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Shubinator, DYKUpdateBot has recently had some trouble with completing its updates. Today's 12:00 update that moved Queue 3 to the main page stopped after posting the notifications to the editors (the DYKmakes and DYKnoms) and before adding the credit to the image page. The same thing happened with Queue 1 36 hours earlier (we've just gone from updates every 24 hours to updates every 12 hours).
The problem with the update dying on the image step is that the key final steps—clearing the queue and updating "next" to the next queue—don't get done. And there isn't always an admin around, which could mean a queue getting promoted again if a clean-up isn't done.
Is there a way of making the image credit step more bulletproof—that is, if something goes wrong, can it just proceed without doing the credit? And if that's going to continue to be problematic—these are hardly the only times the image credit step has failed and caused this problem—might it make sense to swap the order of steps so the image credit is done last, after emptying the queue and updating to the next one? (You'd need to keep the image data around after the queue holding it was gone.) Sometimes it does manage to fail over: on January 8, while the image credit isn't logged, after a four minute gap the bot was able to finish up. January 9, as noted above (Queue 1), there was no recovery and the bot didn't do those all-important final steps.
Thanks for anything you can do. Please let me know what you think is feasible. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:32, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, the bot didn't run at 22:07 30 January 2017 like it should have; it's now 00:13 31 January 2017 and no sign of the bot doing as it ought. Can you please restart it as soon as you see this? Many thanks. PS: I'll let you know if I hear more from Wugapodes on progress. In the meantime, we've finally got all of the hooks visible again on the Nominations page, though I have no idea how long that will last. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Shubinator and BlueMoonset: When the bot swapped out the sets at 00:00, 11 February 2017, it did nothing else, it did not place the DYK templates on the individual pages. Even though it also missed the update at 12:00 today, there was no message on WT:DYK that the update was late. I manually did the update and reset the clock according to the instructions on its page. I also did a manual update of Wikipedia:Recent additions. — Maile ( talk) 12:50, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, it might be nice to have this list run again now, while the nominations are comparatively recent. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:48, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, the bot last ran at 16:25 today. Since then, there have been a few new hooks added, none promoted that I'm aware of, plus I created a new date (March 6) for a badly misplaced hook at 23:13 which hasn't yet resulted in a DYKHousekeepingBot update, although that was 35 minutes ago. I'm forced to conclude that the bot is not currently running, and needs manual intervention on your part. Thanks as always for your help and your bots. BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:49, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, in case you didn't see the ping from the WT:DYK page, DYKUpdateBot didn't run when it was supposed to about three and a half hours ago (its last edit was at 00:02 on 24 March 2017 (UTC), and a partial manual update was done about 50 minutes later that failed to include updating the time of the next update, but did include incrementing the next queue to be promoted. Please do not restart the bot until first making sure that Template:Did you know/Next update/Time has been updated from 2017-03-24T00:00:00Z to 2017-03-25T00:00:00Z ("24" needs to have been changed to "25"); otherwise, the bot will immediately overwrite the set that was manually updated with a new queue, which would be bad. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, DYKHousekeepingBot hasn't done an update in over 10 hours. There have been plenty of edits to the nominations page, including adding the new date section at 00:00, so I'm pretty sure the bot needs your assistance in restarting.
Oddly, this did not affect DYKUpdateBot, which did the 00:00, 4 April update as scheduled.
Thanks for anything you can do. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:53, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
hi i created an article few days ago and still not heard an info about it either it's been up for nomination or not i just want you to shed more light to me on the article i created with the title Efe Ejeba i really need to hear some news on it thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hameensleek ( talk • contribs) 09:53, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
I had pinged you on this at RFPP. Maybe you weren't online today. But the protection level you put on Template:DYKmake/DYKmakecredit has now been reduced. I don't know if that's relevant or not. — Maile ( talk) 22:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hello! I used some slightly unusual syntax in a DYK queue and watched at the update time to make sure that it didn't confound the bot. When the update didn't occur, I removed the aforementioned code and made the update time later (I think), but that didn't seem to help. My apologies if I've caused the bot to shut down. — David Levy 03:28, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
![]() | A fact from Shubinator/Archive 50 appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 21 May 2017 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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...leaving the reader confused, as the item they're looking for is off the top of their window, so they need to scroll up to find it (if they'e savvy enough to figure that out).
How to fix this? wbm1058 ( talk) 13:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
DykUpdateBot seems to be putting up the dates on Recent additions one day late, I got a message on my talk page for a DYK nomination with the date 21 May while on the target page it was situated at 22 May. King Prithviraj II ( talk) 14:03, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
I am not sure this is the right place to report this, but here goes... When I first created a DYK nomination template I erroneously entered the full name (William Ruben Rowley) to create a template for William R. Rowley, (the correct title), so I had to rename (move) the template from William Ruben Rowley to William R. Rowley. However, now when one clicks on 'Review or comment' on the DYK talk page listing, the Redirect page/template comes up, which no doubt will confuse many reviewers. How can we get the talk page listing to display the proper title and go to the proper template when one clicks on 'Review or comment'? Here is the link to the proper template: Template:Did you know nominations/William R. Rowley -- If this is not the right place to report this problem could you forward this message to an appropriate place/user? Sorry for the hassle, and many thanks. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 00:29, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
FYI. -- 71.183.132.170 ( talk) 00:24, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, something is causing DYKcheck to say that articles have only 0 prose characters even though they clearly have quite a bit of prose in them. Can you please take a look and see what's causing the problem? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 13:57, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
User:DYKHousekeepingBot said it's uncompelete but now compelete i think,this bot will send to me message are full corrected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TalismanOnline ( talk • contribs) 14:55, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, the last update was at 10:42 on June 21; there have been new nominations since, and of course we're past 00:00 UTC with the new date added. Please restart the bot at your first convenience. Also, I'm pretty sure DYKUpdateBot is down; it didn't send the warning message two hours before 00:00 UTC for June 22. Many thanks.
I'm going to have to find an admin to load up a queue in any event, and then someone to do a manual promotion if you haven't seen this by then. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:45, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Just wanted to give you a heads up that the bot is not updating the main page. IronGargoyle ( talk) 00:32, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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Shubinator, DYKUpdateBot has recently had some trouble with completing its updates. Today's 12:00 update that moved Queue 3 to the main page stopped after posting the notifications to the editors (the DYKmakes and DYKnoms) and before adding the credit to the image page. The same thing happened with Queue 1 36 hours earlier (we've just gone from updates every 24 hours to updates every 12 hours).
The problem with the update dying on the image step is that the key final steps—clearing the queue and updating "next" to the next queue—don't get done. And there isn't always an admin around, which could mean a queue getting promoted again if a clean-up isn't done.
Is there a way of making the image credit step more bulletproof—that is, if something goes wrong, can it just proceed without doing the credit? And if that's going to continue to be problematic—these are hardly the only times the image credit step has failed and caused this problem—might it make sense to swap the order of steps so the image credit is done last, after emptying the queue and updating to the next one? (You'd need to keep the image data around after the queue holding it was gone.) Sometimes it does manage to fail over: on January 8, while the image credit isn't logged, after a four minute gap the bot was able to finish up. January 9, as noted above (Queue 1), there was no recovery and the bot didn't do those all-important final steps.
Thanks for anything you can do. Please let me know what you think is feasible. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:32, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, the bot didn't run at 22:07 30 January 2017 like it should have; it's now 00:13 31 January 2017 and no sign of the bot doing as it ought. Can you please restart it as soon as you see this? Many thanks. PS: I'll let you know if I hear more from Wugapodes on progress. In the meantime, we've finally got all of the hooks visible again on the Nominations page, though I have no idea how long that will last. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Shubinator and BlueMoonset: When the bot swapped out the sets at 00:00, 11 February 2017, it did nothing else, it did not place the DYK templates on the individual pages. Even though it also missed the update at 12:00 today, there was no message on WT:DYK that the update was late. I manually did the update and reset the clock according to the instructions on its page. I also did a manual update of Wikipedia:Recent additions. — Maile ( talk) 12:50, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, it might be nice to have this list run again now, while the nominations are comparatively recent. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:48, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, the bot last ran at 16:25 today. Since then, there have been a few new hooks added, none promoted that I'm aware of, plus I created a new date (March 6) for a badly misplaced hook at 23:13 which hasn't yet resulted in a DYKHousekeepingBot update, although that was 35 minutes ago. I'm forced to conclude that the bot is not currently running, and needs manual intervention on your part. Thanks as always for your help and your bots. BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:49, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, in case you didn't see the ping from the WT:DYK page, DYKUpdateBot didn't run when it was supposed to about three and a half hours ago (its last edit was at 00:02 on 24 March 2017 (UTC), and a partial manual update was done about 50 minutes later that failed to include updating the time of the next update, but did include incrementing the next queue to be promoted. Please do not restart the bot until first making sure that Template:Did you know/Next update/Time has been updated from 2017-03-24T00:00:00Z to 2017-03-25T00:00:00Z ("24" needs to have been changed to "25"); otherwise, the bot will immediately overwrite the set that was manually updated with a new queue, which would be bad. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, DYKHousekeepingBot hasn't done an update in over 10 hours. There have been plenty of edits to the nominations page, including adding the new date section at 00:00, so I'm pretty sure the bot needs your assistance in restarting.
Oddly, this did not affect DYKUpdateBot, which did the 00:00, 4 April update as scheduled.
Thanks for anything you can do. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:53, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
hi i created an article few days ago and still not heard an info about it either it's been up for nomination or not i just want you to shed more light to me on the article i created with the title Efe Ejeba i really need to hear some news on it thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hameensleek ( talk • contribs) 09:53, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
I had pinged you on this at RFPP. Maybe you weren't online today. But the protection level you put on Template:DYKmake/DYKmakecredit has now been reduced. I don't know if that's relevant or not. — Maile ( talk) 22:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hello! I used some slightly unusual syntax in a DYK queue and watched at the update time to make sure that it didn't confound the bot. When the update didn't occur, I removed the aforementioned code and made the update time later (I think), but that didn't seem to help. My apologies if I've caused the bot to shut down. — David Levy 03:28, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
![]() | A fact from Shubinator/Archive 50 appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 21 May 2017 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
| ![]() |
...leaving the reader confused, as the item they're looking for is off the top of their window, so they need to scroll up to find it (if they'e savvy enough to figure that out).
How to fix this? wbm1058 ( talk) 13:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
DykUpdateBot seems to be putting up the dates on Recent additions one day late, I got a message on my talk page for a DYK nomination with the date 21 May while on the target page it was situated at 22 May. King Prithviraj II ( talk) 14:03, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
I am not sure this is the right place to report this, but here goes... When I first created a DYK nomination template I erroneously entered the full name (William Ruben Rowley) to create a template for William R. Rowley, (the correct title), so I had to rename (move) the template from William Ruben Rowley to William R. Rowley. However, now when one clicks on 'Review or comment' on the DYK talk page listing, the Redirect page/template comes up, which no doubt will confuse many reviewers. How can we get the talk page listing to display the proper title and go to the proper template when one clicks on 'Review or comment'? Here is the link to the proper template: Template:Did you know nominations/William R. Rowley -- If this is not the right place to report this problem could you forward this message to an appropriate place/user? Sorry for the hassle, and many thanks. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 00:29, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
FYI. -- 71.183.132.170 ( talk) 00:24, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, something is causing DYKcheck to say that articles have only 0 prose characters even though they clearly have quite a bit of prose in them. Can you please take a look and see what's causing the problem? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 13:57, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
User:DYKHousekeepingBot said it's uncompelete but now compelete i think,this bot will send to me message are full corrected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TalismanOnline ( talk • contribs) 14:55, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Shubinator, the last update was at 10:42 on June 21; there have been new nominations since, and of course we're past 00:00 UTC with the new date added. Please restart the bot at your first convenience. Also, I'm pretty sure DYKUpdateBot is down; it didn't send the warning message two hours before 00:00 UTC for June 22. Many thanks.
I'm going to have to find an admin to load up a queue in any event, and then someone to do a manual promotion if you haven't seen this by then. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:45, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Just wanted to give you a heads up that the bot is not updating the main page. IronGargoyle ( talk) 00:32, 30 June 2017 (UTC)