User talk:Σ/Archive/2024/June

General archiving not occurring

Lowercase sigmabot III last did an archiving run through regular pages on 25 April. Does it need a reset or special encouragement to resume doing such runs daily? (Sorry; I don't do Wikipedia email; if someone else would like to in order to get Σ's attention, that's fine.) It has continued to archive the Administrators' noticeboard and Incidents pages at midnight and noon daily, but that's all. Thanks for getting the bot working again. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

The Earwig gave it a kick last time. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:28, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

I went ahead left him a message. Safiel (talk) 16:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I've kicked it again and added a workaround in case this issue happens again. — The Earwig (talk) 04:29, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

How does the bot work? Do you have to urge the bot to archive from talk pages it has archived from before (a 'kick', as mentioned above) or will it somehow work automatically? How do you do this?  ; As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow (talk) 10:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Is the Lowercase sigmabot III working?

Is Lowercase sigmabot III working or has it been retired? Should talk pages which have been archived by it be archived by some other bot from now on and how is this changed? Thanks in advance for any answer.  ; As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow (talk) 10:54, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow: What makes you think that it's not? Always give examples of pages exhibiting the problem. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:45, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Redrose64:: I'm asking a general question, I didn't know I had to add an example since the question should be easy to give an answer to for anyone running the bot, but according to the history of the page, this bot used to archive discussions at Talk:Bandy but haven't done so in a while.  ; As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow (talk) 11:05, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

It ran today, do you have any others? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Why? It's working now, isn't it?  ; As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow (talk) 09:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

You asked "Is Lowercase sigmabot III working or has it been retired?", without saying which pages were not being archived. I asked for examples: you provided just one, where Lowercase sigmabot III demonstrably is working. If you can't supply any other cases where Lowercase sigmabot III is not archiving as it ought, I can only assume that it is working as intended. One thing is absolutely certain: it is not retired, as a simple check of its contribs would have told you before you posted here. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:53, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

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Lowercase sigmabot III question

Hi there. I was expecting Talk:Nikola Tesla/Nationality and ethnicity to have a couple threads archived at the start of the month, but the bot didn't do that, after doing it a few times before. Can you provide some sort of a hint about that? I noticed the minthreadstoarchive parameter wasn't set, User:MiszaBot/config says the default is 2 so it should be fine, I lowered it now just in case. Would be nice if there was a publicly available debug log output of bot operation somewhere, so we could double-check what we may be doing wrong there. TIA. --Joy (talk) 11:53, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

JFTR it looks like the bot did activate there two days later on June 5th. [1] Would still be great if us plebs could track its progress better. --Joy (talk) 12:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)