User talk:Gnu32

Sorry mate, new to the wiki page, just trying to comtribute. I'll be more careful. --NightClubbin56 21:24, 20 January 2011 (UTC) NightClubbin56
 * 'sall good, you're not in trouble. Just be wary of the rules n'all. Cheers and welcome to the wiki! --Gnu32 21:33, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Wow, what a useful user page! Thanks for documenting all the templates, you've done a grand job there :-) --DannyF1966 16:58, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * lawl ty :3 not being arsed to get a job helps. --Gnu32 17:05, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Screenshot Crash talk page info
It's not a bug, it's a feature you don't have enough ram to use it seems. HUGE resource hit. Thevdude 17:19, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

AWB
Ohhh I'm so irritated now:P I've been trying to get AWB working on several Curse sites for a couple of months with no luck! Can I please pick your brain for some help with it? -- Wynthyst  talk  17:49, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Jesus christ, I've been nervous enough using this software on here while having to fear an admin messaging me with a warning and impending block. Haha, uhh there's not really much to do for it other than in Options &gt; Preferences, go to the Site tab and set the Project to "custom". The url is simply "www.minecraftwiki.net/". Make sure you put your login details into a profile via File &gt; Log in/Profiles. That should sort you out :D --Gnu32 17:53, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * You may like to create a bot account specifically for AWB editing; you can then assign (or get assigned, depending on your privileges) a bot flag to the account, which will keep edits made from it from flooding the recentchanges list and people's watchlists (though they'll still get email notifications, depending on how their preferences are set up). This is what I did on Wikia, with Dinobot1000. =D 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 18:28, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Brilliant idea actually. Flooding the RC's the last thing I wanted to do and I still have Template:Block to update (although i'm thinking of just keeping the parameter named data1). I'll do that, thank you. Sorry for the flood! --Gnu32 18:31, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem. =) Speaking of the infoboxes, I've updated Block and Item to fix some potential bugs (mostly in regards to default parameter values), remove the need for the  phantom newline fix, and make it all a bit more readable. I didn't touch the old data1 code block on Block; there be dragons. *shiver* 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 18:39, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Cheers for that, those HTML comments are really annoying (no thanks to mediawiki for auto-paragraphing). I've got the cleaner code ready to apply when I've found all the blocks that need multiple data values and updated them :D --Gnu32 18:42, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Cool. Generally, the way to avoid the problem is to have the starting braces for a ParserFunction on the same line as the ending braces for the previous ParserFunction, instead of putting each on its own line. With proper (or at least consistent) code indentation, this can also help demonstrate the "flow" of the code, making it easier to see what's going on. =D 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 18:52, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Bot suggestions

 * 1) I recommend you have a Blacklist page, where the bot will automatically ignore any pages that are linked there.
 * 2) I'd like to see the bot be capable of correcting links. So this means fixing links and transclusion links so they are not using redirecting names, and fixing syntax so it has the shortest form. (eg Tools instead of Tools )
 * 3) Allow the bot to fix line breaks on talk pages so there is a gap after every new indentation (like what I've done above in this edit). This makes it easier to edit the conversation as you don't have signatures mixed in with it. – ultradude25  ( T at 01:01, 29 January 2011 (UTC)


 * AFAIK, AWB doesn't support a blacklist like that, though you can save a text file with a list of pages to ignore and use the "List comparer" tool to remove those titles from the "Make list" list (though it has been a while since I've really used AWB, and I never got really deep into configuration, so maybe there is such a feature in it). A copy of this blacklist could then be saved on-wiki, and whenever it's updated, (manually) re-downloaded to update the offline list.
 * If I remember correctly, auto-bypassing of redirects is limited to accounts with admin privileges (and I don't remember how to do it automatically either), though it is possible to manually maintain a list of redirects and the page/template names they should be replaced with. Link syntax simplification is part of the "General fixes" setting.
 * Again, not sure if AWB has any features or settings capable of directly doing this, and it would be very difficult to do if not - you could build a regex to do so, but it would be rather complicated and you'd have to check every replace to make sure whitespace isn't getting inserted in the wrong places. 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 03:46, 29 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late reply and action to all this, hectic weekend. I'll create the blacklist and load it into AWB as a filter every time I do a run. Also, AWB will automatically apply (not save until my say so) fixes to wikilinks so that their syntax is cleaned up and unnecessary pipes are removed, as like you've been doing. As for talk pages, there may be some automatic functionality on here, if not i'll just whip up a regex to fix talk pages. I'll make the blacklist now but I need sleep so everything else comes tomorrow. Cheers ultradude :3 (and cheers dinoguy for clarification) --Gnu32 01:21, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm not so keen on the talk page edits to add spaces. This could potentially ping a lot of watchlists needessly. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png|19px ]] talk  05:57, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Either way, it's going to be doing plenty of watchlist/recent changes spamming; that's why it's marked as a bot, you just set it to ignore bot edits in your watchlist/recent changes (Which I think it does by default). – ultradude25 ( T at 07:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Hmm, I don't think I should include User talk pages on cleanup. Especially considering that would trigger new message warnings (unless that only works with added content). Otherwise, yes, as long as the account is marked bot the edits shouldn't spam Recent Changes unless the user explicitly shows bot edits. --Gnu32 10:34, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The bot should be completely ignoring the User and User talk namespaces. It's up to the owner to fix those up. – ultradude25 ( T at 10:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Will do. Also, do you go on IRC? *curious* --Gnu32 10:48, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I used to, but now that miney is gone I don't bother. – ultradude25 ( T at 12:13, 30 January 2011 (UTC)