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Errors from SOTD update at 07:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 2 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 07:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Errors from SOTD update at 07:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Add More to Song Of The Day Queue

Automated warning: Sean, there are only 1 songs left in the queue. Please add more from the Song of the Day talk page.

-ÜberBot 07:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

SongFooter

I'm going to update {{SongFooter}} now, as well as {{AlbumtypeSwitcher}} (which is called by {{Song}}), so brace yourself :-) — 6x9 (Talk) 21:50, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

*Straps himself and the servers down and holds on for dear life* -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 21:59, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

OnLoad Syntax error in js

Hi, Sean; wanted to ask you: haven't you made some changes in 'stat.js' file during last few days? I'm asking about that because on-load behavior of all LW site pages have changed. It may be not evident in normal browser window, but if you try to load any LW page into Windows app. MS$ WebBrowser controll or HTML page controll <Iframe>, you'll get an error msg: "A Runtime Error has ocurred. Do you wish to Debug? Line: 39. Error: Syntax error." on every page load. Debuger indicates to the file "http://lyricwiki.org/stat.js". First comment line in this file ("// 20090201 by Sean Colombo - This file tracks which types of pages are being hit and allows ads to be loaded AFTER the rest of the page so that they don't block.") points exactly to the date when OnLoad behavior of LW pages has changed. Would you be so kind to take a look at that? For testing you may use any html page, containing element <iframe src="http://lyricwiki.org/"></iframe>. Tia, --Senvaikis (talk) 07:26, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Additional option for testing on IE: You can enable this error msg appearing on IE togging (enabling) browser option "Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Browsing/Display a notification about every script error". --Senvaikis (talk) 07:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Oops! :( - Was this in IE 7 or IE 6? I don't have a box with IE 6 on it available (because of that annoying way that it upgrades to IE 7 where it wipes any traces of IE 6 and won't let you go back and install 6 again. Anywho... I made a change to it (on line 39). Is it better already? or should I go hunt down a computer w/IE 6? I also turned on that error-setting you mentioned in IE 7, so hopefully I should notice any problems more easily in the future.
Thanks!
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 11:00, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Done!, thanks for blistering pace :). Btw, I'm using IE7 too. --Senvaikis (talk) 11:17, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Weird Problems

I don't know if the problems I'm experiencing are related to the above (or if it's personal - lol) but something very weird is going on in bottom section of edit window (below Summary). If I try to preview or if I write in edit summary (like I did a minute ago) my browser immediately crashes (closes). There was also some weird iunderling thing going on too and part of window was a nice shade of grey but interstingly when I turned WikEd off that problem went away. So I don't know if all these problems are related to the WikEd script but it seems to me it could be a possibilty. Also when I click in Firefox on back I am not getting list of pages just "LyricWiki". See screenshots. [1], [2], [3] & [4]  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 09:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Yep seems like you fixed it now. Well at least the problems I was experiencing have now been resolved. Thanks Sean.  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 11:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the info & the screenshots (those are always extremely helpful when something gets visually messed up. I'm not sure what went wrong and I doubt it had to do with the stats.js problem since it appears you're using FireFox. I think we just include the javascript directly from the URL where the creator put it... so maybe they were making live changes (don't know anyone who would do such a thing! 0:-))? I hope that's all it was.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 02:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

WMD Request

This whole family Lil' Jon & The East Side Boyz has clogged up Special:doubleredirects, I am working on all the "&" artist pages, so there will be more to come. Excellent job on the recent search engine upgrade. tia + cheers ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 05:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

What's WMD mean? [something] Mass Delete?
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 02:57, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Weapon of Mass Deletion ;) Would be great if there was a way to do this without bothering you! tia+ cheers ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 03:02, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Damn "Edit conflict"... I might've won the prize too ;) "Weapon of Mass Destruction" Rfl  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 03:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
though up here it can mean Moose as well, No disrespect to Rocky & Bullwinkle!! ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 03:10, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
This page needs nookification too Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen. note the html entity version of "&" in name. ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 08:50, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Irina:Seinät is sitting at top of Songs S and stops the bot from fetching unranked songs there, note the double encoded ä. cheers ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 14:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I've deleted as many of the problem-pages as I could find. There were about 300. I thought I had a mass-nuking script or something... I don't. :/ I just deleted them from wiki_page, which is kind of messy, but all but one of them were redirects anyway.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 00:16, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Right on Thanks! I'm sure I will find some more... ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 00:20, 6 February 2009 (UTC)stay tooned

Editing summary problem

A short while ago I started getting that problem again whereby if I type something in the edit summary my FF browser immediately crashes...taking my post with it...grr... ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 12:07, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Does it still do it if you disable WikEd (top right) then edit a page and do it? If not then WikEd is the problem. ♫ LYRIC-Humbug words♪deeds ☘ Something For Nothing 13:03, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Humbug. Dunno if it's personal to me, but I noticed the address of the page in my browser wasn't updating (the same problem I had the other day). I cleared my cache but that didn't make any difference. Then I closed the window I was experiencing the problems in. That resolved the problem. Weird though.  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 13:09, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Weird. Did you have WikiEd on?
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 17:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
The problem is with WikEd not being in the top frame I think because lw.com shows lyricwiki.org in a frame. This explains the address bar not changing. I'm assuming WikEd is trying to do some operation on a non-existent element in the top frame. ♫ LYRIC-Humbug words♪deeds ☘ Something For Nothing 00:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Yes I did have WikEd on.  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 03:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Script error again

After some server freezing now all is fine, at least for FF owners. But not for those, who are using IE. On every LW page Load it generates error msg: 

A Runtime Error has occured....
...Line: 329
Error: Expected identifier, string or number

--Senvaikis (talk) 14:40, 19 February 2009 (UTC) (IE7)

Strange that after disabling of script debugging & err. msg. displaying in IE options (we've been talking about them last time) the content of err. msg (it's still available doubleclicking a little err. warning icon in the left bottom corner of IE window) slightly changes - now it says that the erroneous line number is 330, chr 3. hth, --Senvaikis (talk) 14:59, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Does it tell you which file is causing it?
Thanks for the info,
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 15:04, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
No, IE doesn't show this info, but it's possible to detect that using any tool proxying http response of the page. Sadly I'm not @my own box, so I'd be able to answer this question only at late evening (tonight), when i'll return home. But I'm sure you'l find the reason till that moment :) Tia, --Senvaikis (talk) 15:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Not sure, but very likely you must search in script jquery-latest.pack.js 
(function(){var Q=/((?:\((?:\([^()]+\)|[^()]+)+\)|\[(?:\[[^[\]]*\]|['"][^'"]+['"]|[^[\]'"]+)+\]|\\......

...Or (more likely) here: index.php 

// highlighting popups
			'wikEdHyphenDash':             'Standard hyphen',
			'wikEdFigureDash':             'Figure dash',
			'wikEdEnDash':                 'En dash',
			'wikEdEmDash':                 'Em dash',
			'wikEdBarDash':                'Horizontal bar',
			'wikEdMinusDash':              'Minus sign',
			'wikEdSoftHyphen':             'Soft hyphen',
			'wikEdTab':                    'Tab',
			'wikEdEnSpace':                'En space',
			'wikEdEmSpace':                'Em space',
			'wikEdThinSpace':              'Thin space',
		}, wikEdShowMissingTranslations);
	}

(see }, wikEdShowMissingTranslations);) --Senvaikis (talk) 15:32, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

It appears to happen even if you don't have wikiEd turned on (which means that the code you pasted wouldn't be in there).
I changed the jquery-include also but that probably wasn't the problem. Hmm...
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 15:54, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
I stand corrected, you totally nailed it. I removed wikiEd and it works now. We'll have to think of a better way to use wikiEd long-term.
Thanks for the help debugging that!
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:15, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
So I was right then? I usually am. ;)  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 13:17, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for expedition, Sean, me glad to be useful too sometimes :) --Senvaikis (talk) 16:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Ghost Page?

Page doesn't exist, but it was edited...[5] maybe a ghost page? ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 05:21, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

It looks like someone else fixed this. Sweet. -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 21:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Bot Warnings

On every run of the bot I get these: 

WARNING: No character set found.
WARNING: Outdated family file lyricwiki: namespace['en'][6] is set to default ('File'), but should be 'Image'
WARNING: Outdated family file lyricwiki: namespace['en'][7] is set to default ('File talk'), but should be 'Image talk'

∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 09:00, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, not quite sure what that means. I don't use Pywikipediabot (assuming that that's what you're using??). Do you know what the 'family file' is that it's talking about? Never seen this before & I haven't been messing around with namespaces as far as I know, so nothing is really jumping out at me as the cause.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 02:09, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
In the families subdirectory of your pywikipedia directory, you'll have a family file for any wiki you use your bot on. E.g. I have appropedia_family.py for Appropedia. You can modify an existing one to make a family file for another wiki. See here.
The 2nd & 3rd warnings just mean you have the names entered differently in the file from the way it's set up on the wiki. Fix it to remove the warnings, but I think it won't actually affect the successful running of the bot.
Not sure about "No character set found." I'm wondering if it's something to do with a non-English script (e.g. a European alphabet with accents over some letters). You could ask on the mailing list. Good luck! --Chriswaterguy from Appropedia, 08:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the info and apologies for late reply, I edited the family.py of Pywikipediabot as Chris explained and all 3 errors disappeared... :) ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 22:19, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Cool. Thanks for the help Chris! -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 22:52, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

shed some light please

Go to this page [6], and try to go to the next page from there....you can't, neither can the bot... 

Skipping [[Redman:Intro]] because it contains text that is on the exceptions list.
Skipping [[Rehab:Intro]] because it contains text that is on the exceptions list.
Skipping [[Roy Jones Jr.:Intro]] because it contains text that is on the exceptions list.
Skipping [[Sarai:Intro]] because it contains text that is on the exceptions list.
Getting [[Category:Songs I]] starting at Intro...
Getting [[Category:Songs I]] starting at Intro...
Getting [[Category:Songs I]] starting at Intro...

any ideas? ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 13:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

6times9 took care of this, sorry I bothered you! ;) ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 16:12, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
How'd he take care of it? I was just looking into this same thing and it appears that the problem is that our SORTNAMEs have just the songname in them instead of Song,Artistname and the pagination works by using the SORTNAME as the offset (so if there is a full page all with the same sortname, we can't paginate.
Did he just make a change to the bot-framework to skip to a different page? Like this?
It might be good for us to get a more permanent fix in there like adding the artistname to the sort-order.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:17, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Assuming that was just some custom code from 6times9 possibly that set what the exception text was.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 23:07, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Tog-WikiEd

I don't know how important this is but I thought I'd bring it to your attention.  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 17:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Cool. That was just left over from setting up the wikEd stuff before I knew that it wasn't "wikiEd" (note the extra 'i'). Cleaned up now. Thanks!
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 20:36, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Spam protection

I have seen this subject mentioned before but I really haven't got a clue about it. But I noticed that when editing Athlete Sorset asked "Why can't I post on talk page". He seems to be saying on his talk page that he's getting spam protection message when trying to post on artist/album talk pages. Can you assist or tell me how I can resolve this for him? Thanks.  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 23:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Asked for more info on that talk page & added the page to my watchlist.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 17:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Funky help page

Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Songs – the font size is huuuge (on my IE6 at least; Kiefer and Red reported the opposite) and at the top it says 

Notice: Undefined variable: artistLink in /var/www/html/lyricwiki.org/extensions/LyricWiki/Tag_Lyric.php on line 119
Notice: Undefined variable: songLink in /var/www/html/lyricwiki.org/extensions/LyricWiki/Tag_Lyric.php on line 119

This seems to be triggered whenever lyric tags are used outside the mainspace, but not always… When I enter <lyrics>la la la</lyrics> in my sandbox and hit preview I get the same error, but when I save the page it's OK… — 6x9 (Talk) 14:26, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

From here there is nothing wrong with the help page...The error you are reporting has been showing up all over the place for me for at least the past week. fwiw ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 14:43, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Odd – now the page looks OK on my screen too. And it hasn't been changed in the meantime… But when I hit edit mode and press Preview, I get the error message. — 6x9 (Talk) 14:52, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Yes small teeny weeny. Always same error message, error line 119, with tabs at top of page disjointed. But sometimes appears to go but it never has really. It's in Bot Portal talk page too. It's affecting pages with <code> on. Is strange. And am I imagining things, or has "Send to a Friend" moved?  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 17:46, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
It's also affecting pages without <code> on them, see sandbox note above. StaF still appears where it always did, even with the messed-up layout. — 6x9 (Talk) 17:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I can't seem to reproduce any of these problems over here :-/ ... when it acts totally weird like that, it usually means that a stylesheet is messed up (usually because the op-code caching program got messed up (it has some bugs)). I'm restarting them apaches now. If you see any problems after this post, please try to force-refresh the page and if that doesn't work, please tell me.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 01:36, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Just opened my sandbox with ?action=purge and the problem is still there – same error message as above. — 6x9 (Talk) 01:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Ah, oops! I meant the small text / big text trick. The actual errors on the page make sense and are something I can fix (I have to finish something for work first though :( )... any change on the smallness / bigness?
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 02:00, 26 February 2009 (UTC) (oops, messed up my sig. Thanks for the imgs Redxx :))
Nope, font is still the same too. (Too big on my screen, and probably too small on Red's.) — 6x9 (Talk) 02:02, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Exactly right 6. All <code> text is still small. There's no change in fact. Is odd, because when you arrive on page everything looks normal, text is right size, etc. It's only when you go into edit/preview mode that all this becomes apparent.  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 02:07, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

(outdent)[7] [8] [9]  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 01:56, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Force refresh worked on Help page, after that the line 119 error is gone. Font size was/is normal ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 02:08, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Whaaaat is going on. Lemme get rid of those errors and see if that helps. Alrighty, errors gone. Text size any better? ^^
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 02:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Yep help page sorted for me now. I did the "?action=purge" a few times too. Bot Portal page sorted now as well thanks Sean.  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 02:17, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Yay! Everything looks as it should! Thanks! — 6x9 (Talk) 02:27, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Now if you have a moment to install SMW... ;) ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 02:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Rflmao Nice try Echo..  ♫♫Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪ Actions Words 02:44, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
I'd settle for the Variables extension… but don't tell Aqua! — 6x9 (Talk) 02:49, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Don't tell the carbon copy bureaucrat... Using variables in programming is a fad that has never caught on ;) ∃cho⚡ierr∀ (☏) 03:06, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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