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HBC AIV helperbot5 question

Hi there. I was looking for some information that tells me roughly how long HBC AIV helperbot5 waits before emptying the AV reports in those particular instances where an admin has added text to their reply and pinged the reporting editor. Can you advise on that, please? It's obviously sensible to keep a message on show so the pinged editor can see it, but I'm unsure what time period is set. (As an aside: I doubt it's possible, but is there any way I change my notification settings to exclude changes made by helperbot - it would halve the number of emails I get whilst monitoring AIV?) Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 22:43, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

I saw that part of the question too late :) Hi Nick Moyes, the bottom of the "Notifications" preferences contains a "Muted editors" setting. Also, a pretty new feature, as far as I know, is a "Mute preferences" link in the "Tools" section of the left sidebar on any user's talk page. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, ToBeFree. I checked this out, but unfortunately it looks like the Mute preference only stops on-wiki notifications, and not email notifications, which is a shame. I also tried adding Category:Administrative backlog to my watchlist, but that doesn't work either. oh well. BTW: thanks for your own 'thanks' to my new admin actions at AIV. I take this as useful feedback that my actions were indeed correct. Cheers, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:27, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
Oh – that almost sounds like a bug. I assume you have muted both email and notifications from the Helperbot (both checkboxes in Special:Mute/HBC AIV helperbot5)? Perhaps that would be worth a report at Phabricator. And yes, I greatly appreciate your AIV actions! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:28, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
@ToBeFree: Now why would you assume that? No, I didn't know of that option, but I have just 'muted' notifications via that link, and we'll see how I get on. Your comment was a bit ambiguous, but I presume you meant a Phabricator report would be justified if watching a Category didn't result in a notification? I'm pretty sure the explanation in 'Preferences' made it clear that email notifications would still be sent when muting. Cheers, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:32, 28 February 2020 (UTC)  
If checking both boxes at Special:Mute/HBC AIV helperbot5 still does not prevent the helperbot from causing you to be notified via email, I think it may be worth considering this to be a bug, and to report it. Even if it is intended behavior, changing this behavior would be a helpful feature request in my opinion. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 08:04, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

AdminStatsBot down

Hi James, not a huuuuuge deal, but AdminStatsBot's last edit was on 26 February (UTC), as of this message. Graham87 09:17, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

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