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WP:UAA/Bot again

Hi Amanda, It looks like the bot has stopped updating the page could you take a look? Thanks Nobody (talk) 08:13, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

@1AmNobody24: Thanks for letting me know. Sorry I got busy during the week. An addition to the blacklist shut it down.

@TTWIDEE and Ahecht: Please do not throw unicode into the script. It's regex dependent even for the comments. Please also make sure that you see a successful report after your changes are implemented or watch my talkpage to know to revert. We are now mass dumping a weeks worth of reports on UAA for admins to handle. -- Amanda (she/her) 19:16, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

@AmandaNP Sorry about that, and thanks for the tips. When I had looked at the bot code I had though that the colons were being used to split off the other flags before they were treated as a regex, but I guess I read it incorrectly. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:40, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

@AmandaNP Looking at the code a bit more, I think it was the semicolon that was messing it up since as the code treated that as the start of a new line. However, it's easier to just leave special characters out of the text rather than experiment further. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:44, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

I doubt it's the colon, because the code uses it as a splitter and then it would crash on every other line. I debugged it live and those three lines is the one it stopped on and crashed in a regex search. With it changed, it's fully running now. That said, I did not read that deep into it. -- Amanda (she/her) 21:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

You might also want to consider adding the task to WP:BAM so you get notified when the bot hasn't edited the page for a certain amount of time. Nobody (talk) 12:10, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

@AmandaNP I haven't actually run it, but from my interpretation of the code it's crashing because it split the line at the semicolon, assumed everything after the semicolon was the regex at the beginning of a new line, and then choked on trying to parse that. It doesn't fail on every other line because the text after those semicolons is a valid regex. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:20, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

@AmandaNP OK, sorry about that. Thanks for the info. I won't make edit requests to the blacklist with HTML entities in future. There's an editnotice for the blacklist that says "Do not add wikilinks to this list. The bot is very syntax sensitive.". Maybe we could change it to "Do not add wikilinks or HTML entities to this list. The bot is very syntax-sensitive.". I imagine they'll probably be lots more people who'll notice the dash issue in the notes and want to add proper dashes, so I think a notice like that would be very helpful. Maybe we could add a notice about it on the blacklist talk page as well. TTWIDEE (talk) 20:55, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

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