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AntiCompositeNumber: Ah. No, the timeline's been so protracted, I haven't been actively following things and didn't know this was happening today. (The date in my mind was early next year.) I could probably do it, but certainly can't allocate time right now to immediately fix this. —
The Earwig (
talk)
03:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, they started shutting down tools where maintainers hadn't requested more time today. The Grid won't be shut down completely until February though. I've left a note on the phab task asking for the tool to be un-disabled in the meantime.
AntiCompositeNumber (
talk)
03:43, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm available today or tomorrow and would have time to fix this if it is possible to add me as a co-maintainer. I might need some time to familiarize with the infra though, as it looks like the tool isn't open source. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me)
04:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for volunteering,
0xDeadbeef! I've added you as a co-maintainer. There's supposed to be
a code repository but it must've disappeared (any idea where that ended up,
Lego?). The active code is in ~/www/python/src and possibly other places; there are local changes not in sync with the git repo. Feel free to ping if you have any questions, though honestly, beyond what I just said, I probably know as much as you do about this. —
The Earwig (
talk)
04:10, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
The repository is there, it's just marked as private. It's up to date with what's on Toolforge, aside from all the uncommitted changes that is. Probably best to push the repository to Wikimedia GitLab tbh.
Legoktm (
talk)
04:25, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Besides the weird afd stats page, I've restored the others and they seem to be running fine, Lowercase sigmabot III's two daily jobs have been converted to use the new framework. Let me know if there are any other errors. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me)
07:13, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
0xDeadbeef: Thanks a bunch! I don't think AFD Stats has always been broken, but people are mostly using
https://afdstats.toolforge.org/ now, so it's not a priority to fix. Maybe I can take a look at that myself later. I also noticed the main page at
https://sigma.toolforge.org/ still displays the 410 Gone error, though the individual tools are fine; did we have an index page before that disappeared? Scratch that, just some bad caching on my end. All good. —
The Earwig (
talk)
14:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ben! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. It was great to meet you in Toronto, and looking forward to collaborations in the coming year! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}}talk
Solstice Celebration for The Earwig, 2023,
DALL·E 3.
Hello Be. Sorry to bother you but the copyvio tool is down, it's been down for about an hour and a half with 504 gateway timeout errors. Any help appreciated. Thanks, —
Diannaa (
talk)
16:56, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks; I've noticed things being a little spotty over the past couple weeks, but haven't identified a cause yet (i.e. no single culprit for increased usage). I'll continue to keep an eye out. —
The Earwig (
talk)
18:59, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you today of all days, but the tool is suffering outages again, and has currently been down for an hour and a half. Thanks, —
Diannaa (
talk)
17:29, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Following a
motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were
enacted in June 2009.
Hey
MSGJ, I don’t see any issue with this. The bot is flexible about the page contents, provided its Reports bot variable comments on the individual metric pages are preserved. —
The Earwig alt (
talk)
22:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Not planning to change that page itself but only the banner {{WIR}} used to tag relevant pages within the scope of the project. It was just in case your bot was relying on any specific template or categories to find these pages. — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk)
09:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
An
RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (
T326065)
Arbitration
Following a
motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is
requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at
WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the
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Hello. I noticed that large chunks of
this section of
herbicide are copied directly from
this source(you'll need to log in) but the copyvio detector doesn't pick it up:
[1]. I can't find a tool to show it nicely, but it is especially obvious if you look at the original diff:
[2]. Presumably it isn't detected because the tool can't access the full text? I just wondered whether you'd considered linking up the detector with
WP:TWL so that it can check the full text? Admittedly, I am not sure whether the publishers permit automated access, but you would think that they would like us to be checking whether their copyright is being violated! @
Samwalton9 (WMF): just in case they can add anything.
SmartSE (
talk)
10:29, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
@
Smartse It's an interesting idea! I don't think we could do anything immediately, but if it would be feasible/helpful we could initiate a conversation with one of more of the library's partners about this. Perhaps EBSCO, given that they're our search provider? I'm not sure on the details of how this would work.
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
12:56, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey
Smartse. I'm with
Samwalton9 that this would be really cool to support, but I'd be very surprised if TWL's partners would be willing to open up a service to us that would enable the copyvio detector to check content programmatically. Initiating a conversation couldn't hurt, though. —
The Earwig (
talk)
03:56, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
The Earwig It's not impossible to imagine - TWL's partners are often concerned that WP editors are going to be copying content, so being able to say "we want to make absolutely sure that's not happening" could be seen quite positively. Would EBSCO be the right organisation, do you think, since they run (and provide us with)
EBSCO Discovery Service?
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
09:51, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
Samwalton9 (WMF): I was initially thinking of just searching the sources cited in the article.
Apparently, most of the full texts can be accessed by appending the DOI to
https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ so it shouldn't be too difficult to programmatically access the full text (not withstanding the authentication and any rate-limiting) and then the text could be compared as the tool already does. I'm not familar with EBSCO, but I imagine that using that would be more complicated as you would need to take chunks of the article, query the search engine repeatedly and then check full texts that could be matches. I also posted about this at
meta:Talk:CopyPatrol#Can_the_tool_access_paywalled_full_texts? and the
ithenticate service can detect it in a new edit - see the hit for link.springer.com - even though the full text is paywalled, so maybe using that service in this tool could be an option as well? It seems like that tool does a pretty good job of catching new copyvios but we are less capable of detecting old instances.
SmartSE (
talk)
12:26, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Checking the DOIs of sources directly cited would be a good start and wouldn't require us to get a search engine working, so we could try that (though the full scope is of course somewhat limited). If I'm to do that through TWL's proxy, we'd need to get the bot access somehow and confirm this usage is within their terms. @
Samwalton9: I'm also unfamiliar with EBSCO and from skimming the linked pages it's not clear to me if they offer a search API that I would be able to use for what SmartSE described (query the search engine repeatedly given text snippets from the article and receive results that enable me to get the full text of the source for comparison). I see discussion of end-user search tools, but not an API. One change to the copyvio detector I am sure we will need to make is not showing the user the full text of the suspected source, only the copied snippets. —
The Earwig (
talk)
14:19, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
Samwalton9 (WMF): Probably. I can't say for sure (the API documentation requires an account, and I still don't know the terms of use), but it looks like the right direction. Thanks! —
The Earwig (
talk)
17:01, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
@
The Earwig Good news! We met with EBSCO today and they're enthusiastic about the idea. Their main question was around request load - do you have any data/estimates about how many daily or monthly requests Copyvios makes?
The other topic we talked about was how pulling the text through would work (or not). EDS has access to all these databases to index for searching, but not necessarily for displaying full text. Even if they did, that would be for subscribing customers so there would be some concern about pulling the full text through to display publicly in the tool. It might be the case that they could return some information about finding a match in a source, but perhaps not display the actual matched text directly. That's something we'll need to get more clarity on with them, but perhaps even if that is the case we could make some UI changes to highlight that a match was found in EDS, and the relevant URL, but not display the matching text? Happy to think that through with you.
If this still sounds feasible to you I'd be happy to copy you into our email thread so you could ask any more specific questions you might have.
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
16:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
@
Samwalton9 (WMF): Sounds good, thanks for the update! We can definitely indicate a match without including the full text if needed. There is already some support in the tool for this with the Turnitin option.
Regarding request rate, the tool checks about 1,200 articles per day or 36,000 per month. I'd be surprised if that's too much for them, but we could make the new functionality opt-in like Turnitin, so users have to check a box to use EDS which will drastically reduce the rate (the Turnitin feature is used only 100 times/day). —
The Earwig (
talk)
16:54, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
@
The Earwig Thanks for the data! I remember reading somewhere that the tool makes multiple requests per article check, is that right? I wonder if you have a sense of how many actual API requests are being made?
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
13:05, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi! I reached out to
Σ by email about
lowercase sigmabot III, which had not been archiving anything (with the exceptions of AN and ANI) since last week. They responded (by email) saying Please reach out to Earwig for this issue. The crontab was erased somehow, which means that it's no longer running the bot on its schedule. I'm not sure what changed but I think he will know where to look and that For the time being I just kicked it off manually. Thank you for any insight you might have! HouseBlaster (
talk · he/him)
15:07, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, it could be a
WP:THURSDAY thing but the revdel-respoder script seems to have a problem today. I keep getting a message "Sorry! revdel-responder failed to parse the page content". I'm not good enough at interpreting the console to work out what's gone wrong.
Nthep (
talk)
11:44, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know,
Nthep. It's possible that was some intermittent error. If you run across it again, let me know the page, or send me the text from the console (right click -> Inspect -> "Console" tab, there should be a line starting with "Error while parsing page content"). —
The Earwig (
talk)
03:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (
T313405)
Arbitration
An
arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for
The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve
vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Basketball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Basketball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BasketballWikipedia:WikiProject BasketballTemplate:WikiProject BasketballBasketball articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's sport (and women in sports), a WikiProject which aims to improve coverage of women in sports on Wikipedia. For more information, visit the
project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the
discussion.Women's sportWikipedia:WikiProject Women's sportTemplate:WikiProject Women's sportWomen's sport articles
@
Hmlarson: OK. Subcats are sometimes tricky because of unexpected relationships (a subcategory of a subcategory a few levels deep sometimes has little relationship with the original category), but I reviewed this situation, and it looks mostly fine.
I'll have the bot generate a list of pages it would tag, and we can double-check those. It'll take me a few days.
Separately, there is a requirement that you mention on the WikiProject talk page that you want to run this tagging job, in case there are any objections.
So sorry for the wait here, I had to make some code changes to handle tagging both banners and a few personal things came up – I have some free time now and will get back to you tomorrow in a few days. —
The Earwig (
talk)
20:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Ben, hope you are well. I just thought I'd let you know that the Copyvio Detector is not functioning all that well thae last couple of days, timing out on just about every comparison. ("The URL
https://www.dvfu.ru/en/about/ timed out before any data could be retrieved", for example.) Even times out on simple, short webpages of the type that it's usually able to access easily. Any assistance appreciated. Thanks, —
Diannaa (
talk)
13:34, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. We (
Chlod and I) did just block a misbehaving bot last night, so that would account for some extra load, but it doesn't totally explain the issue. That one URL is working for me at the moment, only taking a couple seconds. I will investigate further. —
The Earwig (
talk)
15:27, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks.
T280531
This 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.
@
AntiCompositeNumber: Ah. No, the timeline's been so protracted, I haven't been actively following things and didn't know this was happening today. (The date in my mind was early next year.) I could probably do it, but certainly can't allocate time right now to immediately fix this. —
The Earwig (
talk)
03:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, they started shutting down tools where maintainers hadn't requested more time today. The Grid won't be shut down completely until February though. I've left a note on the phab task asking for the tool to be un-disabled in the meantime.
AntiCompositeNumber (
talk)
03:43, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm available today or tomorrow and would have time to fix this if it is possible to add me as a co-maintainer. I might need some time to familiarize with the infra though, as it looks like the tool isn't open source. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me)
04:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for volunteering,
0xDeadbeef! I've added you as a co-maintainer. There's supposed to be
a code repository but it must've disappeared (any idea where that ended up,
Lego?). The active code is in ~/www/python/src and possibly other places; there are local changes not in sync with the git repo. Feel free to ping if you have any questions, though honestly, beyond what I just said, I probably know as much as you do about this. —
The Earwig (
talk)
04:10, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
The repository is there, it's just marked as private. It's up to date with what's on Toolforge, aside from all the uncommitted changes that is. Probably best to push the repository to Wikimedia GitLab tbh.
Legoktm (
talk)
04:25, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Besides the weird afd stats page, I've restored the others and they seem to be running fine, Lowercase sigmabot III's two daily jobs have been converted to use the new framework. Let me know if there are any other errors. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me)
07:13, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
0xDeadbeef: Thanks a bunch! I don't think AFD Stats has always been broken, but people are mostly using
https://afdstats.toolforge.org/ now, so it's not a priority to fix. Maybe I can take a look at that myself later. I also noticed the main page at
https://sigma.toolforge.org/ still displays the 410 Gone error, though the individual tools are fine; did we have an index page before that disappeared? Scratch that, just some bad caching on my end. All good. —
The Earwig (
talk)
14:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ben! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. It was great to meet you in Toronto, and looking forward to collaborations in the coming year! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}}talk
Solstice Celebration for The Earwig, 2023,
DALL·E 3.
Hello Be. Sorry to bother you but the copyvio tool is down, it's been down for about an hour and a half with 504 gateway timeout errors. Any help appreciated. Thanks, —
Diannaa (
talk)
16:56, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks; I've noticed things being a little spotty over the past couple weeks, but haven't identified a cause yet (i.e. no single culprit for increased usage). I'll continue to keep an eye out. —
The Earwig (
talk)
18:59, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you today of all days, but the tool is suffering outages again, and has currently been down for an hour and a half. Thanks, —
Diannaa (
talk)
17:29, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Following a
motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were
enacted in June 2009.
Hey
MSGJ, I don’t see any issue with this. The bot is flexible about the page contents, provided its Reports bot variable comments on the individual metric pages are preserved. —
The Earwig alt (
talk)
22:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Not planning to change that page itself but only the banner {{WIR}} used to tag relevant pages within the scope of the project. It was just in case your bot was relying on any specific template or categories to find these pages. — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk)
09:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
An
RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (
T326065)
Arbitration
Following a
motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is
requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at
WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via
Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found
here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the
Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes.
Read more
Hello. I noticed that large chunks of
this section of
herbicide are copied directly from
this source(you'll need to log in) but the copyvio detector doesn't pick it up:
[1]. I can't find a tool to show it nicely, but it is especially obvious if you look at the original diff:
[2]. Presumably it isn't detected because the tool can't access the full text? I just wondered whether you'd considered linking up the detector with
WP:TWL so that it can check the full text? Admittedly, I am not sure whether the publishers permit automated access, but you would think that they would like us to be checking whether their copyright is being violated! @
Samwalton9 (WMF): just in case they can add anything.
SmartSE (
talk)
10:29, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
@
Smartse It's an interesting idea! I don't think we could do anything immediately, but if it would be feasible/helpful we could initiate a conversation with one of more of the library's partners about this. Perhaps EBSCO, given that they're our search provider? I'm not sure on the details of how this would work.
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
12:56, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey
Smartse. I'm with
Samwalton9 that this would be really cool to support, but I'd be very surprised if TWL's partners would be willing to open up a service to us that would enable the copyvio detector to check content programmatically. Initiating a conversation couldn't hurt, though. —
The Earwig (
talk)
03:56, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
The Earwig It's not impossible to imagine - TWL's partners are often concerned that WP editors are going to be copying content, so being able to say "we want to make absolutely sure that's not happening" could be seen quite positively. Would EBSCO be the right organisation, do you think, since they run (and provide us with)
EBSCO Discovery Service?
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
09:51, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
Samwalton9 (WMF): I was initially thinking of just searching the sources cited in the article.
Apparently, most of the full texts can be accessed by appending the DOI to
https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ so it shouldn't be too difficult to programmatically access the full text (not withstanding the authentication and any rate-limiting) and then the text could be compared as the tool already does. I'm not familar with EBSCO, but I imagine that using that would be more complicated as you would need to take chunks of the article, query the search engine repeatedly and then check full texts that could be matches. I also posted about this at
meta:Talk:CopyPatrol#Can_the_tool_access_paywalled_full_texts? and the
ithenticate service can detect it in a new edit - see the hit for link.springer.com - even though the full text is paywalled, so maybe using that service in this tool could be an option as well? It seems like that tool does a pretty good job of catching new copyvios but we are less capable of detecting old instances.
SmartSE (
talk)
12:26, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Checking the DOIs of sources directly cited would be a good start and wouldn't require us to get a search engine working, so we could try that (though the full scope is of course somewhat limited). If I'm to do that through TWL's proxy, we'd need to get the bot access somehow and confirm this usage is within their terms. @
Samwalton9: I'm also unfamiliar with EBSCO and from skimming the linked pages it's not clear to me if they offer a search API that I would be able to use for what SmartSE described (query the search engine repeatedly given text snippets from the article and receive results that enable me to get the full text of the source for comparison). I see discussion of end-user search tools, but not an API. One change to the copyvio detector I am sure we will need to make is not showing the user the full text of the suspected source, only the copied snippets. —
The Earwig (
talk)
14:19, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
@
Samwalton9 (WMF): Probably. I can't say for sure (the API documentation requires an account, and I still don't know the terms of use), but it looks like the right direction. Thanks! —
The Earwig (
talk)
17:01, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
@
The Earwig Good news! We met with EBSCO today and they're enthusiastic about the idea. Their main question was around request load - do you have any data/estimates about how many daily or monthly requests Copyvios makes?
The other topic we talked about was how pulling the text through would work (or not). EDS has access to all these databases to index for searching, but not necessarily for displaying full text. Even if they did, that would be for subscribing customers so there would be some concern about pulling the full text through to display publicly in the tool. It might be the case that they could return some information about finding a match in a source, but perhaps not display the actual matched text directly. That's something we'll need to get more clarity on with them, but perhaps even if that is the case we could make some UI changes to highlight that a match was found in EDS, and the relevant URL, but not display the matching text? Happy to think that through with you.
If this still sounds feasible to you I'd be happy to copy you into our email thread so you could ask any more specific questions you might have.
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
16:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
@
Samwalton9 (WMF): Sounds good, thanks for the update! We can definitely indicate a match without including the full text if needed. There is already some support in the tool for this with the Turnitin option.
Regarding request rate, the tool checks about 1,200 articles per day or 36,000 per month. I'd be surprised if that's too much for them, but we could make the new functionality opt-in like Turnitin, so users have to check a box to use EDS which will drastically reduce the rate (the Turnitin feature is used only 100 times/day). —
The Earwig (
talk)
16:54, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
@
The Earwig Thanks for the data! I remember reading somewhere that the tool makes multiple requests per article check, is that right? I wonder if you have a sense of how many actual API requests are being made?
Samwalton9 (WMF) (
talk)
13:05, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi! I reached out to
Σ by email about
lowercase sigmabot III, which had not been archiving anything (with the exceptions of AN and ANI) since last week. They responded (by email) saying Please reach out to Earwig for this issue. The crontab was erased somehow, which means that it's no longer running the bot on its schedule. I'm not sure what changed but I think he will know where to look and that For the time being I just kicked it off manually. Thank you for any insight you might have! HouseBlaster (
talk · he/him)
15:07, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, it could be a
WP:THURSDAY thing but the revdel-respoder script seems to have a problem today. I keep getting a message "Sorry! revdel-responder failed to parse the page content". I'm not good enough at interpreting the console to work out what's gone wrong.
Nthep (
talk)
11:44, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know,
Nthep. It's possible that was some intermittent error. If you run across it again, let me know the page, or send me the text from the console (right click -> Inspect -> "Console" tab, there should be a line starting with "Error while parsing page content"). —
The Earwig (
talk)
03:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (
T313405)
Arbitration
An
arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for
The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve
vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Basketball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Basketball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BasketballWikipedia:WikiProject BasketballTemplate:WikiProject BasketballBasketball articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's sport (and women in sports), a WikiProject which aims to improve coverage of women in sports on Wikipedia. For more information, visit the
project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the
discussion.Women's sportWikipedia:WikiProject Women's sportTemplate:WikiProject Women's sportWomen's sport articles
@
Hmlarson: OK. Subcats are sometimes tricky because of unexpected relationships (a subcategory of a subcategory a few levels deep sometimes has little relationship with the original category), but I reviewed this situation, and it looks mostly fine.
I'll have the bot generate a list of pages it would tag, and we can double-check those. It'll take me a few days.
Separately, there is a requirement that you mention on the WikiProject talk page that you want to run this tagging job, in case there are any objections.
So sorry for the wait here, I had to make some code changes to handle tagging both banners and a few personal things came up – I have some free time now and will get back to you tomorrow in a few days. —
The Earwig (
talk)
20:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Ben, hope you are well. I just thought I'd let you know that the Copyvio Detector is not functioning all that well thae last couple of days, timing out on just about every comparison. ("The URL
https://www.dvfu.ru/en/about/ timed out before any data could be retrieved", for example.) Even times out on simple, short webpages of the type that it's usually able to access easily. Any assistance appreciated. Thanks, —
Diannaa (
talk)
13:34, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. We (
Chlod and I) did just block a misbehaving bot last night, so that would account for some extra load, but it doesn't totally explain the issue. That one URL is working for me at the moment, only taking a couple seconds. I will investigate further. —
The Earwig (
talk)
15:27, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks.
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