User talk:Zigdon

Using site heavily

Sorry, I didn't see the request, and stopping at this point to wait for permission would probably waste both of our resources. I'm doing a single grab of all the DJIA data, so I can run some stats. Again, sorry, and hope this isn't too heavy a drain. -Chron 05:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Not a big deal, but it's a silly way of doing it. Yahoo has a CSV of the past 100 years of DJIA online, and google has the data back to 1970 (which is where I got the data). If you'd rather, I can just give you a tar file of the entire directory structure? Zigdon 06:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I found the Yahoo one, so I stopped. -Chron 06:12, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Nearby food link in new window?

Loving your work! One nit - could you make the nearby food link open in a new window (and say so)? Following it then hitting back takes me back to the default location, not where I was. (Firefox 2)

Well, I dislike strongly forcing new windows. You could just as easily middle click on the link to open it in a new tab, or use it's right click menu. Zigdon 03:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, sure - and have been doing since I found out what happened. 'Twas just a bit of a gotcha the first time. I too hate new windows being forced on me (hence the "say so" comment), but they can be useful sometimes... Perhaps I should have said "another version of the link that opens in a new window" - but then it's getting cluttered. Forget I spoke ;-)

KML files

Just curious.. where do your KML scripts get the information of how many active users are in each graticule? - Histumness 19:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

They parse the page for each graticule, looking for User: tags Zigdon 20:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, okay. This probably isn't a big deal, but I guess it doesn't check to make sure that there aren't any duplicates. So if there are 10 active users listed in the "Local Geohashers" section of a graticule's wiki page, but then there are 3 wikified references to those users in the "Activities" section, the script will list that graticule as having 13 active users. - Histumness 20:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Correct. Right now, it doesn't take too much care - the idea is really to gauge activity. Perhaps I will adjust the label to reduce the confusion. Zigdon 21:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Non US algo has an error

Hi. I've just tried to search fr this sunday (2008-06-01) and it has complained of no market data for 2008-06-30. Shpuld it have looked at 2008-05-30 instead? 122.110.140.231 01:46, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I can't seem to reproduce it - what OS/Browser are you using? Zigdon 01:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

A workaround fix has been uploaded. --Tim P 16:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Please direct all further discussion on this topic to Talk:Implementations#Wrong_market_data_for_June_2008_in_locations_east_of_-30.C2.B0.

Tim P 16:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Montréal

Hey man - thanks for cleaning up my duplication - I was working from the map lookup, and it gave me an "unknown" when I centred on Montréal. Thus, I blindly created the new page. It was dumb, I know, because I should have checked above, but I wonder why it gave me the Unknown. Oh well, must be a flaw in the Matrix. Cheers. AshleyMorton 23:09, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't remember offhand, but I think it ignores pages that don't actually exist - so even though Montréal was in the list, it didn't show up because the page it linked to wasn't there. No worries, only reason I noticed was that my script complains when it gets an updated list with duplicated :) Zigdon 23:32, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Negative lat/lon

I noticed that in the reference implementation, if you specify a negative latitude or longitude in the URL, it will select the graticule to the west (for negative longitude) or south (for negative latitude) of the correct graticule for the given location. For example, this link should select the graticule containing Lambert airfield in St. Louis, Missouri, but it selects the graticule to the west because the longitude is negative. My guess is that the script always uses the floor function to get the reference coordinates, but should actually be using ceiling for negative numbers. - Histumness 16:41, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I might change it - but mostly, the script doesn't expect to get fractions for lat/long - [this link] does what you'd expect. I can see that being able to give any coords might be useful though, I'll see how easy a change that will be. Zigdon 17:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Active Graticules

I presume that when it says "this page is read by automated scripts." on the Active Graticules page, that your reference implementation is the automated script in question. On Tuesday, I plan to collapse the "active" and "inactive" sections, and add a links to the Category:Active (and Inactive) near the top of the page, then links to Category:North America, etc. within the page. Do I have to do something to specifically avoid breaking things? :) Thomcat 7 June 2008

Assuming each line won't be changing as far as the format of it (lat,lon, name, etc), it should be fine. If it breaks horribly, I'll find out :) Thanks for the heads up though! Zigdon 21:18, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Calgary, Alberta is one page for four different graticules. When I put them in the All Graticules list, I wanted to make it so that the link would go to the Calgary, Alberta page, but that the graticule names on the application at irc.peeron would show up as Calgary SW, Calgary SE, etcetera. I entered the names as Calgary, Alberta|51 -114 (Calgary NW, Alberta) (in double brackets) but I see that all four graticules display on peeron as "Calgary, Alberta"? Is there a way to force the behaviour I was expecting? -Robyn 15:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I think the correct way to do this is to have each of the 4 graticules link to an individual page, which can then redirect to the combined page. The map gets the titles for each graticule from the title of the page it links to, not from the page it ends up getting to after redirections. Zigdon 19:00, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I'd look at Denver, Colorado and steal wholesale from them. - Wmcduff 19:20, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

The four pages and redirects idea is very slick. That way I won't even be "messing with" the Calgary page. Thanks. -Robyn 04:02, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

user to block

I reverted some vandalism by User:189.52.120.202 (Talk:Main_Page). I suppose if the IP needs to be blocked, you're the one to talk to?

Me or xkcd - blocked. Zigdon 19:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Mr. Zigdon. I've been in a slow spam-revert-and-recur war with 78.157.143.210, 193.46.236.234, and 87.98.129.29, over on Talk:Main_Page/. If you have the wherewithal to stop those IPs from re-sullying the site, I'd be ever-so-thankful. :) --Youhas 00:32, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Done Zigdon 07:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Next one, if you have a minute -- 92.48.114.82 . Lotsa multi-edit spam on Implementations. It would suck to have to lock the page to logged-in users only, but perhaps that's the way to go? --Tapin 18:23, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Lots more of multi-edit spam on Implementations by many different IPs. While it would suck to have this page locked, this spam has been happening multiple times an hour, and has been fairly destructive. --aperfectring 21:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you please block 195.225.178.39 and 89.149.197.252? These IPs are the main culprits behind the defacement of User:ZorMonkey. Also, 200.63.42.89 is a repeat offender of Talk:Main Page/Archive 3. Thanks.
--James 21:29, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Done. Zigdon 21:30, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you sir, would you like another? 193.37.152.116 is the most recent "contributor" to the useless Talk:Main Page/. Trash it please. --James 05:36, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Done Zigdon 17:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

If you have some time: 200.63.42.83 spamming the useless Talk:Main Page/wgh/wgh/index.php‎ page. And the Implementation page is getting spam from lots of IPs. Probably it should be editable by registered users only. Thanks. --Tom 20:55, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

This bot recreates the page (Talk:Main Page/wgh/wgh/index.php‎)... Eh. --Tom 21:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Could you ban the ips spamming http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=User:ZorMonkey&action=history ZorMonkey the last 12 hours? (don't ban 130.89.71.7, thats me at work). I informed all or most of the abusedesks of the spamming ips.--Arvid 06:05, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Specific IPs found to be 200.63.42.89, 194.8.75.245, 72.29.117.114, 78.157.143.186, 85.12.24.17, 89.149.197.252, 89.28.3.241, and 91.103.152.241

Zigdon, hurray! keep going on those IP bans, it's working already to reduce the proportion of spam to real edits in the recent changes list. -Robyn 18:43, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

And here are two other spammers: 222.251.133.43, 69.64.63.172

And 200.63.42.89 is at it again. I thought he was banned already.

Reblocked him - by default, we do 2 week blocks. If he continues, I'll do a longer ban.

Reference Implementation not updating 07/02/08

Both Google and Yahoo have the 07/02/08 opening listed as 11382.34, but the reference inplementation still says it's unavailable.--Ahecht 13:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Appears fixed now--Ahecht 15:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

"Graticule" link on Coordinate Calculator

I love the coordinate calculator, wouldn't be able to geohash without it and I really appreciate how easy it is to set the default graticule. The one thing I would change about it is the name of the Graticule link. I keep expecting it to link me to the wiki page for that graticule (I'm hashing a lot in Unnamed graticules), and instead I find myself in the edit box for a Meetup for that day and place. I would name that link Meetup instead of graticule. -Robyn 23:05, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I believe that mistaken pages like this one are being created because people are confused by the link. -Robyn 15:12, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Good call, fixed. Zigdon 18:46, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Dow Jones opening for Jul 3-6, 2008 discrepancy

Despite this being amazingly pointless information at this date... The page http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/data/2008/07/03 and for other dates through 2008/07/06 (closed market days) return 11216.00, but both the Yahoo and Google historical pages list the opening as 11297.33 for 7/3/08. This discrepancy is also reflected in the (really nicely built, I must say) map pages http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map for those dates. --Involute 10-03-08

Fixed, thanks! Zigdon 21:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)