Wishlist CleanupBy Today I gave the _start a little sweep. Firstly I renumbered all of the wishes in the chronological order that they were added. This is something that I could be crucified for, because it means that many links to these wishes have now become dead ones. This is also the case for the _start section I cleaned up yesterday. This is debatable whether or not this was a good decision. On one hand:
But on the other hand:
As with the rest of the Wikidot community, I don't really think it's appropriate to apply page autonumbering to other categories. Page numbering is essentially to keep track of things, and what needs to be kept track of apart from the bugs and wishes? Hmm, perhaps the Embed Requests? But that's about it really. Feel free to make a suggestion. Oh, I've just read the _start page, and gerdami has already suggested to cleanup the Embed Requests. I reckon he's spot on — I'll cleanup embed next. gerdami mentioned that the HowTo List is in dire need of a "reshuffle". Now THAT is a big project, hehehe. We might leave that one till last… Tags: cleanup wishlist Related Community Blog PostsThe following posts have similar tags and may be related to this post. Rate it up ?DiscussShare
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When I renamed the bugs:pages to "numbers" I made (very often , but not every rename) checks on the "+show dependencies" - I get no one… interesting…
I see more problems with inserted (attached ) images or html codes - the src has changed and this is NOT checked in the dependencies…
Now we have to check all pages of the wishlist:### on "lost" images ( the images are attached, but the src has changed) .
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Yeah, I know what you mean. It appears that no pages are dependant on them…
The reality is that because the URLs of the pages were UNIX versions of each page's title's, the url was too long to type as an internal one. For example it is easier to copy and paste the URL from the address bar than it is to type the wiki-syntax with long URLS:
So most of the links to the wishes utilised the external-link syntax.
Oh darn, I forgot about the attached files. I'll have a look through them — thanks for reminding me!
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You might have broken a lot of links, but they'll be fixed eventually.
Easy :)
Benefits outweigh the negatives.
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Is there any fast and automatic way to do it? I encountered the same problem when I tried to rename one of my picture pages that actually has uploaded picture, and I found it tedious and time consumig work to change urls all over the site, so I put it back to its old name…
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Interesting idea… that sounds like something that a modified version of tsangk's installer could do!
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Someone here told me that making a bot to do something is not possible at Wikidot due to… I forgot. It was too complicated. It is a pity if this is true… The possiblity to make a bot would be excellent way to avoid stupid and repetitive work and also to be bored to death… Besides, bot would do better, because it will change each and every link he finds, which, for example, I couldn't guarantee for myself…
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Yes, that's why I suggested tsangk's installer.
Instead of editing page content, it would rename the page. It would need to keep a counter of what number it was up to, and start from 1… moving along through the whole list.
The person using the tool would just repeatedly click a button again and again until it ended.
As for bots: I think that was due to a performance issue, that they were added to the ToS ?
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This tsangk's installer… What is it? Is it possible to use it in other sites?
Yes, someone mentioned some performance, but as I do not understand a thing about bots and dont have the slightest idea what the heak Tos mean… :(
I wouldn't be of big help here, I am afraid… :D
Meaning, whatever means this last sentence of yours (sorry, but this is really Chinese to me), is this bot thing something that we can expect in the future, or there is no way to have bots here ever in Wikidot?
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http://installer.wikidot.com
It is available for some of the packages at http://packages.wikidot.com as well :)
ToS = Terms of Service.
http://www.wikidot.com/legal:terms-of-service
I have no idea. I hope so.
I'm going to repeat (for the third time :P) tsangk's installer isn't a bot…
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hehee, I figured it out already… ;)
OK, I'll investigate this tsangk' installer a little bit, and maybe I come back with more stupid questions.. :D
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I never said they were stupid :)
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One more question: What do bots have to do with Tos? I looked for some reference to bots in Tos and I haven't found any…
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I thought they were in there… :S
I remember reading something about bots a while ago, and think the answer was that it put too much strain on the servers, or was a security risk, or something. Either way I don't think we're allowed to use any automated bots.
For example, spam bots would be banned.
Here it is:
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I got "busted" when I talked about using an automated method on my computer to create a bunch of pages that had repetitive content. My sole motivation was to save time and typing (and repetitive motion injury!). I think once the API is opened up for write access it will open a whole world of possibilities for searching and replacing content throughout our sites.
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And I never said you had said what I had said… ;) :P Seriously, sometimes I feel so thick when I read what all of you write, and understand all words separately, but put all together, I don't have a clue….
To be honest, I just passed FF option "Find" and haven't found a word "bot"…
This is very logical. But, I do not understand why an administrator cannot run his own bot at his own site… Not that I have a clue how a bot is made, but maybe I can learn, since I saw in Wikipedia 15-year-old kids to do it, so this shouldn't be too difficult, and it would make a job a lot easier for many things… Just an example: when I finally discovered how a live template is made and how it functions, I wanted to implement it in may short articles that have a right sidebar which I was putting through include module. So, I had to go through all those articles (luckily, there are still only 50 of them) and to erase the include module, and then to implement live template… Or, if I notice a constant error in a word that repeats through many pages, instead of opening each page, look for the word, change it and save it, I do it with a bot much faster and save me from boring clicking.
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