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Wait for Me, Daddy

Photograph credit: Claude P. Dettloff; restored by Yann Forget

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:AAA logo.gif)

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Image wanted

Hi. I noticed you commented on this engine image. You may like to comment on the planned new image here Cuddlyable3 (talk) 12:22, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Toolserveraccount

Hello BrokenSegue,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 01:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

FA review for Battle of Incheon

Battle of Incheon has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 01:32, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Car Talk.gif)

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AfD nomination of Carmine Nigro

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This may help your article from being deleted {{Findsources3}}:

Find sources for Carmine Nigro: google news recent, google news old, google books, google scholar, NYT recent, NYT old, a9, msbooks, msacademic ...You can then cite these results in the Article for deletion discussion.

Good luck! Ikip (talk) 17:49, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Tobin's Q graph.JPG listed for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of William Steinberg

A tag has been placed on William Steinberg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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File:Logo iRobot.PNG listed for deletion

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Articles for deletion nomination of Google

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Hey Dude

I hear nobody talks to you anymore – Ilyanep (Talk) 05:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, BrokenSegue! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 02:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi, BrokenSegue, Welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope you like this place — I sure do — and want to stay. Before getting too in-depth, you may want to read about the Five pillars of Wikipedia and simplified ruleset. If you need help on how to title new articles check out the naming conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the manual of style. If you need help look at Wikipedia:Help and the FAQ , plus if you can't find your answer there, check the Village Pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions)! There's still more help at the Tutorial and Policy Library. Plus, don't forget to visit the Community Portal. And if you have any more questions after that, feel free to post them on my user talk page or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will be by to help you shortly.

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Additional tips

Here's some extra tips to help you get around in the 'pedia!

• If you want to play around with your new Wiki skills the Sandbox is for you.
• You can sign your name using three tildes (~). If you use four, you can add a datestamp too. Five will get you the datestamp only.
• If you ever think a page or image should be deleted, please list it at the votes for deletion page. There is also a votes for undeletion page if you want to retrieve something that you think should not have been deleted.
• If you're still entirely confused, or would like to get a better grasp of your wikipedia skills, and you have an IRC client (or don't mind getting one), check out the Bootcamp. It's not what it sounds like, but it is fun and can help you with your editing skills.
• If you're bored and want to find something to do, try the Random page button in the sidebar, or check out the Open Task message in the Community Portal.

Happy Wiki-ing.

– Ilyanep (Talk) 00:21, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

File:DOF example.gif listed for deletion

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Category:Caldecott Medal winners (book)

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MSU Interview

Dear BrokenSegue,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk)23:23, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

{Here's a brownie to go along with your birthday card! :-) †2†ťəäçħ†4†ӛṿəř 22:23, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:30, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Magenta1984 (talk) 17:54, 20 July 2016 (UTC) There was nothing wrong with the word ElectroYoga...You should not have deleted that page..Magenta1984 (talk) 17:54, 20 July 2016 (UTC)magenta 1984

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, BrokenSegue. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

• Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
• A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi BrokenSegue.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, BrokenSegue. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing BrokenSegue a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Lepricavark (talk) 22:01, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

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Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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A kitten for you!

youve been here a long time lol i hope you carry on your awesome work!

Rhysasaur (talk) 07:30, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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wikidata for Helen Oyeyemi article

hello- i accept that the wikipedia article will probably continue to exist, but i see you’ve also reverted the wikidata for this page so that the classification ‘Nigerian-British’ is restored. would you consider amending that tagline to British, which accurately reflects the reality of holding a single passport and only speaking English + terrible Czech? linking to the wikidata for an author whose biography is similar regarding having been born elsewhere. hyphenation doesn’t seem to have been compulsory for him: https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272855 H-minus (talk) 11:55, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@H-minus: done. BrokenSegue 11:58, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

thank you. H-minus (talk) 12:00, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

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Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing BrokenSegue a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:19, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

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I'd like to second that. Is there a reference somewhere for:

By the morning of November 12, it became clear that forces friendly to Lott held the city of Santos and that they would not allow the Tamandaré to land. Defeated, Luz ordered the ship to return to Rio. On his arrival, Luz was met by Lott's army and was forced to promise to resign the presidency before he disembarked. Luz had been president for just three days.

? I think it's the last section without reference. -Bogger (talk) 07:26, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Yeah I added a couple of references to those sentences. BrokenSegue 18:50, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

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Help needed on YouTube subscriber-views updating at Brendan Kavanagh

Hello BrokenSegue. I got your name from the thread at Project_YouTube about the automation of subscriber counts [1]. I need some help to sort out Brendan Kavanagh. The YouTube data for him on Wikidata [2] was last updated in February 2023, but there are a couple of other older entries. When I preview the article to include {{#invoke:YouTubeSubscribers|subCountNice}} it says 1.96 million, which is what is in Wikidata as of February 2023. The article itself, however, displays the number of subscribers that is manually set in the infobox. I am out of my element in wikidata and can't make sense of all the IDs and social media accounts and ranking, etc. Can you help me sort out what could be preventing the data from being updated on wikidata and in the infobox? If there is someone else I should ask, please let me know. Thanks.  — Archer1234 (t·c) 01:22, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@Archer1234: i believe the issue is that the infobox currently defaults to the value that is manually set. to get it to consume the wikidata value you have to remove the manually set value. BrokenSegue 01:26, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

OK, but then it shows the subscriber data from Wikidata that is a year old?. Other than removing the manually set subscriber count from the infobox, is there anything else that needs to be done to enable the data on wikidata to be updated automatically?  — Archer1234 (t·c) 01:32, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@Archer1234: there is a bot that updates the subscription data on wikidata. I'm not sure why this one didn't get updated. I'll take a look at that. For now I manually updated it with the current value. BrokenSegue 01:38, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Super. I am hesitant to make the change to the infobox until you verify that the bot is actively updating the data. Do I understand correctly that the frequency of updates is twice a week?

Also, is there a corresponding capability to update the number of views automatically?

Thank you for your help.  — Archer1234 (t·c) 01:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

the number of view isn't currently doable because wikidata lacks a property to track that but it would be easy to add if someone were to put in the effort.

I'm checking right now why it wasn't working and I'll get back to you.

Yes it runs fairly frequently but it only updates when the number is 10% greater than the previous number. see wikidata:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Frequency of YouTube follower count data for a discussion on this.

I will say that I think doing this in wikidata is better even if it's not automated is that it means other language wikis can source this information for free (though at the moment they aren't to my knowledge) BrokenSegue 01:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@Archer1234: ok I think I fixed the issue. Let me know if there's items that haven't been updated that should've been. BrokenSegue 07:15, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks. I am curious as to what you did to fix the issue. I saw some updates on Wikidata to include "±9,999" in the subscriber count (e.g., [3]). Is that the key thing that reenables automatic updates? I am asking because that would be an easy thing for me to fix if I come across similar situations in other channels.  — Archer1234 (t·c) 16:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I thought that was the issue but it wasn't. I think the issue is that it was always doing the channels in the same order and then it was crashing for reasons I don't understand so a large number of them were never being reached. I think I fixed the issue but I'll be honest I don't fully understand what was going on. BrokenSegue 18:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I read the discussion, and it concludes: Update items with Wikipedia articles whenever their subscriber count has changed by at least 10% or has surpassed a new factor of 10 milestone (100k, 1M, 10M, etc.); update other items once per year.

Sailing La Vagabonde is an example where the subscriber count in YouTube (1.85M) is not 10% more than what is in wikidata (1.82M). Does it have to get to 1.9M before it will be updated automatically? Or is it at 2.0M (which itself is not more than 10% of the currently stored count)?

Also, do I understand the decision correctly that if it is not updated after a year, then it will be updated at that time?  — Archer1234 (t·c) 19:28, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@Archer1234: As currently implemented it will not get updated at 2MM because that isn't a factor of 10 (that would be 10MM). It would next update at 2.03 or so (10% higher than the current value). The logic in the code is int(math.log10(old_sub_count)) < int(math.log10(new_sub_count)) (if you can read python). But I believe we could have some flexibility here. Mainly we don't want wikidata to be floodded with way too many updates but we want this to be useful to enwiki. And yes after a year it should update no matter what. BrokenSegue 20:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Just a follow-up regarding Sailing La Vagabonde. It has been over a year since the YouTube subscribers has been updated at Sailing La Vagabonde on Wikidata. I would have expected it to have been updated by now (a week after the one-year anniversary of the last time it was updated on Feb. 17, 2023). I am not asking to have it manually updated as I could do that. I just want to know if I am misunderstanding when and under what conditions it should be updated and to know if there is something preventing BorkedBot from making the update. I am holding off updating the Infobox at Sailing La Vagabonde to remove the manually set value for subscribers until I am confident the process for updating is working. Thanks.  — Archer1234 (t·c) 14:56, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

You have not misunderstood how this is supposed to happen. In practice the annual updates were run manually by me and I was a little behind doing that. I just kicked it off. I have since set up the annual updates to be checked once per month. The annual updates are quite slow (there are 10s of thousands to do) so I don't want to run those weekly though if needed that could be done. You can find the automatic cron job for doing the annual updates monthly at [4]. BrokenSegue 17:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Ah. Ok. Monthly is probably fine especially if the job takes a while to complete. I can live with that. I just wanted to be sure my expectations were set and wouldn't worry or be puzzled why data wasn't being updated. I presume this monthly job checks for the one year, 10% increase, or 10X factor milestones?  — Archer1234 (t·c) 17:52, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

so it's a little complicated. a weekly job checks for the 10% and milestones (only for items with enwiki articles). a monthly job checks for the 1 year condition (for all items, not just enwiki). and there's actually a third job but that one shouldn't be relevant for enwiki cases. BrokenSegue 18:00, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

The YouTube social media followers for Sailing La Vagabonde at d:Q85799180 still hasn't updated even though it is 1 year and two months beyond when it was last updated. Any idea as to why? I am holding off updating the infobox on corresponding enwiki article to pull data from Wikidata until I am confident that the process for updating is operating reliably. Thanks.  — Archer1234 (t·c) 17:42, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

@Archer1234: according to the logs the job should've run a week ago (it runs weekly). I'm not sure why it didn't get updated. I kicked it off manually. We'll see in a few hours if that was enough. Looking at the job history logs it seems it did get kicked off but crashed. Unfortunately there there are no logs for why it crashed. You can see that at least until it did crash it was making progress. My best guess is there's some malformed wikidata item which is doing something I didn't expect and when it reaches it it crashes. I'll check the logs later today to see what happens. BrokenSegue 19:17, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

The issue was that it was running out of memory. I'm not sure why, but I've upped its memory limit. BrokenSegue 06:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

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