User talk:Byrial

Welcome to the Wikipedia[edit]

Here are some links I thought useful:

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.

Be Bold!

Sam [Spade] 20:09, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Vendsyssel[edit]

Hi. A question regarding that page on its talk page - you might be the one to answer it. Thanks. Kosebamse 12:42, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I tried to answer at talk:Vendsyssel. Byrial 13:02, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Double-redirect page[edit]

About your page User:Byrial/Double redirects: This list is now over a year old, and all of the double-redirects on it appear to have been fixed. Can I delete the page? — Timwi 16:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dab tool[edit]

Ok, thanks for notifying me :) Does it use the toolserver database in order to find links? Bjelleklang - talk Bug Me 23:12, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ja, linkcount bruger toolserverdatabasen til at finde lenker og til finde pekermaler for det valgte wikiprojekt. Du kan se hvordan i kildekoden (der er lenke til den nederst til højre). Byrial 23:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Database import in MediaWiki[edit]

Byrial, thanks for your information that you gave me in May about importing databases into MediaWiki. I got it working over the weekend! It actually still messed up with Wikibooks (lost connection with the MySQL database), but I'm so glad I could actually get the server and the software up and running. Thanks again, Iamunknown 14:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot edits[edit]

I'd like to discuss the edit by User:Byrialbot to November 7. It looks like it thought the previous edit was vandalism. Thanks. -- Mufka ^(user) ^(talk) ^(contribs) 21:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry! I think it undid the last edit due to a software error (missing detection of edit conflict. I will file a bug report for this. Byrial 13:11, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Bot error[edit]

Your bot's edit to 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup removed some text (~1kb).[1] I have restored the earlier version,[2] and added the transwiki link to the German article that the bot added. Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 20:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would not say that this was just a just minor. The bot updated a one hour old version, and I am very sorry about that. I have added this example to an existing bug report about undetected edit conflicts for pywikipediabot. Byrial 21:26, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I didn't realise it was that old! It was minor, though, in that I caught the mistake right away. No worries about it. I thought you would want to know. Cheers! Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 23:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

According to the bot developers, the bug was fixed yesterday, so we will hopefully not see more edits of old versions by Byrialbot. Byrial 12:28, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot error[edit]

Hello Byrial, your bot incorrectly added all these interwikis: [3]. I removed them, but I think the damage may have been done and the bots will bring them back. Suggestions? Appleseed (Talk) 03:10, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Appleseed. I did that edit on purpose. The interwikis for categories for towns/citis/settlements/villages etc. are hard as the different languages not always distinguish between those or do it in different ways. The administrative distinctions are also different from country to country. However I think that the inserted interlanguage links for Category:Settlements in Poland or at least many of them indeed were for any kind of settlements. However the matter is further complicated by the fact many Wikipedias only have articles about Polish settelements which also are cities. It also varies in the Wikipedias how the category hierarcy is made, i.e. which ones are parallel or sub/super catergories of each other.

I do not remember the exact details of the edits as it is nearly 3 months olds now, but generally when solving interwiki conflicts for categories I check the content or interwiki links of articles and subcategories in the category and of the supercategories.

I am ready to repair any damage as you put it, but first we need to find what the damage is. I know for sure that some of the inserted links were correct (for instance those to the many of Germanic languages). Can you tell which ones you know to be incorrect, and preferly also which category if any instead should be linked to in those languages? Byrial 08:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shalom![edit]

I'm trying to expand and bring the Eilat page up to date. From the history/talk pages you have been there too, so please come and see what we can do to make it even better. Thank you, Shir-El too 23:53, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category list tool[edit]

I just want to thank you for your category list tool, I've been looking for something with it's functionality for quite a while. I only have one feature request: right now, you have a feature that only lists pages that have a certain template within the content of the page (if I understand correctly). One thing that would be really useful is if you could search all talk pages of the articles listed for template usage, so that an editor could find all articles within a category that are not yet members of the respective wikiproject. Do you think you'd be able to add such a feature? Many thanks. ←Spidern → 13:21, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spidern, I have just implemented your feature request. Please test it and tell me if I understood you right and it works as you want. BTW if you want a faster response another time you can use my talk page at my home project (the Danish Wikipedia) as I do not check this wiki for new messages regulary. Regards, Byrial (talk) 00:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

X!'s tools[edit]

Just an FYI, I moved your bug report to User_talk:Cyberpower678#X.21.27s_Edit_Counter_bug_report. Cyber is maintaining "X!'s tools" so he will be able to act upon the report. Cheers, Legoktm (talk) 05:02, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Byrial (talk) 07:26, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Size of merge lists[edit]

Hi Byrial, your excellent merge lists are so successful that many of the pages they are stored on are so big that my computer struggles with them, which slows down work that can be done on them. Would it be possible to break them down into smaller pages of about 100,000 to 150,000? Right now if I right click an item, it takes several seconds to respond. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 10:05, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the discussion to d:User talk:Byrial#Size of merge lists where I have answered. Byrial (talk) 13:25, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Out with the old...[edit]

For 2014: Wishing you a Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling *NEW YEAR!* **Shir-El** *too* 19:35, 23 December 2013 (UTC) (image: NASA Mars Rover, sunset)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
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