User talk:Alexwlchan
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Tip: Categorizing images
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[[Category:Category name]]
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[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]
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When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
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User who nominated the file for deletion (Nominator) : Adeletron 3030.
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A1Cafel (talk) 05:00, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
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A1Cafel (talk) 03:54, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
FlickypediaBackfillrBot:
[edit]Hi! Sorry for the late reply. Your bot are listing Flickr as the publisher (P123) of photos when that is obviously wrong. The correct property to use for third party services that makes content available online is content deliverer (P3274) Trade (talk) 18:04, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Server Overload
[edit]Hi, please look at this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AFlickypediaBackfillrBot&diff=891234062&oldid=887295662 immediately. I think you have to pause your bot until this is implemented. You are currently overloading the server. -- Schlurcher (talk) 07:27, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the alert, already paused! I can see the errors stacking up on my end, so I've paused it while I look at this. Alexwlchan (talk) 07:30, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your contributions and thanks for looking into this. I think this should be fixable by checking for maxlag=5. By bot checks for it an if the condition is met pauses for 10 seconds. --Schlurcher (talk) 07:39, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- The bot already has <code>maxlag=2</code> (a prior suggestion from yourself, I believe :D). I was seeing a bunch of errors where the database was dropping the edit because the actual lag was greater than maxlag – similar to you I think – but I was still saturating the link.
- It looks like I accidentally had multiple copies of the bot running at once, which increased the write load; I'll add some guard rails so that can't happen again. Alexwlchan (talk) 07:41, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your contributions and thanks for looking into this. I think this should be fixable by checking for maxlag=5. By bot checks for it an if the condition is met pauses for 10 seconds. --Schlurcher (talk) 07:39, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello, in fact I would like you to look at my modifications on Vikidia because no one listens to me.
[edit]In fact I did anything on my historical modifications and I would like the administrator to delete it, it's on vikidia and my IP address is there if you look for it In fact I would just like you to view my historical modifications on Vikidia with my IP address because I know they are insulting and unacceptable.But I want my contributions to be hidden because there are emoji and problems thank you 81.248.177.61 02:46, 18 August 2024 (UTC)