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As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:
Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.
Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. -- Mets501 02:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
So, are you all helping everyone all day, every day? LegoAxiom1007 05:03, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Krellis. When looking over my archive index, I noticed the bot did not fill in the link for the alternating row, regardless of the fact that I made the template flawless — or did I? Any idea what's up? — « ANIMUM » 16:58, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the archive indexer mask. I appreciate it, and also the index. -- Rbraunwa 22:09, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Somehow the count of the number of IPvandals is incorrect, as can be seen from this diff. Er rab ee 15:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, the above bot is mispelling actually in its WP:UAA reports, and also, when it reports names, sometimes its comments say "this name was reported for containing the word .35 instead of the word itself, not sure why this is but it might be what it is supposed to do? SGGH speak! 22:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
.{35}
thing you're thinking of is actually BetacommandBot - the reason I think (and not operating the bot, I can't say for sure) that happens is because he's using regular expression matches. .{35}
is a regular expression that matches any string of 35 characters. So I think the bot is just reporting the exact regular expression it matched, even though the text says it's the "literal expression". You might want to ping
Betacommand about that particular one. Thanks for the feedback! —
Krellis (
Talk) 23:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)I awarded the AIV bot a barnstar but didn't know exactly where to put it for that particular bot. You see, with some bots, you don't really put them on the talkpages but straight into the userspace, which is what I've done there. Hope that's OK. Lra drama 18:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, in this edit, it left out the duration of the block. --( Review Me) R Parlate Contribs @ (Let's Go Yankees!) 02:36, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. Will update now. Thanks! — E talk bots 21:32, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I think User:HBC NameWatcherBot is down. Secretlondon 18:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Um... I manually cleared the log. I will keep an eye out, if it continues I will contact the bot operator. LessHeard vanU 23:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
If he was blocked 2 days ago, how is he making these edits now? -- Amaraiel 14:57, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
The tubes are being neglected. Nearly every IETF protocol is not under the purview of an WP, and they plainly require some coordination - Most are unsourced messes or simple summaries of RFCs. Would you have any interest in formally joining up to help us coordinate some initial fixes? I spotted that you were a repeat editor on SMTP, so I figured I oughta ask. MrZaius talk 13:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
The namewatcher bot should warn administrators to ensure that names are actually violations before blocking them, rather than insure. DS 21:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
The bot left a note here, but it did nto say what the note was, just Note. Mr. Z-man 23:01, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
When the bot merges things, does it do so chonologically? If so, then in this edit it merged my entry with another, even though I reported it first. (Probably doesn't matter; just wondering if this is odd for it.) - Warthog Demon 21:43, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
I notice that the AIV helper bot 3 uses the category for categorizing IP addresses. There is a CFD discussion ongoing about the category. [1] Please discuss the use of the category there. Royalbroil 16:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I think the name watcher bots are down - no edits since 17th October. Secretlondon 05:45, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
The AIV helperbots seem to be down? Cheers -- Pak21 16:33, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey. I've made a feature request at User:HBC AIV helperbot/Feature requests. Can you check it out? Thanks. --- RockMFR 00:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Re: your message: I'm glad that I fixed it. =) I noticed other admins manually removing names and leaving unusual comments about it, so I took a look at what the page looked like before the bots stopped working and figured that might be the problem. Here's the that changed it. I left the editor a note about not doing that and letting the bot handle it. On a side note, if you're fixing the code, you might want to look at User talk:ST47/Archive8#HBC AIV helperbot4 bug where I stumbled on a bot bug. -- Gogo Dodo 23:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you need to check this out: diff. If you hit the revision which the bot had posted, you'll see that the bot added a rougue = symbol, causing the template to display with the username User:Example User. It's not a particularly harmful problem so I haven't switched the bot off, but it is still a problem that requires fixing. While I'm here, though, very impresive work bot coding/maintaining! Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 20:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. This is just a note to say that I have put the Archive indexer bot code on the Talk page of the Opera Project (42 archive files covering 2004-2007) - and I'm hoping, without a huge amount of confidence, I've done it properly! Please let me know if I've done anything catastrophic! Best regards. -- Kleinzach 03:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Cadderly Bonaduce, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cadderly Bonaduce. Thank you. — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 09:05, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi - what a snazy robot! I've a quick question: You deleted my report of User:Wogsland because (s)he was already the subject of a block. However, as I said in my report, I am aware of the current block - my report related to vandalism of his own talk page while the block was in force. Can you suggest where I can make this report while a block is in place?
My report was:
* {{vandal|Wogsland}} - On User talk:Wogsland; vandalism after final warning, vandalism directly after release of block. In this case the block hasn't yet been released, but his response to the block on his user talk page is "Wikipedia Admins are Assholes! ... ergo you will find I have stopped contributing." and his edit summary for this is "(C'mon and delete my account or something for this you fucktards!)" As his current block has yet to expire, it may be best to simply delete the abusive comments from his talk page and wait for the current block to run its course. But I didn't want to delete the comments myself and felt administrators should at least be aware of his latest post. . B1atv 05:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. B1atv 06:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
As the user above also suggest, I have problems with a user that is already blocked using his talk page for personal attacks against me. [2] However, your bot is removing my request to have an admin look at the situation. [3] What am I supposed to do? Arthur 19:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Krellis; someone pointed me towards User:HBC Archive Indexerbot, but I'm not sure of its application. Wikipedia:Goings on has a very specific archiving process, which is described in a hidden HTML comment on the page. There's a discussion on the talk page about the possibility of a bot, and there was a bot request, but no one has ever stepped forward to do it. Raul has several times expressed frustration about listing the recently promoted featured articles there because of the archiving issues. Is there any possibility your bot could be adapted to this purpose, and would you be interested in doing that adapting (I'm a techno-dummie)? I'm going to be helping out with promoting/archiving at WP:FAC, and I tend to agree with Raul about the archiving issues at Wikipedia:Goings on; there are already so many steps involved in promoting articles that having to stop to archive that page manually wouldn't be fun. Regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I recently merged some of my archives; however, duplicate entries are showing up. I have even deleted both the old archive pages and the archive index; however, the problem still remains. -- Rschen7754 ( T C) 23:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I just saw this; is it normal for the bot to be making edits logged-out? - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 05:34, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time and effort to sort out my archiving with these two edits: [4] [5] ! It's really much appreciated and I'm very grateful. Alice ✉ 05:15, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
I tried to implement a new template with more convenient links for blocking, but it didn't occur to me that your bot might be incompatible with it. See WT:UAA#Template. — Random832 20:09, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
This account has been flagged as a bot per [6] =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
The string 'xxxx' is prone to false positives, please take extra care insuring this name is actaully a violation before blocking. -- Steve (Stephen) talk 05:17, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi H. Minor bug report - [9] The bot seems to have made a mistake the counting numbers. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed a lot of username violations contain the word "pimp", so maybe we could add that to the bot's field? Cheers, JetLover (talk) 04:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I keep noticing this every so often. Non-latin usernames regularly get reported as longer than they are, presumably because of multibyte encoding of each character. Is this readily fixable? I have no idea what language the bot is written in or any libraries, so I can't tell whether the cause is what I guess or whether it's easy to fix. SamBC( talk) 21:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to add strings to its blacklist that include parentheses without causing the bot to malfunction? - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 06:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing my drain bamage. [10] [11] (I swear, sometimes I think I'm loosing my mind.) — DragonHawk ( talk| hist) 04:41, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi: I've been editing the blacklist and whitelist, and noticed the bot has stopped making edits: did I break it, or have you temporarily stopped running it? -- The Anome ( talk) 01:44, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
There's an IP address that just started doing the helperbot's job, so I think it might have accidentally gotten logged out. Could you please log in your bot so no one gets all worked up about unauthorized IP bots and stuff? Pyrospirit ( talk · contribs) 19:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
[2008-01-20 19:24:56 UTC] Login check failed, logging back in!
It seems on January 19, HBC Archive Indexerbot stopped being able to write archives. Having never used this bot before, I can't venture a guess as to what went wrong, but maybe you can from the first error-filled log. —dgies t c 22:52, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Looks like the bot has fell asleep... Maybe he needs a cup of coffee or something. -- Jayron32. talk. contribs 17:49, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I feel really bad about editing that page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.244.4.62 ( talk) 15:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I sent you an email, can I please have the files (other than the source) to run an AIV helperbot. Thanks. Thedjatclubrock :) ( T/ C) 04:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC).
I've sent you one (: . No rush. Mønobi 23:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
On one occasion an account with an inappropriate username had been blocked for a definite period of time (not indefinitely). I tried to report it to WP:UAA for username violation requesting that it be blocked indefinitely, but as soon as I added its entry to the page, an AIV helperbot removed it stating that it had already been blocked even though it was not blocked indefinitely. Is there any workaround to this problem?-- Urban Rose 18:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
HBC AIV helperbot 8 was fooled by text in the comment area. As you see, the end comment was removed and the whole page went blank. I'll drop this on a couple other talk pages as well. Thanks. — Wknight94 ( talk) 20:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
You have mail. — E talk 23:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Apologies! So that's what it was - I thought the bots were putting their feet up for the day. Guess I'll wait for it to be removed automatically next time. Thank again! :) Regards, Rudget . 14:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
For helping fix the problem over at UAA - go on, you deserve it! :) Rudget . 14:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC) |
Didn't see the instructions and reset them, even though they were already there. ~ Mønobi 18:56, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey Krellis. Being a AIV helperbot operator, is it possible for me to get periodic updates from you if any such source is updated? Thanks, — E talk 08:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I left a note to admins, and you deleted it. http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&diff=next&oldid=194307491 Why did you do that? They never had a chance to see my message. -- Edibility ( talk) 01:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey Krellis - hope you're well. I just noticed this edit by one of the helperbots which seems to have removed a report of someone who hadn't been blocked while it was tagging another report. I guess this was it failing to notice the edit conflict or something. Given it seems to be a fairly rare occurrence I doubt it's overly important because someone just reported that person again anyway. Thought you might want to have a look though. Best regards. Will (aka Wimt) 18:39, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at this edit; the edit summary is "1 IP & 1 user left. rm 78.100.2.3 (blocked 7 days by Edgar181 (AO ACB)). 1 comment(s) removed.)", but the bot also removed a posting of mine, reporting a different IP address. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:27, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Krellis,
I'm trying to get my bot back online after my period of inactivity. Could you possibly contact me with the modified mediawiki.pm file? Please email me at my wikipedia email address, or respond on my talk. Thanks, alphachimp 03:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Bot Builder Award | ||
For creating several awesome bots to monitor questionable usernames and to help out on AIV, Krellis is hereby awarded The Bot Builder Award. Congratulations. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC) |
In the username whitelist, the word "sparse" seems redundant to the word "parse", both present because they contain the word "arse". Given the presence of "parse", does the word "sparse" add anything? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
My next request (maybe give it a day or so in use for user reports to see what people think of the template) is for the Namewatcherbot to post using the new template. — Random832 14:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that HBC NameWatcherBot is down - hasn't edited since 06:58, 21 March 2008. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
I think that we should add a regex for words ending with the string "bot". Such accounts, if they aren't actually bot accounts, should be blocked as misleading. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that HBC NameWatcherBot is down - it's seven hours since the last report, and it seems to have missed Hangdatbastard. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to make the bot actually count characters UTF-8-ishly? A number of non-latin usernames get reported that aren't over the "limit", but because (I assume) each glyph is at least 2 bytes, they get matched as being over.
I understand that perl regexen will treat characters UTF-8-ishly, if Perl thinks is told to use UTF-8, and I also believe that all usernames are unicode and presumably presented as UTF-8 to the bot; I assume this both because UTF-8 is the usual way of doing such things, and because this doesn't happen with latin-alphabet names, so presumably it's not UTF-16 or higher. SamBC( talk) 14:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
My talk page was vandalized by a user called "ForbiddenSockpuppet 2". After a quick check, I discovered that the account had made its first edit 9 minutes earlier (the sockpuppet regex has a WAIT_TILL_EDIT flag), yet HBC NameWatcherBot didn't catch it, nor had the bot made any edits for nearly 5 hours. Is the bot down again? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
For some reason it only shows the index for my Archive # 12. I might have made a mistake - can you help out? The page is available here, and my archives are hard to miss on my talk. Thanks! - Milk's favorite Cookie 19:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Either Gb has super fast reflexes or the bot is malfunctioning: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&diff=207198961&oldid=207198882 (I've seen many edit summaries like these lately). ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:31, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I think this edit fixed it (someone had manually changed it). -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
For some reason it won't show archives 1-16. Milk’s Favorite Cookie (Talk) 16:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Think it could be useful for the bot to change to {{ user-uaa}}. → Aza Toth 23:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this edit summary. I don't see a block for that IP. Thanks. - Mdsummermsw ( talk) 17:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Krellis. I've got a question that you may or may not be able to answer: Talk:Adolf Hitler uses the User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn template to manage the archives, and all of a sudden it's gone haywire, listing a node-count limit exceeded. Do you have any idea what's causing the template to fail? Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. Regards, Parsecboy ( talk) 21:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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Got message saying my edit was removed, I've never edited anything on wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.190.29 ( talk) 12:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Krellis. Do you know whether any support for subheadings will be added to the Indexerbot. It has been on the to-do list for a while, but I don't know if anything has been done about it. ~~ [Jam] [talk] 16:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I had posted this to the bot's talk page, but no response yet, so just pinging you here. I recently had the AIDS talk sub-pages moved into sequential archives ( Talk:AIDS/NPOV dispute → Talk:AIDS/Archive 6, etc). It looked to have been properly done, but now the indexer bot is creating duplicate entries for all pages that were part of the move (6 and up, current archive). Is there something that needs to be adjusted that is causing the misfire? - Optigan13 ( talk) 06:10, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Seem that User:HBC AIV helperbot3 made it's last edit 00:13, 5 June 2008 (hist) (diff) m Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (1 IP & 2 users left. rm 24.137.126.230 (blocked 1 day by Jeepday (AO ACB)).) then stopped cleaning the page. Jeepday ( talk) 00:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:
Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.
Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. -- Mets501 02:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
So, are you all helping everyone all day, every day? LegoAxiom1007 05:03, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Krellis. When looking over my archive index, I noticed the bot did not fill in the link for the alternating row, regardless of the fact that I made the template flawless — or did I? Any idea what's up? — « ANIMUM » 16:58, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the archive indexer mask. I appreciate it, and also the index. -- Rbraunwa 22:09, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Somehow the count of the number of IPvandals is incorrect, as can be seen from this diff. Er rab ee 15:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, the above bot is mispelling actually in its WP:UAA reports, and also, when it reports names, sometimes its comments say "this name was reported for containing the word .35 instead of the word itself, not sure why this is but it might be what it is supposed to do? SGGH speak! 22:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
.{35}
thing you're thinking of is actually BetacommandBot - the reason I think (and not operating the bot, I can't say for sure) that happens is because he's using regular expression matches. .{35}
is a regular expression that matches any string of 35 characters. So I think the bot is just reporting the exact regular expression it matched, even though the text says it's the "literal expression". You might want to ping
Betacommand about that particular one. Thanks for the feedback! —
Krellis (
Talk) 23:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)I awarded the AIV bot a barnstar but didn't know exactly where to put it for that particular bot. You see, with some bots, you don't really put them on the talkpages but straight into the userspace, which is what I've done there. Hope that's OK. Lra drama 18:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, in this edit, it left out the duration of the block. --( Review Me) R Parlate Contribs @ (Let's Go Yankees!) 02:36, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. Will update now. Thanks! — E talk bots 21:32, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I think User:HBC NameWatcherBot is down. Secretlondon 18:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Um... I manually cleared the log. I will keep an eye out, if it continues I will contact the bot operator. LessHeard vanU 23:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
If he was blocked 2 days ago, how is he making these edits now? -- Amaraiel 14:57, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
The tubes are being neglected. Nearly every IETF protocol is not under the purview of an WP, and they plainly require some coordination - Most are unsourced messes or simple summaries of RFCs. Would you have any interest in formally joining up to help us coordinate some initial fixes? I spotted that you were a repeat editor on SMTP, so I figured I oughta ask. MrZaius talk 13:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
The namewatcher bot should warn administrators to ensure that names are actually violations before blocking them, rather than insure. DS 21:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
The bot left a note here, but it did nto say what the note was, just Note. Mr. Z-man 23:01, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
When the bot merges things, does it do so chonologically? If so, then in this edit it merged my entry with another, even though I reported it first. (Probably doesn't matter; just wondering if this is odd for it.) - Warthog Demon 21:43, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
I notice that the AIV helper bot 3 uses the category for categorizing IP addresses. There is a CFD discussion ongoing about the category. [1] Please discuss the use of the category there. Royalbroil 16:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I think the name watcher bots are down - no edits since 17th October. Secretlondon 05:45, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
The AIV helperbots seem to be down? Cheers -- Pak21 16:33, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey. I've made a feature request at User:HBC AIV helperbot/Feature requests. Can you check it out? Thanks. --- RockMFR 00:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Re: your message: I'm glad that I fixed it. =) I noticed other admins manually removing names and leaving unusual comments about it, so I took a look at what the page looked like before the bots stopped working and figured that might be the problem. Here's the that changed it. I left the editor a note about not doing that and letting the bot handle it. On a side note, if you're fixing the code, you might want to look at User talk:ST47/Archive8#HBC AIV helperbot4 bug where I stumbled on a bot bug. -- Gogo Dodo 23:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you need to check this out: diff. If you hit the revision which the bot had posted, you'll see that the bot added a rougue = symbol, causing the template to display with the username User:Example User. It's not a particularly harmful problem so I haven't switched the bot off, but it is still a problem that requires fixing. While I'm here, though, very impresive work bot coding/maintaining! Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 20:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. This is just a note to say that I have put the Archive indexer bot code on the Talk page of the Opera Project (42 archive files covering 2004-2007) - and I'm hoping, without a huge amount of confidence, I've done it properly! Please let me know if I've done anything catastrophic! Best regards. -- Kleinzach 03:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Cadderly Bonaduce, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cadderly Bonaduce. Thank you. — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 09:05, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi - what a snazy robot! I've a quick question: You deleted my report of User:Wogsland because (s)he was already the subject of a block. However, as I said in my report, I am aware of the current block - my report related to vandalism of his own talk page while the block was in force. Can you suggest where I can make this report while a block is in place?
My report was:
* {{vandal|Wogsland}} - On User talk:Wogsland; vandalism after final warning, vandalism directly after release of block. In this case the block hasn't yet been released, but his response to the block on his user talk page is "Wikipedia Admins are Assholes! ... ergo you will find I have stopped contributing." and his edit summary for this is "(C'mon and delete my account or something for this you fucktards!)" As his current block has yet to expire, it may be best to simply delete the abusive comments from his talk page and wait for the current block to run its course. But I didn't want to delete the comments myself and felt administrators should at least be aware of his latest post. . B1atv 05:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. B1atv 06:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
As the user above also suggest, I have problems with a user that is already blocked using his talk page for personal attacks against me. [2] However, your bot is removing my request to have an admin look at the situation. [3] What am I supposed to do? Arthur 19:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Krellis; someone pointed me towards User:HBC Archive Indexerbot, but I'm not sure of its application. Wikipedia:Goings on has a very specific archiving process, which is described in a hidden HTML comment on the page. There's a discussion on the talk page about the possibility of a bot, and there was a bot request, but no one has ever stepped forward to do it. Raul has several times expressed frustration about listing the recently promoted featured articles there because of the archiving issues. Is there any possibility your bot could be adapted to this purpose, and would you be interested in doing that adapting (I'm a techno-dummie)? I'm going to be helping out with promoting/archiving at WP:FAC, and I tend to agree with Raul about the archiving issues at Wikipedia:Goings on; there are already so many steps involved in promoting articles that having to stop to archive that page manually wouldn't be fun. Regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I recently merged some of my archives; however, duplicate entries are showing up. I have even deleted both the old archive pages and the archive index; however, the problem still remains. -- Rschen7754 ( T C) 23:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I just saw this; is it normal for the bot to be making edits logged-out? - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 05:34, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time and effort to sort out my archiving with these two edits: [4] [5] ! It's really much appreciated and I'm very grateful. Alice ✉ 05:15, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
I tried to implement a new template with more convenient links for blocking, but it didn't occur to me that your bot might be incompatible with it. See WT:UAA#Template. — Random832 20:09, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
This account has been flagged as a bot per [6] =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
The string 'xxxx' is prone to false positives, please take extra care insuring this name is actaully a violation before blocking. -- Steve (Stephen) talk 05:17, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi H. Minor bug report - [9] The bot seems to have made a mistake the counting numbers. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed a lot of username violations contain the word "pimp", so maybe we could add that to the bot's field? Cheers, JetLover (talk) 04:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I keep noticing this every so often. Non-latin usernames regularly get reported as longer than they are, presumably because of multibyte encoding of each character. Is this readily fixable? I have no idea what language the bot is written in or any libraries, so I can't tell whether the cause is what I guess or whether it's easy to fix. SamBC( talk) 21:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to add strings to its blacklist that include parentheses without causing the bot to malfunction? - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 06:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing my drain bamage. [10] [11] (I swear, sometimes I think I'm loosing my mind.) — DragonHawk ( talk| hist) 04:41, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi: I've been editing the blacklist and whitelist, and noticed the bot has stopped making edits: did I break it, or have you temporarily stopped running it? -- The Anome ( talk) 01:44, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
There's an IP address that just started doing the helperbot's job, so I think it might have accidentally gotten logged out. Could you please log in your bot so no one gets all worked up about unauthorized IP bots and stuff? Pyrospirit ( talk · contribs) 19:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
[2008-01-20 19:24:56 UTC] Login check failed, logging back in!
It seems on January 19, HBC Archive Indexerbot stopped being able to write archives. Having never used this bot before, I can't venture a guess as to what went wrong, but maybe you can from the first error-filled log. —dgies t c 22:52, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Looks like the bot has fell asleep... Maybe he needs a cup of coffee or something. -- Jayron32. talk. contribs 17:49, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I feel really bad about editing that page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.244.4.62 ( talk) 15:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I sent you an email, can I please have the files (other than the source) to run an AIV helperbot. Thanks. Thedjatclubrock :) ( T/ C) 04:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC).
I've sent you one (: . No rush. Mønobi 23:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
On one occasion an account with an inappropriate username had been blocked for a definite period of time (not indefinitely). I tried to report it to WP:UAA for username violation requesting that it be blocked indefinitely, but as soon as I added its entry to the page, an AIV helperbot removed it stating that it had already been blocked even though it was not blocked indefinitely. Is there any workaround to this problem?-- Urban Rose 18:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
HBC AIV helperbot 8 was fooled by text in the comment area. As you see, the end comment was removed and the whole page went blank. I'll drop this on a couple other talk pages as well. Thanks. — Wknight94 ( talk) 20:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
You have mail. — E talk 23:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Apologies! So that's what it was - I thought the bots were putting their feet up for the day. Guess I'll wait for it to be removed automatically next time. Thank again! :) Regards, Rudget . 14:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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For helping fix the problem over at UAA - go on, you deserve it! :) Rudget . 14:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC) |
Didn't see the instructions and reset them, even though they were already there. ~ Mønobi 18:56, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey Krellis. Being a AIV helperbot operator, is it possible for me to get periodic updates from you if any such source is updated? Thanks, — E talk 08:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I left a note to admins, and you deleted it. http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&diff=next&oldid=194307491 Why did you do that? They never had a chance to see my message. -- Edibility ( talk) 01:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey Krellis - hope you're well. I just noticed this edit by one of the helperbots which seems to have removed a report of someone who hadn't been blocked while it was tagging another report. I guess this was it failing to notice the edit conflict or something. Given it seems to be a fairly rare occurrence I doubt it's overly important because someone just reported that person again anyway. Thought you might want to have a look though. Best regards. Will (aka Wimt) 18:39, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at this edit; the edit summary is "1 IP & 1 user left. rm 78.100.2.3 (blocked 7 days by Edgar181 (AO ACB)). 1 comment(s) removed.)", but the bot also removed a posting of mine, reporting a different IP address. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:27, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Krellis,
I'm trying to get my bot back online after my period of inactivity. Could you possibly contact me with the modified mediawiki.pm file? Please email me at my wikipedia email address, or respond on my talk. Thanks, alphachimp 03:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
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For creating several awesome bots to monitor questionable usernames and to help out on AIV, Krellis is hereby awarded The Bot Builder Award. Congratulations. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC) |
In the username whitelist, the word "sparse" seems redundant to the word "parse", both present because they contain the word "arse". Given the presence of "parse", does the word "sparse" add anything? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
My next request (maybe give it a day or so in use for user reports to see what people think of the template) is for the Namewatcherbot to post using the new template. — Random832 14:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that HBC NameWatcherBot is down - hasn't edited since 06:58, 21 March 2008. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
I think that we should add a regex for words ending with the string "bot". Such accounts, if they aren't actually bot accounts, should be blocked as misleading. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that HBC NameWatcherBot is down - it's seven hours since the last report, and it seems to have missed Hangdatbastard. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to make the bot actually count characters UTF-8-ishly? A number of non-latin usernames get reported that aren't over the "limit", but because (I assume) each glyph is at least 2 bytes, they get matched as being over.
I understand that perl regexen will treat characters UTF-8-ishly, if Perl thinks is told to use UTF-8, and I also believe that all usernames are unicode and presumably presented as UTF-8 to the bot; I assume this both because UTF-8 is the usual way of doing such things, and because this doesn't happen with latin-alphabet names, so presumably it's not UTF-16 or higher. SamBC( talk) 14:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
My talk page was vandalized by a user called "ForbiddenSockpuppet 2". After a quick check, I discovered that the account had made its first edit 9 minutes earlier (the sockpuppet regex has a WAIT_TILL_EDIT flag), yet HBC NameWatcherBot didn't catch it, nor had the bot made any edits for nearly 5 hours. Is the bot down again? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
For some reason it only shows the index for my Archive # 12. I might have made a mistake - can you help out? The page is available here, and my archives are hard to miss on my talk. Thanks! - Milk's favorite Cookie 19:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Either Gb has super fast reflexes or the bot is malfunctioning: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&diff=207198961&oldid=207198882 (I've seen many edit summaries like these lately). ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:31, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I think this edit fixed it (someone had manually changed it). -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
For some reason it won't show archives 1-16. Milk’s Favorite Cookie (Talk) 16:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Think it could be useful for the bot to change to {{ user-uaa}}. → Aza Toth 23:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this edit summary. I don't see a block for that IP. Thanks. - Mdsummermsw ( talk) 17:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Krellis. I've got a question that you may or may not be able to answer: Talk:Adolf Hitler uses the User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn template to manage the archives, and all of a sudden it's gone haywire, listing a node-count limit exceeded. Do you have any idea what's causing the template to fail? Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. Regards, Parsecboy ( talk) 21:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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Got message saying my edit was removed, I've never edited anything on wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.190.29 ( talk) 12:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Krellis. Do you know whether any support for subheadings will be added to the Indexerbot. It has been on the to-do list for a while, but I don't know if anything has been done about it. ~~ [Jam] [talk] 16:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I had posted this to the bot's talk page, but no response yet, so just pinging you here. I recently had the AIDS talk sub-pages moved into sequential archives ( Talk:AIDS/NPOV dispute → Talk:AIDS/Archive 6, etc). It looked to have been properly done, but now the indexer bot is creating duplicate entries for all pages that were part of the move (6 and up, current archive). Is there something that needs to be adjusted that is causing the misfire? - Optigan13 ( talk) 06:10, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Seem that User:HBC AIV helperbot3 made it's last edit 00:13, 5 June 2008 (hist) (diff) m Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (1 IP & 2 users left. rm 24.137.126.230 (blocked 1 day by Jeepday (AO ACB)).) then stopped cleaning the page. Jeepday ( talk) 00:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)