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September 1, 2001
E2 Options: Chatterbox Topic, made some changes to Magical Writeup Reparenter, per Gritchka's request.
September 2, 2001
Created firmlink (the opcode), and edited linktrim, to be able to remove any type of link. Added firmlinks and addfirmlink the htmlcodes. It's all described in E2 Editing: Firmlinks. (the original document has been deleted and moved to a restricted one).
September 3, 2001
Editor log: September 3, 2001. It's gonna explain some of what is going on in a reasonable place. Cleaned up a lot of problems with firmlinks. Released to the CE's.
Created the Altar of Sacrifice to clean up nodes in masse. Works gorgeously. We can now kill faster than any person can asamoth. Mass deletions by hand are a thing of the past. Fixed numerous theme troubles with firmlinks.
September 4-6
Nothing of interest. Some wording changes, messed with some links
September 9, 2001
Added the ability for gods to clean out the bots inboxes, to be able to manage and monitor them better.
September 11, 2001
Created a new nodelet: Read This. It's a time-update nodelet, so it's mostly free for page loads. Currently it's only open to CEs and Gods for testing and comments. Tedd Terry is working on a preliminary icon. It lists the latest C! nodes, latest news items, and latest editor cools. It helps balance the non-seen aspect of a lot ed-cools and news items. Gods and CE's can add this to their nodelets by going to add Jay's nodelet. You can remove it in your user settings
September 12, 2001
Created Blind Voting Booth. It's a new suggested level power for level 7 or 8. CE's and Gods currently have access to it for testing purposes.
September 14, 2001
Made Magical Writeup Reparenter throw a really simple Klaproth message when a writeup is moved.
September 15, 2001
Created Everything's Best Killers. It still needs work for formatting and such
Created the SyncTitles opcode. This allows a god to sync up all the titles of writeups after renaming an E2node, so that you don't have to go through and resubmit all of the nodes afterwards. It does nothing but tidy up non-conforming nodes. Simply rename a node in the normal fashion, view it, and click the Sync Titles link in your epicenter. This will align the stars and the heavens just right. The first couple of times you try it please confirm that it works for you. Thanks
September 17, 2001
Changed the patch mechanism so that (patch) is added to the end of all of the patches so that they won't mess up normal supdoc operation. We needed that. Also created types for SQLjob (gods only) so that we can do long term jobs during the galaxy. Thanks
Moved the setting for Online-Only messages to User Settings from User settings 2, since everyone and their aunt is on a usergroup now.
Okay, my name is JayBonci and I am the second worst. I jacked up the word galaxy to last five minutes longer. This is to accomodate various database scrubbing jobs in SQL Center. I created a new nodetype called sqljob and a pile of new dbtables to handle these records. It will be expanded to handle queries outside of (node) soon, but for now, that's what it's taking care of. It will get these items so that we can set things up to take a look at them (plus the standard SQLjob displays). Jobs can be run and un-run by editing them. The results are what the majority of you are interested in. I'd suggest talking to me before toggling certain nightly jobs on or off.
In the future we'll have a considerable amount of these jobs to run, and they should just keep a watchful eye every night on the integrity of our site. Now that I know how to do this, we can also run scripts to do other back cleanup as the need dictates. Database Scout will be phased out, and these lag-free solutions will be used more. The interface will be worked on before then however. Tonight are some tests and the like.
September 18, 2001
Fixed the bug where if you firmlinked nothing to a node youd somehow end up with Create a New User. While funny, it was a bug, and is now gone.
September 19, 2001 - Inital perl bot results
Out of the 9 available scripts:
- Bolded Webster definitions - (5009) - This number was considerably higher than I thought it ever would be. Since this query is also very expensive, I am going to shut it off, and run it only once in a while. Today I will be compiling a list for CEs to use in editing and fixing these writeups
- Linkless writeups - (4143) - This number is also extremely dismaying as it shows that almost 1 % of all the writeups in play don't have any links. This list will have to be slowly tackled.
- Votable webster defs - (809) - This is about what we thought it would be at. Not an untackable number, but it would still take a few eds a couple of days to handle this all.
- Writeups with broken parents - (fail) This script failed as we have some whack damage in some of our records. It worked on the test runs however, do I don't really know what is wrong. This will have to be tackled somehow. It'll be tough to write generic scripts for this. It is off until I can track down the errors
- Writeups by deleted users - (was: 11, now: 0). This script yielded a small number of results, each of which needed to be deleted. I took care of all of those, and thus we can certify that our database is free from writeups by users who are no more.
- Writeups under 20 characters - (was: 471, now: 200). This is about where I thought it would be. Our largest stumbling blocks are the Phobias (by Rock Lobster and tregoweth). They are usually three word writeups that need to be replaced. I'll ship them off to my pet project to have that take care of eventually. I took about 200 and their surrounding writeups out, putting in firmlinks where need be
- Writeups with non-standard types - (fail) So I was an idiot, and even after a debugging run last night, still left the limiter on this query, so it only returned one result. It will run again tonight, and we'll have better numbers on it.
- Nodes without softlinks -(71866) This is the worst number we have so far. I don't have a way of confirming it, but I have a sinking suspicion that it is correct, as it worked in the test runs 100%. Keep in mind, this is about 18% of the entire E2node base. These are 71866 nodes that simply do not have any firmlinks to anything. It's a tough, tough job that we have ahead of us on this one. Most of these writeups may need to go, seeing as no editor has probably been there before. This may also include some of other categories (such as no links, etc).
- Writeups under -6 - (977) - While this is about what we thought it was, this is a pile to monitor, rather than mass destroy. We need to use some caution with these writeups, as some of these low, low, repped gems actually have some value
All in all, the robot stats are useful, but rather depressing. I'll be shutting off some of the expensive queries tonight while I clear out some of the ones I want to be more regular. I'd be happy to answer any questions about it.
September 20, 2001
More and better robot news! The bots now detect writeups with broken parents.. There were 118 of them, and now they are all fixed. They all got linked to The Node Bin, and wiped clean. This script will be run every few days to detect database damage. The invalid type robot had issues, but now works fine (after some manual db grooming. It found 8 such writeups, and those are all fixed (as appropriate. Some were just whacked dupes.
New robot today that will detect nodeshells useful for mass audit. This will tally in the thousands if not higher, but the information is still useful.
September 23, 2001
Been editing a lot lately, so all I did today was add Everything's Best Killers, and Voting Pit Stop to the editors bar. I hope they use them well.
September 24, 2001
Added SQLJobs for writeups without HTML formatting, and for Softlinkless writeups (that weeds out Webby stuff). Because of this, some new numbers are in:
- No HTML Formatting: (101538). Yikes. This number is about 25% of the active content here. That's kind of a bad thing. We don't want that sort amount of writeups without even so much as a >br< tag. Does this require fixing... You tell me.
- Nodes without softlinks (better): (71328) I don't know if this number is right, because that would mean that only 500 of those nodeshells were created by Webster. So we'll have to look at this more carefully
We'll need to add a little more in the way of display for e2nodes, so that will go in place today.
September 24, 2001
Fixed a bug in Message Inbox where usernames like destrius'
where breaking our JScript.
September 25, 2001
Changed showchatter to remove messages like "EDB sneaks up behind you", for a while.
September 30, 2001
Final results:
mnfpstats.pl
- real 4m9.318s
- user 0m36.170s
- sys 0m6.610s
time fixwebby.pl
- real 125m16.031s
- user 48m16.460s
- sys 26m5.700s
Of the 97K or so webby defs, only ~500 have errors remaining, many of which are not even display errors.
We fixed:
- Type problems
- Bold problems
- Hand; problems
- Title issues
The final offenders are in
Definitions that Need Work
The mnfp scrips pulled in a ton of data that will take a about a week for me and the stats team to pull together. Thanks everyone.