User talk:A. B./February 2009

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Stats ..

Heh, you seem to be interested in this .. You know that I am running 4 linkwatchers, who watch in total 734 wikis for added links , email addresses and attempt to catch telephone numbers (resp. below, en.wikipedia; all non-wikipedia-wikis (wiktionary, wikibooks, wikinews, wikiquote etc.); about ten big wikis without en.wikipedia, and 'the rest of the wikipedias'). The catch on telephone numbers quite imperfect, and it does not happen a lot anyway, needs to be acted on from IRC, can't 'publish' that data). This is not going to be readable, but here they are:

• <Beetstra> !info
• <EnLinkWatcher2> LW: 1 day, 00:47:39 hours active, RC: last 0 sec. ago. Lag: approx. ND sec. Parser Q1: 0 Q2: 0 (0 overflows); Warner: 0; Analyser Q1: 2 Q2: 0; Total: 228301 edits (153 PM); Watched: 180467 (79.04%; 121 PM); Users: 45713 WL (25.33%; 30 PM) - 49151 IP (33 PM; 27.23%); Links: 28868 total (0.12 per edit; 1.19 per EL add edit; 19 PM); 4806 WL (16.64%; 3 PM); 27 RL (0.09%; 0 PM); 1321 BL (4.57%; 0 PM); 0 QL (0%; 0 PM); 145 AL (0.5%; 0 PM)
• <WiktLW2> LW: 1 day, 00:47:02 hours active, RC: last 3 sec. ago. Lag: approx. ND sec. Parser Q1: 0 Q2: 0 (0 overflows); Warner: 0; Analyser Q1: 0 Q2: 0; Total: 44236 edits (29 PM); Watched: 37678 (85.17%; 25 PM); Users: 1976 WL (5.24%; 1 PM) - 1604 IP (1 PM; 4.25%); Links: 797 total (0.01 per edit; 0.99 per EL add edit; 0 PM); 102 WL (12.79%; 0 PM); 2 RL (0.25%; 0 PM); 27 BL (3.38%; 0 PM); 0 QL (0%; 0 PM); 41 AL (5.14%; 0 PM)
• <BigWikiLW2> LW: 1 day, 00:47:27 hours active, RC: last 1 sec. ago. Lag: approx. ND sec. Parser Q1: 15 Q2: 3 (0 overflows); Warner: 0; Analyser Q1: 0 Q2: 0; Total: 195445 edits (131 PM); Watched: 163495 (83.65%; 109 PM); Users: 13044 WL (7.97%; 8 PM) - 33690 IP (22 PM; 20.6%); Links: 12531 total (0.06 per edit; 0.84 per EL add edit; 8 PM); 898 WL (7.16%; 0 PM); 11 RL (0.08%; 0 PM); 394 BL (3.14%; 0 PM); 0 QL (0%; 0 PM); 104 AL (0.82%; 0 PM)
• <IntLinkWatcher2> LW: 1 day, 00:47:11 hours active, RC: last 1 sec. ago. Lag: approx. ND sec. Parser Q1: 0 Q2: 0 (0 overflows); Warner: 0; Analyser Q1: 0 Q2: 0; Total: 132485 edits (89 PM); Watched: 113966 (86.02%; 76 PM); Users: 12681 WL (11.12%; 8 PM) - 15329 IP (10 PM; 13.45%); Links: 8367 total (0.06 per edit; 0.8 per EL add edit; 5 PM); 504 WL (6.02%; 0 PM); 5 RL (0.05%; 0 PM); 176 BL (2.1%; 0 PM); 0 QL (0%; 0 PM); 60 AL (0.71%; 0 PM)

They are all awake for about a day after a restart (and a db-crash :-( ), having watched in total 228301 + 44236 + 132485 + 195445 edits (153 + 29 + 89 + 131 per minute), in the watched spaces ('content spaces': main, template, user and category) those are 180467 + 37678 + 113966 + 163495 (121 + 25 + 76 + 109 per minute), roughly 82% of the total of edits is in these 4 namespaces. Links: 28868 total (0.12 per edit; 1.19 per EL add edit; 19 PM) - 797 total (0.01 per edit; 0.99 per EL add edit; 0 PM) - 8367 (0.06 per edit; 0.8 per EL add edit; 5 PM) - 12531 total (0.06 per edit; 0.84 per EL add edit; 8 PM), that is 19 + 0 + 3 + 5 = 32 added external links per minute. And indeed, that is certainly not all to the best of sources. In fact, about 25% of the edits on en is by whitelisted editors, 27% by IPs (there are hardly any IPs whitelisted for obvious reasons), only 17% of the links are whitelisted, almost 5% is on XLinkBot's revertlist .. (0.5% is telephone numbers and email addresses..). The other wikis have less whitelisted users, as I have not imported e.g. their admin lists. Scary eh? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your help and sleuthing here. I've modified the custom block template I use to drop the "temp user" tag; I was not even aware it was still in there. :) Kuru ^talk 00:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm happy to help. Also:

1. I found some related domains which should also be blacklisted; I've listed them at User talk:Careerday1.
2. I answered your question about redirects. (Yes, they get blacklisted at meta).

I was starting to look at this stuff and then discovered you'd already been working on it. Great job tracking this stuff down. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 01:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Help with spam link

Hello A.B. I noticed you warned User:41.196.249.18 about adding a spam link. The link has turned up on the Academy Awards page ([1]) and on the WP:DYK archives ([2]). Spam Blacklisting isn't my area of expertise, so I was hoping you could take appropriate action required to stop this page getting linked. • \ / (⁂) 07:52, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry to be slow in responding -- I've been away. I'll look into this in a few hours. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 05:09, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Now blacklisted. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:28, 23 February 2009 (UTC)