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Your reports are great. Have you thought about advertising them some more, such as on the scripting requests page, and possibly moving them into the Wikipedia namespace? Angela. 01:48, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

• Yes, thank you for the reports. On the report page you have this: "Stubs with greatest number of incoming links (See also: Wikipedia:Most_wanted_stubs)". Most wanted stubs was comletely exhausted, and there was no sign of an update, so I copied the first 100 items on your list to it. It's not the exact letter of the page, but it follows the idea.

If you'd like to restock most wanted stubs (and you appear to have the capability to do so) I'm currently offering a reward. Even if not, I'll be busy for a long while with the great reports you have up now. --Ben Brockert 02:45, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks all for your kind comments - I do intend to advertise these reports, but have a number of problems to fix yet - for example links containing HTML character codes. They'll be done in a week or two, at which point I intend to write up instructions on how to recreate them and move the the wikipedia namespace. In the meantime you're very welcome indeed to make use of the lists and/or copy them on an ad-hoc basis to the editable wikipedia pages. - TB 05:48, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TB, these are really useful reports. Is there any chance of an extended version of User:Topbanana/Reports/This_is_one_of_the_most_linked_to_articles? It could be extremely useful (for instance) for checking whether smaller Wikipedias have the articles on the most popular topics. Thanks, Warofdreams 19:45, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I've extended the list to include the top 300 items for now. I'll have a look at listing popular articles that do not contain interwiki links for you in he next week or two. Poke me if I forget please. - TB 20:30, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't something I can fix but I asked Tim Starling about it and he suggested that, as the IDs are consecutive, it may have been caused by a race condition; just someone hitting the move button four times in a row. I don't know if it will be fixed though. Angela. 15:49, May 26, 2004 (UTC)

Okay, ta. The duplicate IDs can be seen here - is there any way this cn be fixed, perhaps by deleting and recreating the articles or similar? - TB 21:12, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Item 446: (1) Actually, it is mostly Polish, autamotacally conveted from a Polish offical document. I started "decyphering" it, but unfortunately got distracted fo a long time. Yes; item 446 is two items (messed in the original as well). Mikkalai

They should be very useful - great work! Now, what I'd really like to go with it is a list of pages on non-English Wikipedias without interwiki links. :> Warofdreams 19:13, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm only working from the en namespace for now, but should be able to convert my scripts to work on others quite easily. Give me another week or two to tidy up my scripts and move all the reports in my user pages to the wikipedia namespace and I'll see what can be done. I suspect at the very least it should be easy to pick out non-reciprocal interwiki links and quickly double out overall interwiki connectedness. - TB 21:33, 2004 Jun 1 (UTC)

Sorry if you didn't want that edited - I'll leave well alone if you want to revert it. It's a useful table, although some indication of what titles the articles in other languages which link to those in English (i.e. the yellow ones) have would be useful - I'm not sure how this could be implemented easily, though. The "interwiki is suggested" page looks good - how did you generate it? Warofdreams 18:45, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Happy to help! Like I said on the Village Pump, I actually find it quite a relaxing way to do something useful without stretching the brain too much. Look at the article, look at the suggested link, hit up Google or the IMDB or the All Music Guide or whatever for verification if it's not obviously right or wrong—then move on to the next one.. :-) —Stormie 00:09, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)

TB, these lists are great. Mis-spelled links is a nice training-wheels task for me. :) Boojum 14:30, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hello! Your reports are very valuable, good job! I have a small request: could you run a search for all articles including images with a double Image:. This worked with the old parser, but no longer works in 1.3. Thanks ✏ Sverdrup 11:18, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• See User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains an odd-looking image link. This is a very quick report, simply checking form "Image:Image:" anywhere in an articles text. If this is a common mistake I'll work up something cleverer that shows *links* starting with the offending string. - TB 23:29, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)

  Excellent quick work! I will work my way through the list. ✏ Sverdrup 11:02, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

It would be interesting with a report for pages with repeated words, for example "a test of the the report". It is a fairly common mistake. Perhaps it should initially be limited to common prepositions and other short english words (e.g. "of", "the", "at", "with", "on"). - David Remahl 13:35, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sure thing, an easy one to do. There a list showing just repeated the's, of's and and's (eek, there's another one!) at User:Topbanana/Reports/This_article_contains_a_repeated_word. Other than picked three rnadom articles to check they do contain the problem being searched for, I've not tested the accuracy or usefulness of the list, so all feedback welcome. - TB 08:50, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

Works fine! I've looked at 38 so far. 32 of them were actual faults, five were false alarms (mostly due to The The) and one has apparently been corrected since the database dump. Seems like a nice addition to the report suite! I'll work through some more soon (I think I'll write a python script for the purpose of working through them efficiently :-)). David Remahl 10:08, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Excellent news, thanks. If there are other repeated words you'd like listed, add sections to the report and I'll fill them in when I get a chance. - TB 10:15, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

Up to a point, Lord Copper. UK railway stations - W, by way of example, is listed on the nothing links page, but many pages link to it by virtue of the {{UKrailwaystations}} doodab. Umm. For what it's worth. Excellent reports, btw. Much fun for times when brain is in idle. --Tagishsimon