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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

 

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Tech News: 2023-27

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Sock investigation

Hey TheSandDoctor

Do sockpuppet investigations not mean anything anymore?

I posted this 15 days ago:

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arjun19990012

Will this get looked at before I die?

(141.132.22.19 (talk) 08:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC))

Tech News: 2023-28

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Tech News: 2023-30

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Question from Man In M1A1 (08:43, 27 July 2023)

Hi, how to create a new Wikipedia page for a specific thing like about a ship profile? --Man In M1A1 (talk) 08:43, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Small error with TheSandBot edit

With this edit the bot replaced the closing > of an html comment and replaced it with three new lines (c.f. the corresponding edit to the archive page). I have fixed the mistake, but have not investigated to see if it is a one-off. Thryduulf (talk) 00:43, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, @Thryduulf:. I looked into its edits today for this task and this does, thankfully, appear to have been a one-off. Looking through its last two runs for this task (which were, admittedly, last year), I don't think it has ever run into a line with a comment like that before, so it might've been a bug inherited from Ronhjones' day.
My first instinct was to think that perhaps it was because this was its first run with Python 3 (so a change in how the language functioned) as Ronhjones had written it all in Python 2. However, I am honestly doubting that and rather confused given that it encountered the same thing...and did it perfectly at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions/Archive/Placed by the Wikipedia community today. (I didn't want to upgrade it to Python 3 but 2 has been abandoned and my installation broke on the old laptop it ran off of and, once I addressed that, then the laptop decided it didn't want to run it as anything but Python 3...so I converted it using the built-in utility "2to3" to avoid further headache; functionally it appears to behave the same as before, which was something I paid close attention to for the first couple edits.)
I run it periodically and will now keep a close eye on all edits for this task to see if this was a fluke or a larger problem. Normally I do glance over the edits for this specific task -- and did here -- but evidently this one now needs closer attention. Thank you once again for the heads up, it is greatly appreciated! TheSandDoctor Talk 03:17, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
I've now logged the issue on the task's GitHub. --TheSandDoctor Talk 03:30, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if it's relevant, but in the edit the bot got wrong the comment is between two fully independent rows, while in the edit the bot got right the comment is in the middle of a block that starts with a cell spanning multiple rows. (Yes, this has been bugging me!) Thryduulf (talk) 09:53, 28 July 2023 (UTC)