User talk:Shubinator/DYKcheck

Tech support

Hi, did something change about the script? In Firefox when I copy it into the address bar while viewing an article and then click enter, nothing happens. In Chrome when I try it, it performs a Google search and gives me Google's search results. This used to work for me without any problems.—Biosketch (talk) 06:16, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Actual expansion number

Could we get an actual expansion figure? Right now it says is or is-not 5x, but doesn't say the actual figure. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:13, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Not working for me

Sorry, I'm an illiterate on computer stuff. I added the script to my skins file (actually I was redirected to my monobook file). I restarted my browser, which is firefox. However, when I go to a DYK nomination page, and click on DYK check in the toolbox, I am sent to the Wiki page on the tool rather than the tool itself. What am I doing wrong? Coretheapple (talk) 18:01, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Possible problem

When I ran DYKcheck for New England tree frog, it seemed to miss the fact that the revision of August 30, 2014 has 351 bytes of text which would be less than 1/5 of the size of the article as of September 7 2014 and instead compared it to the revision on September 17, 2008. --Big_iron (talk) 15:02, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Doesn't appear working

I notice that the tool says that Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly has not been expanded 5X. But I checked carefully and it has. I notice that the tool indicates difficulties with 5X expansions but I wasn't clear if this was what was being referred to. Coretheapple (talk) 21:47, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

User drafts

Am I right in thinking that the tool cannot tell if an article has been moved from a sandbox? If so, this should be mentioned in the documentation, as users seem unaware of this. Johnbod (talk) 15:58, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Prose count

Hey @Shubinator:, is the prose count done in the JS code or do you go into the BD directly for this? I'd like to sort all articles by prose count, which would require some test against the DB itself. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

It's in JS. Shubinator (talk) 05:09, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

No longer working consistently for me

On many/most articles I've tried recently, the script seems to think the readable prose is 0 bytes. I've tested in Chrome and Firefox.

• Example current DYK noms that I can't get it to work for: Emily Virgin, West London Air Terminal
• Example of an article I got it to work for: Kong Youde

I don't see any errors on the browser console. It looks like whichever articles I can't get DYKcheck to count correctly, the same thing happens with prosesizebytes.js. Any idea what might be happening?--diff (talk) 00:11, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Same here. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 16:31, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

+1. Originally I had thought it just wouldn't check if the article was classified as a stub on the talk page by accident, but it doesn't work on non-stubs either. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:57, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Not recognizing recent GA promotion

Hi, Chi Chi DeVayne was promoted to GA on 31 March, but when I run DYK check on the page, it always indicates that the article has not been promoted to GA within the past 10 days. I'm not sure what the issue is. Armadillopteryx 04:29, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Bug or rule change

According to Muboshgu at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Abul_Kalam_Qasmi there seems to be a small discrepancy between the rules and this tool. An edge case I guess. Could you check and if wrong fix? Chidgk1 (talk) 06:29, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Error

The script shows Api Error when used on a page how to fix this? Ratnahastin(t.c) 08:04, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Miscounting prosesize

Hi @Shubinator, it seems to me that the count in DYKCheck has the same bug as other prosesize scripts that I reported at Wikipedia_talk:Prosesize (and people there found a fix). Compare [1] and [2]: the first should count something like 300 bytes from the EB template, not over 1900. Not sure how common this is, but I thought you might like to know. —Kusma (talk) 22:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Change to DYK eligibility guidelines

@Shubinator hello! the DYK guidelines have recently changed to allow articles which ran as DYKs more than 5 years ago to run again; see here and here. the tool should probably be updated to reflect this, so people using it aren't confused. thanks !! sawyer * he/they * talk 04:28, 14 February 2024 (UTC)