EdwardsBot will no longer perform local or global message delivery after December 31, 2013 in favor of MassMessage. |
Can you please allow me to access EdwardsBot? Thank you. Curtaintoad (talk to me) 10:02, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
User:Hobartimus has been inactive on Wikipedia for a long time, and yet he usually receives messages from your bot ,of which a whole lot have been piled up on his talk page by now. Could you do anything so that these messages would not be posted on this inactive user's talk page?-- Nmate ( talk) 14:23, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi MZ,
I just noticed the user page of indef blocked
User:La goutte de pluie getting a message delivered from the bot. That happens regularly since the bot operators often don't filter the spamlists for blocks first, but it is probably never intended. How about automatically filtering all blocked users from the list of recipients (unless maybe explicitly configured to include blocked users)? I believe you could get the user status with a single
list=users query. What do you think?
Cheers,
Amalthea 19:39, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps it would be preferable not to follow redirects when posting notices on user talk pages, to avoid situations like is happening on User:La goutte de pluie. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:45, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Didn't see that this was already being discussed, so I've moved this up here. It is a particular problem in this case, because the messages are going on the user page, not the talk page. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:48, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Why are you spamming this nonsense to hundreds/thousands of people? Stop doing that. I didn't sign up for this crap, and I'm sure most/all others didn't either. Dream Focus 19:54, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Did someone seriously approve a bot to spam people? - this seems to be a well-intentioned mistake that will not occur again. All future mailings will be strictly opt-in. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 21:11, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I've repeatedly urged the people using EdwardsBot to start an RFC or find some other way to gather consensus about when it is and is not appropriate to send messages to users in a bulk manner. I have no objection to the bot's access list being wiped or the bot being indefinitely blocked if bot operators continue to be unclear about what is and is not appropriate to deliver, to whom, and when. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Ok, the issue is as timely now as ever. Let's draft an RfC question. Possible issues:
list of questions moved to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Bulk talk page deliveries]
Add to this list, clarify questions, write your own. Might as well... Ocaasi t | c 01:52, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've split this out to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Bulk talk page deliveries. I do try to somewhat monitor this talk page, so using it as a drafting area isn't ideal. :-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 15:32, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
May I be added to EdwardsBot for my work with Wikimedia DC? Lisa N Marrs ( talk) 15:08, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I just made some edits to the /spam page, not realizing that the bot was running at the time. I reverted myself immediately afterwards, back to the original message. Did I screw up the last bot-run? How can I fix it? Ocaasi t | c 18:51, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
For the questia bot delivery, it seems the emails were delivered in plain text...this probably shouldn't be done in the future. Smallman12q ( talk) 22:21, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
previous editor already deleted my page, so what you actually done with my page,I guess "nothing",and I don't enjoy to edit.Some other site show my name under wiki reference,It's show your privacy policy that is " no-security for user". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetan singh jadaun ( talk • contribs) 05:40, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
It appears that the message placed by the bot on everyone's talk page caused the table of contents to display at the very bottom, inside the GA box. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:23, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Shell|introduction=}}
without specifying |notoc=yes
. I did
a quick fix to one such message. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:38, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
It is possible to add a future new topics at the top of our village pump (news) (currently the bot adds new topic at the bottom of the page like here)? In ru-wiki we prefer a model "new topics above" on forum pages. (If it is a wrong page, please consider helping me and adding it to the right place) ♪ anonim.one ♪ 17:28, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
More cowbell. -- EdwardsBot ( talk) 22:51, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi.
For the curious, I've updated the bot to no longer use the Toolserver's replicated databases. This mostly means that the bot will no longer freak out if replication lag is high.
While I was updating the code, I also removed category input support, as I didn't really feel like rewriting it and it's very rarely used. If there's actual demand for such a feature, I'll re-implement it. For now, it was easier to just rip it out. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:01, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Noticed that this bot added to the talk of someone that was blocked indefinitely. Consider adding code that would skip such a user. Morphh (talk) 16:25, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, can I make a feature request?
Partly because it helps keep things tidy and partly because I hate the "you have a new message" notification, I've split my talk page into several bits. It would be great to be able to specify a particular page for EdwardsBot to deliver any subscriptions to - perhaps User talk:Hex/Subscriptions
in my case. That way I would see newsletter updates via my watchlist only. —
Hex
(❝?!❞) 14:32, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
[[User:Hex]]
or [[User talk:Hex]]
, alter to [[User talk:Hex/Subscriptions]]
--
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:36, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
The bot took almost exactly 24 hours to activate and deliver a message. What gives? -- Nathan2055 talk - contribs 21:01, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
The userpage notification item is titled for the specific new issue and transcludes the table-of-contents of that issue. But then it links to [[ Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost as "Read this Signpost in full" (emphasis mine). That link is just to Signpost itself rather than to the specific issue. It's only a transient coincidence that it's the right issue at the time of the notification, and it's no longer "this" one later. Either the link needs to be more specific or the display-text needs to be more generic. DMacks ( talk) 01:55, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi guys - I ran EdwardsBot to place a template on a category - perhaps I did something wrong, but, the bot says it's now been running for almost 10 hours. Thoughts? SarahStierch ( talk) 17:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Please see [1], the bot inserted message below iw links which isn't correct. Please fix it. Thanks :) -- Nullzero ( talk) 07:21, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Maybe the bot should have some criteria so that it doesnt "award" users that have been indeff blocked as harmful to the project. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello EdwardsBot, Eduemoni has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni ↑talk↓ 04:08, 29 March 2013 (UTC) |
Hi, I've received a copy of the wikiproject Christianity newsletter. Although it is nice I never signed up for this and my name is not at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach#Subscriptions. Is this a bug?— Rod talk 13:03, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I need a notification message sent out to the members of the Food & Drink WikiProject asking them to participate in a discussion to update the Projects main page. The list is here
Thank you very much for your help! -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 06:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
I would just like to say that I think receiving one copy of the newsletter per week is enough. Cheers. Simply south.... .. eating shoes for just 7 years 12:25, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
The bot has just delivered a fresh issue of this newsletter to my talkpage; problem is, I never subscribed to it and my name is not in the list of subscribers. Could you please look into this? Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); May 8, 2013; 22:41 (UTC)
Hello,
Could you please remove gwickwire from your subscription list?
TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 06:17, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Please stop pasting templates on my talk page about the World Digital Library. I have already responded to duplicates from a user and from this bot. Today I found a third copy, also from EdwardsBot. The bot didn't sign the post; I had to check my page history to see who it was. Enough, already! — ℜob C. alias ÀLAROB 15:13, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Can someone please remove this page (or redirects pointing to it) from the distribution lists? πr2 ( t • c) 00:05, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. The bot didn't deliver Signpost to my talk page although I added myself to the spamlist. -- Meno25 ( talk) 20:11, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tools/Spamlist
in edits
like this, instead of specifying Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe
and relying on a transclusion. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 09:03, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes, Signpost was delivered to my talk page this week. Thank you, MZMcBride, for your effort and for creating this wonderful bot. -- Meno25 ( talk) 14:29, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Could you create user pages for EdwardBot on all projects where it leaves message on the local village pump with a link to this page so the local editors know where to ask questions or mention any issues. Thanks, Amqui ( talk) 14:15, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I've unsubscribed myself from the Signpost on 17 June [6], yet today it was delivered to my talk [7]. Can someone look into this? Thanks. Mohamed CJ (talk) 00:04, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
...that EdwardsBot's signature was missing a </small> on the AFC Backlog drive messages. I fixed it myself on my own talk page, but I thought you might want to be aware. Thank you for the amazing service! ~ Matthewrbowker Make a comment! 03:41, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! your "bot" - EdwardsBot give us really unnecessary informations, I`ve reverted yours bot changes about X!'s Edit Counter. Karol Karolus ( talk) 14:43, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
See User talk:MZMcBride#EdwardsBot adds a message to the end of forum page. The bot repeated the error five hours ago. Gamliel Fishkin ( talk) 23:16, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
This edit from the bot made it clear that the bot posts to whichever page my talk page is reverted to, if I redirect it. This seems like an odd measure, and produces bugs like these. I propose that the bot skips making the edit whenever the page they're trying to add to is redirected. TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 10:37, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Per the request at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive250#URGENT. Any admin is free to unblock without further reference to me. Bencherlite Talk 23:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Why am I being spammed for a newsletter that I never opted in for and am not a member of the corresponding WikiProject? Was there a bot error? Spencer T♦ C 11:55, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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Two problems: First links in the message delivered by bot were messed out and had to be fixed manually. Second: The bot added Tech news to Mdann52 which is a main namespace page. -- Meno25 ( talk) 19:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
From the article: "For a specific publication or post, there should be an "unsubscribe" link somewhere in the message. Simply remove yourself from the specific distribution list. You may contact the person who sent out the message for assistance."
What if there is no unsubscribe link? How do I find out who the message was sent from if it only says it's from EdwardsBot? Brian Z ( talk) 13:51, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
For some reason the bot is making duplicates of the NASCAR message on some talk pages. – Nascar1996 ( talk • cont) 03:29, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
His, hers and its have no apostrophe. It's a common mistake. Chemical Engineer ( talk) 10:54, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be something about my user talk page that confuses EdwardsBot. See here. I dont know if anybody else has been similarly afflicted; I would rather this stopped happening to me. Gaius Cornelius ( talk) 08:22, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
<nowiki>
left by
MopSeeker (
talk ·
contribs) in
this edit. I've
fixed it. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:06, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
EdwardsBot seemed to stutter or something once, and spammed my message to Ruud Koot twice. I've already fixed it, but if this is unusual behavior, then I figured you'd want to know. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:03, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
See this diff, it happened months ago but was not noticed until now.-- eh bien mon prince ( talk) 16:40, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Can someone run the bot for me to post this invite to this invite list? Thanks! Please let me know if I should put this somewhere else. -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 04:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
==Edit-a-thons at UC Riverside== The UCR Libraries are hosting three edit-a-thons focusing on their great special collections (science fiction, water resources, the Inland Empire and more) on Oct. 12, 2013, Oct. 26, 2013, and Nov. 23, 2013. Please participate if you can! Details and signup here. All are welcome, new and experienced editors alike! -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 04:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. The bot placed a message on my user talk page in this edit, but either it or the human directing it did not close the table containing the message, causing subsequent sections to appear to be inside the table. I had to fix it with this subsequent edit. — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 06:01, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Hopefully MassMessage will try to catch this type of error. Talk to Legoktm about filing a bug (an enhancement request) if that feature doesn't already exist. :-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:34, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have this invitation delivered to WikiProject Oregon and WikiProject Washington participants? (Vancouver, Washington is located at the border of the two states and is considered part of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.) This will be the second Wiki Love Libraries event in the Portland area this year, and I believe the first ever meetup in Vancouver. Any assistance with distribution would be much appreciated so that I do not have to spend so much time delivering them manually. Invitation:
WIKI LOVES LIBRARIES 2013! You are invited to attend the upcoming "Wiki Loves Libraries" edit-athon. The event will be held from 2:30–4:30pm on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at the Vancouver Community Library (901 C Street) in Vancouver, Washington. The edit-athon will focus on creating and expanding articles related to Vancouver and Clark County. Details and signup here! |
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Thank you, kindly. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:28, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
May I request another delivery here? This is intended for members of WikiProject Oregon and/or users in the category Wikipedians in Oregon. I am not an admin and therefore do not have permission to use the mass message delivery tool. Following is the message to be delivered (suggested heading title is "Get your cameras ready! Christmas in Oregon and PDX Pods"):
This month, WikiProject Oregon features two photo campaigns:
The concept is simple: upload photos of these two topics and share your work! Whether you upload one or one hundred, these images will help capture the culture of our state and illustrate Wikimedia projects. Have fun, and happy holiday season!
Thanks for any assistance. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
In EdwardsBot's unrequested edit to my user page, the bot ignored the {{bots|deny=all}} template. FYI. Riggr Mortis ( talk) 16:37, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
{{
bots}}
, since the messages are all opt-in: to prevent future deliveries, you should remove yourself from the signup list; the signup list used for that delivery
is here. (
more info here). --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:30, 5 December 2013 (UTC){{
bots}}
is ignored.
Riggr Mortis (
talk) 21:27, 5 December 2013 (UTC)Dear EdwardsBot after your post on lb:MediaWiki Diskussioun:Common.js I tried to implement this function on lb-wikipedia but I Have the impression that it does not work properly I would appreciate if you could verify whether everything was implemented correctly on lb-Wikipedia in order to use this function. Please post all remarks in how to proceed on my talk page. Best regards lb:User:Robby
</pre>
in the post, which has broken the rest of the page, and has quite likely affected lots of other pages on other Wikipedias too. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:45, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
<pre>...</pre>
on the page
lb:MediaWiki:Common.js and now everything is working pretty fine. Best regards from Luxembourg
Robby (
talk) 22:11, 12 December 2013 (UTC)Even though you said you would stop delivering messages on December 31st, you continue to deliver the SignPost and most likely many others. Is this intentional or not? StudiesWorld ( talk) 11:25, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
...one of then arrived 20:25, 1 February 2014 (UTC) and the second (exact copy) 11:36, 3 February 2014 (UTC). ( t) Josve05a ( c) 11:47, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
EdwardsBot will no longer perform local or global message delivery after December 31, 2013 in favor of MassMessage. |
Can you please allow me to access EdwardsBot? Thank you. Curtaintoad (talk to me) 10:02, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
User:Hobartimus has been inactive on Wikipedia for a long time, and yet he usually receives messages from your bot ,of which a whole lot have been piled up on his talk page by now. Could you do anything so that these messages would not be posted on this inactive user's talk page?-- Nmate ( talk) 14:23, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi MZ,
I just noticed the user page of indef blocked
User:La goutte de pluie getting a message delivered from the bot. That happens regularly since the bot operators often don't filter the spamlists for blocks first, but it is probably never intended. How about automatically filtering all blocked users from the list of recipients (unless maybe explicitly configured to include blocked users)? I believe you could get the user status with a single
list=users query. What do you think?
Cheers,
Amalthea 19:39, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps it would be preferable not to follow redirects when posting notices on user talk pages, to avoid situations like is happening on User:La goutte de pluie. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:45, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Didn't see that this was already being discussed, so I've moved this up here. It is a particular problem in this case, because the messages are going on the user page, not the talk page. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:48, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Why are you spamming this nonsense to hundreds/thousands of people? Stop doing that. I didn't sign up for this crap, and I'm sure most/all others didn't either. Dream Focus 19:54, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Did someone seriously approve a bot to spam people? - this seems to be a well-intentioned mistake that will not occur again. All future mailings will be strictly opt-in. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 21:11, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I've repeatedly urged the people using EdwardsBot to start an RFC or find some other way to gather consensus about when it is and is not appropriate to send messages to users in a bulk manner. I have no objection to the bot's access list being wiped or the bot being indefinitely blocked if bot operators continue to be unclear about what is and is not appropriate to deliver, to whom, and when. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Ok, the issue is as timely now as ever. Let's draft an RfC question. Possible issues:
list of questions moved to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Bulk talk page deliveries]
Add to this list, clarify questions, write your own. Might as well... Ocaasi t | c 01:52, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've split this out to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Bulk talk page deliveries. I do try to somewhat monitor this talk page, so using it as a drafting area isn't ideal. :-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 15:32, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
May I be added to EdwardsBot for my work with Wikimedia DC? Lisa N Marrs ( talk) 15:08, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I just made some edits to the /spam page, not realizing that the bot was running at the time. I reverted myself immediately afterwards, back to the original message. Did I screw up the last bot-run? How can I fix it? Ocaasi t | c 18:51, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
For the questia bot delivery, it seems the emails were delivered in plain text...this probably shouldn't be done in the future. Smallman12q ( talk) 22:21, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
previous editor already deleted my page, so what you actually done with my page,I guess "nothing",and I don't enjoy to edit.Some other site show my name under wiki reference,It's show your privacy policy that is " no-security for user". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetan singh jadaun ( talk • contribs) 05:40, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
It appears that the message placed by the bot on everyone's talk page caused the table of contents to display at the very bottom, inside the GA box. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:23, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Shell|introduction=}}
without specifying |notoc=yes
. I did
a quick fix to one such message. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:38, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
It is possible to add a future new topics at the top of our village pump (news) (currently the bot adds new topic at the bottom of the page like here)? In ru-wiki we prefer a model "new topics above" on forum pages. (If it is a wrong page, please consider helping me and adding it to the right place) ♪ anonim.one ♪ 17:28, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
More cowbell. -- EdwardsBot ( talk) 22:51, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi.
For the curious, I've updated the bot to no longer use the Toolserver's replicated databases. This mostly means that the bot will no longer freak out if replication lag is high.
While I was updating the code, I also removed category input support, as I didn't really feel like rewriting it and it's very rarely used. If there's actual demand for such a feature, I'll re-implement it. For now, it was easier to just rip it out. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:01, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Noticed that this bot added to the talk of someone that was blocked indefinitely. Consider adding code that would skip such a user. Morphh (talk) 16:25, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, can I make a feature request?
Partly because it helps keep things tidy and partly because I hate the "you have a new message" notification, I've split my talk page into several bits. It would be great to be able to specify a particular page for EdwardsBot to deliver any subscriptions to - perhaps User talk:Hex/Subscriptions
in my case. That way I would see newsletter updates via my watchlist only. —
Hex
(❝?!❞) 14:32, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
[[User:Hex]]
or [[User talk:Hex]]
, alter to [[User talk:Hex/Subscriptions]]
--
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:36, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
The bot took almost exactly 24 hours to activate and deliver a message. What gives? -- Nathan2055 talk - contribs 21:01, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
The userpage notification item is titled for the specific new issue and transcludes the table-of-contents of that issue. But then it links to [[ Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost as "Read this Signpost in full" (emphasis mine). That link is just to Signpost itself rather than to the specific issue. It's only a transient coincidence that it's the right issue at the time of the notification, and it's no longer "this" one later. Either the link needs to be more specific or the display-text needs to be more generic. DMacks ( talk) 01:55, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi guys - I ran EdwardsBot to place a template on a category - perhaps I did something wrong, but, the bot says it's now been running for almost 10 hours. Thoughts? SarahStierch ( talk) 17:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Please see [1], the bot inserted message below iw links which isn't correct. Please fix it. Thanks :) -- Nullzero ( talk) 07:21, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Maybe the bot should have some criteria so that it doesnt "award" users that have been indeff blocked as harmful to the project. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello EdwardsBot, Eduemoni has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni ↑talk↓ 04:08, 29 March 2013 (UTC) |
Hi, I've received a copy of the wikiproject Christianity newsletter. Although it is nice I never signed up for this and my name is not at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach#Subscriptions. Is this a bug?— Rod talk 13:03, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I need a notification message sent out to the members of the Food & Drink WikiProject asking them to participate in a discussion to update the Projects main page. The list is here
Thank you very much for your help! -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 06:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
I would just like to say that I think receiving one copy of the newsletter per week is enough. Cheers. Simply south.... .. eating shoes for just 7 years 12:25, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
The bot has just delivered a fresh issue of this newsletter to my talkpage; problem is, I never subscribed to it and my name is not in the list of subscribers. Could you please look into this? Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); May 8, 2013; 22:41 (UTC)
Hello,
Could you please remove gwickwire from your subscription list?
TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 06:17, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Please stop pasting templates on my talk page about the World Digital Library. I have already responded to duplicates from a user and from this bot. Today I found a third copy, also from EdwardsBot. The bot didn't sign the post; I had to check my page history to see who it was. Enough, already! — ℜob C. alias ÀLAROB 15:13, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Can someone please remove this page (or redirects pointing to it) from the distribution lists? πr2 ( t • c) 00:05, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. The bot didn't deliver Signpost to my talk page although I added myself to the spamlist. -- Meno25 ( talk) 20:11, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tools/Spamlist
in edits
like this, instead of specifying Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe
and relying on a transclusion. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 09:03, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes, Signpost was delivered to my talk page this week. Thank you, MZMcBride, for your effort and for creating this wonderful bot. -- Meno25 ( talk) 14:29, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Could you create user pages for EdwardBot on all projects where it leaves message on the local village pump with a link to this page so the local editors know where to ask questions or mention any issues. Thanks, Amqui ( talk) 14:15, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I've unsubscribed myself from the Signpost on 17 June [6], yet today it was delivered to my talk [7]. Can someone look into this? Thanks. Mohamed CJ (talk) 00:04, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
...that EdwardsBot's signature was missing a </small> on the AFC Backlog drive messages. I fixed it myself on my own talk page, but I thought you might want to be aware. Thank you for the amazing service! ~ Matthewrbowker Make a comment! 03:41, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! your "bot" - EdwardsBot give us really unnecessary informations, I`ve reverted yours bot changes about X!'s Edit Counter. Karol Karolus ( talk) 14:43, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
See User talk:MZMcBride#EdwardsBot adds a message to the end of forum page. The bot repeated the error five hours ago. Gamliel Fishkin ( talk) 23:16, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
This edit from the bot made it clear that the bot posts to whichever page my talk page is reverted to, if I redirect it. This seems like an odd measure, and produces bugs like these. I propose that the bot skips making the edit whenever the page they're trying to add to is redirected. TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 10:37, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Per the request at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive250#URGENT. Any admin is free to unblock without further reference to me. Bencherlite Talk 23:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Why am I being spammed for a newsletter that I never opted in for and am not a member of the corresponding WikiProject? Was there a bot error? Spencer T♦ C 11:55, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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Two problems: First links in the message delivered by bot were messed out and had to be fixed manually. Second: The bot added Tech news to Mdann52 which is a main namespace page. -- Meno25 ( talk) 19:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
From the article: "For a specific publication or post, there should be an "unsubscribe" link somewhere in the message. Simply remove yourself from the specific distribution list. You may contact the person who sent out the message for assistance."
What if there is no unsubscribe link? How do I find out who the message was sent from if it only says it's from EdwardsBot? Brian Z ( talk) 13:51, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
For some reason the bot is making duplicates of the NASCAR message on some talk pages. – Nascar1996 ( talk • cont) 03:29, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
His, hers and its have no apostrophe. It's a common mistake. Chemical Engineer ( talk) 10:54, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be something about my user talk page that confuses EdwardsBot. See here. I dont know if anybody else has been similarly afflicted; I would rather this stopped happening to me. Gaius Cornelius ( talk) 08:22, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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left by
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this edit. I've
fixed it. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:06, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
EdwardsBot seemed to stutter or something once, and spammed my message to Ruud Koot twice. I've already fixed it, but if this is unusual behavior, then I figured you'd want to know. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:03, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
See this diff, it happened months ago but was not noticed until now.-- eh bien mon prince ( talk) 16:40, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Can someone run the bot for me to post this invite to this invite list? Thanks! Please let me know if I should put this somewhere else. -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 04:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
==Edit-a-thons at UC Riverside== The UCR Libraries are hosting three edit-a-thons focusing on their great special collections (science fiction, water resources, the Inland Empire and more) on Oct. 12, 2013, Oct. 26, 2013, and Nov. 23, 2013. Please participate if you can! Details and signup here. All are welcome, new and experienced editors alike! -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 04:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. The bot placed a message on my user talk page in this edit, but either it or the human directing it did not close the table containing the message, causing subsequent sections to appear to be inside the table. I had to fix it with this subsequent edit. — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 06:01, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Hopefully MassMessage will try to catch this type of error. Talk to Legoktm about filing a bug (an enhancement request) if that feature doesn't already exist. :-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:34, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have this invitation delivered to WikiProject Oregon and WikiProject Washington participants? (Vancouver, Washington is located at the border of the two states and is considered part of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.) This will be the second Wiki Love Libraries event in the Portland area this year, and I believe the first ever meetup in Vancouver. Any assistance with distribution would be much appreciated so that I do not have to spend so much time delivering them manually. Invitation:
WIKI LOVES LIBRARIES 2013! You are invited to attend the upcoming "Wiki Loves Libraries" edit-athon. The event will be held from 2:30–4:30pm on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at the Vancouver Community Library (901 C Street) in Vancouver, Washington. The edit-athon will focus on creating and expanding articles related to Vancouver and Clark County. Details and signup here! |
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Thank you, kindly. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:28, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
May I request another delivery here? This is intended for members of WikiProject Oregon and/or users in the category Wikipedians in Oregon. I am not an admin and therefore do not have permission to use the mass message delivery tool. Following is the message to be delivered (suggested heading title is "Get your cameras ready! Christmas in Oregon and PDX Pods"):
This month, WikiProject Oregon features two photo campaigns:
The concept is simple: upload photos of these two topics and share your work! Whether you upload one or one hundred, these images will help capture the culture of our state and illustrate Wikimedia projects. Have fun, and happy holiday season!
Thanks for any assistance. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
In EdwardsBot's unrequested edit to my user page, the bot ignored the {{bots|deny=all}} template. FYI. Riggr Mortis ( talk) 16:37, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
{{
bots}}
, since the messages are all opt-in: to prevent future deliveries, you should remove yourself from the signup list; the signup list used for that delivery
is here. (
more info here). --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:30, 5 December 2013 (UTC){{
bots}}
is ignored.
Riggr Mortis (
talk) 21:27, 5 December 2013 (UTC)Dear EdwardsBot after your post on lb:MediaWiki Diskussioun:Common.js I tried to implement this function on lb-wikipedia but I Have the impression that it does not work properly I would appreciate if you could verify whether everything was implemented correctly on lb-Wikipedia in order to use this function. Please post all remarks in how to proceed on my talk page. Best regards lb:User:Robby
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in the post, which has broken the rest of the page, and has quite likely affected lots of other pages on other Wikipedias too. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:45, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
<pre>...</pre>
on the page
lb:MediaWiki:Common.js and now everything is working pretty fine. Best regards from Luxembourg
Robby (
talk) 22:11, 12 December 2013 (UTC)Even though you said you would stop delivering messages on December 31st, you continue to deliver the SignPost and most likely many others. Is this intentional or not? StudiesWorld ( talk) 11:25, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
...one of then arrived 20:25, 1 February 2014 (UTC) and the second (exact copy) 11:36, 3 February 2014 (UTC). ( t) Josve05a ( c) 11:47, 3 February 2014 (UTC)