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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Acebot

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Acebot on Wikimedia

Could you enable Acebot on Wikimedia? I created the NUMBEROF template over there a few days ago, and now the bot needs to be running in order to update the numbers. Iketsi (talk) 13:22, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! It works great, but Latgalian (ltg) and Kabardian (kbd) need to be updated too. Iketsi (talk) 19:11, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I added these two Wikipedias and corrected the entry for English Wikipedia (previously it didn't work). To update this statistics on a regular basis, I have to apply for a bot status at meta:Requests for adminship#Requests for bot flags. Could you please point to me pages at Wikimedia where NUMBEROF will be used? I have to explain why it is needed. -- Ace111 (talk) 22:01, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

It's currently used on meta:List of Wikipedias by language group and the meta:Template:NUMBEROFGROUP template which sums up the data by language group. Your bot will also be extremely useful on: meta:List of Wikipedias by edits per article, meta:List of Wikipedias by sample of articles, meta:List of Wikipedias by speakers per article, and meta:List of Wikipedias by language family, where users have been begging for an automated solution for years. -- Iketsi (talk) 17:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I made a request for the bot flag: meta:Meta:Requests for bot status/Acebot. -- Ace111 (talk) 22:06, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Add Languages to Acebot

• The Mingrelian Wikipedia (xmf) is now live and its stats should be updated by the bot. -- Iketsi (talk) 17:32, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done. -- Ace111 (talk) 20:51, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
• Northern Sotho (nso) --Iketsi (talk) 01:37, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
• Veps (vep) is now live and its stats should be updated by the bot. ~ Iketsi (talk) 23:38, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
  •  Done. Thank you for the news! -- Ace111 (talk) 00:21, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
• Lezgian (lez) is now live and its stats should be updated by the bot. ~ Iketsi (talk) 14:52, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
  • This has been already implemented two days ago. -- Ace111 (talk) 19:05, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Anders Behring Brevik

Where did you get this information from. I cannot see a reference, and it seems unlikely. Keanu (talk) 17:18, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

• This is from his manifesto, p.1399, where he gives his CV. Why do you think that it seems unlikely? -- Ace111 (talk) 19:03, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

  This information was again added by user Hydrox to the article here. -- Ace111 (talk) 19:13, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

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Acebot on Esperanto Wikipedia

Could you enable Acebot on the Esperanto Wikipedia? The NUMBEROF template has been created over a year ago (it's called Ŝablono:Nombro da), but it is not being automatically updated. Your bot's data is very useful when it comes to creating articles with dynamically-updating statistics about the number of articles and other data related to Wikipedias. --Iketsi (talk) 23:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

I will try. Currently, this template is not used in the Esperanto Wikipedia. Do you plan something that will use it? -- Ace111 (talk) 00:17, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. It will be used on articles about Wikipedias (Vikipedio en Esperanto, Anglalingva Vikipedio, etc.) and internal statistics (Vikipedio:Internacia Vikipedio). Let me know when it's up and running! --Iketsi (talk) 00:45, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

I came here for making exactly the same request. I have dreamed for a long time to automatize the updating of Vikipedio:Internacia Vikipedio. So it's great if you can help with your bot, daily updating Ŝablono:Nombro da. We then could build a template which would put the data in the aimed page. Thanks --Arno Lagrange ✉ 01:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Your dreams are coming true! I made the first edits and filed a request for the bot flag here: eo:Vikipedio:Roboto/Permespeto#Acebot_.281_Maj._2012.29. If you would like to have the edit summary of the bot in your native language :), please tell me what I should put there. -- Ace111 (talk) 13:53, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

I provided the Esperanto edit summary on the request. --Iketsi (talk) 19:55, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Bot: Automatic update of variables => Roboto: Aŭtomata ĝisdatigo de variabloj 

Thanks a lot. You noticed that we have still created eo:Ŝablono:La tridek plej grandaj vikipedioj. So it is yet working. --Arno Lagrange ✉ 21:43, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

A suggestion: could you add a line about last update in the template:

| date= 2012 05 01

or

| date = 1-a de majo 2012

This format you can get by {{CURRENTDATE}}-a de {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} --Arno Lagrange ✉ 21:53, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

An other suggestion : could your bot automatically update eo:Ŝablono:Vikipedio laŭ artikolnombro which lists Wikipedias by article number rank. I created it with the only 30 biggest but it could contain all wikipedias. It is useful to automatically order statistics (as in eo:Ŝablono:La tridek plej grandaj vikipedioj). --Arno Lagrange ✉ 22:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

I put the result to eo:Uzanto:Ace111/Article number. The list is sorted according to the number of articles, and additionally I put the list of blocked Wikipedias at the end (mo cho ng ii mh aa kj ho mus kr hz). Does it suit in this way? Should the bot update directly at eo:Ŝablono:Vikipedio laŭ artikolnombro? -- Ace111 (talk) 14:17, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes It would be more consistent to update update directly at eo:Ŝablono:Vikipedio laŭ artikolnombro.

I tried to create eo:Ŝablono:Artikolnombro de ĉiuj vikipedioj which should list all wikipedias. I saw it in some preview around 14:00 MET, and while trying to make it better I did o more see it (nor right now) it produces a Wikimedia error. The request is to heavy for Wikimedia servers. I suspected it and now I have checked. I'll try to find out another solution. --Arno Lagrange ✉ 19:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I've created a pretty dynamic chart eo:Ŝablono:Artikolnombro de ĉiuj vikipedioj/grafiko. It is easy translatable because based on a SVG file grid. --Arno Lagrange ✉ 15:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Updates

What happens ? Your bot did not update Ŝablono:Nombro da/dateno since May 8th while it did update the respective templates in en:WP and in meta. Could you please add these two lines :

| dato | date = {{REVISIONDAY2}}/{{REVISIONMONTH}}/{{REVISIONYEAR}}
| uzanto |user  =  [[Uzanto:{{REVISIONUSER}}|{{REVISIONUSER}}]]

so we can display last update date and last editor. Thanks. --Arno Lagrange ✉ 17:59, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

OK you've updated today. Thanks.

I just put the dynamic chart into meta in 3 languages (en eo fr). Could your bot update meta:Template:Wikipedias by article number which is the same as eo:Ŝablono:Vikipedio_laŭ_artikolnombro? --Arno Lagrange ✉ 22:04, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

• Sorry, I still didn't make the updates automatic in eowiki because the bot status is not yet approved. And for manual update, I was busy and forgot about it. Concerning the changes you propose, I will try to do them tomorrow. How do plan to use "date" and "user" field? And concerning meta:Template:Artikolnombro de ĉiuj vikipedioj/grafiko/en, probably it would be nice to have a version for relatively large Wikipedias (say, greater than 100k articles)? -- Ace111 (talk) 23:08, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I just give status bot to eo:Uzanto:Acebot.

Date and user will be used in documentation page (and elsewhere needed) so : "Last updated on {{Nombro da/dateno|date}} by {{Nombro da/dateno|user}}. So we can easily check when occurred the last update.

A version for greater Wikipedias is easily makable. I have already made such charts for a lecture about Wikipedias. See Vikipedio en 282 lingvoj (wikipedias in 282 languages) and La plej grandaj vikipedioj (The biggest ones)

Cheers --Arno Lagrange ✉ 15:49, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you (should eo:Vikipedio:Roboto/Permespeto be updated?). I have implemented the changes. The bot will update both templates once a day. Additional template will be also updated in meta. -- Ace111 (talk) 16:52, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

I did it! it's a bit confuse, but I'll come later and make it better. --Arno Lagrange ✉ 23:05, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

I listed all the stuff in meta:User:ArnoLagrange/List_of_Wikipedias/logaritmic_chart. I made the chart more lisible. --Arno Lagrange ✉ 11:23, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Please subst

Hi! I noticed the data you put don't work as expected. Instead of the revision date of the template we get the revison date of the page where it is transcluded. So your bot should put the code with subst prefix in this way:

| dato | date = {{subst:REVISIONDAY2}}/{{subst:REVISIONMONTH}}/{{subst:REVISIONYEAR}}
| uzanto |user  =  [[Uzanto:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}]]

Thanks -- Arno Lagrange ✉ 21:15, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Should also the revision time be put? -- Ace111 (talk) 22:03, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

It is not very necessary. but why not --Arno Lagrange ✉ 22:36, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

What I should put there? I thought about an additional line "| time = ...". -- Ace111 (talk) 23:10, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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Hello ! I just noticed that eo:Ŝablono:Vikipedio laŭ artikolnombro has not been updated since 4 Dec 2012, and then is no more accurate. We should have |28=sr |29=eo (unfortunately E-o just loose a rank! but it is a fact we don't need to hide). Once upon a time E-o has the 4th rank (it was in 2002)! Thanks for your attention. --Arno Lagrange ✉ 18:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, due to an error introduced to the bot month ago this template has been uploaded to meta (meta:Ŝablono:Vikipedio laŭ artikolnombro) instead of eo. I have corrected the bot and hope it will run O.K. now. — Ace111 (talk) 18:56, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Fine ! Thanks ! --Arno Lagrange ✉ 21:17, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Lacking languages

In your bot dump for {{NUMBEROF/data}} 3 languages are lacking : ltg: kbd: xmf: Cheers --Arno Lagrange ✉ 12:21, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done. -- Ace111 (talk) 13:54, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Acebot: Request for approval

Could you enable Acebot on the Veps Wikipedia? I already created the NUMBEROF and NUMBEROF/data templates, but the bot flag needs to be requested and approved to start updating the data. --Iketsi (talk) 15:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikisource

Hi, do you know how to make this work for Wikisource and other wikimedia projects ? Template:NUMBEROF ? --naveenpf (talk) 02:20, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, could be more specific in what you would like to have? Do you need the information on the number of articles/pages in different Wikisource projects to be available in one of these projects? -- Ace111 (talk) 19:43, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, to be available in meta. -- naveenpf (talk) 08:47, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	how do you add the Top 10 Greatest Wikipedias to your profile K9x (talk) 14:57, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. It seems that you have already figured out how to add it. — Ace111 (talk) 15:34, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Acebot on tpi.wikipedia

Could you enable Acebot on the Tok Pisin Wikipedia? I created the tpi:Template:NUMBEROF and tpi:Template:NUMBEROF/data templates over there a few days ago already. --Iketsi (talk) 04:20, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

The change of your bot on the Esperanto Wikipedia

Hallo. I just saw, that your bot removed some Wikipedias from the template eo:Ŝablono:Nombro da/dateno on the Esperanto Wikipedia. Why? Greetings --Tlustulimu (talk) 11:27, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello. Today during 13 hours API had problems for some Wikipedias (pt, hr, etc.), statistics for these Wikipedias were not available for my bot. You can see the signs of these problems at the corresponding template in the English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:NUMBEROF/data&action=history. You can also see there that the problems were corrected today before 11:00 UTC. Now the problem in Esperanto Wikipedia should be also fixed. I wonder whether there are any reports of the problems in Wikipedia posted somewhere centrally, to cross check. — Ace111 (talk) 13:24, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your correction. :-) --Tlustulimu (talk) 14:00, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Request to implement RANK in NUMBEROF

Hi Ace111, I have a request that I hope will be simple enough. Thanks to Acebot, statistics on articles such as Latvian Wikipedia can now be automatically updated, and that's wonderful. The only problem is that a Wikipedia's rank (in terms of number of articles) still has to be updated manually, and that is tedious work that should be automated.

My suggestion is to add a variable called NUMBEROFARTICLESRANK. Here is an example:

| en2 = {{#switch:{{{2}}}
	| NUMBEROFARTICLESRANK | RANK = 1   <-- Could we implement this? -->
	| NUMBEROFARTICLES | ARTICLES = 4516220
	| NUMBEROFFILES | FILES = 832117
	| NUMBEROFPAGES | PAGES = 32910922
	| NUMBEROFUSERS | USERS = 21375528
	| NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS | ACTIVEUSERS = 131140
	| NUMBEROFADMINS | ADMINS = 1409
	| NUMBEROFEDITS | EDITS = 718475850
	| 0 }}

We could then convert the numerical output (i.e. 4) into letters (i.e. Fourth) where appropriate. I'm sure there is already a template for that. What do you think? --Iketsi (talk) 21:41, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

• Actually, there is a template which gives the rank, it is being updated in several Wikipedias and Wikimedia:
  • ru:Шаблон:Википедии по числу статей
  • eo:Ŝablono:Vikipedio laŭ artikolnombro
  • kk:Үлгі:Уикипедия/Мақала саны бойынша орны
  • uz:Andoza:Vikipediya:Maqola soni boʻyicha oʻrni‎
  • meta:Template:Wikipedias by article number

It can give also the opposite correspondence: rank to Wikipedia code (the templates in Wikipedias, not the template in Wikimedia). You can see that the Russian article ru:Латышская Википедия lists the rank of Latvian Wikipedia which is equal to 65 using this template. I would suggest to implement it also for the English Wikipedia. What should be the title? Template:Wikipedias by article number? — Ace111 (talk) 23:56, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

That's perfect! You can call it Template:Wikipedia rank by size. --Iketsi (talk) 00:33, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

When will the data update automatically? — Iketsi (talk) 11:36, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

The data will update automatically from today. — Ace111 (talk) 23:54, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

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Please, when AceBot updates NUMBEROF, add the new Maithili Wikipedia. --Antonio1952 (talk) 22:29, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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Northern Luri and Goan Konkani Wikipedias

On Template:NUMBEROF/data Northern Luri and Goan Konkani need to be added to the list. Abrahamic Faiths (talk) 16:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done. — Ace111 (talk) 13:03, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Acebot has stopped updating Template:NUMBEROF/data

Hi, just wanted to let you know that Acebot has not updated the {{NUMBEROF}} template since July 12, it needs to be reactivated.

Also a new language edition has been added azb:, you might want to add it to the chart whenever you get the bot up and running again.

Thank you in advance. Abrahamic Faiths (talk) 20:06, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, bot will reactivated in a few days. Will add the new language then. — Ace111 (talk) 00:24, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Sorry for the bot being off due to technical reasons. — Ace111 (talk) 15:14, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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Can you update sr:Template:NUMBEROF/data on srwiki project? Thanks in advance.--Obsuser (talk) 16:26, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Do you mean a regular update? — Ace111 (talk) 17:18, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes, if it is possible. Is it going to be updated hourly? --Obsuser (talk) 19:03, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done. I will run a daily update. Hopefully it will be enough. — Ace111 (talk) 20:32, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

OK, it will be. Thank you. --Obsuser (talk) 02:18, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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Could your bot even update da:Skabelon:NUMBEROF/data? It's a copy of Template:NUMBEROF/data and is now used in the articles da:Russisk Wikipedia, da:Polsk Wikipedia, da:Engelsk Wikipedia and da:Japansk Wikipedia. We want to use the template NUMBEROF in all articles in da:Kategori:Wikipedia efter sprog. PerV (talk) 15:45, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Thx for the update of da:Skabelon:NUMBEROF/data on the 18th of November. I really hoped you would update continuously like you do with the Polish pl:Szablon:Statystyki Wikipedii/dane. If it is possible to add

| date = 22-11-2016 | time = 01:31 | user = [[User:Acebot|Acebot]]

to the Danish NUMBEROF/data, when you update, like on the Polish, it would be very nice. PerV (talk) 15:56, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done. Will update daily. — Ace111 (talk) 07:48, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Ace111, why your Acebot doesn't update every hour the page Template:NUMBEROF/data? --Antonio1952 (talk) 19:21, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Fixed, sorry for a problem. — Ace111 (talk) 01:21, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

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 Done. — Ace111 (talk) 19:15, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, noting that your bot seems to have stopped working on 25 September. Jc86035 (talk) 15:07, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Now the bot runs again. — Ace111 (talk) 21:37, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

I don't think your bot is updating the statistics for the three new Wikipedias (kbp, din, atj) and possibly other new WMF projects, can you fix that? Thanks, Jc86035 (talk) 15:58, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done. — Ace111 (talk) 19:47, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

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• WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
• 6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
• Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
• The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
• You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

• HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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Template:NUMBEROF/data

Hi Ace111, there are 3 new Wikipedias: gor:, inh: and lfn:. Please, add them on Template:NUMBEROF/data. Thanks. --Antonio1952 (talk) 20:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Also, could you add them to pl:Szablon:Statystyki Wikipedii/dane too, please? Along with ady:, atj:, din:, dty:, jam:, kbp:, olo: and tcy:, that are still absent there. Thanks. --Filemon (talk) 21:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done. — Ace111 (talk) 06:51, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Bot on pt.Wikipedia

Hi Ace111,

Sorry for my english. You can use your bot to update data about Wikipedias on Lusophone Wikipedia, equal it do on Template:NUMBEROF/data? If yes, I'll open a bot request and create the template's on pt.wiki. I wait for your answer. Regards, Stanglavine (talk) 17:33, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi, bot made its first edit. Is it O.K.? The template pt:Template:NUMBEROF/data was already created several year ago. — Ace111 (talk) 23:18, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ace111. It's O.K. I created a request for your bot in pt.wikipedia, on this page. Can you explain the operation (technical) of bot over there? Request approval is required for bot work. Thanks for attention! Stanglavine (talk) 17:24, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I explained the function details on this page. I will setup the bot to run daily. — Ace111 (talk) 21:46, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. The edition is OK. Only a detail, run the bot only after request approval, before isn't allowed. Regards, Stanglavine (talk) 12:25, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

pt.Wikipedia

Hi again Ace111,

Firstly, thanks for your help on pt.Wikipedia. But i have two questions: the bot don't update data since 26th June. It have anything problem? Second, whats the source of information about Wikipedias (only to me add the source on the references section)?. Thanks! Stanglavine (talk) 21:22, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Santali Wikpedia

Hi Ace111, Santali Wikipedia (sat:) was created recently, please add it to pl:Szablon:Statystyki Wikipedii/dane and other templates updated by your bot. Thanks! --Filemon (talk) 21:25, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Please, add it also to the Template:NUMBEROF/data. --Antonio1952 (talk) 17:41, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

 Done. — Ace111 (talk) 17:12, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.

BAG

• There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
• In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

• 24 active BOTREQs, please help if you can!
• 5 open BRFAs and 3 BRFAs in need of BAG attention (see live status).
• 54 approved bot tasks since the start of 2018. Of note, Community Tech bot 5 (the #10 Wish on the 2017 Community Survey) was approved to notify users concerning problematic images and files from Wikimedia Commons.

Also

• If you're a bot operator that can help with Tidy/Linter error cleanup (see discussion, discussion), please file a BRFA!
• 8 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion, discussion, discussion).

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

• Use of tags by bots – Exploring the use of a new 'bot' tag.
• Mass page moves – Bot policy question/clarification about mass moves.
• Creation of redirects – Bot policy question/clarification about the creation of redirects.
• Guidance on disruptive use of semi–automated tools? – Related to meatbots (see also MOS discussion, which resulted in small addition to MOS:VAR).
• Discussion concerning WP:BOTFLAG/WP:RC – A reminder that bots should use the bot flag when it makes sense to use it (see also VPT discussion and CREATEBOT update).
• Out of curiosity... (to all bot operators) – BotPasswords vs OAuth usage amongst bot operators.
• Introducing Toolhub – Toolhub is looking for feedback.

New things

• {{Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.
• AWB 5.10.0.0 is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the changelog for what's new. Note that the next version will require .NET Framework 4.5. Many thanks to Reedy and the AWB team.
• BotWatch, "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by SQL (see discussion).
• Massive updates and improvements have been made to Citation bot in the past few months (see discussions, discussions, discussions). You can activate the bot here, amongst other methods.
• HTML Tidy has been phased out (see Tech News #28).
• {{Newbot}} has been reorganized a bit (diff). In particular, it links to previously approved BRFAs (see discussion).
• Wikipedia:Bots#See also has been reorganized a bit (diff).
• The bot dictionary has two new entries, context bot and context-sensitive edit.
• The bot request header has been updated to include better guidance (see discussion).
• The subcategories of Category:Wikipedia bot requests for approval have been sorted in a consistent manner to make past BRFAs easier to find.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hello! Is it possible for User:Acebot to operate in ckb wiki?--▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 00:57, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

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NUMBEROF

Hi, can you bot update template NUMBEROF at cswiki? talk page Thank you very much Patriccck (talk) 14:38, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Acebot down?

Hi Ace. It seems like Acebot hasn't edited since April 15. A user from hrwiki who was looking at Croatian Wikipedia was concerned about the metrics not matching what they saw and asked about it offwiki in WP:Discord. -- ferret (talk) 13:57, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

NUMBEROF/data on et.wikipedia.org

Could your bot update regularly et:Mall:NUMBEROF/data on Estonian Wikipedia? Thanks in advance. Metsavend (talk) 13:53, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Greetings!

Here is the 7th issue of the Bots Newsletter, a lot happened since last year's newsletter! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Nothing of note happened. Just like we like it.

BAG

• Several (1 + 12 = 13) users have been retired/resigned from the BAG due to inactivity, per our new activity requirements (discussion).

BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on bot-related pages, posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.

• Two BAG members retired
  • Madman (talk · contribs) retired.
  • BU Rob13 (talk · contribs) vanished and retired.
• Three new BAG members have been voted in, welcome to the BAG!
  • Primefac (talk · contribs) joined on 2018-12-12 (RfBAG). Primefac operates PrimeBOT (talk · contribs) which does a plethora of tasks.
  • TheSandDoctor (talk · contribs) joined on 2019-01-21 (RfBAG). TheSandDoctor operates several bots including DeprecatedFixerBot (talk · contribs).
  • Enterprisey (talk · contribs) joined on 2019-08-07 (RfBAG). Enterprisey operates EnterpriseyBot (talk · contribs), which does a plethora of tasks, RemindMeBot (talk · contribs) which posts reminders, and codes several scripts.

We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.

BOTDICT

Two new entries feature in the bots dictionary

• Editor-hostile wikitext – describes wikitext structuring that is editor hostile, even if it renders correctly
• Spectrum of usefulness – describes how tasks are deemed useful or not

BOTPOL

• Activity requirements: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot (RFC).
• Copyvio flag: Bot accounts may be additionally marked by a bureaucrat upon BAG request as being in the "copyviobot" user group on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed (discussion). There is currently 1 bot using this functionality.
• Mass creation: The restriction on mass-creation (semi-automated or automated) was extended from articles, to all content-pages. There are subtleties, but content here broadly means whatever a reader could land on when browsing the mainspace in normal circumstances (e.g. Mainspace, Books, most Categories, Portals, ...). There is also a warning that WP:MEATBOT still applies in other areas (e.g. Redirects, Wikipedia namespace, Help, maintenance categories, ...) not explicitely covered by WP:MASSCREATION.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

• 20 active BOTREQs, please help if you can!
• 14 open BRFAs and 1 BRFA in need of BAG attention (see live status).
• In 2018, 96 bot task were approved. An AWB search shows approximately 29 were withdrawn/expired, and 6 were denied.
• Since the start of 2019, 97 bot task were approved. Logs show 15 were withdrawn/expired, and 15 were denied.
• 10 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). 5 other bots have been deflagged per operator requests or similar (see discussion).

New things

• All bot-related discussion pages now have a centralized and searchable archive box (see discussion). Discussions are searchable per noticeboard, or globally.
• {{Bot}} now supports |status=expired (see discussion). This led to the deletion of Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots as useless (see discussion).
• WP:BOTREQ now mentions WP:SCRIPTREQ and WP:AWBTASKS as alternatives to bot requests.
• The bot creation guide now mentions bot flags, and two new languages Awk and MATLAB. Other minor tweaks have been made.
• AAlertBot has received major code updates. In particular, WP:AALERTS will now report splits, mergers, and AFC submissions.
• Citation bot has received several updates (User talk:Citation bot/Archive 10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17). In particular, the bot stopped the automated removal of |publisher= from {{cite journal}}, and stopped the automated addition of CiteSeerX links, and now uses OAuth to authenticate those who make requests of the bot.

Other discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Adminbots requests page
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Double-redirect tagging (2019)
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Long and Winding Road to Parsoid
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Bot-like user scripts
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#WP:URLREQ
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Wikipedia:Bots/Status
• Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group#Minimum edits
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Minor update to WP:BOTISSUE
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Semi-automated Portal creation
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Clarification on "Bots operated by multiple users"
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bots triggered by multiple users
• Wikipedia talk:Bots#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage

See also the latest discussions at the bot noticeboard.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

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New Wikipedias for Acebot

Hello, could you add five newly created Wikipedia language versions (shn, hyw, nqo, ban, mnw) to the templates updated by Acebot? Thanks! --Filemon (talk) 21:02, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

 Done. -- Ace111 (talk) 00:12, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

• And the same request for two more new Wikipedia versions: szy and gcr. Many thanks! --Filemon (talk) 21:36, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

   Done. -- Ace111 (talk) 21:57, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

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Acebot down again?

Hi, can you bot please (daily) update template NUMBEROF at afwiki? Seems it last ran op 9 December 2019. Thank you! --Aliwal2012 (talk) 14:53, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Bot is still down. Sdkb (talk) 19:24, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

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The new Lua-based NUMBEROF system has been expanded to include rankings for use in {{Wikipedia rank by size}}. Here is an example. If Acebot is ever re-enabled, it is import that it not edit this page and other pages in other languages, or it will overwrite the new module which pulls data from Commons, updated every 6 hours and has other new features. Thanks. -- GreenC 15:21, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

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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, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 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!

• Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? 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

• Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5
• Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"
  

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

• Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT
• Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request).

December 2019

• Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8
• Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that.
• 200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 was approved to remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot) changed lots of http links to https using JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies.

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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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

January 2020

Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

• Y ST47Bot, Seppi333Bot, Qbugbot 4 · N2 PkbwcgsBot 25, PkbwcgsBot 26
• A new Pywikibot release dropped support for Python 3.4, and it was expected that support for Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
• Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology.
• Cydebot, an adminbot operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been CfD'd.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

• Y AnomieBOT 78, Cewbot 2, DannyS712 bot 67, DannyS712 bot III 63, PearBOT 6, DemonDays64 Bot 2 · N2 PearBOT
• On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
• On February 18, ST47Bot got into a tussle with Amalthea (bot), and had to be partially-blocked from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview.

March 2020

• Y MajavahBot, SDZeroBot, TheSandBot 6, TheSandBot 7, Bitbotje, FACBot 6, TheSandBot 8, Qbugbot 5, Cewbot 3, SDZeroBot 2, PrimeBOT 31, WikiCleanerBot 12 · AntiCompositeBot
• In March, a long discussion was started at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy by Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).
• Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were TheSandBot 6 (removing blocked users from Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues), and TheSandBot 7 (removing unblocked users from Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names). SDZeroBot 2 was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were MajavahBot (to patrol WP:EFFPR), SDZeroBot (to merge stub tags), and Bitbotje (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in draftspace).

April 2020

Listeria being examined

• Y TheSandBot 9, BHGbot 5, DannyS712 bot 69, SDZeroBot 3, ST47ProxyBot, WugBot 4, SDZeroBot 4, DatBot 10, WikiCleanerBot 11, WikiCleanerBot 13, WikiCleanerBot 14, AntiCompositeBot 2, Cewbot 4 · N2 DaedanBot 1 · Creffbot
• A discussion on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by Barkeep49, who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
• ST47ProxyBot joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block IP addresses belonging to open proxies, public VPN services, and web hosts. New tasks approved for existing bots included BHGbot 5 (diffusing categories), TheSandBot 9 (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 (updating data at {{Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, DatBot 10 was approved to scale down non-free SVGs — I didn't even know that was a thing.
• A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy was started by Thryduulf about whether WP:BOTCOMM should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator, SourceForge, Toolforge, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form:

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

• Y MajavahBot 3, DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4, QEDKbot, William Avery Bot 2, DannyS712 bot 68, PrimeBOT 32, TheSandBot 10, Bot1058 7, BHGbot 6, EaglesBot 2, Cewbot 5, WikiCleanerBot 17 · N2 MDanielsBot, PhuzBot 3, Gedimon · ? PearBOT 7
• MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.
• Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 (processing redirects in {{R from scientific name}}), DannyS712 bot 68 (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 (removing blocked/locked users from Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices), Bot1058 7 (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 (adding {{WikiProject Biography|living=no}} to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot (deleting and nominating empty categories).
• General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, PrimeBOT 32, BHGbot 6, Cewbot 5, and EaglesBot 2, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15, 16, and 17.
• Seven bots who fell below activity requirements (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot.
• On May 12, EmausBot was blocked.

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

• Y QEDKbot 2, AnomieBOT 79, WOSlinkerBot 6, Yapperbot 2, Yapperbot, AnomieBOT 80, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5, WikiCleanerBot 18, HasteurBot 15, MusikBot II 4, NoSandboxesHere · N2 RedWarn · ? Seppi333Bot 2
• In July 2017, Headbomb made a proposal that a section of the Wikipedia:Dashboard be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, Lua code was written superseding Legobot's tasks on that page, and operator Legoktm was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a partial-block of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.
• On June 7, RexxS blocked Citation bot for disruptive editing, saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a discussion on the bots noticeboard was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and AntiCompositeNumber requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer AManWithNoPlan responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper test suite), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a June 2019 incident in which a LTA had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
• David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".
• Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: Yapperbot, to replace Legobot for handling the Feedback Request Service, and NoSandboxesHere, to remove {{user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox.

Conclusion

• What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

• Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
• What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
• Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
• What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

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

Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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