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WP:ELECTCOM2021

Hello Cyberpower678. Thank you for volunteering for the Electoral Commission for the 2021 ArbCom Election. Following the closure of the ELECTCOM RfC, you have been selected as a commissioner. Congratulations! Some important pages to watch about the election are: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021, and others in Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021. Your duties may require some private communications with the other commissioners, traditionally wikimail and/or email has been used for this, along with IRC - but this is up to you to decide. Again, thank you for volunteering for this important position. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 23:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

AfDs?

Is Cyberbot I supposed to patrol for non-properly transcluded AfDs? There's a couple of different ones that I'm aware of from DELSORT lists that have never been relisted or closed despite being open for 2+ weeks: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Foundation series characters, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trinity Southwest University are the two I'm aware of, but if this bot was offline at some point, or for some other reason, these appear to have slipped through its cracks the first time. Or am I missing something different? Jclemens (talk) 00:53, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Error in warning about removing AfD template from articles before the discussion is complete.

Hi, the discussion page of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hohhot No.2 Middle School WAS closed by a editor Nikcannen. I thought it is official. So your message is in error. Liusine (talk) 06:49, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

The da Vinci Barnstar
For your work on IABot. I think its a great tool. I know theres alot of bug reports and issues coming in from people regarding IABot, and while it might be stressful, feel free to take your time on any of them - there is absolutely no rush. Feel free to do stuff on your schedule. To even have this amazing tool is good enough. Rlink2 (talk) 01:30, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

bot

I am a Korean Wikipedia user. I want to learn how bots work.--Jyoo1011 (talk) 12:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:43, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Pat Garrett

Hello Cyberpower678, InternetArchiveBot replaced the content of the article es:Pat Garrett, please see this link. Regards Ruy (talk) 14:26, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

The Community sandbox

I was trying to test my article-writing skills, but I have seen that you have cleared the page. Is it okay if I can continue editing? 173.225.243.156 (talk) 23:09, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Huh? —CYBERPOWER (Message) 23:11, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

iabot ui disabled

can't use iabot fa.wikipedia.org bi (talk) 16:15, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Question for you

See m:User talk:InternetArchiveBot#phab:T291704. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:29, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

City of London

City of London 2A02:2F0F:B011:F100:CC6C:C623:F912:50B4 (talk) 19:02, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

AfD text gone small... appears to have been caused by a Cyberbot I edit, but I have no idea why

Hi, this dif: [1] seems to have caused all subsequent paragraphs in the daily AfD list to have gone small-print. I can't see why, and the edit looks quite harmless. There's been something weird going on there anyway today, as I notice the deletion in question seems to exist twice in the list; there is a closed AfD followed immediately by an open version to the same thing. Weird stuff. Please ignore this message if it's irrelevant! I know nothing about bot edits. Elemimele (talk) 10:31, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Elemimele: The problem is not with the edit but the transcluded AFD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winning Jah (3rd nomination). I fixed the problematic tags. Regards SoWhy 11:08, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
@SoWhy: thanks so much. I wouldn't have known where to put the closing braces, even if I'd noticed. Elemimele (talk) 11:59, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 6 December 2021. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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 2021 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:29, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

ACE

Hi. Something stood out when I was looking at this year's voter log. Not to be confused with the right to vote, but I'm curious to know what selection criteria the spam list was based on. Is there a link to the discussion? It might even have been in a previous year. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:40, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

It's based on the same as the previous criteria used to message people, factoring in this year's eligibility criteria changes. Bots are removed, Deceased users are removed, alt accounts are removed, indefinitely blocked users are removed, and blocked users that will remain blocked for the duration of ACE are removed. All otherwise eligible users are messaged.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 02:01, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
So if I read it right, the total number of eligible users come to exactly 5,000 for the spam list? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:28, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Actually, 42,022 users received a message this year.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 19:01, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
OK. Thanks. That's exactly what wanted to know. I'll explain later why. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:09, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Edit username

Would like to update user name Limunh (talk) 20:06, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

One or Two ArbCom Questions?

Is the question that I asked of the ArbCom candidates considered one question, or two? So am I allowed to ask another non-follow-up question? Robert McClenon (talk) 03:59, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Robert McClenon, personally, I am interpreting that as 2 questions. —CYBERPOWER (Around) 06:00, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Okay. Then I won't ask another unrelated question. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:45, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

IABot questions

I don't know much about archiving or bots, but I noticed a series of edits on December 4, some of which don't seem quite right. If you go thorough these edits, some have left ref errors that have since been corrected by others. The worst example is this one where all the bare-url references were left less readable than they were before. Other edits have caused other kinds of errors. I have no idea what the root of this is of the proper place to report. Hope you can help. MB 21:06, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

User:MB Recommend reporting to meta:User talk:InternetArchiveBot -- GreenC 21:35, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
OK, I've put this there as suggested. MB 22:30, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

removed A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
  • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

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)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Hi!

Hey Andrejski89 (talk) 13:52, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

A t-shirt!
A token of thanks
Hi Cyberpower678! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~
A snowflake!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

IABot on dawiki restarted

Hi! We have started the bot on Danish Wikipedia after a long break. We have now copied the CS1-module from en.wiki and changed it a bit to use the Danish way of writing dates etc. So now the bot should work again :-)

I have 2 questions for you:

  1. When does the bot add a {{Cite web}} like da:Special:Diff/10969426 and when does it add a {{Webarchive}} like da:Special:Diff/10972551? Is it if in a ref-tag it tries to use cite web if possible and if that fails or if there is no ref-tag it uses webarchive?
  2. The bot can add {{Dead link}} like da:Special:Diff/10974105. We would like it to keep the url like da:Special:Diff/10974333 (so [http:www.whatever.com title] --> [{{Dead link |inline=ja |date=december 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes |url=http:www.whatever.com}} title]). I guess we have to change the config for "Template behavior:" to "Append template to URL" in stead of "Replace original URL with template". I think we may also have to edit the config of "Dead link template syntax:" by adding "|inline=ja". Is that correct?

--MGA73 (talk) 11:29, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Re 2: Now the bot add the "Dead link" after the url: da:Special:Diff/10974901. It't not quite what I expected but I guess it is much better than before. I think its okay if it is not possible to do the other edit without having to modify the bot. --MGA73 (talk) 14:28, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
And Happy New Year! --MGA73 (talk) 14:29, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
MGA73, Happy new year. To answer your question, the bot converts the URL to a template if there is no surrounding context. IABot doesn't know how to properly convert that and so it just wedges in a web archive template in those cases. It seems like you figured out number 2. You can't inline the dead link template like that. IABot does not support that. When you activate the replace setting, it will delete the entire URL and everything included in the square brackets, along with the brackets, and place a template there instead. This is for templates that render dead link texts in their own way like itwiki does. —CYBERPOWER (Happy 2022) 04:32, 4 January 2022 (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)

Cyberbot I generating lint errors

Cyberbot I is generating lint errors here by removing "</big>" from the page. I put it back in the previous edit, but the bot removed it again. —Bruce1eetalk 14:55, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Eight years!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Confused Bot or confused me

I think your bot is a bit confused. I protected here. Thirteen minutes late the bot says it thinks the page is protected and sixteen minutes after that it tells me I didn't protect it, here. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:54, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

IABOT

Hi, i'm currently blocked in IABOT fist of all i click bot run page and disable bot rune pages in second i enable, because it work archive the website. sorry this is my mistake @Cyberpower678: HurricaneEdgar 13:07, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

HurricaneEdgar, yes I was getting repeated emails of you turning the bot on and off on enwiki. When I checked your activity on the tool, you reran the bot on the same article over and over. Not sure of what your motives were, I decided to stop your actions temporarily. Can you please explain why you are doing this? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:55, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

La Fuerza

I did not remove anybody comment's in Articles for deletion debates for La Fuerza. --Aaron106 (talk) 15:52, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report is no longer updating

Template User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report is no longer being updated by User:cyberbot I. Any idea what's going on? Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨  18:03, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

January 2020

A python
A python
A python
0.4 pythons
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

March 2020

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

Conclusion

  • What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
  • Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
  • What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
  • Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
  • What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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