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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes

Modussiccandi

BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

RFPP bot

Hi cyberpower, hope you're well. I've noticed that your bot seems to be doing an "edit conflict" type of thing on WP:RFPP from time to time. When it makes an edit close in time to someone else's edit, it removes the previous person's edit. For example: [1]. That's the second time that's happened to me in a day or two. It can be jarring because I'm sure I made the edit but I later find it missing.

My assumption is that the bot fetches the content of the page, then it churns on it for a while and does all of its checks, and then writes its updated content to the page. If someone makes an edit while it's churning, then that edit isn't included in the text that the bot writes to the page. I'm not sure if there is a practical way to prevent this, apart from optimizing the code to minimize the time that it churns between reading the page and then writing the updated page.

If it's not possible to reduce the processing time to a sufficiently small amount of time, another possibility would be to detect an edit conflict by doing something like this:

1. Read the content of the page
2. Process the content and prepare your updated content for the page
3. Read the page again and compare it to the first read. If it's different, then an edit has occurred and the bot should abort and try again later.
4. Otherwise, if the first and second reads are the same, then write the updated content to the page.

Just some ideas. Feel free to ping me with any questions. Cheers. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 05:49, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

@Scottywong: The bot should already be using the API's included method of handling edit conflicts. It's submitting a base timestamp and rev timestamp to the action=edit call. I'm not sure why the API isn't stopping the edit from going through as it should detect that timestamp it gives it is older than the latest revision. I've got very limited time on my hands, but I will take a closer look at this when I can.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Language parameter

Hey, Cyber! I was wondering... Would it be possible somehow for IABot to understand and tell the language of the sources it's dealing with? In my homewiki (SqWiki) we require all sources to have the language parameter added to them. We have 12k articles needing the language parameter currently. Most of them are in English but we have no way to tell which. I thought maybe you could have such a way, maybe from some metadata aquired from the archives and make IABot add that parameter with the correct value when it's missing. Or maybe only do that for English sources. I'm sure that would drop that aforementioned number tremendously and we'd be able to fix the rest manually. - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:18, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi: Unfortunately, no, there is no way for the bot to know this. That would require some kind of sophisticated language engine, like Google Translate.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:28, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Question

I try to use the archiving bot while editing via a Iphone, but for a few weeks I see an orange screen that states:

”Language unavailable: Sorry, but the language you have picked is not available yet. Please be patient. It will be made available. Feel free to help with translations by going to TranslateWiki. In the meantime this page will be using the English language.”

And I can not archive dead links.BabbaQ (talk) 18:58, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: The message you are getting has no bearing on the pages functionality. I wouldn't know why you can't archive any links. You should check to make sure that you are accessing the correct wiki. Open the menu with the Hamburger icon, and check that you have the right wiki, and language picked out.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:30, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Cyberbot I deprecated API calls

Hi, Cyberbot I is making 5M deprecated API calls every day and it's the biggest offender causing a fire-hose of deprecation logs. The top deprecated features are "action=query&prop=info&inprop=readable" and "action=query&prop=revisions&!rvslots". Cyberbot II also makes deprecated calls but in a smaller scale (same API calls, but only 1M per day). Please fix those. Thanks. Ladsgroup^overleg 09:11, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Ladsgroup: Sorry for the delayed response, can you tell me what the correct queries are to replace these?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Cyberbot I deprecated API calls

Hi, Cyberbot I is making 5M deprecated API calls every day and it's the biggest offender causing a fire-hose of deprecation logs. The top deprecated features are "action=query&prop=info&inprop=readable" and "action=query&prop=revisions&!rvslots". Cyberbot II also makes deprecated calls but in a smaller scale (same API calls, but only 1M per day). Please fix those. Thanks. Ladsgroup^overleg 09:11, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Bump. This is important. Ladsgroup^overleg 10:39, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ladsgroup: Sorry for the delayed response, can you tell me what the correct queries are to replace these? I will expedite updating the bot to fix this.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Current events subpages

Cyberpower678, can you convert "Portal:Current events/Year Month Day" pages (from January-December 2000 to January-October 2013) to the current format, Can't do it because my fingers are hurting me. Can you do it, please, appreciate it. [[User:|203.128.83.115]] (talk) 05:34, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Please see this discussion for more information. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:44, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, but no. I don't have much time on my hands these days.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:35, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Bot mistake

I was disappointed to see that CyberBot I removed my good-faith comment and would encourage the bot to consult WP:TPO ;-) Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:00, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Something strange is happening there.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:07, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Cyberbot I deprecated API calls

Hi, Cyberbot I is making 5M deprecated API calls every day and it's the biggest offender causing a fire-hose of deprecation logs. The top deprecated features are "action=query&prop=info&inprop=readable" and "action=query&prop=revisions&!rvslots". Cyberbot II also makes deprecated calls but in a smaller scale (same API calls, but only 1M per day). Please fix those. Thanks. Ladsgroup^overleg 09:11, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Bump. This is important. Ladsgroup^overleg 10:39, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

It's been a month and still the same. If it continues like this, I will block your bot from accessing the infra. Ladsgroup^overleg 14:48, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ladsgroup: Third time's the charm, I suppose. Quite an accomplishment I managed to miss the first two messages from you. Can you tell me what the correct queries are to replace these? I will make the changes to the bot immediately.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

The first one is using inprop=readable in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Binfo, the correct way to do it is intestactions=read. The second one is missing rvslots option (you can either add rvslots=* or rvslots=main). Ladsgroup^overleg 19:02, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ladsgroup: Okay, I updated the bot and just now rebooted it. Can you tell me how the logs are looking?—CYBERPOWER (Message) 20:08, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes! It's fixed now. Reducing 200M records a month. Thanks! Ladsgroup^overleg 20:32, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Great to hear. Sorry I missed your previous messages.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 20:32, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes

Firefly • Sdrqaz

Ad Orientem

Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Bot stuck.

Since 01:27, 12 April 2022 your bot has been repeatedly hitting a disallow filter while performing the action "edit" on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2022/04. Actions taken: Disallow, Tag; Filter description: LTA 1165.
See filter logs [2]. – 2804:F14:C060:8A01:6806:8777:318E:F1A3 (talk) 01:45, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Solved: It appears to have gotten unstuck. – 2804:F14:C060:8A01:6806:8777:318E:F1A3 (talk) 02:18, 12 April 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

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

CHUS clerking

Cyberbot clerked a request as no problem. The wiki software no longer (did it ever?) allows all numeric usernames. It gives the error message

The chosen username is too similar to existing usernames or it used to be username of someone else that got renamed: - ), !, ! !, ! ! ! and ! ! ! !.

Could you alter its clerking to reflect that, please? Cabayi (talk) 11:56, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Cyberbot I marking renames as done when they aren't yet done

As long as meta:Special:GlobalRenameProgress is still showing "queued" for some of the projects, the rename isn't completely done. Please make sure Cyberbot I doesn't mark renames done until it's actually completed. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 19:43, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Admin stats

Hi, Cyberpower. It seems like Cyberbot I's admin stats task (from BRFA II) is malfunctioning, while Cyberbot I's other tasks seem to be okay. Would you be able to look at this when you have the time? Sdrqaz (talk) 01:16, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

I just came here to ask about Template:Adminstats, too. It's a few days (a week?) out of date. User:JamesR/AdminStats is accurate but the template isn't updating numbers. I assume they both draw from the same database. It looks like you haven't been around for a while but when you return, if you could check on this, it would be great. Many thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:30, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Bot

Hello Cyberpower! I notice that on WP:RFPP, if an admin protects a page and then a minute later adds the message to the request saying that they protected the page, the bot will still leave a message saying that the page appears to have already been protected. Maybe the bot should wait about 10 minutes or so before leaving the message, and not leave the message if the admin adds the response within that 10 minute timeframe? I understand that it also does this if a page a user is requesting was protected at the requested level of protection before the request is made, so maybe if that happens it should add the message sooner? Let me know what you think of these ideas. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 18:48, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes

Colin M

David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversighter changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

gcatholic.com has been moved to gcatholic.org

Hi , I noticed that gcatholic.com has been moved to gcatholic.org , but in zhwiki still have some pages still in there .(see for more information) Willy1018(talk) 14:12, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Selamalekum gençler nasılsınız selamünaleyküm gençler nasılsınız selamünaleyküm gençler nasılsınız solar açık

Selamünaleyküm gençler nasılsınız sorular açık TURKENMUSTY1453 (talk) 02:27, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Not clerking WP:CHUS anymore?

I ask because the last time your bot did anything was on April 30. I don't see any indication the bot is stopped for some reason. Can you look into this? Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 16:29, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Possibly related: Cyberbot I hasn't updated the subpages of Template:Adminstats (such as Template:Adminstats/Redrose64) since the run that ended at 05:54, 30 April 2022 (UTC). It is still making edits, but the only page in Template: space being updated is Template:Cratstats. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:17, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes, Template:Adminstats hasn't updated for quite a few days. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:10, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

I remembered that I already posted about this to your talk page earlier this month but the message has been archived. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:16, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm currently manually archiving requests on WP:CHUS so the page doesn't get too big. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 15:14, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

I will take a look at this as soon as I can. This might be related to the recent system upgrade I performed on Cyberbot's Execution Node.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 18:01, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your time! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:47, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Any updates, WP:CHUS receive a lot of traffic so it's getting filled with completed request very frequently. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 02:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Adminstats not updating

Hello Cyberpower, hope you are well. I noticed that multiple adminstats subpages have not been updating in almost a month. Do you happen to know what would be causing that or what the issue is? Thanks. -- LuK3 (Talk) 16:48, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @LuK3: This is User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 79#Not clerking WP:CHUS anymore? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:35, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Looks like I just missed that archived message, thanks Redrose64 and apologies Cyberpower for the duplicate message. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:37, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

And as if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:12, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Not magic, just repaired. :-). I've got so much on my plate these days, both with IABot, and RL, that I tend to be silent a lot more than I should be.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 19:23, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your work. It's appreciated. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 21:45, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi there

I’m sorry to bother you if this is a bad time, there’s no response urgency for this, but I wanted to let you know that Cyberbot 1 had this weird incident of leaving its automated message about a user’s targeted block about 6-8 times on a single case. Figured it would at least be something to note if you’re tracking bot behaviors over whatever period this might be.--CreecregofLife (talk) 06:31, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

@CreecregofLife: I suggest block this robot until the problem is solved.--Q28 (talk) 12:02, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

CreecregofLife, Let me know if it keeps happening. Q28 I suggest not making useless suggestions on my talk page. —CYBERPOWER (Around) 18:22, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes

Tamzin

Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian

Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:55, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

ActiveStats @wikidata

Hi, Could you please have a look at the updating of d:User:Cyberpower678/ActiveStats @wikidata? It seems to be not updated since February 22nd. Thanks. Lymantria (talk) 08:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Cyberbot I going AWOL from RfPP

Hi CP, For some weeks, I have noticed that Cyberbot I takes long coffee breaks from its chores at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. An example is the pause following this archival. It ended when I manually archived an item from the "Decrease" section, which was followed directly by a massive bot run. You can find plenty of such examples by scanning through the histories of the archive files for entries with my name on them. I have not been able to find any "aberrations" in the requests that could be the cause of the "clogged drain". Though I don't mind performing this part of my janitorial duties, it was brought home to me that I should notify you in your capacity of bot operator. Best regards, Favonian (talk) 20:22, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

global twinke

I just saw your request for rollback. I think twinkle would be useful as well. It will give you an option "restore this version". I use global twinkle, its very handy. —usernamekiran (talk) 20:58, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

I gave it a try, but it’s not good mass reverting bot edits. Twinkle forces me to provide a reason for every revert which makes it just as tedious as manually undoing the edits. Mass rollback scripts require the actual rollback permission to actually work. But Global Twinkle will still be useful for me for other issues. Just not what I’m requesting GR for. :-)—CYBERPOWER (Around) 21:31, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Bot edits pl wiki

Hi. I've seen your bot's test edits on pl wiki [3], [4] - if we have archive.is (.ph etc.) or archive.org in "url=" it seems ok - there is no need to keep dead links in cite-web (and others) templates and no need to change them like in those edits. They don't seem to be useful on pl wiki. It would be great to see InternetArchiveBot's edits on pl wiki like before april (when it has not been changing templates with archive.is/archive.org links) :) Regards, Elfhelm (talk) 20:55, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

@Elfhelm: actually the Citation style does mandate that the archive URL be placed in the archive URL parameter and that the URL parameter needs the equivalent original URL. This has always been enforced by the bot, and your bug report actually brought to light that this function was broken and not functioning correctly. Most wikis require it, so disabling it as an option hasn't really been codified. However, there exists the parameter on new Citation modules to set the url-status, which hides the original from being rendered. Coding in a switch to enable/disable this on a per wiki basis will take more work and time. :-(—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:26, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Is this a typo?

Hi Cyberpower678. On User:Cyberbot I, it says Enable or disable the task here and within 60 seconds, the bot will shutdown or startup the task at it's respective wiki. Thank you. I think it's should be "its". If I'm wrong, please ignore this. Thanks! weeklyd3 (message me | my contributions) 21:28, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes

AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl

Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue

Bureaucrat changes

Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Global bot approval request for Dušan Kreheľ (bot)

Hello!

I apologize for sending this message in English. Please help translate to other languages..

In accordance to the policy, this message is to notify you that there is a new approval request for a global bot.

The discussion is available at Steward requests/Bot status#Global bot status for Dušan Kreheľ (bot) on Meta.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
—Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 21:07, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Page protection, until range blocks are in place.

Howdy. Until some kinda 'range block' or 'range blocks' are done, those 10+ pages are under siege from a chronic sock master. GoodDay (talk) 11:09, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

@GoodDay: ?—CYBERPOWER (Around) 05:03, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

That's nearly a week ago. I can't remember who the IP range was. GoodDay (talk) 05:04, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

@GoodDay: Oh, I apologize. I sometimes miss messages on my talk page.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 05:05, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi

It's not error, gay. but, so thank you Khả Vân Đại Hãn (talk) 00:59, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

@Khả Vân Đại Hãn: ?—CYBERPOWER (Around) 05:03, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

the website link still live. InternetArchiveBot is your bot, right? Khả Vân Đại Hãn (talk) 05:09, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

@Khả Vân Đại Hãn: Ah. Yes, the bot is mine. I just didn't understand what you were saying. The best, quickest and easiest way to report these issues is to use this tool.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 05:36, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

thank Khả Vân Đại Hãn (talk) 05:50, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Cyberbot I not archiving at RFPP#Increase for last 24 hours

I'm not used to troubleshooting this. Help? BusterD (talk) 06:56, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

And we're back. Don't know who helped us, but thanks. BusterD (talk) 09:25, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot on pl wiki

Hi. Firstly - sorry for my English. The InternetArchiveBot on pl.wikipedia.org doesn't correct dead links - since early April 2022 it's been only replacing links with "archive.org" or "archive.is" (and others) from "url=" to "archiwum=" (like: [5]). In pl.wikipedia.org links with "archive.org" or "archive.is" in "url=" have been accepted for years. Those edits of the bot don't make it easier to verify the links in the project and seem to be pointless (They also allow to "click" in old dead link and some of the old domains have been taken over by, for example, spammer websites, websites with questionable content.).

I want also to add, that you and your bot are doing the really great job - when the bot makes edits that really correct the inactive links (like: [6], [7] or [8]). It would be great if the bot's edits included just such activities. Regards. Elfhelm (talk) 17:31, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

@Elfhelm: Unfortunately, the bot is coded to enforce the intended design of the cite templates. This is a global implementation and is enforced on all wikis the bot runs on. The bot's code is shared on different wikis. I'm not sure if it's possible to disable the enforcer on just one wiki. May I ask why you wish to have archive URLs in the "URL" field and not in the "archive URL" field? Maybe there is a different solution that can be implemented much more easily right now.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:06, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, thanks for your answer. I understand the issue of unifying the bot's activities in all projects. However, I have some seriously doubts about the necessity and usefulness of leaving "clickable" dead links in "url=" parameter.

1) First, allowing to direct "click" to dead link (blue link in "z adresu" od pl.wikipedia.org) sometimes leads to certain risks - it allows you to click the dead link and to be redirected to an "old www site" which can now contain completely different content (even illegal software, 18+ materials, intrusive advertisements, computer viruses etc.). We have had various cases where internet names have been taken by such content (this concerned, for example, the pages of inactive political parties, a cultural magazine, a think tank and former politicians).

2) Second, such a situation significantly makes it harder to mass correction of dead links (e.g. for local bots). It makes practically useless using the special page "searching external links" ([9]). Many times (also thanks to your bot which corrected some dead links) - we used this special page to search more dead links (from the same domain) for mass change. I do not insist on my arguments, but it seems to me that the bot's current activities (restoring access to dead links) do not make it any easier. And correcting sources to be available (in archived versions) is one of the key issues for the principle of verifiability.

I consider these two doubts to be the quite important. I see some suggestions. 1) "Unclickable" links in parameter "z adresu" (maybe sth like the template [10] - I have no idea if it is possible). 2) Using only "archiwum=" parameter with empty "url=" parameter - in pl.wikipedia.org we have this option in "szablon:cytuj" [11] It looks like [12] (ref. no 3 or 4). It doesn't actually work in "old and classic" citation templates cite book, cite journal ang cite web (I don't think they will be improved).

I hope you find some of my comments useful. Regards, Elfhelm (talk) 18:43, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

@Elfhelm: Then there is a solution that can be implemented much more quickly to take advantage of a function IABot already supports. On enwiki, we use the CS1 module. In it, we use the parameter url-status to set the condition of the url. "dead" will push the archive forward and the dead link at the end of the citation. "live" flips it around and puts the live URL first. "unfit" or "bot: unknown" (which is what IABot uses) hides to the original URL from rendering. It wouldn't be too difficult to port the latest CS1 module to plwiki, since it's very i18n friendly meaning it can be localized fairly quickly and, in addition, will upgrade the capability of the citation templates since the module is centralized to all templates. Would you be interested? Have a look at Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration for an example of what the configuration page looks like on this wiki. IABot automatically reads this module and auto-adapts to it so it will always be aware of changes made to the local setup of cite templates.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 18:54, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

I am certainly not an administrator with technical skills to configure templates. I've seen on en wiki the paramter "url-status" which determines the different order of the links (url/archive) - like in [13] (no 9 - dead, no 10 - live). Actually on pl wiki (as I think) all citing templates put the original link to the end in clickable "z adresu" (dead/alive) - as an example [14] (ref. 1 and 2). Elfhelm (talk) 19:21, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

2022 Wikimania Hackathon

Hi there,

How's it going? I'm reaching out to invite you to the Wikimania Hackathon. It would be wonderful to have you host a session or drop in to work on a project. Let me know if you have any questions! My best KHernandez-WMF (talk) 16:13, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

You've got mail

You've got mail KINDLY SEE AN EMAIL ITS CONFIDENTIAL Love and Respect Aadihussain (talk) 18:29, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Regarding that message

The message I sent was auto generated, it said that you were the author of the image, I don’t know all the details that’s what twinkle said when I was suggesting deletion, hence why you got the notification. I agree, the image is not good, although your edit summary 'WTF' was less than WP:CIVIL, so I’d suggest avoiding things like that in the future. Thanks, Blanchey (talk) 11:50, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

WTF is not uncivil. It's my very appropriate expression of how disturbed I was seeing that image, and my subsequent confusion of getting your autogenerated message. I don't know why Twinkle thought I authored the image, but I did not. I don't work with images.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 11:56, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

I see. Yes I agree the image is disgusting. The reason I was upset is because I was scared I have done something wrong and will get in trouble as I did it in good faith. Red rose told me to suggest deletion at commons instead. But yes that is weird that it thought you were the author. Blanchey (talk) 11:58, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

It must have been this page creation. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:02, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes

DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2022 voter guides

A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2022 voter guides indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:27, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: are we seriously doing this again? This is for the upcoming ArbCom Elections. It's going to be empty for a bit, but it very much will be filled and should exist.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 01:32, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Odd behaviour

Am I doing something wrong that is confusing your bot? I get several like this. I protect a page here and mark the protection page and then a minute later the bot arrives and says the article is already protected. The other day saw one that was 9 minutes after I'd made the protection. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 05:44, 24 September 2022 (UTC)a