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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

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Majavahbot on SqWiki

Hey there! Some months ago we set up your bot to work on SqWiki. It works very good. Today I discovered "a problem" though. Check this article's talk page and it's archive. The bot has done its archiving work but has left those discussions un-archived at the page, even though they date since 2009. The reason for that I believe it is because those are malformed, at least, according to MajavahBot's standards. Any chance MajavahBot can be tweaked to understand cases like this or is there no hope at all? - Klein Muçi (talk) 07:21, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi Hi! I unfortunately don't think there is any easy way to get those automated given how different and ambigous the old section formats are. Majavah (talk!) 16:27, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Yeah, I understand. It would be nice if we could have a "miscellaneous section" in the archive for cases like these and put them all there but the difficulty remains on telling the bot how to find the parts to put there in the first place, as you say. I was thinking if we could have a semi-automatic way for that, for example we give the wikilink to the bot somehow and it archives everything on that page beside the archive/bot header but I don't think that's a think that can be done easily no? - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:02, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Or maybe.... I was still thinking on this... If we're feeling adventurous, we can make the bot auto-archive everything it can't really understand below a certain standardized mark, into a miscellaneous section. Maybe? :/ - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:55, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Reply-link officially superseded by DiscussionTools

Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

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November 2021 backlog drive

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Majavahbot on SqWiki - Autoarchive

Hello!

This page you've set up works as a switch for the auto-archive option on the mainspace. Can the said option be activated for other namespaces? Say, for example, the "Wikipedia" and "Template" talk namespaces? Can that be part of the switch itself so we can add and remove namespaces as we see fit?

Side question: Do you have any idea why our archive icon is behaving strange at w:sq:Wikipedia:Kuvendi? Any idea how to fix it? - Klein Muçi (talk) 14:41, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi Sure, done. Turns out I can't edit the config page yourself, but something like this should work on the next run. Majavah (talk!) 16:38, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the fast answer! - Klein Muçi (talk) 17:14, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Given that this was fairly easy, is it possible to have the possibility of customizing bot summary messages in that page as well? - Klein Muçi (talk) 05:13, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
If that's not possible, can you remove the "MajavahBot:" part for us in the summary so it starts straight with the message? The one which I personally asked to be included in the past. Times have changed and we're renovating some aspects about bots in general. But it would be nice if we could have a sort of autonomy in these details. :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 15:34, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
@Klein Muçi You can configure the edit summary for automated setup like this. Fully on-wiki config for edit summaries for the archiving itself needs more programming work, I'll try to find time for that in the near future but for now I removed the hack which appends MajavahBot in there. Majavah (talk!) 18:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! :) Tell me if you find the time for that so I make the needed change. Have a good time! :) Klein Muçi (talk) 21:58, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
@Klein Muçi You added a syntax error in this edit, you added a duplicate closing bracket to "autosetup_namespaces". It only needs to have only one ] and it needs one , after it. Majavah (talk!) 07:36, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for telling me. Fixed now, no? - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:36, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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MajavahBot - "Block" column request - allow sorting by date

Hi @Majavah:, great bot "User:MajavahBot/Bot status report". Wondering if the Block column can be changed slightly to "Last block (UTC)" and the cell data lead with the block date? This would allow seeing the latest blocks easily using the sort icon. I don't think separate columns for block reason, blocked by, block type, etc. are needed as there are few and infrequent blocks. Also would you consider donating it to the appropriate WP section? Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 15:06, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

@Facts707 Hi, I updated the report page to sort blocks based on the date. Not quite sure what you mean by Also would you consider donating it to the appropriate WP section?. Majavah (talk!) 19:31, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thanks much for the quick update and reply! Sorry I didn't respond earlier. I noticed at one point that the items on Template:Botnav are in the Wikipedia or Help or Template namespaces - "MajavahBot" seems to be the only one in the User namespace. Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 13:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Majavahbot's fail

Take a look at this enormous diff. First time archiving that page in ages. Some sections are left behind by Majavahbot. They have signatures and good section formatting. What's causing it to fail archiving them? - Klein Muçi (talk) 10:23, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

​Hi! The remaining sections either don't have signatures, have them in the wrong language (en instead of sq) or otherwise have a malformed signature (even things like upper/lowercase month names matter). Majavah (talk!) 18:55, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Ah... Language in dates... I hadn't thought about that. I see. Thank you! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 19:01, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Scripts Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

New scripts New scripts

  • Ahecht:
  • Awesome Aasim:
    • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
    • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
  • Caburum:
    • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
  • Chlod:
  • DaxServer:
    • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
  • FlightTime:
  • Jon Harald Søby:
    • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
    • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
  • JPxG:
    • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
    • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
    • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
  • Nardog:
    • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
    • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
    • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
  • NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
    • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
    • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
    • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
    • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
  • Novem Linguae:
    • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
    • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
    • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
    • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
    • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
  • P.T.Đ:
  • Qwerfjkl:
    • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
    • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
    • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
  • Rublov:
    • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
  • Rummskartoffel:
    • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
    • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
    • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
    • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
  • Tol:
  • Venkat TL:
    • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
  • Vukky:

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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bot control

I'm looking to introduce a bot to my house. whats the best way to intoduce new and get rid of old. I'm tired of the outside interference and misdirection. thank uou 70.75.217.90 (talk) 03:15, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

MajavahBot - Resolved template

Hello!

Currently MajavahBot on SqWiki autoarchives discussions which have more than a specific period without any interaction. Can it also be made to archive a thread faster than the said period once a certain template is introduced, like for example, the template {{Resolved}}? Can that functionality be (almost) global (the bot autoarchives threads immediately in every page that template is introduced) or should it be locally fine-tuned per page? - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:27, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 01:56, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Can i upload my own file

The file that i want to upload please, The reason should i have an image Majavah. We can show the world about it okay. Felix Balatucan (talk) 15:09, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

@Felix Balatucan: Hello! Have you read Wikipedia:Uploading images yet? Majavah (talk!) 06:23, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, i agree about it. Felix Balatucan (talk) 12:36, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Bot adding wrong pages to WP:EFFP reports without one

Hey! I noticed that all of the sudden, twice in a row, the bot added the wrong page to the report at WP:EFFPR with no clear reason as to why. Both times, the user making the report didn't trigger any other filters so it definitely wasn't somehow pulling the page from an older filter trigger. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 01:19, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

@Blaze Wolf Hi, do you have any example diffs of this happening? Majavah (talk!) 15:59, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Yep. here and here, both of which I corrected after ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:11, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
And again here. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:57, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Still happening. I know that you're busy, however maybe for the time being the task of adding the page name should be disabled since it appears to be bugged? ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:38, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
I believe I found what's going on and fixed it (although I need to do more digging to find the actual root cause). Can you let me know if you see this happen again? Majavah (talk!) 21:15, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Yep I can definitely do that. Thanks for fixing it! ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 21:17, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Bot not working

Why isn't the bot working here? What am I doing wrong? - Klein Muçi (talk) 02:01, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Aaand... It's not working for us even on our village pump. Am I doing something wrong? :/ - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:04, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
@Klein Muçi Hi and sorry for the delay. Looks like I broke something while trying to upgrade the operating system the bot runs on ([1]). I think everything is working now properly (although it'll take a while for it to catch up on the backlog)? Majavah (talk!) 13:18, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Yes, it's back to work now. Thank you! Can you also answer this question while you're here? :P - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:22, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
I do not think that's currently possible according to phab:T72249. Majavah (talk!) 13:24, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Sad. 5 years for implementing a single change which is already possible with other frameworks. Human resources really are valuable sometimes. Thank you for your answer! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:30, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi Majavah. I hope everything is well with you. @Klein Muçi: this link maybe useful to you. You can check if you were on stretch grid in the past week. [2] In the link, you will have to replace "usernamekiran" with your LDAP username. My job stopped using stretch grid on April 8. In the mail I had received from wmf, they had said "... long term support for Debian Stretch will cease in June, 2022. We therefore need to shut down all Stretch hosts including Stretch Grid Engine before the end of support date to ensure that Toolforge remains a secure platform." —usernamekiran (talk) 15:58, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

while we are at it, is there any way to avoid particular text being edited by bot? I use mw:Manual:Pywikibot/replace.py on Marathi wiki (mrwiki) for a task something like typos (but not exactly typos). There are a lot of pages where the bot is needed, but on the same pages, there are certain words which should not be replaced. So {{nobots}} is not an option. I was thinking about nowiki tags, but it wouldn't be usable everywhere. Is it possible to create "nobot", "/nobot" tags? They should literally do nothing except for telling the bot not to edit the stuff between the tags. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:21, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, thank you! Apparently I weren't on that grid. As for your question, can't you sort that aspect out with regex? - Klein Muçi (talk) 22:38, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Bot tweak

Could you make the bot follow this tweak? Thanks. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:59, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

@Headbomb Sure, done! Majavah (talk!) 06:36, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
For writing two important new page patrol-related patches on Phabricator. Thanks so much. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:35, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Articles with outdated impact factors from 2021

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Appreciation

"Sunflower Award"

Your work as a tech is not being graded,
But it certainly is much appreciated
to know that the tools we have long awaited,
Will finallly be properly updated!!!
Atsme 💬 📧 15:40, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

MajavahBot task 1 has stopped working

User:MajavahBot normally does clerking for Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives. However, it hasn't edited WP:EFFPR for almost a week now. I thought I'd let you know in case something has gone wrong. (The bot itself still seems to be around – task 3 is still being done.) --ais523 11:22, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

@Ais523 Thanks for the note. Looks like the bot was having issues parsing some invalid data, implemented some fixes and it seems to work properly now. Taavi (talk!) 11:37, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Majavahbot - autoarchiving not working?

Is autoarchiving not working globally? I've noticed a bit of a post accumulation in some of our high traffic pages in SqWiki. — Klein Muçi (talk) 11:58, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Bot says it adds page name to malformed or test EFFP requests

I notice that the bot will often "add the page name" to malformed or test EFFP requests seen here. COuld it possibly be made to not do that? ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:06, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Aligner not appearing after diff or preview

Hi, your script only appears on the edit form if you don't click either "show preview" or "show changes". This is because the response to mw.config.get("wgAction") after these actions is "submit" instead of "edit". If you change the follow line in your script from 

if (mw.config.get('wgAction') !== 'edit') {

to 

if (mw.config.get('wgAction') !== 'edit') && (mw.config.get('wgAction') !== 'submit'){

that will fix it. I'd really appreciate if you could make this change as sometimes I'll run some other scripts first which automatically view the diffs after and that stops your script from even being available to run. Mesidast (talk) (contribs) 15:55, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

@Mesidast Fixed, thanks. Taavi (talk!) 08:10, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Aligner.js on wp.fr ?

Hello Taavi.

I tried to install tour Aligner.js script on my fr:Utilisateur:SyntaxTerror/common.js, cleared the cache, but it doesn't seem to work. (I have nothing in my "More" menu)

I am using Vector 2010 if it matters.

Have you got any hint?

Regards,  Şÿℵדαχ₮ɘɼɾ๏ʁ 16:23, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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WP:EFFP/R Task has stopped

It looks like the bot has stopped clerking. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 02:41, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Indeed, fixed. Sorry about that. Taavi (talk!) 11:23, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Task 3 source code uses deprecated center tags

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Thanks, Sheep (talk) 17:58, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

This will be fixed with the next run. Thanks. Taavi (talk!) 14:23, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Majavah Bot Task 1 invalid

At here, the bot added an title that the original user did not edit in. Could you please take a look at this? Thanks. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 09:39, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Quick concern re: MajavahBot

I'm not sure that the bot should copy user-generated section titles in its edit summaries. This seems like it might be vulnerable to some sort of attack related to the use of inappropriate or privacy-violating section titles. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 21:42, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

@Red-tailed hawk Fair point, I've went ahead and adjusted the summary generating code to not include the actual section titles. Thanks. Taavi (talk!) 21:25, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of CFM International RISE

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MajavahBot Task 1 down?

Hi Taavi, is MajavahBot Task 1 down, because there has been an absence of archiving since the 17th April, and there hasn't been much clerking happening from MajavahBot. Thanks, Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 15:37, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

@Zippybonzo It had indeed got stuck somehow. I've restarted it and it's now working properly again. Thanks for the ping. Taavi (talk!) 17:27, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disease outbreaks in Vanuatu

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Is this intended behaviour?

In diff:1161028592, at the very bottom, the bot adds a template that says it fixed the page title of the report. It obviously did not do that, as there was not even a report, just random characters. Is that the "notify" behaviour mentioned in item a) of User:MajavahBot? – 2804:F14:80B3:CB01:9C5E:86B:78D9:3A49 (talk) 05:31, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

This is a pretty classic GIGO case. I'll patch the bot at some point to not leave a comment if it can't add the page title, but it's not a particularly severe bug. Taavi (talk!) 11:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Odd edit by bot

I'm looking at this edit, and I think the bot erroneously marked the edit as fixed (the edit summary included the claim that the bot added the affected page name, but it does not appear to have done so). The edit was very broken to begin with, but just wanted to let you know. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 14:06, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I'm looking at this edit, and the bot appears to have marked it as fixed despite not having fixed it. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 15:05, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

@Red-tailed hawk Indeed, it seems to do that when the report formatting is already completely broken. I thought I had fixed this already but apparently not. Taavi (talk!) 16:55, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
@Red-tailed hawk I think this is now really fixed, ping me if you see it happen again please? Taavi (talk!) 22:52, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Will do. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:56, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

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Bot down?

Not sure if you were already told or noticed, but MajavahBot appears to be unresponsive. It has not been archiving or commenting on any WP:EF/FP/R report since around ~19 hours ago (15:29, 11 July 2023 UTC), although it did edit its Bot status report page 2 hours later. – 2804:F14:8087:2401:A9B4:1D32:7E56:C04B (talk) 10:28, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Seems your change fixed it: diff:1165000895. 👍 – 2804:F14:8087:2401:A9B4:1D32:7E56:C04B (talk) 10:52, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Indeed. Quite ironically it was broken because I was working on adding checks that would catch these kinds of programming errors automatically in the future. Taavi (talk!) 10:55, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
I can't claim that is not relatable 😅. – 2804:F14:8087:2401:A9B4:1D32:7E56:C04B (talk) 11:02, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

MajavahBot 5 approved

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Interesting Edit on TrueNAS

For some reason the version table was removed from this page. It was cited as not idependently sourced but it was sourced directly from their documentation.


In the case of this being a conflict, who would be best to source this information? A different site that is forwarded a list of version changes from iX themselves rather than directly the documentation that iXsystems puts together?


I am at a loss here on how this is considered "not based on independent sources"? Is the official documentation not considered a source of truth?|


Furthermore, how is the version release that lists fixing bugs that prevents users from using certain elements considered "promotional"? Wsoteros (talk) 19:38, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Wsoteros. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information: we cover topics that reliable, independent (not: the company itself) sources cover, so I removed the changelog section as it was only sourced to the TrueNAS site itself. If you look at macOS Sonoma for example, you can see that it's mostly sourced to various tech publications and not Apple itself, so including that level of detail about that version is fine. If iXsystems wants to publish the full changelog somewhere they can do it on their own website for example. Taavi (talk!) 11:10, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for the reply and my apologies for the frustration.
We will stick to those guidelines for future edits. Wsoteros (talk) 14:08, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Poke

Module talk:ATP rankings § RUS and BUL. Just in case you missed the ping :-) Primefac (talk) 06:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. I saw the ping, but was busy at that time and then just forgot about it. Taavi (talk!) 15:19, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
No worries, totally makes sense. I've got plenty of unmarked notifications and emails in my own backlog! Primefac (talk) 15:46, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Bot glitch?

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Aligner.js - extra searches

I seem to be having a problem adding the global window.alignerExtraSearches to my common.js
I thought this would work 

window.alignerExtraSearches = [
       "{{rugbyleaguebox",
       ];

but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong? Nthep (talk) 16:11, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Nthep, can you try adding it below the importScript('User:Taavi/Aligner.js'); line? Taavi (talk!) 21:58, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Nthep (talk) 22:18, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
I've also tried disabling all other scripts, in case there was a clash. Still no luck. Nthep (talk) 12:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Came here to report the same thing. Tried putting it before and after the importScript line, didn't work. InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:43, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

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MajavahBot

Hi Taavi, I noticed on EFFPR that your bot adds a blocked notice for Partial blocks that have no connection with the AbuseFilter hits. (Example: This) It looks like an unintended side effect. Nobody (talk) 10:52, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Can UTRS support the Chinese Wikipedia?

(mechine translate) Hello, I am a contributor to the Chinese Wikipedia.

As you may know, due to internet censorship by the government of China Mainland , people there have to use technical means, including open proxies, to access and edit Wikimedia projects. Therefore, IPBE are necessary for them.

We are currently discussing changes to the application process for IPBE in order to address the growing backlog of applications. Prior to this, the Chinese Wikipedia used an email list to handle applications, but some administrators found it to be cumbersome and inefficient. Someone noticed that UTRS supports other wikis, so I am asking if it can support the blocking process for the Chinese Wikipedia.

Can UTRS grant IPBE? Can it create new accounts? Can it grant permissions in bulk?

询问UTRS是否可以支持中文维基百科

你好，我是中文维基百科的的贡献者。

正如您所知道的，由于大陆政府的互联网审查，在那里的人不得不使用技术手段，包括开放代理，访问和编辑维基媒体项目。因此对于他们来说，IPBE权限是必要的。

我们正在讨论更改申请IPBE的流程，以促进日益严重的申请积压。在此之前，中文维基百科使用邮件列表来处理申请，一些处理的管理员提出这样容易疲劳且低效。有人注意到UTRS正在支持其他维基，因此我向您询问是否可以支持中文维基百科的封禁处理。

UTRS可否授予IPBE？可否创建新账户？可否批量授予权限？ 落花有意12138 (talk) 05:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@落花有意12138 Hi! Unfortunately I have not been involved with UTRS in a few years. /cc AmandaNP. Taavi (talk!) 17:09, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
@落花有意12138: It currently is not able to automate onwiki granting because the functionality has not been built simply because it hasn't been needed and has accountability issues. By extension it can't create accounts yet either. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:49, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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