealt with them). There's really nothing urgent about the request, at worst, you can continue at the incubator, then import the changes. I was travelling for first half of last week 3/7 days), followed by some recovery. Patience, grasshopper. Reedy (talk) 16:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
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The first part (of 27) of the parse has been completed and is available here. It would be nice if you could check if it is importable. One point is probably Unicode encoding ("Erwin Schrödinger"). As the parts are disjunct, there shouldn't be any problem importing one part at a time, so no work is lost. --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 06:40, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
What do you mean by "skipped"? False positives, i. e. my script found it matched one of the regular expressions, but AWB doesn't think so? It's working on the dump of 2013-05-03, so there may be some flux there. Do you have an article that was skipped for debugging? --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 01:39, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Yup, no typos to be fixed. Less than 10% of them still apparently having typos (taking account of intermediate edits) seems relatively low, with 90% apparently fixed in the last 4-5 weeks?
Alchemy
Anthropology
Algeria
Ayn Rand
Altruism
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Production Design
Abraham Lincoln
Alabama
Autism
Anarchism
Question; doesn't AWB skip areas? Could it be hitting upon those in the check phase, but avoid them in the Regex area? I searched for one in the Abraham Lincoln article, but missed it or Firefox couldn't find it. Though the Domain Name System one is a false positive that could probably be wrapped in notatypo template. I'll have to figure that out myself; but could that template be used to check in Regex, but hit in the original scan? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 03:24, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes, numerous areas are hidden from RegexTypoFix - Hides Unformatted text (nowiki, pre, math, html comments, timelines), source tags (for starters). Noting this list building is not using AWB or AWB code, just the regexes. Just running the regexes over the page would be a lot different from the state of the page AWB uses to run the regexes over. See the magic that goes on RegExTypoFix.cs and HideText.csReedy (talk) 14:24, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I do not understand it; but is there a way to address that or would AWB need to be allowed to check those areas to address or check them for false positives? I'm not sure how it works or anything technical; sadly. I just want to fix the problems if they exist. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 04:20, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
(Better look at the wikisource for regular expressions and matches.) Alchemy seems to have been fixed since the dump, all the other articles still seem to match. --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 15:58, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Reedy,
I'm writing you to highlight an abnormal behaviour of a regex that I'm applying overall the it:voy site. The regex is the following: (.*?)(\{\{Quickbar((?!\{).)*?\}\}\n\n) to be replaced with $2$1. Nothing so strange.
It works (slowly but perfectly) in most of the pages (see it:voy:Speciale:Contributi/Andyrom_bot). But in few of them it stucks AWB and I'm forced to shut it down. I'll give you some of those pages to let you try to understand which is the problem:
In the meanwhile, I've made some tests and I've noticed that the time needed is proportional (I can't say if in a linear way or not) to the amount of "{" presents in the article. I can't figure out how to manage the same task in an alternative way. Let me know.
PS
During the test I've noticed a minor bug on the regex tester. If I press ESC to stop the elaboration (using singleline option) the source collapse (as if it's missing the \n). I've understood that this change in the source is necessary for the algorithm infact, during the elaboration it changes, but when it finished without pressing ok, it come back to the original status.
PPS
It would be important (if feasible) to stop the elaboration pressing ESC also in the regular task (I mean, not in regex tester only). Otherwise, the only alternative is to shutdown the program when it stucks. --Andyrom75 (talk) 11:22, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) This is not an AWB problem. You have written a regex that suffers from excessive backtracking, so on certain articles it may take the .NET runtime on which AWB runs several minutes or even hours to process the regex. You can google regex backtracking to understand what this is and why it happens. Rjwilmsi13:13, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, Reedy. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Arco (company), for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:
remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arco (company) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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