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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
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in Phabricator if you have objections.Hi Ben. Just stopping by to let you know that the Copyvios tool has been down for more than four hours, with "504 Gateway Time-out". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!— Diannaa ( talk) 13:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Update: It was working for a while but has been down again for another three hours. Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 19:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I restarted it this morning after seeing your message before I left for work. This buys some time by clearing the backlog of requests but does not solve whatever the underlying issue may be. I can’t do anything until tonight. — The Earwig alt ( talk) 20:27, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you!— Diannaa ( talk) 23:41, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Earwig, what's the cache time for toolforge:copyvios? I'm building a similar tool for files and wanted some inspiration. Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 05:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! Lately I was recommended to use your user script for easier section sharing options and I'm loving the function it provides. I was wondering, could it be possible that beside the URL+Permalink options it already provides 2 more alternatives were also added? Wikilink + interwikilink (the long/full path)
Also, a kind of nitpick but currently there is no way to set up personalized piped contents to the links provided (other than deleting/modifying what was already provided. This is a user script so behaviors like these are fully expected and very minor, minor nitpicks. But I thought I'd bring it to your attention anyway (every though you most likely are already aware). - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:36, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey Earwig. How are you? Just wanted to bring to your attention this phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303088. It looks like the fix for this bug might be adding /info/en/?search=User:DannyS712/copyvio-check to some kind of safelist on the copyvio detector API. Are we on the right track? When you get a chance let us know what you think. Thanks for your time. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 02:13, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Tool would report similarity as 0.0% while check chinese page, e.g. [1], may a bug of encode. SunAfterRain 15:54, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
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I'm looking for feedback on the idea (which feel free to run with). Most Wikiproject tagging bots I've seen seem to rely upon categories on Wiki to categorize, but does your bot or any you know considered tagging pages returned via a Wikidata query and have a language linked article? This could be directly tagging or generating a category for human review for a Wikiproject.
The reason I ask is while working on Wikidata Wikiproejct Every Politician and while working through Wikiprojects - Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, etc items all queries seem to fall in scope of certain project scope, but they often don't have the corresponding Wikiproject tag. Often a dual project scope is obvious, but lack a corresponding geographic tag which also applies. While petscan offers a means of evaluating this, a more regular and consistent scan would help offload those efforts to other tasks not as easily automated. Example a lake in Michigan - Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Lakes would apply. Example persons having held the position of member of the State Senate of Michigan - falls withing scope of Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Biography with Politician-work-group=yes tagging.
Would you be interested in supporting this query based Wikiproject tagging approach with your bot? How do you think Wikiprojects could provide indications of their project scope to let a bot know what query should be run? I was thinking possibly either a template or new parameters to the Wikiproject Infobox that would not display, but could provide a query or property-value pair to indicate possible scopes to check. Any initial reactions to any part of this concept which are a cause for concern? Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 18:22, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
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For creating the Copyvio detector I only just found (and it was through a google search!). Wish I had known about it sooner. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:19, 10 May 2022 (UTC) |
I was wondering if the copyvio tool is down. I can't get it to load. SL93 ( talk) 23:25, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Plus two other pages. Xx236 ( talk) 09:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, The_Earwig; it's that time again. WIR Metrics have not updated since 1 June - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Metrics/June_2022&action=history ... if you'd be able to have a look into that, it would, as normal, be very much appreciated. thanks -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 10:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Indeed, Tagishsimon :) - I kicked the bot back into gear but was in a rush and didn’t have a chance to reply. Happy editing. — The Earwig alt ( talk) 15:16, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if the copyvio Detector is malfuncioning in some way? Every comparison I've attempted this morning has timed out. Not a gateway timeout, but a time out like "The URL https://nickquested.com/about timed out before any data could be retrieved." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 14:12, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Adding, attempting to search an entire article using search mode results in a 502 Bad Gateway. The example I tried this on was Margaret Sullavan. — Diannaa ( talk) 14:32, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Update: All functions are operating properly again. Peppy and fast, in fact. Thanks, will update again if the problem resumes. — Diannaa ( talk) 16:43, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js is very useful but won't work with any redirect to {{ copyvio-revdel}} and a number of the people identifying copyvios are using the redirect {{ revdel}}. Can you amend the script to include redirects or at least this one? Thanks Nthep ( talk) 17:19, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
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T130439)News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect
Interstate Twenty-one and has thus listed it
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21:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
On 14th June 2021, this user protected the page titled “Aaron Golbin”. This protection is such that the page may not be created: only confirmed or extended confirmed users can edit it. This information was found in the protection log. This user did not provide a reason for this action, and no other information about this action is available on Wikipedia. The user makes overwhelmingly positive contributions on the whole, but this unexplained action is somewhat confusing. LeetToTheBeatMakeItRoar ( talk) 11:58, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hi -- I'm a fan of the Earwig tool, as so many of us are (thank you), but I have a question. Running it in copyvio mode on Rudy Hartono finds a mirror but then nothing down to 26.5%. Running it in comparison mode against this URL, which is in the article, finds a 69.8% copyvio which turned out to be real. Shouldn't that have been caught in copyvio mode? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 15:04, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
I just wanted to come and say thank you for the Earwig copyright violator tool. I use it ALL THE TIME!! It is such a huge help and I am grateful it's available! It has saved me all kinds of grief I'm sure. Jenhawk777 ( talk) 20:17, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
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to the end of an IP in
Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and
consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.Hi Earwig, I was working to deorphan the currently orphaned talk page archives in October. Got busy in November, and now I'm back. Can you please run the SQL query at User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Orphaned archives once again so that I can get a fresh up to date list in which I can work? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 15:29, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 03:14, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Yeeno ( talk) 04:35, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi again, the revdel script User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js seems to have another issue, although it might be User:Enterprisey/url-select-revdel.js that has the problem. The last couple of days, the scripts are correctly identifying the revisions to be deleted but then when I hit the change visibility button the script isn't either setting the option to delete the revision text nor is it populating the reason box and the source pages. Nthep ( talk) 12:28, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Ben. Just stopping by to let you know that the Copyvios tool has been down for more than six hours, with "504 Gateway Time-out". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! — Diannaa ( talk) 01:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
Six years ago, you did me a favor by assessing some articles for WikiProject Medicine. Now I am back with a new request: Do you know how to extract the mw:ORES assessments? I'd like to have all stubs tagged as being stubs. (In my experience, ORES is 100% reliable for stub ratings.)
@ Nettrom did some research on this in the past; I don't know if any of that would be helpful.
Eventually, after Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Display assessments on inactive wikiproject banners and Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments get settled (pinging @ Aymatth2 and @ Piotrus), I'd like to have this run for all unassessed pages. More than 400,000 existing articles are tagged but not assessed for quality, and about half of those are stubs. There's no need for Stub assessments to be assigned by a human; doing it by bot would be ~200,000 minutes (=five months of round-the-clock work) of volunteer time saved. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
Hey, wasn't sure the best place to poke you — I have
an earwigbot PR open to add
DuckDuckGo as a search engine option. I think it'd be interesting to compare the results from the Google Search API and DuckDuckGo's search API. What do you think?
—
TheresNoTime (
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09:37, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to let you know your tool is down:
$ curl https://copyvios.toolforge.org -v
* Trying 185.15.56.11:443...
* Connected to copyvios.toolforge.org (185.15.56.11) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=toolforge.org
* start date: Mar 18 10:47:38 2023 GMT
* expire date: Jun 16 10:47:37 2023 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "copyvios.toolforge.org" matched cert's "*.toolforge.org"
* issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x561fa31fc2e0)
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: copyvios.toolforge.org
> user-agent: curl/7.74.0
> accept: */*
>
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* old SSL session ID is stale, removing
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
< HTTP/2 500
< server: nginx/1.14.2
< date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:51:23 GMT
< content-type: text/html
< content-length: 291
<
* HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)
* stopped the pause stream!
* Connection #0 to host copyvios.toolforge.org left intact
curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)
Thanks Metamorforme42 ( talk) 09:01, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I recently edited the draft of this article, however, the draft was declined for not being "written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article." However, to me the tone feels very formal, straightforward, and factual. Could you please advise on any specific changes that need to be made for me to resubmit?
Thank you! -- Smithdt12 ( talk) 16:34, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Ben! Just a note to let you know that the Copyvio tool has been out of service for 4 hours now. Reason: 504 gateway timeout. Thanks for any assistance! — Diannaa ( talk) 23:21, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Earwig! I noticed a mirror site for Spanish Wikipedia, and I wondered if we can add them to the exclusions page of the Copyvio detector. The page is https://es-academic.com/contents.nsf/eswiki/, let me know if I can help with anything, and also thanks to you for the tool!! Best, Soylacarli ( talk) 15:20, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Ben, the copyvio tool is not functioning properly today. It is throwing a 502 Bad Gateway error, or failing to load at all (it just spins and spins). If you have a minute I would appreciate it if you could have a look. Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 16:34, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
You are receiving this message as one of the overseers of TFA Protector Bot. I have just closed the TFA semi-protection RfC with consensus to implement both it and its sub-RfC. I leave the finer details in the hands of the bot operators. Your service is appreciated :) CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 22:30, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
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[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
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Hi, can you take a look at [2]. I get no responses from Σ and I saw you co-manage some tools, so maybe you have access to that tool as well? If the source code is available I can try and donate the change myself. thanks Kotz ( talk) 15:29, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Cool!! Thanks a lot. I'll check it up and either put it up for use immediately or come back to complain some more. Thanks again Kotz ( talk) 10:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 02:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi! Copyvio Detector doesn't work with lang=hu. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=hu&project=wikipedia&title=Rakovn%C3%ADk&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 Could you please post your answer here? Thanks, Bean49 ( talk) 21:25, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 14:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 14:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
The copyvio tool is timing out already, could you take a look at it.
Thanks, Seawolf35 T-- C 15:47, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.Hi Ben. Just stopping by to let you know that the Copyvios tool has been down for more than four hours, with "504 Gateway Time-out". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!— Diannaa ( talk) 13:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Update: It was working for a while but has been down again for another three hours. Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 19:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I restarted it this morning after seeing your message before I left for work. This buys some time by clearing the backlog of requests but does not solve whatever the underlying issue may be. I can’t do anything until tonight. — The Earwig alt ( talk) 20:27, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you!— Diannaa ( talk) 23:41, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Earwig, what's the cache time for toolforge:copyvios? I'm building a similar tool for files and wanted some inspiration. Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 05:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! Lately I was recommended to use your user script for easier section sharing options and I'm loving the function it provides. I was wondering, could it be possible that beside the URL+Permalink options it already provides 2 more alternatives were also added? Wikilink + interwikilink (the long/full path)
Also, a kind of nitpick but currently there is no way to set up personalized piped contents to the links provided (other than deleting/modifying what was already provided. This is a user script so behaviors like these are fully expected and very minor, minor nitpicks. But I thought I'd bring it to your attention anyway (every though you most likely are already aware). - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:36, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey Earwig. How are you? Just wanted to bring to your attention this phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303088. It looks like the fix for this bug might be adding /info/en/?search=User:DannyS712/copyvio-check to some kind of safelist on the copyvio detector API. Are we on the right track? When you get a chance let us know what you think. Thanks for your time. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 02:13, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Tool would report similarity as 0.0% while check chinese page, e.g. [1], may a bug of encode. SunAfterRain 15:54, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Template:Terminal has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the entry on the Templates for discussion page. –
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I'm looking for feedback on the idea (which feel free to run with). Most Wikiproject tagging bots I've seen seem to rely upon categories on Wiki to categorize, but does your bot or any you know considered tagging pages returned via a Wikidata query and have a language linked article? This could be directly tagging or generating a category for human review for a Wikiproject.
The reason I ask is while working on Wikidata Wikiproejct Every Politician and while working through Wikiprojects - Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, etc items all queries seem to fall in scope of certain project scope, but they often don't have the corresponding Wikiproject tag. Often a dual project scope is obvious, but lack a corresponding geographic tag which also applies. While petscan offers a means of evaluating this, a more regular and consistent scan would help offload those efforts to other tasks not as easily automated. Example a lake in Michigan - Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Lakes would apply. Example persons having held the position of member of the State Senate of Michigan - falls withing scope of Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Biography with Politician-work-group=yes tagging.
Would you be interested in supporting this query based Wikiproject tagging approach with your bot? How do you think Wikiprojects could provide indications of their project scope to let a bot know what query should be run? I was thinking possibly either a template or new parameters to the Wikiproject Infobox that would not display, but could provide a query or property-value pair to indicate possible scopes to check. Any initial reactions to any part of this concept which are a cause for concern? Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 18:22, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
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I was wondering if the copyvio tool is down. I can't get it to load. SL93 ( talk) 23:25, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Plus two other pages. Xx236 ( talk) 09:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, The_Earwig; it's that time again. WIR Metrics have not updated since 1 June - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Metrics/June_2022&action=history ... if you'd be able to have a look into that, it would, as normal, be very much appreciated. thanks -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 10:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Indeed, Tagishsimon :) - I kicked the bot back into gear but was in a rush and didn’t have a chance to reply. Happy editing. — The Earwig alt ( talk) 15:16, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if the copyvio Detector is malfuncioning in some way? Every comparison I've attempted this morning has timed out. Not a gateway timeout, but a time out like "The URL https://nickquested.com/about timed out before any data could be retrieved." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 14:12, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Adding, attempting to search an entire article using search mode results in a 502 Bad Gateway. The example I tried this on was Margaret Sullavan. — Diannaa ( talk) 14:32, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Update: All functions are operating properly again. Peppy and fast, in fact. Thanks, will update again if the problem resumes. — Diannaa ( talk) 16:43, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js is very useful but won't work with any redirect to {{ copyvio-revdel}} and a number of the people identifying copyvios are using the redirect {{ revdel}}. Can you amend the script to include redirects or at least this one? Thanks Nthep ( talk) 17:19, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hi -- I'm a fan of the Earwig tool, as so many of us are (thank you), but I have a question. Running it in copyvio mode on Rudy Hartono finds a mirror but then nothing down to 26.5%. Running it in comparison mode against this URL, which is in the article, finds a 69.8% copyvio which turned out to be real. Shouldn't that have been caught in copyvio mode? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 15:04, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
I just wanted to come and say thank you for the Earwig copyright violator tool. I use it ALL THE TIME!! It is such a huge help and I am grateful it's available! It has saved me all kinds of grief I'm sure. Jenhawk777 ( talk) 20:17, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi again, the revdel script User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js seems to have another issue, although it might be User:Enterprisey/url-select-revdel.js that has the problem. The last couple of days, the scripts are correctly identifying the revisions to be deleted but then when I hit the change visibility button the script isn't either setting the option to delete the revision text nor is it populating the reason box and the source pages. Nthep ( talk) 12:28, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Ben. Just stopping by to let you know that the Copyvios tool has been down for more than six hours, with "504 Gateway Time-out". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! — Diannaa ( talk) 01:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
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Six years ago, you did me a favor by assessing some articles for WikiProject Medicine. Now I am back with a new request: Do you know how to extract the mw:ORES assessments? I'd like to have all stubs tagged as being stubs. (In my experience, ORES is 100% reliable for stub ratings.)
@ Nettrom did some research on this in the past; I don't know if any of that would be helpful.
Eventually, after Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Display assessments on inactive wikiproject banners and Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments get settled (pinging @ Aymatth2 and @ Piotrus), I'd like to have this run for all unassessed pages. More than 400,000 existing articles are tagged but not assessed for quality, and about half of those are stubs. There's no need for Stub assessments to be assigned by a human; doing it by bot would be ~200,000 minutes (=five months of round-the-clock work) of volunteer time saved. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to let you know your tool is down:
$ curl https://copyvios.toolforge.org -v
* Trying 185.15.56.11:443...
* Connected to copyvios.toolforge.org (185.15.56.11) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=toolforge.org
* start date: Mar 18 10:47:38 2023 GMT
* expire date: Jun 16 10:47:37 2023 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "copyvios.toolforge.org" matched cert's "*.toolforge.org"
* issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x561fa31fc2e0)
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: copyvios.toolforge.org
> user-agent: curl/7.74.0
> accept: */*
>
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* old SSL session ID is stale, removing
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
< HTTP/2 500
< server: nginx/1.14.2
< date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:51:23 GMT
< content-type: text/html
< content-length: 291
<
* HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)
* stopped the pause stream!
* Connection #0 to host copyvios.toolforge.org left intact
curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)
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Hello, I recently edited the draft of this article, however, the draft was declined for not being "written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article." However, to me the tone feels very formal, straightforward, and factual. Could you please advise on any specific changes that need to be made for me to resubmit?
Thank you! -- Smithdt12 ( talk) 16:34, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Ben! Just a note to let you know that the Copyvio tool has been out of service for 4 hours now. Reason: 504 gateway timeout. Thanks for any assistance! — Diannaa ( talk) 23:21, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Earwig! I noticed a mirror site for Spanish Wikipedia, and I wondered if we can add them to the exclusions page of the Copyvio detector. The page is https://es-academic.com/contents.nsf/eswiki/, let me know if I can help with anything, and also thanks to you for the tool!! Best, Soylacarli ( talk) 15:20, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Ben, the copyvio tool is not functioning properly today. It is throwing a 502 Bad Gateway error, or failing to load at all (it just spins and spins). If you have a minute I would appreciate it if you could have a look. Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 16:34, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, can you take a look at [2]. I get no responses from Σ and I saw you co-manage some tools, so maybe you have access to that tool as well? If the source code is available I can try and donate the change myself. thanks Kotz ( talk) 15:29, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Cool!! Thanks a lot. I'll check it up and either put it up for use immediately or come back to complain some more. Thanks again Kotz ( talk) 10:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi! Copyvio Detector doesn't work with lang=hu. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=hu&project=wikipedia&title=Rakovn%C3%ADk&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 Could you please post your answer here? Thanks, Bean49 ( talk) 21:25, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 14:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi,
The copyvio tool is timing out already, could you take a look at it.
Thanks, Seawolf35 T-- C 15:47, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
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