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Can someone help me understand what happened with the image at Molana Alvi Birotvi? Three bots were duking it out over a deleted Commons image, and I'm not sure whether they were all working as designed and/or if "as designed" is the best situation in this case.
I don't understand why the fair use bot uploaded a copy in the first place (it doesn't upload copies of all copyvio-tagged images), unless it was somehow triggered by a human edit. Perhaps the biggest thing is that the fair use upload bot uploaded the image under a new name but simply reverted CommonsDelinker, so the old image name from Commons got put in, rather than the image's new name. Could it be instructed to link the name it's just uploaded? Could ImageRemovalBot be instructed not to revert the fair use upload bot unless a good deal longer than an hour has passed? Is something else the solution? I'll notify Carnildo, who operates ImageRemovalBot, while the upload bot is operated by User:Dcoetzee, who's done little since New Year's and nothing in two months. I can't figure out who operates CommonsDelinker; is it an internal piece of software, comparable to User:Conversion script? I'm also going to ask help from the Commons admin who deleted the original image, since s/he may be able to understand something I don't, especially the possibility of a human tagging the image at Commons for upload here. Nyttend ( talk) 22:33, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
46.119.117.72 ( talk · contribs) is posting random strings of characters on talk, Wikipedia talk, file talk and template talk pages. I have no idea what it is trying to do, and looks quite botty. Could an admin please block the account for now? Adabow ( talk) 11:38, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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Yobot is again making inconsequential changes, against WP:COSMETICBOT and AWB's rules of use. Usually a message on its talk page gets it to at least pause but not this time: [1].-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 12:13, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at the edits since yesterday (2014-06-03) at WT:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality where User:Legobot and I are disagreeing about whether an RFC that was started only yesterday has already expired. I'm probably doing something wrong that is making Legobot think it is an old RFC. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 10:43, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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is 18:42, 30 April 2014 (UTC) which is more than thirty days ago. This sort of thing comes up quite often at
User talk:Legobot. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 11:10, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Per the bot policy, I am making this post to inform the community of a request for BAG membership. Please feel free to ask any questions/comment there. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:35, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
So, I've been doing some semi-automated editing using my alternative account User:StradBot, and I've been shouted at because it looks like an unapproved bot. Which is fair enough, because it doesn't have a bot flag, and the name ends in "Bot". What's the best way forward here? Do I need to file an RFBA for the next AWB-like task I do using StradBot? Or do I just need someone to give the account a bot flag? I'm new to all of this bot business, so any advice would be appreciated. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 08:36, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Citation bot ( talk · contribs) is creating a massive number of sub-templates which store citation data within the Template namespace. I have read thru the various past approval requests listed at User:Citation bot#Bot approval, but I can't find an explicit request where they ask for approval for the mass creation of pages (request #6 mentions creation of subtemplates, refering to request #2, but that request doesn't ask for that ability). This bot has been operating in this manner apparently for many years, and the result is about 49k of these templates within Category:Cite doi templates, as well as some other types of citations. There are over 67 million DOIs in existence, so this could continue to grow indefinitely if left unchecked.
I'd like to ask that this bot be blocked temporarily until the operator can explain where and when he got community approval for mass creation of pages, and until this function of his bot has had a proper discussion (and moreso, the general problem of external data being stored in the template namespace). -- Netoholic @ 08:20, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
{{cite doi|xxx}}
(where xxx is the doi) in a reference. If the same doi has been used in another article, the job is finished because the first usage will have created the template. If this is the first usage, the bot notices the missing template and does the grunt work of filling in the citation and creating the template. It seems like a good system. To work out if it is effective, someone would need to count how many such templates exist (49k from the above), and compare that with the number of times a {{cite doi}} template is used.
Johnuniq (
talk) 11:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)This issue at hand is that this bot has exceeded its mandate - the approval requests that were made were to update/fill-in citation data (which is uncontroversial), but has change his method of doing this into the mass creation of pages (which is definitely controversial) without seeking approval. The bot's function should be stopped immediately and evaluated. -- Netoholic @ 17:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
The issue of creating separate template pages was raised in March 2009, as pointed out above - see Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard/Archive 4#A separate template for each cited source?. Like many discussions on Wikipedia, it ended with no consensus or resolution. So things have continued on, as is, for over five years.
I think it's important to focus on issues caused by the approach used by the bot, rather than whether there was appropriate approval. (Even if there had been approval, it can always be revoked.) So, possible issues:
As has been well-discussed at the village pump and the admin noticeboard, toolserver is officially dead. Which means DPL bot ( talk · contribs) is now inviting people to solve disambigs using the old toolserver link. ( recent example) Of course, you click on that, and find it's dead. Since the bot frequently notifies newbies about their errors, this is bad news.
IMHO all bots that write toolserver links to user talk pages should be shut down until their code is fixed to point to wmflabs. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:37, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
It was a fantastic tool, why couldn't the foundation support him and keep it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:43, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
I see, most unfortunate. It actually made dabbing fun. Now I'll have to rely on User:The Banner to do it all :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:59, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Done I just stripped out the text that included the bad links. Such a shame, it was a fantastic tool. -- JaGa talk 03:17, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Bot_name_changes. I've given my two bits, but if other bot operators/BAG members want to weigh in, that might be helpful... Hasteur ( talk) 02:08, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Just for those who missed it, SineBot stopped working a few days ago. See related discussion here. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 08:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
This is an (incomplete) list of inactive interwiki bots that not been re-purposed, not edited since February 2013 and in most cases since even earlier. For security reasons and following advice given at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#Remove_bot_flag_from_inactive_interwiki_bots.3F, these bots should be de-flagged.
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:31, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
This is a rather simple request, proposing the following steps to complete (note when complete below) for this one-off batch:
During the wait period, should a community consensus to change this process emerge, all steps to be reconsidered. — xaosflux Talk 11:38, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
While running through notifications, noticed there a few of these bots that are ALSO Global Bots, this clean up resolve their account on en:; but they will still have interwiki global bot flags, further discussion on cleaning them up would need to go to meta: — xaosflux Talk 12:14, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
(Note dropped at WP:VPR)
This is going to be the biggest deflag in Wikipedia's history. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:41, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
To those who you Peachy 2, if you have experimental updates switched on, you may find your bot stuck in an assertion failure loop. This can be fixed by switching experimental updates off and letting Peachy install the latest most stable version, by restarting the bot. Sorry guys for the bug. We should have it fixed soon. It can be tracked here.— cyberpower ChatOnline 11:48, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Please see User talk:Smith609/Archives/#Citation bot bugs and User talk:Citation bot/Archive1#r561 can't fill in cite doi templates when there is more than one author. I realize that the bot owner is no longer so active on-wiki, and that is understandable, but I hope that someone else who watches here may be able to help solve the problem. Thanks! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 15:13, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
This appears to be down, and Cyde hasn't been around for a month. Any ideas, anyone? Peridon ( talk) 11:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
User:Cyde/List of old proposed deletions is where the stalled message is. The message was manually added April 15, 2014 by Ronhjones. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 14:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
It's tempting to give this a different headline:
All your bots are going to break! Please panic now and avoid the rush! |
But I don't know if any of them will actually break, because I don't understand all the implications of the changes that are being discussed or know how many bots are relying on which details of the current implementation. I strongly believe that most of you need to watch and participate in mw:Requests for comment/API roadmap. This is a technical discussion with other developers; your technical comments really are wanted. If there are changes being discussed that will break your bot, then please speak up. If you're not sure, then ask. If you can help others, please do. (Overall, I think the plan sounds pretty good.)
This discussion was mentioned in last week's m:Tech/News (you can subscribe here), but the relevance may not have been clear to everyone, and I don't want any bot owner to be surprised by this. If you're going to have to make adjustments, then I'd prefer that you had as much time as possible to do that in. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:16, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
This is irritating, 90% of my tools will break I suppose. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:14, 5 August 2014 (UTC).
Sorry for posting this on User talk:JaGa already, but I think a response might be faster here.
Why did DPL bot create Template messages/Cleanup, Template messages/Cleanup/sandbox, and Enquire/sandbox? These are all in the mainspace. Is the bot malfunctioning? Piguy101 ( talk) 23:11, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I'd really like to see bots like User:XLinkBot not get approval, or if they do get approval, the approval process should definitely establish a consensus based procedure for what links such bots can remove; the decision should not be left at the whim of the bot operator. What's going to stop it from removing links to cnn.com etc.? JMP EAX ( talk) 13:21, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Labs has a new tools directory. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 19:49, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Cobi ( talk · contribs) hasn't edited for three months. Who else operates the ClueBots? Problems are being reported at User talk:ClueBot Commons, which are being ignored - eventually they get archived without resolution. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 13:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
User:HBC AIV helperbot11 is malfunctioning. Kept removing my report about an IP from WP:AIV claiming the IP has been blocked indef when it is not blocked and continues to vandalize. HkCaGu ( talk) 08:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Cydebot, owned by Cyde, does a great job but it keep creating duplicated categories. This was reported 8 years ago, a year ago, a month ago and today. The owner did not reply to these requests. What should be done? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:10, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Cyde any workaround for this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
OK there was a reply here. Not a biggie but if we can solve it then it's going to be awesome. Less work for my bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
I was hoping someone with bot knowledge could investigate Theo's Little Bot's Task 22 (to populate data on film articles that utilize {{ Rotten Tomatoes score}}). The bot has not made a positive contribution to a template subpage since April 17, 2014, with the few attempts at the end of August/early September 2014 producing the template's error message. I have personally created a template subpage for use on a film page ( Guardians of the Galaxy (film)), in hopes of intially "kickstarting" the bot to come by, but soon realized that I would have to manually update it (as seen in the edit history). I have attempted to contact the bot's owner, Theopolisme, as well as Technical 13 as they have previously helped with the template/bot, but did not receive any answer from either. I'm hoping someone here can look into the bot's operation, the code, and how the task is being executed, to find out if the bot is the problem, or possibly Rotten Tomatoes' API has changed, preventing the bot from working as it needs to. This bot was really helpful for updating this data, and it will be a shame (though not the end of the world) if the task no longer works. Thanks in advance. Note: This was originally posted at the WP:VPT. - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 04:22, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
See 62.25.109.197 ( talk · contribs). Is this a logged out bot? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 11:03, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
xeno My experience says that this guys was using python or something but not AWB. But I have seen anonymous IPs using AWB lately. I wonder if we can limit this by adding flood to anonymous IPs that disallows more than x edits per minute. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Please examine this sequence for Opple Lighting
You will see that the first had a mix of = = and == == combinations, which despite the single equal sign error ( WP:MOSHEAD), did maintain the Table of Contents with subdirectories.
When BG19bot made its edits in the second, it converted the = = combination but not did not attend to the the == == combination. Thus, the Table of Contents lost all notion of subdirectories, as everything was a level 1 heading.
I made the repair in the third, reestablishing the subdirectories.
Please disable the BG19bot tool until this has a fix as it is currently doing more harm than good.
Peaceray ( talk) 05:34, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Peaceray always try contacting the bot owner first. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:36, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
PeerReviewBot ( talk · contribs) has recently closed two peer reviews in controversial circumstances, where it would have been better to wait. The owner, CBM has disappeared, and nobody else can do anything about the bot. What options do we have? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:14, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Greetings bot developers and administrators! I'm the author of a software library called WikiBrain that democratizes access to Wikipedia-based algorithms from the fields of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and GIScience. We would like to make these features available to bot developers and Wikipedia researchers through a web API, and have written an individual engagement grant that would support this work.
We need your help in designing the API! Do you have a bot that wants a bigger brain? Head over to the use cases feedback page, review the features WikiBrain offers, and add a sentence or two to tell us what you'd like included in the API. I'd also love pointers to other places to get in touch with bot developers. Thanks! Shilad ( talk) 14:28, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Does someone have, or could someone gen up, a bot that would substitute all occurrences of something like WP:X to W:Y? The number of occurrences is small, like less than five hundred. NE Ent 13:27, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Some 1500 stub articles have recently been added to
Category:Megachile. Can any of your bots please add sortkeys to these pages so that they are sorted according to the species name like [[Category:Megachile|Mucida]]
? The operation would be quite simple: If the page name begins with "Megachile" and contains two words, take the second word and use it as sort key beginning with an upper case letter.
De728631 (
talk) 13:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
The DPL bot is going cuckoo and needs to be stopped. See for an example: here. Trying to contact the owner failed so far. Prior discussion can be found at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links#Brian Bennett, User talk:DPL bot and User talk:JaGa. The Banner talk 10:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
I appreciate that a bot is fixing links to archived content such as this edit, but it appears that the bot is operating from an IP address. Anyone know which bot this is, so they can notify the bot owner? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 12:08, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
I left a talk note, and email sent to Cobi; will block this IP if not-resolved within the day. — xaosflux Talk 13:25, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Next week Qgil-WMF will host two office hours to answer your questions about the Bugzilla to Phabricator migration:
These will be on #wikimedia-office connect. Information about how to join is available at m:IRC office hours. The plan is to start the migration on Friday 21 November at 00:30 UTC. More information will be posted at mw:Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:42, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
As of this writing, SineBot, the infamous robot that automatically signs unsigned comments, has not edited for over 10 days. Attempts to contact Slakr, the bot operator, has been unsuccessful. If there's an alternate maintainer that could restart the bot, that would be great. In the meantime, human editors can quickly sign unsigned comments with User:Anomie/unsignedhelper. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 12:37, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
ClueBot III seems to have entirely wiped ANRFC in an attempt to archive two discussions. Something clearly went wrong. — 174.141.182.82 ( talk) 09:58, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
HBC AIV helperbot11 ( talk · contribs) appears to be editing logged out as 10.68.16.36 ( talk · contribs). I've left a talk message an email for operator @ Darkwind:. Volume is low right now, blocking is not yet needed. — xaosflux Talk 04:48, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Seems to be happening again, this time at 10.68.17.184 ( talk · contribs). I suspect it's HBC AIV helperbot5 ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) as it hasn't edited since before the IP edits. Sam Walton ( talk) 10:36, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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Done
This bot is currently indef blocked, as its operator has been banned. Additionally there are no currently approved tasks for this account. I propose that it is deauthorized/deflagged. Should the operator ever become unbanned and return to the project they can follow the standard request process for bot approvals. — xaosflux Talk 15:21, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
I've noticed that User:HBC AIV helperbot11, User:HBC AIV helperbot7 and User:HBC AIV helperbot5 mark the edit as minor when removing reported users at AIV and UAA. On the other hand, User:HBC AIV helperbot doesn't mark them as minor. I think the later is preferable since the removal doesn't show up in watchlists if the minor bot edits are hidden, meaning one doesn't know if the user was dealt with or not, or if the page is empty. @ Chillum, Darkwind, Wimt, and JamesR: informing owners. Cenarium ( talk) 14:26, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
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As 7SeriesBOT ( t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created ( xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ( blocks · rights · moves) · rfar · spi · cci) no longer has administrative permissions, it is no longer capable of completing any tasks. I move to deauthorize/deflag this bot/account. — xaosflux Talk 17:19, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I came across this after a report to ClueBot NG's page, apparently ClueBot 3 is not archiving?
ClueBot 3's contributions will show it's not archived since 5th January and I'm not sure why--
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Could somebody knowedgeable with bots, bot flags and BRFA please have a look at User:Bababa67 and subpages? User seems to have a lot there concerning bots, including two subpages of python code (I don't know python at all, so don't know what they do). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:35, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Labs has scheduled disk maintenance on January 15 at 18:00 UTC for up to 24 hours. Tools/bots may be affected during this time. Full details available on the Labs mailing list. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 16:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
I don;t know what's actually happening but it seems like Legobot is malfuntioning. It is notifing Example (See User talk:Example) when GA reviewers start or pass/fails an article instead of notifing the nominator. I tried to contact the bot owner Legoktm ( talk · contribs) on his talk page, but they haven;t replied. Thanks, Jim Carter 04:42, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
We had a discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 117#Bot tagging of edits, where there was pretty strong support to allowing bots to tag individual edits. Based on the discussions, I would say that bot owners should be encouraged to modify their bots to do so, if it would be appropriate. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 02:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Due to a newly-discovered security vulnerability all labs instances will be rebooted today. Full details. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 17:54, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
The inline template {{ Verify credibility}} has been moved to {{ Unreliable source?}}. A redirect remains for the old template. Please update any bot actions accordingly. Jason Quinn ( talk) 06:47, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
User:ClueBot III and
User:Cyberbot I created pages in the wrong namespace on January 27, 2015. They created pages in the article namespace (0) with page names starting with User:
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See All pages with prefix User, All pages with prefix Book talk, All pages with prefix Template or see New namespace 0 pages for Cyberbot I and New namespace 0 pages for ClueBot III.
Here is an edit that Cyberbot I made here.
I found this while looking at an InceptionBot new article report; InceptionBot does not look at the User and Book namespaces. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 03:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
A user posted at WT:TWINKLE asking that Twinkle be modified to apply {{ refimprove}} instead of the redirect {{ ref improve}}, because a bot (apparently Yobot ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) was coming in after his tagging and "fixing" the redirect ( example). After looking a little closer, the real problem appears to be not with Twinkle, but with Yobot and WP:COSMETICBOT. Yobot's recent contribs are filled with plenty of edits that have zero impact on the rendered page. A small number of examples are [4], [5], [6], [7], and this particularly blatant case. Looking at the relevant BRFA for the majority of these edits, it seems that there were concerns expressed back then that the bot would be making insignificant changes, and I agree with the concerns. Moreover, the final approval was not clear on exactly what fixes were approved, which may be part of the problem. I believe that Yobot needs to stop doing non-rendering changes (unless a rendering change is also made) per WP:COSMETICBOT, and to cover the other issues, the operator ( Magioladitis) needs to make sure to have AWB skip pages when the main task makes no changes. Additionally, I cannot find a valid reason for AWB to be "fixing" a template redirect when the "fix" consists solely of removing a space, and so that change ought to be removed from AWB completely. The version with the space is slightly clearer and more readable anyway. jcgoble3 ( talk) 11:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
jcgoble3 well. these changes helped us fix many infoboxes that in the past did not supported bulleted lists and
fix them. (See also
[8] and the relevant discussion at
User_talk:Frietjes#More_pages_with_empty_nowiki_tags). Moreover, we spotted many left-overs from Visual Editor's older(?) bugs.
On the "br tags" fixing. It is error #2. Since it was a new entry we (Bgwhite and I) used the latest database dump instead of daily scans. Everything worked almost fine since there were very fews cases that the tag has been removed before my bot arrives. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:22, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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User:HasteurBot is removing useful categories from all AfC articles which was not approved in its bot request. I found this category quite useful and find it harmful that it is being removed where it is needed. Thanks! EoRdE6( Come Talk to Me!) 06:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
An unapproved bot task was reported, admitted to by the accused, and as a result, I think the misused bot flag should be removed from the bot until BAG can decide what to do about it.As such, I'm requesting exactly that. Please remove the bot flag from this bot until a member of BAG makes a statement on the behalf of BAG that it is okay cause disruption with a bot carrying out tasks that, using Hasteur's own comment, were not identified using the originally authorized task. Thank you. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( e • t • c) 23:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
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00:16, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Labs outage for disk drive addition. Full notice. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 15:34, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
I found out that on the section in which a user wanted to change his username because it's inappropriate, but even though he censored the vulgar word, "pussy", LegoBot said there's no problem with the username. Does the bot detect problems with the usernames with a similar censoring method or is this bot malfunctioning? Snowager ( talk) 06:19, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
(moved from WP:ANI) At WP:UAA, there are a lot of usernames reported, but I managed to find some that have been already blocked but not removed by HBC AIV helperbot, which means a possible malfunction. -- ToonLucas22 ( talk) 23:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. This category was deleted on February 26, 2015 (see Category:Deaths_from_surgical_complications). However, the red-linked categories remain on all the articles in which the subject had this category. Just wondering if this is a problem or if the bot hasn't gotten started yet. Yours, Quis separabit? 03:21, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Tagging orphaned fair use images and removing fair use images from userspace used to both be done regularly by bots. Is there no longer a bot doing these tasks? I have removed a handful of fair use images from userspace in the last few days and I'm guessing there's no bot automatically doing that any more? -- B ( talk) 16:54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
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21:22, 7 March 2015 (UTC)@ Technical 13: - edits like this where they were adding referenced articles to a log of unreferenced articles (which they did multiple times) which I raised with the bot-owner here with no response. Giant Snowman 08:28, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm currently running User:ThePhantomBot but can't run it 24/7 without an external host. The bot deals with detecting LTA so the source can't be public, (there are probably some LTA users willing to look through it to find out how to get around it) I don't care if certain people see the source (trustable users) but my understanding is that tool labs can't be used to host a bot without making all the source code public. Is there any way to host a (semi) closed source bot on tool labs, if not is there anywhere I can host it for free? I assume a free host would be very difficult to find, I've done some searching and haven't been able to find any. In terms of performance, the connection speed is most important, each change takes a very short amount of time to check and of that time almost all of it is API queries. PhantomTech ( talk) 19:58, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Cydebot has managed to delete at least three pages incorrectly recently, User:Muffingg, User:333-blue and Wikipedia:Five pillars. Seems to be a common problem with categories which are also page names within a namespace other than main, such as Category:Wikipedia:Five pillars. This was raised here but Cyde has not replied and seems largely inactive at the moment. Does anything need to be done : E.g. can anyone fix ithe bot or should it have it’s admin bit removed, or be blocked, until it is? The latter seems drastic but it should not be running unsupervised while able to incorrectly delete pages.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 14:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm looking into it now. -- Cyde Weys 02:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Should be straight-forward to figure out at least. It definitely has to do with PyWikiBot getting confused between what is the namespace of the page and what is the name. -- Cyde Weys 02:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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where %1 begins with a name that is equal to the name of a name space, e.g.
Category:User:USERNAME. —
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Talk 13:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)The bot deletes the category, then checks if there is an associated talk page and deletes it if necessary (or probably it just deletes the talk and ignores any error saying that the page did not exist). For example, the bot deleted [[Category:Films produced by Georges Méliès]] then immediately deleted [[Category talk:Films produced by Georges Méliès]]. In the latest problem, the bot deleted [[Category:Wikipedia:Five pillars]] then [[Wikipedia:Five pillars]], so I wonder if the problem is a failure in the logic that attempted to generate [[Category talk:Wikipedia:Five pillars]]. Perhaps something tried to normalize the title and stripped off "Category talk:"? Johnuniq ( talk) 23:45, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
We should be good now. Also, in a nice case of fixing two birds by killing them with one stone, categories should also be moved now (rather than having their text copied over). Please keep a closer eye on CFD for a bit and let me know if anything goes wrong, but I think we should be good. Thanks to anon and Johnuniq for the insights. -- Cyde Weys 00:33, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Did something get messed up with the archive configuration at AN3? No threads have been archived in a week, but they should be archived after 48hrs. Stickee (talk) 23:33, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
The issue is occurring on other pages too. Stickee (talk) 23:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I am sorry for putting the issue with other wiki project. On Hindi wikipedia I am not able to delete pages with bot since last few months. I don't know, why it is happening but it shows error given bellow. I am using pywikibot code. Error message: http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Please help me to get out from this problem.☆★ Sanjeev Kumar ( talk) 16:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Processing page सदस्य वार्ता:संजीव कुमार/test Error downloading data: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Request hi:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Retrying in 1 minutes... Error downloading data: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Request hi:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Retrying in 2 minutes...
$ git clone --recursive https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/compat.git pywikibot-compat
Pywikibot: [https] r-pywikibot-compat.git (00a8cba, g11165, 2015/03/24, 20:48:03, ok) Release version: 1.0b1 Python: 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok
python delete.py -file:delete.txt -summary:"test"
I did this test also. I have created a page hi:user:sanjeev bot/test and tried to delete it but the error message is same as above.
python delete.py -page:"user:sanjeev bot/test" -summary:"test" Processing page सदस्य:Sanjeev bot/test Error downloading data: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Request hi:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Retrying in 1 minutes...
I found my old files in another directory but that is also not working now, which used to work in August 2014. Details of that version is as:
python version.py Pywikibot: [https] r-pywikibot-compat.git (2bebc61, g11037, 2014/08/06, 18:47:05, OUTDATED) Release version: 1.0b1 Python: 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok
So, it looks like (in my understanding) there is problem because of some api.php change. But I don't know how to correct it.☆★ Sanjeev Kumar ( talk) 17:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I think the best step would be get the current core version of pywikibot and use that. However, I found some old compat files I have and scanning for the error message suggests the problem is that your "family" file has a problem with its code2encoding function. Something like this is needed:
def code2encoding(self, code): return 'utf-8'
I don't know the details of how that works, but there is a families/wikipedia_family.py file, and family.py. Possibly removing the function from the former would make the script use the latter, which should be as above. Johnuniq ( talk) 22:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Actually, I am running a bot on hiwiki with username "sanjeev bot" but that is not able to delete these pages with core version. If I am adding the command sysopnames['wikipedia']['hi'] = 'संजीव कुमार'
to this line then instead of bot, my user account is taking actions.☆★
Sanjeev Kumar (
talk) 08:51, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
@ Slakr: - SineBot ( talk · contribs) has not run since 11 April - can somebody kick the server? Also, it would be nice if essential bots like this could be open sourced and hosted by the WMF, just sayin'. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:20, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
It appears that CorenSearchBot appears to be malfunctioning since when I browsed through Category:Possible copyright violations, mainly in the draft namespace, it tagged various pages as a suspected copyvios even though most were mainly weren't (only very few copyvios in which I've tagged for deletion per G12), giving me a clue that the bot is malfunctioning. Here are some examples of false positives:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowager ( talk • contribs) 01:15, 3 May 2015
There was a discussion on my talk page about potentially changing the output from the Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DRN clerk bot task. Keeping in mind that there's a few editors who would like nothing better to brand me a bot operator out of control, I'm asking if making a change to the output from the bot task like this would invoke the requirement for a new BRFA. Thank you in advance. Hasteur ( talk) 13:59, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Whichever bot operates from 10.68.17.88 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) is currently editing whilst logged out (one of the bots that clerks AIV and UAA). I think it is HBC AIV helperbot, which hasn't edited since 5:44 this morning, but I'm not certain. @ Chillum: as the owner of that bot. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 18:30, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
(Note: I'm copying this in full, because it looks important. HTH. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 21:40, 2 June 2015 (UTC) )
Post from https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html
As has been announced several times (most recently at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly.
The date is now set: we intend to merge the change to ride the deployment train at the end of June. That should be 1.26wmf12, to be deployed to test wikis on June 30, non-Wikipedias on July 1, and Wikipedias on July 2.
If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen here https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages, for example), it's time to fix your code!
Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning.
I've compiled a list of bots that have hit the deprecation warning more than 10000 times over the course of the week May 23–29. If you are responsible for any of these bots, please fix them. If you know who is, please make sure they've seen this notification. Thanks.
AAlertBot AboHeidiBot AbshirBot Acebot Ameenbot ArnauBot Beau.bot Begemot-Bot BeneBot* BeriBot BOT-Superzerocool CalakBot CamelBot CandalBot CategorizationBot CatWatchBot ClueBot_III ClueBot_NG CobainBot CorenSearchBot Cyberbot_I Cyberbot_II DanmicholoBot DeltaQuadBot Dexbot Dibot EdinBot ElphiBot ErfgoedBot Faebot Fatemibot FawikiPatroller HAL HasteurBot HerculeBot Hexabot HRoestBot IluvatarBot Invadibot Irclogbot Irfan-bot Jimmy-abot JYBot Krdbot Legobot Lowercase_sigmabot_III MahdiBot MalarzBOT MastiBot Merge_bot NaggoBot NasirkhanBot NirvanaBot Obaid-bot PatruBOT PBot Phe-bot Rezabot RMCD_bot Shuaib-bot SineBot SteinsplitterBot SvickBOT TaxonBot Theo's_Little_Bot W2Bot WLE-SpainBot Xqbot YaCBot ZedlikBot ZkBot -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
(End of copy)
ClueBot III doesn't seem to be archiving correctly for some reason.
If you look at User talk: Jimbo Wales it is supposed to archive this page whenever a thread doesn't have a response for 24 hours, but it hasn't archived this page since 4 May. The only reason the page isn't 10 miles long by now is because myself and other editors have been manually archiving it. It's also not archiving @ K6ka:'s talk page. There have been no response to the pings for the message left about this on ClueBot's talk page, I also tried emailing @ Rich Smith: and have had no response. I'm not sure what to do next.-- 5 albert square ( talk) 23:58, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
rawcontinue=1
to all action=query
requests.
BJorsch (WMF) (
talk) 10:33, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
This may be an unrelated recent issue, but for whatever reason, the bot also appears to be failing to update the page counts. This diff here is ClueBot III archiving a thread to archive222, but if you look at the code of the noticeboard in that revision, the current count is still at 187. This seems to be causing problems for the OneClickArchiver script. I believe Technical 13 recently forked the script to correct a similar problem, so I'm pinging him as well. ― Padenton| ✉ 23:16, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
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Technical 13}} (
e •
t •
c)
00:25, 25 May 2015 (UTC)Hi all,
If anyone runs a bot, or knows which bot, runs with the useragent "Reverter/2.0", can you get in contact with me via email ASAP please? Not that you are in any trouble, I'm just looking into something, and knowing this will make the job so much easier :) Thanks, Mdann52 ( talk) 21:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I have been leaving messages for User:Legoktm since January, and no response [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] ... I have also tries sending emails, and no response. Any suggestions on what to do next? the thread in question is User talk:Legoktm#Duplicate parameter args (ping Magioladitis). Frietjes ( talk) 19:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes, xeno. I was online in IRC the entire day. No replies. I also copied the questions posed above on the channel. If there is anything else I can do, please tell me. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:09, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
elif param.startswith('mask='):to
elif re.search('^mask[0-9]*=',param):which will make mask1=, mask2=, work as well as mask=. of course, I haven't tested this, so any python experts are more than welcome to correct this if I am wrong. Frietjes ( talk) 19:18, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Does anyone who speaks this language: https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/chu.php and can figure out why auto-marking is not being done at CHU/S and prepare a patch? Thanks! – xeno talk 19:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
My bot ( user:Rick Bot) has been successfully fetching pages for years with cURL. As of about yesterday it apparently can't anymore. I'm not sure, but I suspect the issue might be the requirement that a custom user agent string be provided. Has this just recently started being enforced? Adding "Rick_Bot/1.0 ( /info/en/?search=User:Rick_Bot)" as the user agent string doesn't seem to fix it. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 15:55, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Since 21:45, 19 June 2015 this bot always set revert ID to 0, which makes false positives impossible to report. See [24]. What's up?-- GZWDer ( talk) 17:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Should we indef block Svenbot until Sven Manguard becomes active again? Bot has not edited for 1.5 years and he left a message in January 2015 that he is leaving Wikipedia permanently. If he returns we can unblock the bot immediately. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:29, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Addshore if we follow the same routine we did last year, Svenbot should certainly be deflagged. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:54, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
OK. I think deflagging is enough. No reason to block. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:58, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
rfc|tech|prop|rfcid=C6D0379}}
Should we remove the bot flagging ability from bureaucrats and add it to a newly created a BAG user group? → Σ σ ς. ( Sigma) 07:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
- or to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:05, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
The contents of this discussion have been copied to WP:VPR#Request for comment: Bot flags and bureaucrats. → Σ σ ς. ( Sigma) 08:46, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Friendly reminder: Everything's scheduled to break this week |
You know that I exaggerate, but the long-awaited "rawcontinue" change (see /Archive 9#API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month) starts tomorrow (Tuesday) with test wikis and there's a leap second tomorrow at 23:59:60 UTC, and that's all in addition to the normal development train and any remaining fallout about HTTPS. If you run into problems during the next couple of days, then knowing exactly when the problem started may be especially useful for debugging. I'll be watching VPT, but you may get more useful responses on IRC if anything goes wrong. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:27, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
All AWB bots should upgrade to version 5.7.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno:: User:ZscoutBot was approved in 2012. The bot never edited, its creator, Zscout370 never replied and they are retired two years now. I suggest that we remove the bot flag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:23, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore and Xeno: User:ChrisSalij Bot was approved back in 2010 and it was agreed the bot will be deflagged " 6 months later". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:14, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I've just blocked this bot for blanking numerous articles. The owner Smith609 does not seem to be around much. Next step? -- NeilN talk to me 03:54, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore, Xaosflux, and Xeno: please remove flag from User:T13bot. Bot and bot owner were blocked for sockpuppeting. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:48, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno: please deflag User:Simplebot. Editor and bot inactive since 2009. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:43, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
@
Xeno,
Addshore, and
Chillum: I noticed that
User:DustaBot does not have a bot flag while its redirect
User:DusterBot has a bot flag. We should deflag DusterBot and flag DustaBot. @
Chillum: Is your bot still operating? --
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:41, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Jitse's bot ( talk · contribs) has stopped working. It’s actually not been working reliably for a number of months; see its talk page for previous incidents. but it has now stopped altogether, as of two weeks ago. I did not notice sooner as I missed its daily updates dropping off my watchlist.
Unfortunately its owner Jitse Niesen ( talk · contribs) seems inactive. Despite pings and at least one e-mail he has not responded to queries about previous problems and has not noticed the current hiatus which I would think he would spot if at all active. Absent being able to contact him to restart it I don't know if anyone else is able to; it is hopefully something simple.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 18:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
JohnBlackburne as far as I can see, this account has no bot flag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:43, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
DASHBot operated by Tim1357 is a toolserver bot and has ben blocked for more than 2 years. I think we should remove the bot flag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:47, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore and Xeno:. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:59, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore, Xaosflux, and Xeno: JYBot operated by javadyou is a interwiki bot that I missed in the above list. We should remove the flag too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:56, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
The following bots have been inactive since February 2013 or earlier, they are interwiki bots (they survived the big bots cleanup because they were not listed as such!) and most probably have been broken after latest API changes. They match all the criteria for removing their flag.
Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 10:55, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Xaosflux: too. This is a list of interwiki bots. I l create another list of other "weird" cases of inactive bots. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:46, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I left messages to all bot owners, exactly as we did last year. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:38, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@
Addshore: Thanks. Since all these bots are interwiki bots can you please change their status from inactive to unapproved? You only have to change |status=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:33, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
I marked all deflagged interwiki bots as unapproved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:09, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore: CrimsonBot, was operated by retired Wikipedian CrimsonBlue. Both accounts are marked as retired since January 2013. Can you please remove the bot flag? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:07, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
I just spent two minutes scratching my head because SporkBot ( talk · contribs) removed this reference that had a formatting error I was about to fix, meaning I was looking at the wikitext wondering "where's it gone"? Since the bot's owner, Plastikspork ( talk · contribs) has retired, perhaps the bot should be shut down until this can be reviewed? A bot shouldn't revert good faith, even if badly formatted, edits like that. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:54, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
per this thread, I am unable to contact Legoktm. Thanks to Mdann52, we now have this pull request. can Magioladitis or someone who Legoktm responds to get Legoktm to apply this pull request? this will allow us to remove the duplicate args introduced in this edit. Frietjes ( talk) 14:02, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
per this thread, I am unable to contact Legoktm. Thanks to Mdann52, we now have this pull request. can Magioladitis or someone who Legoktm responds to get Legoktm to apply this pull request? this will allow us to remove the duplicate args introduced in this edit. Frietjes ( talk) 16:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes Maybe it's time that we start taking over the various Legobot tasks? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Frietjes:: Mdann52's change was against the wrong repo. Legoktm will have a look tomorrow. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Already being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#ArmbrustBot 4. Anomie ⚔ 21:41, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
See User talk:Armbrust#Problem at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 25#1st to 5th century BC births, and explanation of problem after the closed discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 25#1st to 5th century BC births. Ambrust seems to be unwilling to take responsability for the bot's actions. -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 19:48, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
→ see Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#ArmbrustBot 4 -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 20:49, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
I'm quite active in the peer review community and I'd like to propose some changes to the bot. I've been given permission from Ruhrfisch, who currently manages the bot in behalf of CBM (currently inactive). However I'm having some trouble finding where the code actually is. Any of the links provided on the user page or toolserver turn up dead ends. Where is the actual page with the code contained? I would be very grateful for a response, as when I have access to the code I can then propose specific changes for discussion. Cheers, -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 01:30, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
ENewsBot owned by JamesR stopped working since its functionality became obsolete. @ Xeno, Addshore, and Xaosflux: et al. I suggest that the bot flag is removed unless JamesR wants to keep the flag for other tasks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno, Addshore, and Xaosflux: et al. SmackBot has not edited for 4 years and it is now a redirect of Helpful Pixie Bot which has no bot flag and it is blocked. I think the bot flag has to be removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi guys. Sorry for spamming this, but it's for a good cause. I would like to encourage editors to comment on my idea lab request here. Input would be greatly appreciated.— cyberpower Chat:Online 20:15, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
All maintained by Chzz ( talk · contribs), who has been missing since March 2013. In two cases, they were marked as not having flags anymore, but near as I can tell, they all still have a flag. As it seems unlikely that Chzz is coming back anytime soon, I'd suggest we de-flag them. Avic ► 06:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno and Addshore: -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:28, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm requesting the removal of the bot flag from my bot. Alakzi ( talk) 17:59, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno: What do you think? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:53, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Cydebot has been making edits not supported by the CFD discussions it links to in the edit discription. There has also been other issues mentioned on Cyde's talk page that haven't been addressed as well, namely:
This bot should be stopped or blocked from editing until these issues are resolved. Suppafly ( talk) 15:47, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
@
Magioladitis: per
this thread and
this thread,
User:Legoktm will not respond to email or requests on his/her talk page. Can someone assist? In particular, I am still waiting to hear about progress on merging a change to eliminate the need for duplicate |mask=
in
Talk:World War II and several other talk pages. the change submitted by
Mdann52 allows for duplicate |mask=
to be replaced by |mask1=
, |mask2=
, |mask3=
, ... and remove these pages from the duplicate parameter tracking category.
Frietjes (
talk) 16:44, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore: -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:32, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Frietjes: -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:54, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis, C678, and Legoktm: thank you, now testing with this change. hopefully it works. if not, let me know so I can suggest a modification. Frietjes ( talk) 19:11, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WT:BRFA#Adding a form for BRFA. Thanks. APerson ( talk!) 13:45, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello!
I'm a totally new user and how no idea if this is the right place to post this. Anyway, I created a very small web scraper in Java. It takes the headlines of the day, and opens them, with a 3000 ms delay, in new tabs. It cannot edit or change Wikipedia in any way or form. I have not found any information regarding the topic of web scraping here on Wikipedia, so I hope that I could get an answer here. What is Wikipedias policy on this? What am I allowed to do/not do?
-- TheYoungOak ( talk) 13:52, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
TheYoungOak ( talk) 07:31, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
A long time ago, there used to be a rule (set by the Wikimedia server admins) that read-only bots could run without authorization, but were limited to one page read per second (communicated via robots.txt). The limit was experimentally removed in 2006 to see if it caused any problems, and given that it hasn't been replaced yet, I'm assuming it was concluded that the limit was unnecessary (there's now a text warning there instead). However, "1 read per second" is probably a sensible rate limit to use anyway, given that it worked just fine throughout Wikipedia's early history and we have more powerful servers nowadays. Using maxlag (as Anomie suggests) is a good idea, because that allows the site to let you know when it's under particular stress (and thus could do with bots holding off for a while). I'd also recommend using the API, both because it's easier on the servers, and because it's likely to be easier from your end too (scrapers have a tendency to break as a result of site changes). -- ais523 12:45, 29 September 2015 ( U T C)
Wow, such a response! I am very grateful for your input, and I will take all of this into consideration. I might not be able to actually make anything out of this, but now I know where I can start :) "1 read per second" seems sensible too, I just wanted to play it safe. TheYoungOak ( talk) 17:07, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Lowercase sigmabot II and Hazard-Bot, bots that clean Wikipedia sandbox pages, are not running, the former making its last edit in August 2015, and the latter just four days ago. Sandbox pages are starting to pile up and human editors are now tasked with having to clean the pages regularly. Can this be investigated? Thanks, --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 13:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Cyberpower678: I don't know if I have all the sandbox pages (As there seems to be no "Sandbox page" category), but I'll do my best to list all of them. As follows:
Page | Default text | ||
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Wikipedia:Sandbox |
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Wikipedia talk:Sandbox |
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User:Sandbox |
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User talk:Sandbox |
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Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing/sandbox |
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Wikipedia talk:Tutorial/Editing/sandbox |
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Template:X1 - Template:X12 (It's listed at {{ Please leave this line alone (template sandbox heading)}} |
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Template talk:X1 - Template talk:X12 |
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Template:Template sandbox |
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Template talk:Template sandbox |
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|}
I apologize in advance if I missed anything. I think the bots clean the pages out every hour, but will immediately reinsert the template if it gets removed. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 17:15, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
...this page will automatically be cleaned every 12 hours.That is probably what it used to be. Otherwise, the time of the clean-up should be stated in the sandbox documentation, which I have tried to change but haven't found the way to do that. Although you quickly recover, it is initially disheartening to painstakingly set up for a template test, only to have it wiped clean within a few minutes on a page that is so infrequently used. Dhtwiki ( talk) 23:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Per the thread "Sandbox cleaning bots not running", "Cyberbot 1" is now cleaning the template sandbox Template:X9, as well as the others, I presume, on the more relaxed 12-hour schedule (at the top of the hour), as suggested. But now "Hazard-Bot" is also cleaning, apparently at one-hour intervals, ~35 minutes after. H-B reads the extra space that C-1 leaves behind as change and removes that space. C-1's message could be brought into line easily enough, but we only need one bot. So, because Cyberbot 1's owner has been responsive to the suggestion for a relaxed cleaning schedule, I'm looking to have Hazard-Bot cede its duties, especially as H-B is likely still on an hourly schedule. Dhtwiki ( talk) 23:16, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
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. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | → | Archive 15 |
Can someone help me understand what happened with the image at Molana Alvi Birotvi? Three bots were duking it out over a deleted Commons image, and I'm not sure whether they were all working as designed and/or if "as designed" is the best situation in this case.
I don't understand why the fair use bot uploaded a copy in the first place (it doesn't upload copies of all copyvio-tagged images), unless it was somehow triggered by a human edit. Perhaps the biggest thing is that the fair use upload bot uploaded the image under a new name but simply reverted CommonsDelinker, so the old image name from Commons got put in, rather than the image's new name. Could it be instructed to link the name it's just uploaded? Could ImageRemovalBot be instructed not to revert the fair use upload bot unless a good deal longer than an hour has passed? Is something else the solution? I'll notify Carnildo, who operates ImageRemovalBot, while the upload bot is operated by User:Dcoetzee, who's done little since New Year's and nothing in two months. I can't figure out who operates CommonsDelinker; is it an internal piece of software, comparable to User:Conversion script? I'm also going to ask help from the Commons admin who deleted the original image, since s/he may be able to understand something I don't, especially the possibility of a human tagging the image at Commons for upload here. Nyttend ( talk) 22:33, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
46.119.117.72 ( talk · contribs) is posting random strings of characters on talk, Wikipedia talk, file talk and template talk pages. I have no idea what it is trying to do, and looks quite botty. Could an admin please block the account for now? Adabow ( talk) 11:38, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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Yobot is again making inconsequential changes, against WP:COSMETICBOT and AWB's rules of use. Usually a message on its talk page gets it to at least pause but not this time: [1].-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 12:13, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at the edits since yesterday (2014-06-03) at WT:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality where User:Legobot and I are disagreeing about whether an RFC that was started only yesterday has already expired. I'm probably doing something wrong that is making Legobot think it is an old RFC. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 10:43, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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is 18:42, 30 April 2014 (UTC) which is more than thirty days ago. This sort of thing comes up quite often at
User talk:Legobot. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 11:10, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Per the bot policy, I am making this post to inform the community of a request for BAG membership. Please feel free to ask any questions/comment there. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:35, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
So, I've been doing some semi-automated editing using my alternative account User:StradBot, and I've been shouted at because it looks like an unapproved bot. Which is fair enough, because it doesn't have a bot flag, and the name ends in "Bot". What's the best way forward here? Do I need to file an RFBA for the next AWB-like task I do using StradBot? Or do I just need someone to give the account a bot flag? I'm new to all of this bot business, so any advice would be appreciated. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 08:36, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Citation bot ( talk · contribs) is creating a massive number of sub-templates which store citation data within the Template namespace. I have read thru the various past approval requests listed at User:Citation bot#Bot approval, but I can't find an explicit request where they ask for approval for the mass creation of pages (request #6 mentions creation of subtemplates, refering to request #2, but that request doesn't ask for that ability). This bot has been operating in this manner apparently for many years, and the result is about 49k of these templates within Category:Cite doi templates, as well as some other types of citations. There are over 67 million DOIs in existence, so this could continue to grow indefinitely if left unchecked.
I'd like to ask that this bot be blocked temporarily until the operator can explain where and when he got community approval for mass creation of pages, and until this function of his bot has had a proper discussion (and moreso, the general problem of external data being stored in the template namespace). -- Netoholic @ 08:20, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
{{cite doi|xxx}}
(where xxx is the doi) in a reference. If the same doi has been used in another article, the job is finished because the first usage will have created the template. If this is the first usage, the bot notices the missing template and does the grunt work of filling in the citation and creating the template. It seems like a good system. To work out if it is effective, someone would need to count how many such templates exist (49k from the above), and compare that with the number of times a {{cite doi}} template is used.
Johnuniq (
talk) 11:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)This issue at hand is that this bot has exceeded its mandate - the approval requests that were made were to update/fill-in citation data (which is uncontroversial), but has change his method of doing this into the mass creation of pages (which is definitely controversial) without seeking approval. The bot's function should be stopped immediately and evaluated. -- Netoholic @ 17:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
The issue of creating separate template pages was raised in March 2009, as pointed out above - see Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard/Archive 4#A separate template for each cited source?. Like many discussions on Wikipedia, it ended with no consensus or resolution. So things have continued on, as is, for over five years.
I think it's important to focus on issues caused by the approach used by the bot, rather than whether there was appropriate approval. (Even if there had been approval, it can always be revoked.) So, possible issues:
As has been well-discussed at the village pump and the admin noticeboard, toolserver is officially dead. Which means DPL bot ( talk · contribs) is now inviting people to solve disambigs using the old toolserver link. ( recent example) Of course, you click on that, and find it's dead. Since the bot frequently notifies newbies about their errors, this is bad news.
IMHO all bots that write toolserver links to user talk pages should be shut down until their code is fixed to point to wmflabs. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:37, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
It was a fantastic tool, why couldn't the foundation support him and keep it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:43, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
I see, most unfortunate. It actually made dabbing fun. Now I'll have to rely on User:The Banner to do it all :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:59, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Done I just stripped out the text that included the bad links. Such a shame, it was a fantastic tool. -- JaGa talk 03:17, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Bot_name_changes. I've given my two bits, but if other bot operators/BAG members want to weigh in, that might be helpful... Hasteur ( talk) 02:08, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Just for those who missed it, SineBot stopped working a few days ago. See related discussion here. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 08:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
This is an (incomplete) list of inactive interwiki bots that not been re-purposed, not edited since February 2013 and in most cases since even earlier. For security reasons and following advice given at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#Remove_bot_flag_from_inactive_interwiki_bots.3F, these bots should be de-flagged.
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:31, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
This is a rather simple request, proposing the following steps to complete (note when complete below) for this one-off batch:
During the wait period, should a community consensus to change this process emerge, all steps to be reconsidered. — xaosflux Talk 11:38, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
While running through notifications, noticed there a few of these bots that are ALSO Global Bots, this clean up resolve their account on en:; but they will still have interwiki global bot flags, further discussion on cleaning them up would need to go to meta: — xaosflux Talk 12:14, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
(Note dropped at WP:VPR)
This is going to be the biggest deflag in Wikipedia's history. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:41, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
To those who you Peachy 2, if you have experimental updates switched on, you may find your bot stuck in an assertion failure loop. This can be fixed by switching experimental updates off and letting Peachy install the latest most stable version, by restarting the bot. Sorry guys for the bug. We should have it fixed soon. It can be tracked here.— cyberpower ChatOnline 11:48, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Please see User talk:Smith609/Archives/#Citation bot bugs and User talk:Citation bot/Archive1#r561 can't fill in cite doi templates when there is more than one author. I realize that the bot owner is no longer so active on-wiki, and that is understandable, but I hope that someone else who watches here may be able to help solve the problem. Thanks! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 15:13, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
This appears to be down, and Cyde hasn't been around for a month. Any ideas, anyone? Peridon ( talk) 11:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
User:Cyde/List of old proposed deletions is where the stalled message is. The message was manually added April 15, 2014 by Ronhjones. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 14:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
It's tempting to give this a different headline:
All your bots are going to break! Please panic now and avoid the rush! |
But I don't know if any of them will actually break, because I don't understand all the implications of the changes that are being discussed or know how many bots are relying on which details of the current implementation. I strongly believe that most of you need to watch and participate in mw:Requests for comment/API roadmap. This is a technical discussion with other developers; your technical comments really are wanted. If there are changes being discussed that will break your bot, then please speak up. If you're not sure, then ask. If you can help others, please do. (Overall, I think the plan sounds pretty good.)
This discussion was mentioned in last week's m:Tech/News (you can subscribe here), but the relevance may not have been clear to everyone, and I don't want any bot owner to be surprised by this. If you're going to have to make adjustments, then I'd prefer that you had as much time as possible to do that in. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:16, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
This is irritating, 90% of my tools will break I suppose. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:14, 5 August 2014 (UTC).
Sorry for posting this on User talk:JaGa already, but I think a response might be faster here.
Why did DPL bot create Template messages/Cleanup, Template messages/Cleanup/sandbox, and Enquire/sandbox? These are all in the mainspace. Is the bot malfunctioning? Piguy101 ( talk) 23:11, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I'd really like to see bots like User:XLinkBot not get approval, or if they do get approval, the approval process should definitely establish a consensus based procedure for what links such bots can remove; the decision should not be left at the whim of the bot operator. What's going to stop it from removing links to cnn.com etc.? JMP EAX ( talk) 13:21, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Labs has a new tools directory. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 19:49, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Cobi ( talk · contribs) hasn't edited for three months. Who else operates the ClueBots? Problems are being reported at User talk:ClueBot Commons, which are being ignored - eventually they get archived without resolution. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 13:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
User:HBC AIV helperbot11 is malfunctioning. Kept removing my report about an IP from WP:AIV claiming the IP has been blocked indef when it is not blocked and continues to vandalize. HkCaGu ( talk) 08:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Cydebot, owned by Cyde, does a great job but it keep creating duplicated categories. This was reported 8 years ago, a year ago, a month ago and today. The owner did not reply to these requests. What should be done? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:10, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Cyde any workaround for this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
OK there was a reply here. Not a biggie but if we can solve it then it's going to be awesome. Less work for my bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
I was hoping someone with bot knowledge could investigate Theo's Little Bot's Task 22 (to populate data on film articles that utilize {{ Rotten Tomatoes score}}). The bot has not made a positive contribution to a template subpage since April 17, 2014, with the few attempts at the end of August/early September 2014 producing the template's error message. I have personally created a template subpage for use on a film page ( Guardians of the Galaxy (film)), in hopes of intially "kickstarting" the bot to come by, but soon realized that I would have to manually update it (as seen in the edit history). I have attempted to contact the bot's owner, Theopolisme, as well as Technical 13 as they have previously helped with the template/bot, but did not receive any answer from either. I'm hoping someone here can look into the bot's operation, the code, and how the task is being executed, to find out if the bot is the problem, or possibly Rotten Tomatoes' API has changed, preventing the bot from working as it needs to. This bot was really helpful for updating this data, and it will be a shame (though not the end of the world) if the task no longer works. Thanks in advance. Note: This was originally posted at the WP:VPT. - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 04:22, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
See 62.25.109.197 ( talk · contribs). Is this a logged out bot? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 11:03, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
xeno My experience says that this guys was using python or something but not AWB. But I have seen anonymous IPs using AWB lately. I wonder if we can limit this by adding flood to anonymous IPs that disallows more than x edits per minute. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Please examine this sequence for Opple Lighting
You will see that the first had a mix of = = and == == combinations, which despite the single equal sign error ( WP:MOSHEAD), did maintain the Table of Contents with subdirectories.
When BG19bot made its edits in the second, it converted the = = combination but not did not attend to the the == == combination. Thus, the Table of Contents lost all notion of subdirectories, as everything was a level 1 heading.
I made the repair in the third, reestablishing the subdirectories.
Please disable the BG19bot tool until this has a fix as it is currently doing more harm than good.
Peaceray ( talk) 05:34, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Peaceray always try contacting the bot owner first. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:36, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
PeerReviewBot ( talk · contribs) has recently closed two peer reviews in controversial circumstances, where it would have been better to wait. The owner, CBM has disappeared, and nobody else can do anything about the bot. What options do we have? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:14, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Greetings bot developers and administrators! I'm the author of a software library called WikiBrain that democratizes access to Wikipedia-based algorithms from the fields of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and GIScience. We would like to make these features available to bot developers and Wikipedia researchers through a web API, and have written an individual engagement grant that would support this work.
We need your help in designing the API! Do you have a bot that wants a bigger brain? Head over to the use cases feedback page, review the features WikiBrain offers, and add a sentence or two to tell us what you'd like included in the API. I'd also love pointers to other places to get in touch with bot developers. Thanks! Shilad ( talk) 14:28, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Does someone have, or could someone gen up, a bot that would substitute all occurrences of something like WP:X to W:Y? The number of occurrences is small, like less than five hundred. NE Ent 13:27, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Some 1500 stub articles have recently been added to
Category:Megachile. Can any of your bots please add sortkeys to these pages so that they are sorted according to the species name like [[Category:Megachile|Mucida]]
? The operation would be quite simple: If the page name begins with "Megachile" and contains two words, take the second word and use it as sort key beginning with an upper case letter.
De728631 (
talk) 13:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
The DPL bot is going cuckoo and needs to be stopped. See for an example: here. Trying to contact the owner failed so far. Prior discussion can be found at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links#Brian Bennett, User talk:DPL bot and User talk:JaGa. The Banner talk 10:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
I appreciate that a bot is fixing links to archived content such as this edit, but it appears that the bot is operating from an IP address. Anyone know which bot this is, so they can notify the bot owner? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 12:08, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
I left a talk note, and email sent to Cobi; will block this IP if not-resolved within the day. — xaosflux Talk 13:25, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Next week Qgil-WMF will host two office hours to answer your questions about the Bugzilla to Phabricator migration:
These will be on #wikimedia-office connect. Information about how to join is available at m:IRC office hours. The plan is to start the migration on Friday 21 November at 00:30 UTC. More information will be posted at mw:Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:42, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
As of this writing, SineBot, the infamous robot that automatically signs unsigned comments, has not edited for over 10 days. Attempts to contact Slakr, the bot operator, has been unsuccessful. If there's an alternate maintainer that could restart the bot, that would be great. In the meantime, human editors can quickly sign unsigned comments with User:Anomie/unsignedhelper. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 12:37, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
ClueBot III seems to have entirely wiped ANRFC in an attempt to archive two discussions. Something clearly went wrong. — 174.141.182.82 ( talk) 09:58, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
HBC AIV helperbot11 ( talk · contribs) appears to be editing logged out as 10.68.16.36 ( talk · contribs). I've left a talk message an email for operator @ Darkwind:. Volume is low right now, blocking is not yet needed. — xaosflux Talk 04:48, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Seems to be happening again, this time at 10.68.17.184 ( talk · contribs). I suspect it's HBC AIV helperbot5 ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) as it hasn't edited since before the IP edits. Sam Walton ( talk) 10:36, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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Done
This bot is currently indef blocked, as its operator has been banned. Additionally there are no currently approved tasks for this account. I propose that it is deauthorized/deflagged. Should the operator ever become unbanned and return to the project they can follow the standard request process for bot approvals. — xaosflux Talk 15:21, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
I've noticed that User:HBC AIV helperbot11, User:HBC AIV helperbot7 and User:HBC AIV helperbot5 mark the edit as minor when removing reported users at AIV and UAA. On the other hand, User:HBC AIV helperbot doesn't mark them as minor. I think the later is preferable since the removal doesn't show up in watchlists if the minor bot edits are hidden, meaning one doesn't know if the user was dealt with or not, or if the page is empty. @ Chillum, Darkwind, Wimt, and JamesR: informing owners. Cenarium ( talk) 14:26, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
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As 7SeriesBOT ( t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created ( xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ( blocks · rights · moves) · rfar · spi · cci) no longer has administrative permissions, it is no longer capable of completing any tasks. I move to deauthorize/deflag this bot/account. — xaosflux Talk 17:19, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I came across this after a report to ClueBot NG's page, apparently ClueBot 3 is not archiving?
ClueBot 3's contributions will show it's not archived since 5th January and I'm not sure why--
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Could somebody knowedgeable with bots, bot flags and BRFA please have a look at User:Bababa67 and subpages? User seems to have a lot there concerning bots, including two subpages of python code (I don't know python at all, so don't know what they do). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:35, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Labs has scheduled disk maintenance on January 15 at 18:00 UTC for up to 24 hours. Tools/bots may be affected during this time. Full details available on the Labs mailing list. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 16:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
I don;t know what's actually happening but it seems like Legobot is malfuntioning. It is notifing Example (See User talk:Example) when GA reviewers start or pass/fails an article instead of notifing the nominator. I tried to contact the bot owner Legoktm ( talk · contribs) on his talk page, but they haven;t replied. Thanks, Jim Carter 04:42, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
We had a discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 117#Bot tagging of edits, where there was pretty strong support to allowing bots to tag individual edits. Based on the discussions, I would say that bot owners should be encouraged to modify their bots to do so, if it would be appropriate. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 02:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Due to a newly-discovered security vulnerability all labs instances will be rebooted today. Full details. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 17:54, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
The inline template {{ Verify credibility}} has been moved to {{ Unreliable source?}}. A redirect remains for the old template. Please update any bot actions accordingly. Jason Quinn ( talk) 06:47, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
User:ClueBot III and
User:Cyberbot I created pages in the wrong namespace on January 27, 2015. They created pages in the article namespace (0) with page names starting with User:
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See All pages with prefix User, All pages with prefix Book talk, All pages with prefix Template or see New namespace 0 pages for Cyberbot I and New namespace 0 pages for ClueBot III.
Here is an edit that Cyberbot I made here.
I found this while looking at an InceptionBot new article report; InceptionBot does not look at the User and Book namespaces. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 03:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
A user posted at WT:TWINKLE asking that Twinkle be modified to apply {{ refimprove}} instead of the redirect {{ ref improve}}, because a bot (apparently Yobot ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) was coming in after his tagging and "fixing" the redirect ( example). After looking a little closer, the real problem appears to be not with Twinkle, but with Yobot and WP:COSMETICBOT. Yobot's recent contribs are filled with plenty of edits that have zero impact on the rendered page. A small number of examples are [4], [5], [6], [7], and this particularly blatant case. Looking at the relevant BRFA for the majority of these edits, it seems that there were concerns expressed back then that the bot would be making insignificant changes, and I agree with the concerns. Moreover, the final approval was not clear on exactly what fixes were approved, which may be part of the problem. I believe that Yobot needs to stop doing non-rendering changes (unless a rendering change is also made) per WP:COSMETICBOT, and to cover the other issues, the operator ( Magioladitis) needs to make sure to have AWB skip pages when the main task makes no changes. Additionally, I cannot find a valid reason for AWB to be "fixing" a template redirect when the "fix" consists solely of removing a space, and so that change ought to be removed from AWB completely. The version with the space is slightly clearer and more readable anyway. jcgoble3 ( talk) 11:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
jcgoble3 well. these changes helped us fix many infoboxes that in the past did not supported bulleted lists and
fix them. (See also
[8] and the relevant discussion at
User_talk:Frietjes#More_pages_with_empty_nowiki_tags). Moreover, we spotted many left-overs from Visual Editor's older(?) bugs.
On the "br tags" fixing. It is error #2. Since it was a new entry we (Bgwhite and I) used the latest database dump instead of daily scans. Everything worked almost fine since there were very fews cases that the tag has been removed before my bot arrives. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:22, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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User:HasteurBot is removing useful categories from all AfC articles which was not approved in its bot request. I found this category quite useful and find it harmful that it is being removed where it is needed. Thanks! EoRdE6( Come Talk to Me!) 06:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
An unapproved bot task was reported, admitted to by the accused, and as a result, I think the misused bot flag should be removed from the bot until BAG can decide what to do about it.As such, I'm requesting exactly that. Please remove the bot flag from this bot until a member of BAG makes a statement on the behalf of BAG that it is okay cause disruption with a bot carrying out tasks that, using Hasteur's own comment, were not identified using the originally authorized task. Thank you. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( e • t • c) 23:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
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00:16, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Labs outage for disk drive addition. Full notice. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 15:34, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
I found out that on the section in which a user wanted to change his username because it's inappropriate, but even though he censored the vulgar word, "pussy", LegoBot said there's no problem with the username. Does the bot detect problems with the usernames with a similar censoring method or is this bot malfunctioning? Snowager ( talk) 06:19, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
(moved from WP:ANI) At WP:UAA, there are a lot of usernames reported, but I managed to find some that have been already blocked but not removed by HBC AIV helperbot, which means a possible malfunction. -- ToonLucas22 ( talk) 23:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. This category was deleted on February 26, 2015 (see Category:Deaths_from_surgical_complications). However, the red-linked categories remain on all the articles in which the subject had this category. Just wondering if this is a problem or if the bot hasn't gotten started yet. Yours, Quis separabit? 03:21, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Tagging orphaned fair use images and removing fair use images from userspace used to both be done regularly by bots. Is there no longer a bot doing these tasks? I have removed a handful of fair use images from userspace in the last few days and I'm guessing there's no bot automatically doing that any more? -- B ( talk) 16:54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
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21:22, 7 March 2015 (UTC)@ Technical 13: - edits like this where they were adding referenced articles to a log of unreferenced articles (which they did multiple times) which I raised with the bot-owner here with no response. Giant Snowman 08:28, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm currently running User:ThePhantomBot but can't run it 24/7 without an external host. The bot deals with detecting LTA so the source can't be public, (there are probably some LTA users willing to look through it to find out how to get around it) I don't care if certain people see the source (trustable users) but my understanding is that tool labs can't be used to host a bot without making all the source code public. Is there any way to host a (semi) closed source bot on tool labs, if not is there anywhere I can host it for free? I assume a free host would be very difficult to find, I've done some searching and haven't been able to find any. In terms of performance, the connection speed is most important, each change takes a very short amount of time to check and of that time almost all of it is API queries. PhantomTech ( talk) 19:58, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Cydebot has managed to delete at least three pages incorrectly recently, User:Muffingg, User:333-blue and Wikipedia:Five pillars. Seems to be a common problem with categories which are also page names within a namespace other than main, such as Category:Wikipedia:Five pillars. This was raised here but Cyde has not replied and seems largely inactive at the moment. Does anything need to be done : E.g. can anyone fix ithe bot or should it have it’s admin bit removed, or be blocked, until it is? The latter seems drastic but it should not be running unsupervised while able to incorrectly delete pages.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 14:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm looking into it now. -- Cyde Weys 02:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Should be straight-forward to figure out at least. It definitely has to do with PyWikiBot getting confused between what is the namespace of the page and what is the name. -- Cyde Weys 02:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Category:
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where %1 begins with a name that is equal to the name of a name space, e.g.
Category:User:USERNAME. —
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Talk 13:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)The bot deletes the category, then checks if there is an associated talk page and deletes it if necessary (or probably it just deletes the talk and ignores any error saying that the page did not exist). For example, the bot deleted [[Category:Films produced by Georges Méliès]] then immediately deleted [[Category talk:Films produced by Georges Méliès]]. In the latest problem, the bot deleted [[Category:Wikipedia:Five pillars]] then [[Wikipedia:Five pillars]], so I wonder if the problem is a failure in the logic that attempted to generate [[Category talk:Wikipedia:Five pillars]]. Perhaps something tried to normalize the title and stripped off "Category talk:"? Johnuniq ( talk) 23:45, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
We should be good now. Also, in a nice case of fixing two birds by killing them with one stone, categories should also be moved now (rather than having their text copied over). Please keep a closer eye on CFD for a bit and let me know if anything goes wrong, but I think we should be good. Thanks to anon and Johnuniq for the insights. -- Cyde Weys 00:33, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Did something get messed up with the archive configuration at AN3? No threads have been archived in a week, but they should be archived after 48hrs. Stickee (talk) 23:33, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
The issue is occurring on other pages too. Stickee (talk) 23:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I am sorry for putting the issue with other wiki project. On Hindi wikipedia I am not able to delete pages with bot since last few months. I don't know, why it is happening but it shows error given bellow. I am using pywikibot code. Error message: http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Please help me to get out from this problem.☆★ Sanjeev Kumar ( talk) 16:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Processing page सदस्य वार्ता:संजीव कुमार/test Error downloading data: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Request hi:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Retrying in 1 minutes... Error downloading data: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Request hi:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Retrying in 2 minutes...
$ git clone --recursive https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/compat.git pywikibot-compat
Pywikibot: [https] r-pywikibot-compat.git (00a8cba, g11165, 2015/03/24, 20:48:03, ok) Release version: 1.0b1 Python: 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok
python delete.py -file:delete.txt -summary:"test"
I did this test also. I have created a page hi:user:sanjeev bot/test and tried to delete it but the error message is same as above.
python delete.py -page:"user:sanjeev bot/test" -summary:"test" Processing page सदस्य:Sanjeev bot/test Error downloading data: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Request hi:/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo%7Cgroups%7Crights%7Chasmsg%7Cratelimits%7Cpreferencestoken Retrying in 1 minutes...
I found my old files in another directory but that is also not working now, which used to work in August 2014. Details of that version is as:
python version.py Pywikibot: [https] r-pywikibot-compat.git (2bebc61, g11037, 2014/08/06, 18:47:05, OUTDATED) Release version: 1.0b1 Python: 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok
So, it looks like (in my understanding) there is problem because of some api.php change. But I don't know how to correct it.☆★ Sanjeev Kumar ( talk) 17:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I think the best step would be get the current core version of pywikibot and use that. However, I found some old compat files I have and scanning for the error message suggests the problem is that your "family" file has a problem with its code2encoding function. Something like this is needed:
def code2encoding(self, code): return 'utf-8'
I don't know the details of how that works, but there is a families/wikipedia_family.py file, and family.py. Possibly removing the function from the former would make the script use the latter, which should be as above. Johnuniq ( talk) 22:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Actually, I am running a bot on hiwiki with username "sanjeev bot" but that is not able to delete these pages with core version. If I am adding the command sysopnames['wikipedia']['hi'] = 'संजीव कुमार'
to this line then instead of bot, my user account is taking actions.☆★
Sanjeev Kumar (
talk) 08:51, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
@ Slakr: - SineBot ( talk · contribs) has not run since 11 April - can somebody kick the server? Also, it would be nice if essential bots like this could be open sourced and hosted by the WMF, just sayin'. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:20, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
It appears that CorenSearchBot appears to be malfunctioning since when I browsed through Category:Possible copyright violations, mainly in the draft namespace, it tagged various pages as a suspected copyvios even though most were mainly weren't (only very few copyvios in which I've tagged for deletion per G12), giving me a clue that the bot is malfunctioning. Here are some examples of false positives:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowager ( talk • contribs) 01:15, 3 May 2015
There was a discussion on my talk page about potentially changing the output from the Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DRN clerk bot task. Keeping in mind that there's a few editors who would like nothing better to brand me a bot operator out of control, I'm asking if making a change to the output from the bot task like this would invoke the requirement for a new BRFA. Thank you in advance. Hasteur ( talk) 13:59, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Whichever bot operates from 10.68.17.88 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) is currently editing whilst logged out (one of the bots that clerks AIV and UAA). I think it is HBC AIV helperbot, which hasn't edited since 5:44 this morning, but I'm not certain. @ Chillum: as the owner of that bot. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 18:30, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
(Note: I'm copying this in full, because it looks important. HTH. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 21:40, 2 June 2015 (UTC) )
Post from https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html
As has been announced several times (most recently at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly.
The date is now set: we intend to merge the change to ride the deployment train at the end of June. That should be 1.26wmf12, to be deployed to test wikis on June 30, non-Wikipedias on July 1, and Wikipedias on July 2.
If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen here https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages, for example), it's time to fix your code!
Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning.
I've compiled a list of bots that have hit the deprecation warning more than 10000 times over the course of the week May 23–29. If you are responsible for any of these bots, please fix them. If you know who is, please make sure they've seen this notification. Thanks.
AAlertBot AboHeidiBot AbshirBot Acebot Ameenbot ArnauBot Beau.bot Begemot-Bot BeneBot* BeriBot BOT-Superzerocool CalakBot CamelBot CandalBot CategorizationBot CatWatchBot ClueBot_III ClueBot_NG CobainBot CorenSearchBot Cyberbot_I Cyberbot_II DanmicholoBot DeltaQuadBot Dexbot Dibot EdinBot ElphiBot ErfgoedBot Faebot Fatemibot FawikiPatroller HAL HasteurBot HerculeBot Hexabot HRoestBot IluvatarBot Invadibot Irclogbot Irfan-bot Jimmy-abot JYBot Krdbot Legobot Lowercase_sigmabot_III MahdiBot MalarzBOT MastiBot Merge_bot NaggoBot NasirkhanBot NirvanaBot Obaid-bot PatruBOT PBot Phe-bot Rezabot RMCD_bot Shuaib-bot SineBot SteinsplitterBot SvickBOT TaxonBot Theo's_Little_Bot W2Bot WLE-SpainBot Xqbot YaCBot ZedlikBot ZkBot -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
(End of copy)
ClueBot III doesn't seem to be archiving correctly for some reason.
If you look at User talk: Jimbo Wales it is supposed to archive this page whenever a thread doesn't have a response for 24 hours, but it hasn't archived this page since 4 May. The only reason the page isn't 10 miles long by now is because myself and other editors have been manually archiving it. It's also not archiving @ K6ka:'s talk page. There have been no response to the pings for the message left about this on ClueBot's talk page, I also tried emailing @ Rich Smith: and have had no response. I'm not sure what to do next.-- 5 albert square ( talk) 23:58, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
rawcontinue=1
to all action=query
requests.
BJorsch (WMF) (
talk) 10:33, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
This may be an unrelated recent issue, but for whatever reason, the bot also appears to be failing to update the page counts. This diff here is ClueBot III archiving a thread to archive222, but if you look at the code of the noticeboard in that revision, the current count is still at 187. This seems to be causing problems for the OneClickArchiver script. I believe Technical 13 recently forked the script to correct a similar problem, so I'm pinging him as well. ― Padenton| ✉ 23:16, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
{{U|
Technical 13}} (
e •
t •
c)
00:25, 25 May 2015 (UTC)Hi all,
If anyone runs a bot, or knows which bot, runs with the useragent "Reverter/2.0", can you get in contact with me via email ASAP please? Not that you are in any trouble, I'm just looking into something, and knowing this will make the job so much easier :) Thanks, Mdann52 ( talk) 21:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I have been leaving messages for User:Legoktm since January, and no response [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] ... I have also tries sending emails, and no response. Any suggestions on what to do next? the thread in question is User talk:Legoktm#Duplicate parameter args (ping Magioladitis). Frietjes ( talk) 19:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes, xeno. I was online in IRC the entire day. No replies. I also copied the questions posed above on the channel. If there is anything else I can do, please tell me. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:09, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
elif param.startswith('mask='):to
elif re.search('^mask[0-9]*=',param):which will make mask1=, mask2=, work as well as mask=. of course, I haven't tested this, so any python experts are more than welcome to correct this if I am wrong. Frietjes ( talk) 19:18, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Does anyone who speaks this language: https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/chu.php and can figure out why auto-marking is not being done at CHU/S and prepare a patch? Thanks! – xeno talk 19:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
My bot ( user:Rick Bot) has been successfully fetching pages for years with cURL. As of about yesterday it apparently can't anymore. I'm not sure, but I suspect the issue might be the requirement that a custom user agent string be provided. Has this just recently started being enforced? Adding "Rick_Bot/1.0 ( /info/en/?search=User:Rick_Bot)" as the user agent string doesn't seem to fix it. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 15:55, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Since 21:45, 19 June 2015 this bot always set revert ID to 0, which makes false positives impossible to report. See [24]. What's up?-- GZWDer ( talk) 17:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Should we indef block Svenbot until Sven Manguard becomes active again? Bot has not edited for 1.5 years and he left a message in January 2015 that he is leaving Wikipedia permanently. If he returns we can unblock the bot immediately. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:29, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Addshore if we follow the same routine we did last year, Svenbot should certainly be deflagged. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:54, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
OK. I think deflagging is enough. No reason to block. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:58, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
rfc|tech|prop|rfcid=C6D0379}}
Should we remove the bot flagging ability from bureaucrats and add it to a newly created a BAG user group? → Σ σ ς. ( Sigma) 07:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
- or to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:05, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
The contents of this discussion have been copied to WP:VPR#Request for comment: Bot flags and bureaucrats. → Σ σ ς. ( Sigma) 08:46, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Friendly reminder: Everything's scheduled to break this week |
You know that I exaggerate, but the long-awaited "rawcontinue" change (see /Archive 9#API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month) starts tomorrow (Tuesday) with test wikis and there's a leap second tomorrow at 23:59:60 UTC, and that's all in addition to the normal development train and any remaining fallout about HTTPS. If you run into problems during the next couple of days, then knowing exactly when the problem started may be especially useful for debugging. I'll be watching VPT, but you may get more useful responses on IRC if anything goes wrong. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:27, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
All AWB bots should upgrade to version 5.7.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno:: User:ZscoutBot was approved in 2012. The bot never edited, its creator, Zscout370 never replied and they are retired two years now. I suggest that we remove the bot flag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:23, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore and Xeno: User:ChrisSalij Bot was approved back in 2010 and it was agreed the bot will be deflagged " 6 months later". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:14, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I've just blocked this bot for blanking numerous articles. The owner Smith609 does not seem to be around much. Next step? -- NeilN talk to me 03:54, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore, Xaosflux, and Xeno: please remove flag from User:T13bot. Bot and bot owner were blocked for sockpuppeting. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:48, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno: please deflag User:Simplebot. Editor and bot inactive since 2009. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:43, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
@
Xeno,
Addshore, and
Chillum: I noticed that
User:DustaBot does not have a bot flag while its redirect
User:DusterBot has a bot flag. We should deflag DusterBot and flag DustaBot. @
Chillum: Is your bot still operating? --
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:41, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Jitse's bot ( talk · contribs) has stopped working. It’s actually not been working reliably for a number of months; see its talk page for previous incidents. but it has now stopped altogether, as of two weeks ago. I did not notice sooner as I missed its daily updates dropping off my watchlist.
Unfortunately its owner Jitse Niesen ( talk · contribs) seems inactive. Despite pings and at least one e-mail he has not responded to queries about previous problems and has not noticed the current hiatus which I would think he would spot if at all active. Absent being able to contact him to restart it I don't know if anyone else is able to; it is hopefully something simple.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 18:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
JohnBlackburne as far as I can see, this account has no bot flag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:43, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
DASHBot operated by Tim1357 is a toolserver bot and has ben blocked for more than 2 years. I think we should remove the bot flag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:47, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore and Xeno:. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:59, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore, Xaosflux, and Xeno: JYBot operated by javadyou is a interwiki bot that I missed in the above list. We should remove the flag too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:56, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
The following bots have been inactive since February 2013 or earlier, they are interwiki bots (they survived the big bots cleanup because they were not listed as such!) and most probably have been broken after latest API changes. They match all the criteria for removing their flag.
Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 10:55, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Xaosflux: too. This is a list of interwiki bots. I l create another list of other "weird" cases of inactive bots. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:46, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I left messages to all bot owners, exactly as we did last year. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:38, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@
Addshore: Thanks. Since all these bots are interwiki bots can you please change their status from inactive to unapproved? You only have to change |status=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:33, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
I marked all deflagged interwiki bots as unapproved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:09, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore: CrimsonBot, was operated by retired Wikipedian CrimsonBlue. Both accounts are marked as retired since January 2013. Can you please remove the bot flag? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:07, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
I just spent two minutes scratching my head because SporkBot ( talk · contribs) removed this reference that had a formatting error I was about to fix, meaning I was looking at the wikitext wondering "where's it gone"? Since the bot's owner, Plastikspork ( talk · contribs) has retired, perhaps the bot should be shut down until this can be reviewed? A bot shouldn't revert good faith, even if badly formatted, edits like that. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:54, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
per this thread, I am unable to contact Legoktm. Thanks to Mdann52, we now have this pull request. can Magioladitis or someone who Legoktm responds to get Legoktm to apply this pull request? this will allow us to remove the duplicate args introduced in this edit. Frietjes ( talk) 14:02, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
per this thread, I am unable to contact Legoktm. Thanks to Mdann52, we now have this pull request. can Magioladitis or someone who Legoktm responds to get Legoktm to apply this pull request? this will allow us to remove the duplicate args introduced in this edit. Frietjes ( talk) 16:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes Maybe it's time that we start taking over the various Legobot tasks? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Frietjes:: Mdann52's change was against the wrong repo. Legoktm will have a look tomorrow. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Already being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#ArmbrustBot 4. Anomie ⚔ 21:41, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
See User talk:Armbrust#Problem at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 25#1st to 5th century BC births, and explanation of problem after the closed discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 25#1st to 5th century BC births. Ambrust seems to be unwilling to take responsability for the bot's actions. -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 19:48, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
→ see Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#ArmbrustBot 4 -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 20:49, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
I'm quite active in the peer review community and I'd like to propose some changes to the bot. I've been given permission from Ruhrfisch, who currently manages the bot in behalf of CBM (currently inactive). However I'm having some trouble finding where the code actually is. Any of the links provided on the user page or toolserver turn up dead ends. Where is the actual page with the code contained? I would be very grateful for a response, as when I have access to the code I can then propose specific changes for discussion. Cheers, -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 01:30, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
ENewsBot owned by JamesR stopped working since its functionality became obsolete. @ Xeno, Addshore, and Xaosflux: et al. I suggest that the bot flag is removed unless JamesR wants to keep the flag for other tasks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno, Addshore, and Xaosflux: et al. SmackBot has not edited for 4 years and it is now a redirect of Helpful Pixie Bot which has no bot flag and it is blocked. I think the bot flag has to be removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi guys. Sorry for spamming this, but it's for a good cause. I would like to encourage editors to comment on my idea lab request here. Input would be greatly appreciated.— cyberpower Chat:Online 20:15, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
All maintained by Chzz ( talk · contribs), who has been missing since March 2013. In two cases, they were marked as not having flags anymore, but near as I can tell, they all still have a flag. As it seems unlikely that Chzz is coming back anytime soon, I'd suggest we de-flag them. Avic ► 06:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno and Addshore: -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:28, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm requesting the removal of the bot flag from my bot. Alakzi ( talk) 17:59, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Xeno: What do you think? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:53, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Cydebot has been making edits not supported by the CFD discussions it links to in the edit discription. There has also been other issues mentioned on Cyde's talk page that haven't been addressed as well, namely:
This bot should be stopped or blocked from editing until these issues are resolved. Suppafly ( talk) 15:47, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
@
Magioladitis: per
this thread and
this thread,
User:Legoktm will not respond to email or requests on his/her talk page. Can someone assist? In particular, I am still waiting to hear about progress on merging a change to eliminate the need for duplicate |mask=
in
Talk:World War II and several other talk pages. the change submitted by
Mdann52 allows for duplicate |mask=
to be replaced by |mask1=
, |mask2=
, |mask3=
, ... and remove these pages from the duplicate parameter tracking category.
Frietjes (
talk) 16:44, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Addshore: -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:32, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Frietjes: -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:54, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis, C678, and Legoktm: thank you, now testing with this change. hopefully it works. if not, let me know so I can suggest a modification. Frietjes ( talk) 19:11, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WT:BRFA#Adding a form for BRFA. Thanks. APerson ( talk!) 13:45, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello!
I'm a totally new user and how no idea if this is the right place to post this. Anyway, I created a very small web scraper in Java. It takes the headlines of the day, and opens them, with a 3000 ms delay, in new tabs. It cannot edit or change Wikipedia in any way or form. I have not found any information regarding the topic of web scraping here on Wikipedia, so I hope that I could get an answer here. What is Wikipedias policy on this? What am I allowed to do/not do?
-- TheYoungOak ( talk) 13:52, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
TheYoungOak ( talk) 07:31, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
A long time ago, there used to be a rule (set by the Wikimedia server admins) that read-only bots could run without authorization, but were limited to one page read per second (communicated via robots.txt). The limit was experimentally removed in 2006 to see if it caused any problems, and given that it hasn't been replaced yet, I'm assuming it was concluded that the limit was unnecessary (there's now a text warning there instead). However, "1 read per second" is probably a sensible rate limit to use anyway, given that it worked just fine throughout Wikipedia's early history and we have more powerful servers nowadays. Using maxlag (as Anomie suggests) is a good idea, because that allows the site to let you know when it's under particular stress (and thus could do with bots holding off for a while). I'd also recommend using the API, both because it's easier on the servers, and because it's likely to be easier from your end too (scrapers have a tendency to break as a result of site changes). -- ais523 12:45, 29 September 2015 ( U T C)
Wow, such a response! I am very grateful for your input, and I will take all of this into consideration. I might not be able to actually make anything out of this, but now I know where I can start :) "1 read per second" seems sensible too, I just wanted to play it safe. TheYoungOak ( talk) 17:07, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Lowercase sigmabot II and Hazard-Bot, bots that clean Wikipedia sandbox pages, are not running, the former making its last edit in August 2015, and the latter just four days ago. Sandbox pages are starting to pile up and human editors are now tasked with having to clean the pages regularly. Can this be investigated? Thanks, --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 13:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Cyberpower678: I don't know if I have all the sandbox pages (As there seems to be no "Sandbox page" category), but I'll do my best to list all of them. As follows:
Page | Default text | ||
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Wikipedia:Sandbox |
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Wikipedia talk:Sandbox |
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User:Sandbox |
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User talk:Sandbox |
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Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing/sandbox |
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Wikipedia talk:Tutorial/Editing/sandbox |
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Template:X1 - Template:X12 (It's listed at {{ Please leave this line alone (template sandbox heading)}} |
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Template talk:X1 - Template talk:X12 |
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Template:Template sandbox |
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Template talk:Template sandbox |
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|}
I apologize in advance if I missed anything. I think the bots clean the pages out every hour, but will immediately reinsert the template if it gets removed. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 17:15, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
...this page will automatically be cleaned every 12 hours.That is probably what it used to be. Otherwise, the time of the clean-up should be stated in the sandbox documentation, which I have tried to change but haven't found the way to do that. Although you quickly recover, it is initially disheartening to painstakingly set up for a template test, only to have it wiped clean within a few minutes on a page that is so infrequently used. Dhtwiki ( talk) 23:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Per the thread "Sandbox cleaning bots not running", "Cyberbot 1" is now cleaning the template sandbox Template:X9, as well as the others, I presume, on the more relaxed 12-hour schedule (at the top of the hour), as suggested. But now "Hazard-Bot" is also cleaning, apparently at one-hour intervals, ~35 minutes after. H-B reads the extra space that C-1 leaves behind as change and removes that space. C-1's message could be brought into line easily enough, but we only need one bot. So, because Cyberbot 1's owner has been responsive to the suggestion for a relaxed cleaning schedule, I'm looking to have Hazard-Bot cede its duties, especially as H-B is likely still on an hourly schedule. Dhtwiki ( talk) 23:16, 17 October 2015 (UTC)