Merge bot

Merge bot, you are invited to the Teahouse

Hi Merge bot! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from peers and experienced editors. I hope to see you there! Hajatvrc (I'm a Teahouse host) Visit the Teahouse This message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 01:17, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

How cute, a bot inviting another bot to tea. Unfortunately it will be some time before Merge bot has the intelligence of Watson and will be able to intelligently participate ;) Wbm1058 (talk) 16:03, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Bots

You are receiving this message because a technical change may affect a bot, gadget, or user script you have been using. The breaking change involves API calls. This change has been planned for two years. The WMF will start making this change on 30 June 2015. A partial list of affected bots can be seen here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html This includes all bots that are using pywikibot compat. Some of these bots have already been fixed. However, if you write user scripts or operate a bot that uses the API, then you should check your code, to make sure that it will not break.

What, exactly, is breaking? The "default continuation mode" for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. To find out whether your script or bot may be affected, then search the source code (including any frameworks or libraries) for the string "query-continue". If that is not present, then the script or bot is not affected. In a few cases, the code will be present but not used. In that case, the script or bot will continue working.

This change will be part of 1.26wmf12. It will be deployed to test wikis (including mediawiki.org) on 30 June, to non-Wikipedias (such as Wiktionary) on 1 July, and to all Wikipedias on 2 July 2015.

If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages ), it's time to fix your code!

• The simple solution is to simply include the "rawcontinue" parameter with your request to continue receiving the raw continuation data (example <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&rawcontinue=1>). No other code changes should be necessary.
• Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries (example <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&continue=>), which is much easier for clients to implement correctly.

Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning.

Do you need help with your own bot or script? Ask questions in e-mail on the mediawiki-api or wikitech-l mailing lists. Volunteers at m:Tech or w:en:WP:Village pump (technical) or w:en:Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard may also be able to help you.

Are you using someone else's gadgets or user scripts? Most scripts are not affected. To find out if a script you use needs to be updated, then post a note at the discussion page for the gadget or the talk page of the user who originally made the script. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:03, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Separate pages for each task

• Discussions relevant to task 1 are at User talk:Merge bot/Task 1
• Discussions relevant to task 2 are at User talk:Merge bot/Task 2 – wbm1058 (talk) 14:43, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Category:Mersey built ships

Who approved this bot mangeling this category and where is the discussion? Kitchen Knife (talk) 22:24, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Merge bot did not mangle the category in any way (it didn't exist with that spelling prior to the bot's actions, and doesn't exist now). All it did is move old history from one place to another. I'll answer your question anyway: the bot was approved by an editor who has since courtesy vanished per a discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Merge bot 2 * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:30, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Ok I apologize, WHo deleted that Catrgpty and incorrectly merged it the SHip built on Merseyside.Kitchen Knife (talk) 22:34, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Fayenatic london, implementing the consensus at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 May 3#Foo-built_ships. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:50, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

The bot's history-merge was of edits left behind after the move approved at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 September 14#Ships built in the United Kingdom by dockyards. – wbm1058 (talk) 01:19, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

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

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

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.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)