User talk:WindBOT

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Talk pages

You shouldn't be talking on talk pages. Leave that to your master WindPower. -- Pilk _(talk) 22:33, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Loops

WindBOT loops over the page again if you have to fix a bad edit. -- Pilk _(talk) 03:17, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

What do you mean? You mean it re-applies filters if you undo them? That is the desired behavior. If the filter isn't working correctly, then the filter should be fixed; otherwise, if the filter does work correctly but shouldn't be applied on a certain page for some particular reason, then blacklist the page — Wind 18:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Diacrits change

Hello,

Please add a new filter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_alphabet#Comma-below_.28.C8.99_and_.C8.9B.29_versus_cedilla_.28.C5.9F_and_.C5.A3.29

There are 2 variants of ş. This one is wrong. See on wikipedia page the correct one and please do the changes.

Thanks

-- Nightbox _{(t s)} 20:38, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

it's done, tell me if this is OK — Wind 05:35, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, it's working well. Thanks <3 -- Nightbox _{(t s)} 10:39, 28 August 2010 (UTC) Read below now :D

Achievements translating

Can you translate achievements using this bot ? If yes i will send you tf_romanian.txt so would be much easier than manual translation. -- Nightbox _{(t s)} 10:41, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

How would it work? Just replace English achievements titles with Romanian ones? I'm pretty sure you could do that with AWB — Wind 14:17, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Rollbacks

You again. Ruining my rollbacks. I should have you decommissioned for your impertinence.  – Smashman _(talk) 10:20, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Team names in TFC

Your bot seems to think that the TFC team names are "RED", and "BLU", when they, in fact, are "Red" and "Blue". Avanti (Classic) and Dustbowl (Classic) got reverted because of this. Just wanted to make you know. Ond kaja 15:46, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I was fearing this would happen... I'll add a way to specify which filters are applied to Classic/Non-classic pages later, right now I will disable the team spelling filter. — Wind 15:47, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Peculiar behavior

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/index.php?title=Flame_Thrower/ro&redirect=no

I'm a little confused by WindBOT's behavior - it continues to insist on making this page redirect to a page that is not only improperly titled, but also redundantly language-tagged. If the page it was linking to even existed, it would be a double redirect at that. It's kinda humorous when I think about it, really. It would be like if "Hat/fr" (which would ideally redirect to "Hats/fr") was consistently being strongarmed into redirecting to "Chapeaux/fr".

Either way, this could use some work yeah, but at the same time I'm genuinely curious as to what is causing this behavior. (: Gerk 10:29, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Spell Checking

Maybe this isn't the right way to go about this, but WindBot doesn't seem to like "Sascha" as much as "Sasha." According to the newest tf2 blog update, it's spelt "SasCha," with a C. So... yeah. The bot should stay out of this. --Exiggah 19:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

The blog has been known to make mistakes and I believe Robin confirmed as much in a recent email I saw. Sasha has been used much more often than Sascha. Moussekateer 19:46, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

At least someone knew what was up, thanks for the confirmation. --Exiggah 19:48, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Strange spacing edit

This edit looks like a bug, putting extra spacing at the beginning of one parameter line while ignoring the others. Toomai Glittershine 17:29, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Nope, not a bug; the item backpack attributes (the little brown box at the bottom) should be indented by 2 spaces for clarity (item-description, item attributes, etc.) — Wind 17:38, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Incorrect capitalization

Hello, I just recently edited the Grenadier's Softcap page, and the edit I made involved the sentence "A grenadier is a soldier who specializes in handling grenades and other explosives." The bot seems to think that the word "soldier" should be capitalized, even though the sentence is referring to a soldier, instead of the Soldier. I'm not sure how to fix this, could you look into it when you get the chance? Siriusd 01:14, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Fixed, see {{botignore}} — Wind 01:17, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Weapon Combination Names

Hey, were you the one who named the rest of the weapon combinations in the Community Strategy pages of all classes? Because if it's you, I want to thank you for continuing my work. I ran out of ideas after editing Demoman's Community Strategy page, it's good you named the rest. Also, I round up the remaining weapon combinations so now all of those combinations are named. Thanks again!

-TheDecepticonDude 03:42, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Storyline

On Storyline#The Mann Family, it (logically) filtered the names of Gravel Pit and Dustbowl, but in the sentence's context, capitalization wouldn't make much sense. However, I don't want to blacklist the page, since there are likely many other reasons the bot would need to go there. Is it possible to blacklist just that section, or to set up some other way to have it avoid that? (Btw, here is the specific edit, if it helps.) —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 03:18, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Fixed — Wind 03:28, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Uh, apparently not. Although it was funny to see you edit warring with your own bot. XD —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 21:46, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I hope I fixed it this time... — Wind 22:53, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Lol, that seems to have worked. Thanks for actually putting up with all this. —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 03:27, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Direct Hit

Found one instance of the problem on Flare Gun, and thought it would likely appear elsewhere: the phrase "direct hit" seems common enough that it probably shouldn't autocapitalize it. Of course, it actually referring to the weapon is probably seen far more often than just as a description, but either way... —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 17:33, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Nah, is fine as it is :3 Keep adding them botignore~ — Wind 20:11, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Weapon Demonstration

I've noticed that on some pages, the bot has been breaking the videos by deleting the first/only parameter in the template.

I've reverted a few, but it might be better to take a look at why it's doing it. (Seems like the bot and I haven't been getting along lately...xvx) —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 04:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

seb is already on it. Let the bot remove them. — Wind 04:23, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Fine, but I don't see why I'd ever agree to let a bot ruin pages... —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 04:37, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

It's all fixed now :p —Moussekateer·talk 04:43, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

I think not - Übersaw is still broken, and likely others. —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 05:06, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

As a Crafting Ingredient

Hey, I've noticed that in many of the weapons' pages, the 'Crafting' in the heading == As a Crafting Ingredient == is linked to the crafting article.

However, in the Style Guide it says they shouldn't be linked. Is this something the Bot can be made to fix? / Would this be the right place to post this? If not, I could do it manually. Thanks, - LingoSalad _(talk) 19:10, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Stickybombs

Is there any reason in particulars that this bot is capitalising stickybomb/stickybombs? (Just found it odd, since, say, 'flares' or 'rockets' isn't capitalised.) Hostile Companion Cube ^Roar 23:17, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I... don't really know why I added it D: Someone requested it and I added it. I'll disable it for now — Wind 23:19, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Norwegian Name Directs

Hey WindBOT, I have gone through the hats on the norwegian articles and discovered that you have been applied filters for most of them. What does this mean? The Noble Scout _(T/C) 09:27, 30 March 2011

Can you give links to such changes? :o — Wind 04:53, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Here is one where its says by the name with WindBOT. The Noble Scout _(T/C) 09:49, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, look at the diff; it just replaced the optf2 link in the sidebar by the {{Backpack Item Link}} template — Wind 17:25, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Ah! Ok, then i know that so i dont have to be very conserned about that. You didn't translate that description part too, eh? The Noble Scout _(T/C) 20:05, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Class names in TF classic games

I'm traslating TFC an QWTF's articles, and they have classes names translated into spanish, but when I edit one page and put "Francotirador" and "Ingeniero", that bot changed into "Sniper" and "Engineer". This in TF2 articles is a good change, but not in these articles. Can someone fix this? Jag Gentleman 13:53, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Put {{botignore}} around it, should be ok~ — Wind 18:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Jag Gentleman 18:50, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Bonk-helm

Would it be possible for WindBOT to stop changing Bonk-helm to Bonk Helm on the Dutch pages? Bonk-helm is the official Dutch translation in the localization files. Or am I going to have to add the botignore thing every time when I write the name? Hefaistus - talk 16:20, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Done~ — Wind 16:39, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Russian typographic

Hi, can you add filter to fix russian typography?

• Filter should replace "" '' with «». And slashes inside «» with „“
• For example, filter will replace "Кавычки 'елочки'" with «Кавычки „елочки“».
• Here's regexp which I use ro replace "" with «»: "([^"]+)" ==> «\1»

Thanks,

Daniil

P.S. Sorry for my English. --Daniil 11:34, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

I think this will be a problem because not always need to change--Nik9990 Talk | Cont 11:38, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Not always? Are you sure? [1], [2][3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], etc, etc (almost every page). I can edit all this pages myself if it so difficult to add new filter. Daniil 12:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

That's a good idea actually, I think more languages than just Russian may benefit from this. In French for example, this would work too, except it needs extra spacing on all sides of the quotation marks. I'll do it in Russian only for now though~ Please watch over the bot in the first few days to make sure it doesn't replace anything that it shouldn't replace. For example this shouldn't happen (see the <ref name=""/>, those quotes should definitely not change. this is better, I think) — Wind 01:11, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I'll watch over it. Also, I've ported "Wikify" script from ru wikipedia and it works fine (It's written in JavaScript and fully client-side). It helps to edit russian articles (makes right quotes, slashes, spaces, etc.). Maybe I'll modify this script for different languages and we make it official? Here it is: User:Daniil/wikify.js. Here is example of how it's warking [9]. By the way, it is button Daniil 03:38, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Bug 1. Bot replaced double quotes inside «»-quotes with „„““ (there: "''Верховный Совет''"). But it shouldn't, because double quotes is part of wiki-syntax. Daniil 04:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

fix'd — Wind 05:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

[10] [11] Bot is replacing quotation marks that are apart of wikisyntax (table syntax, e.g. {| class="wikitable"). seb26 08:46, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Disabled the filter because ze bot is relentless D: Ready for re-enabling whenever you wake up Windy seb26 09:00, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Fix'd — Wind 00:25, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Quick Question

Hey all, just wondering what happened to the list of Wiki Cap Candidates, I can't seem to find it. Thanks. Shauny7488 03:25, 29 June 2011 (PDT)

Not there anymore, we're doing without it now — Wind 19:29, 2 July 2011 (PDT)

Any particular reason why? Just curious. Shauny7488 00:29, 5 July 2011 (PDT)

See here — Wind 16:13, 5 July 2011 (PDT)

Wrong hat, buddy

On the first trivia in the Tam O' Shanter article, it keeps changing 'Tam o' Shanter' to 'Tam O' Shanter', despite the real hat this is based on being lowercase in the middle. Please, make it stop, because the trivia it keeps editing is referring to the real hat. Shane Alvarado 19:23, 2 July 2011 (PDT)

 Done — Wind 19:29, 2 July 2011 (PDT)

So that's how you do that? Thanks, I wish I knew this earlier. Shane Alvarado 19:40, 2 July 2011 (PDT)

Crushing Images

May I do them too? I tried doing it with another image without posting it and I reduced the image pretty well. The transparency and pixels were intact when I reduced it with photoshop. --That Furry Fan 17:49, 5 July 2011 (PDT)

Can you upload (not on the wiki, on an external image host) a crushed version of an image, and the corresponding version of the same image but crushed by WindBOT? — Wind 18:57, 5 July 2011 (PDT)

Oh shoot, I just realized that I was doing it wrong. In the preview window of the "Save for Web and Devices" it says 1.4MB and the 'crushed' version says 269.2KB when the crushed one by WinBOT is 256KB. The file I used was the Scout Milkman Image. I guess I got some things to figure out. :( --That Furry Fan 07:14, 6 July 2011 (PDT)

Actualización Über

Hi, I want to ask if you can make the bot to change "SuperActualización" to "Actualización Über". The first one was invented from Ryo and now the newcomers translate the Über Update wrong, because Dio and BiBi acorded to call it Actualización Über, but Ryo never does the thing like we accord. If you can't I can change that one by one, but is more confortable with the bot. Jag Gentleman 00:10, 11 July 2011 (PDT)

 Done but keep in mind that the bot doesn't search for stuff, it only replaces stuff on pages that go through the RC feed. If you want to force it to go over a certain page, you'll have to poot it on User:WindBOT/PageRequests~ — Wind 00:17, 11 July 2011 (PDT)

Thanks Wind. Jag Gentleman 01:51, 11 July 2011 (PDT)

PT-BR

Hiya Wind. Here are some terms that the bot should translate/change/fix on PT-BR pages.

 Boost -> Bônus
 Buff -> Bônus (EXCEPT FOR ITEM NAMES SUCH AS BUFF BANNER)
 Bug -> Defeito
 Bugs -> Defeitos
 Demomans -> Demomen
 Heavys -> Heavies
 N/A -> N/D
 Patch -> Atualização
 Patches -> Atualizações
 Performance -> Desempenho
 Slot -> Compartimento (EXCEPT FOR ITEM NAMES SUCH AS TOKENS)
 Source Engine -> Motor Source
 Spys -> Spies

Thanks.  –  Epic Eric (T | C) 12:58, 4 August 2011 (PDT)

Done most of them, didn't add some because the bot can't magically guess which instance of the word is being used or not — Wind 14:11, 4 August 2011 (PDT)

100k edits

[12]

Party time!  –  Epic Eric (T | C) 17:06, 8 August 2011 (PDT)

 –  Cructo [T][C] 18:27, 8 August 2011 (PDT)

Really setting the bar, WindBOT! --SilverHammer 18:33, 8 August 2011 (PDT)

Crushing Images part 2

What program do you use? I still want to crush PNG files and I can't figure out how you do it. I browsed the internet for a solution and no luck. --That Furry Fan 21:27, 14 August 2011 (PDT)

Google "png crush" and you'll find it :3 — Wind 21:40, 14 August 2011 (PDT)

"Variaciones de Colores" to "Variaciones de Color"

Hi, can you change "Variaciones de Colores" to "Variaciones de Color" in spanish changes of the bot please? Jag Gentleman 07:34, 16 August 2011 (PDT)

Extra Bullets

Whenever you type:

*Text1

**Text2

instead of:

*Text1
**Text2

you get two bullets for the second text (Text2). The first one looks like this:

• Text1

• • Text2

while the second one looks like this:

• Text1
  • Text2

Since this is usually unintentional, should there be a filter that removes extra lines in between bullets? Or, as that kind of filter sounds pretty hard to write, simply make it so that there is always only one dot? -Rocket Ship BBQ 21:50, 22 August 2011 (PDT)

That's just how wikicode works, I'm not really sure it's a wise idea to force all lists to be joined together like this; my guess is that whoever made the mistake doesn't really understand lists or didn't use Show preview. At any rate, I don't think lists-in-lists are used much on the Wiki at all in the main namespace — Wind 22:01, 22 August 2011 (PDT)

List of item attributes

It deleted all attributes after 32nd one. Repair this bot please. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kemerover (talk) • (contribs)

You have to ask Lagg for this, he's the one doing the attributes stuff >: — Wind 10:58, 4 September 2011 (PDT)

Filter request for pt-br

Since we are translating stock weapon names now, we need filters for them. You can find a list here: Team_Fortress_Wiki:Translation_progress/pt-br/Vocabulary/Armas in the first section  –  Cructo [T][C] 07:05, 7 September 2011 (PDT)

Class Cards

I would like to ask why you replaced my uploaded images with an exact copy? --ScoutKast 00:28, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

It was "crushed". I think WindBot does that automatically to reduce the file size a bit. Rolandius 00:38, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

What the hell does "crushed" mean? --ScoutKast 00:42, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Its optimized picture files The Noble Scout _(T/C) 00:44, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Optimized as in lower file size, without removing any quality. It helps bandwidth/server loads if people have to load a smaller file. - nixshadow (t|c) 01:07, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Ok, sorry. I thought he was being a dick for no reason. --ScoutKast 01:09, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Should probably inform you WindBOT isn't a human. His actions are automated, That's why he's Wind "bot" - nixshadow (t|c) 01:12, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

HOLY SH*T!!! I DIDN"T REALISE (No Sarcasm Included) --ScoutKast 01:32, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

That "No Sarcasm Included" seemed a bit sarcastic. Were you saying everything but that was not sarcasm? which in a loop means the first part was sarcasm. - nixshadow (t|c) 01:34, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

No, I wasn't being sarcastic. I though "he" called himself WindBOT because he was making fun of the term AimBOT or something, this whole time I thought he was a real person and he owned a Wiki Cap and everything. --ScoutKast 01:38, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Know this ScoutKast that WindBOT is just a bot who ridirects, fix, crushes and edit automaticly. Its only purpose is to maintain balance on the Wiki with the rest of the BOTs. The list of BOTs is:

FireBOT (moderator) (operated by Firestorm)

PilkBOT (administrator – inactive) (operated by Pilk)

RBotson (no elevated permissions) (operated by RJackson)

SebBOT (administrator) (operated by seb26)

WindBOT (administrator) (operated by WindPower)

This was a text part on the Bots section of the 'Help: Group Rights'. The Noble Scout _(T/C) 02:24, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Wonder if there will be a KastBOT, --ScoutKast 01:05, 9 September 2011 (PDT)