User talk:Euku

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 09:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Giving bot another shove

The bot seems to have stopped trying. I believe that my attempts to add the archiving template inside a transcluded file was my issue, and I believe that I have amended the requisite parts. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:28, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

You are talking about Wikisource:Copyright discussions, right? This is one of the problems, but the other one is, that there is nothing to archive yet. --Euku (talk) 17:36, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Weird interaction

Hi Euku,

cf. this edit by SpBot.

There seems to be some weird interaction between {{DNAU}} and {{section resolved}} there. SpBot clearly honoured the {{DNAU}} date, since the thread was open for over a year, but at the appropriate interval after a {{section resolved}} was added it archived the section to an archive with a date derived from the {{DNAU}} date. Is this a known limitation? A bug? Me being dumb? :) --Xover (talk) 07:10, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello Xover! This page uses the parameter "timeout", i.e. archiving is done by two triggers: 1) if "latest timestamp older than 30d" OR 2) {section resolved} timestamp is older than 3 days. {DNAU} only matters for the first type, because it is nothing but a timestamp (after it is subst'ed). So, {section resolved} tells the bot to start its work. :-)

Sure, but in this case it archived it into an archive page whose name was derived from the DNAU timestamp: i.e. to the archive for February 2030. I was surprised that it used the DNAU timestamp to determine the archive to use, and in addition that it accepted a timestamp from the future when determining the archive to use.

The archiving was exactly as expected. It was I that changed the resolved interval to 3 days after it had previously been set as longer than the expiry interval; so I was watching for the archiving to kick in, which was how I noticed the odd archive page. --Xover (talk) 17:36, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Ok, now I finally got your point. :) The timestamp that is used for reference is not the oldest one (as documented), but the first one. In 99,999% this is also the oldest one, except when you use DNAU. I remember that I changed this to the first timestamp because people sometimes used quotes somewhere in the middle without putting them in <no<nowiki>/wiki> tags. This would also archive the section into a wrong archive. But this happened on the German Wikipedia where the bot has its most users. The German {DNAU} (de:w:Vorlage:Nicht archivieren) isn't substituted and wraps a timestamp. So {Nicht archivieren} even blocks the manually set {section resolved}. But I can't do it on all the EN or common projects as there is no template.

I just tried to implement a solution for such timestamp, but it is not that simple as I thought. Maybe I will continue this later... --Euku (talk) 22:00, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Anything we could tweak on-wiki that would make it easier to implement? Alternately, could it be simply to ignore any timestamp in the future when constructing the archive name? --Xover (talk) 06:08, 14 April 2021 (UTC)