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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 superseded tasks...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Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).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

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Copyvios outage

Hi Ben. Just stopping by to let you know that the Copyvios tool has been down for more than four hours, with "504 Gateway Time-out". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!— Diannaa (talk) 13:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Update: It was working for a while but has been down again for another three hours. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 19:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I restarted it this morning after seeing your message before I left for work. This buys some time by clearing the backlog of requests but does not solve whatever the underlying issue may be. I can’t do anything until tonight. — The Earwig alt (talk) 20:27, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!— Diannaa (talk) 23:41, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Cache time for Copyvios

Hi Earwig, what's the cache time for toolforge:copyvios? I'm building a similar tool for files and wanted some inspiration. Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 05:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Hey EpicPupper. The cache time is 3 days, but it's also per-revision and we resolve the latest revision every time, so could probably be much longer. — The Earwig (talk) 06:51, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

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Permalink.js

Hello! Lately I was recommended to use your user script for easier section sharing options and I'm loving the function it provides. I was wondering, could it be possible that beside the URL+Permalink options it already provides 2 more alternatives were also added? Wikilink + interwikilink (the long/full path)

Also, a kind of nitpick but currently there is no way to set up personalized piped contents to the links provided (other than deleting/modifying what was already provided. This is a user script so behaviors like these are fully expected and very minor, minor nitpicks. But I thought I'd bring it to your attention anyway (every though you most likely are already aware). - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:36, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Klein Muçi! I'm glad you find the script useful. These are good suggestions and I've wanted the wikilink functionality myself a few times. My main concern is to avoid making the interface too cluttered, but I'll think about how these options can be added cleanly. Thanks! — The Earwig (talk) 03:19, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I do understand your concern and it makes sense. Currently it is being discussed to make the share option a native feature of MediaWiki and the usual "Wikipedia way" is being considered: Add [Share] in blue beside the link. I've got to say that I dislike the overall lack of buttons Wikipedia presents, using instead only word-links everywhere so your concern makes sense. What I would suggest would be to make a 2 level design: first you choose URL vs Wikilink and then you choose Current vs Permanent or Relative vs Absolute depending on the prior choice. It seems better than having 4 buttons show up in a row.
Speaking of the overall interface, MAYBE a slight change in color could be considered also? I'm not exactly sure why - maybe it is because the chosen blue it's not (?) the blue Wikipedia uses for its links - but somethings feels strange in the buttons' appearance. Maybe it's their font-size which should be decreased a bit. I hate that I can't exactly pinpoint what's "wrong" given that I'm an interface admin myself but, again, I thought I'd let you know. Thank you again! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:36, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Copyvio detector + user script issue

Hey Earwig. How are you? Just wanted to bring to your attention this phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303088. It looks like the fix for this bug might be adding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DannyS712/copyvio-check to some kind of safelist on the copyvio detector API. Are we on the right track? When you get a chance let us know what you think. Thanks for your time. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:13, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Hey Novem Linguae! I'm well, thanks. I'll reply on the ticket. — The Earwig (talk) 03:53, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Bug for Earwig's Copyvio Detector

Tool would report similarity as 0.0% while check chinese page, e.g. [1], may a bug of encode. SunAfterRain 15:54, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Terminal

Template:Terminal has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:28, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Thoughts on a variant of Wikiproject Tagging, but with Wikidata Query and dual tagging scope

I'm looking for feedback on the idea (which feel free to run with). Most Wikiproject tagging bots I've seen seem to rely upon categories on Wiki to categorize, but does your bot or any you know considered tagging pages returned via a Wikidata query and have a language linked article? This could be directly tagging or generating a category for human review for a Wikiproject.

The reason I ask is while working on Wikidata Wikiproejct Every Politician and while working through Wikiprojects - Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, etc items all queries seem to fall in scope of certain project scope, but they often don't have the corresponding Wikiproject tag. Often a dual project scope is obvious, but lack a corresponding geographic tag which also applies. While petscan offers a means of evaluating this, a more regular and consistent scan would help offload those efforts to other tasks not as easily automated. Example a lake in Michigan - Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Lakes would apply. Example persons having held the position of member of the State Senate of Michigan - falls withing scope of Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Biography with Politician-work-group=yes tagging.

Would you be interested in supporting this query based Wikiproject tagging approach with your bot? How do you think Wikiprojects could provide indications of their project scope to let a bot know what query should be run? I was thinking possibly either a template or new parameters to the Wikiproject Infobox that would not display, but could provide a query or property-value pair to indicate possible scopes to check. Any initial reactions to any part of this concept which are a cause for concern? Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 18:22, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

  1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
  2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

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A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
For creating the Copyvio detector I only just found (and it was through a google search!). Wish I had known about it sooner. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:19, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, Blaze Wolf! — The Earwig (talk) 00:13, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
No problem! I accidentally gave this to User:Earwig at first because your copyvio detector just said "Earwig". ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 12:54, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Copyvio tool

I was wondering if the copyvio tool is down. I can't get it to load. SL93 (talk) 23:25, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

@SL93, it was briefly down when you sent this message, but is back up now. — The Earwig (talk) 00:00, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Maybe it's just my computer. It just says Loading... on the tab and I wish I could use it to help me file a contributor copyright investigation. SL93 (talk) 01:27, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
It works now. Now time to start the case. SL93 (talk) 01:29, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
I spoke too soon. SL93 (talk) 01:38, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
SL93: Sometimes I find the tool won't work for me, too. I have noticed sometimes the weekends in particular. I try to do the tasks at times of day that are not so busy, and tend to get a better result than at peak editing hours. Also: We have a status thingy for the tool at https://stats.uptimerobot.com/BN16RUOP5/784331770. — Diannaa (talk) 23:44, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Diannaa Thanks for the information and tool. SL93 (talk) 15:15, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

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Forficula pyrenaica unsourced

Plus two other pages. Xx236 (talk) 09:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
  • The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

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WIR Metrics

Hi, The_Earwig; it's that time again. WIR Metrics have not updated since 1 June - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Metrics/June_2022&action=history ... if you'd be able to have a look into that, it would, as normal, be very much appreciated. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Ah; either, thank you for fixing, or, they're back in any event & request cancelled. I'll go with the first of those. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:04, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Indeed, Tagishsimon :) - I kicked the bot back into gear but was in a rush and didn’t have a chance to reply. Happy editing. — The Earwig alt (talk) 15:16, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

t/y. Very glad you're here. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:34, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Copyvio Detector timing out

Hi, I was wondering if the copyvio Detector is malfuncioning in some way? Every comparison I've attempted this morning has timed out. Not a gateway timeout, but a time out like "The URL https://nickquested.com/about timed out before any data could be retrieved." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 14:12, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Adding, attempting to search an entire article using search mode results in a 502 Bad Gateway. The example I tried this on was Margaret Sullavan. — Diannaa (talk) 14:32, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Update: All functions are operating properly again. Peppy and fast, in fact. Thanks, will update again if the problem resumes. — Diannaa (talk) 16:43, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

revdel-responder.js

Hi User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js is very useful but won't work with any redirect to {{copyvio-revdel}} and a number of the people identifying copyvios are using the redirect {{revdel}}. Can you amend the script to include redirects or at least this one? Thanks Nthep (talk) 17:19, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

I'll fix this. Thanks. — The Earwig (talk) 17:21, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi again, I don't know if this is a WP:THURSDAY issue or not but the script isn't working. It loads and if i hit the history button, the page history opens but the revisions that need revdel aren't checked. The other functions like decline and complete aren't working either, the page reloads but that's it. Nthep (talk) 14:30, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Nthep, thanks again for reporting an issue. This edit broke it, but I think I've fixed it now. — The Earwig (talk) 03:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Looks like we're cooking on gas again. Thanks. Nthep (talk) 12:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
something has snapped again - so no highlighting of the required revisions when it's a redirect to {{copyvio-revdel}}. No problems with the other functions though. Nthep (talk) 12:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks again, Nthep. I believe this is fixed now. — The Earwig (talk) 00:40, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

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

Technical news

  • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

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Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
  • An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

  • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
  • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
  • Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
  • Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
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"Interstate Twenty-one" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Interstate Twenty-one and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 6#Interstate Twenty-one until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tavix (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Aaron Golbin protection

On 14th June 2021, this user protected the page titled “Aaron Golbin”. This protection is such that the page may not be created: only confirmed or extended confirmed users can edit it. This information was found in the protection log. This user did not provide a reason for this action, and no other information about this action is available on Wikipedia. The user makes overwhelmingly positive contributions on the whole, but this unexplained action is somewhat confusing. LeetToTheBeatMakeItRoar (talk) 11:58, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Te poster above has made similar comments at two other user talk pages, in one case criticism of an editor who hasn’t edited for over two years. Doug Weller talk 12:54, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi LeetToTheBeatMakeItRoar. The page log shows the reason for protection: the draft was repeatedly recreated after being deleted several times over the years for being blatantly promotional or having other issues. It can be difficult to follow the log as the title was moved multiple times, so you can also check the logs at Aaron Golbin and and Aaron Gabriel Golbin.
Our draft review processes tend to be be backlogged, and we sometimes instate this protection when repeated attempts are made to create an article that does not follow our policies on spam, copyright, or the subject's suitability for an encyclopedia article, especially when the repeated attempts don't seem to be improving on these issues. I don't remember the specifics of this case other than what I've written here.
If you think the subject is suitable now and want to create an article with this title, you can create it as a userspace draft and then submit it for review so the protection can be removed. — The Earwig alt (talk) 22:45, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

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  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
  • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

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Arbitration

  • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
  • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
  • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
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Earwig question for Rudy Hartono

Hi -- I'm a fan of the Earwig tool, as so many of us are (thank you), but I have a question. Running it in copyvio mode on Rudy Hartono finds a mirror but then nothing down to 26.5%. Running it in comparison mode against this URL, which is in the article, finds a 69.8% copyvio which turned out to be real. Shouldn't that have been caught in copyvio mode? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:04, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Mike and thanks for your question. You're right that this URL should've been caught. The problem is the site is rather slow, taking about 11 seconds for the tool to load. When we run a full check, the tool will only wait 5 seconds per URL to avoid taking too much time (it's slow enough as it is...), so this URL times out and doesn't get compared. When we do the direct comparison, the tool waits longer and is able to load it. — The Earwig (talk) 19:35, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
Good to know. How about created a collapsed list of the URLs you have to give up on, so users can see and perhaps try them in compare mode? Or even better, put them on the percentage-sorted list as "unknown %" with a link to allow one-click running of the comparison for each? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:45, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
That's a good suggestion. I can make the tool clearer about the reason it couldn't evaluate each URL. — The Earwig (talk) 20:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you

I just wanted to come and say thank you for the Earwig copyright violator tool. I use it ALL THE TIME!! It is such a huge help and I am grateful it's available! It has saved me all kinds of grief I'm sure. Jenhawk777 (talk) 20:17, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, Jenhawk777! — The Earwig alt (talk) 16:50, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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  • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

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  • A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

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Running a query of yours

Hi Earwig, I was working to deorphan the currently orphaned talk page archives in October. Got busy in November, and now I'm back. Can you please run the SQL query at User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Orphaned archives once again so that I can get a fresh up to date list in which I can work? Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 15:29, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Hey CX Zoom. Sure, User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Orphaned archives is updated now. — The Earwig (talk) 01:43, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Thank you so much! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 10:11, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:14, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

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Revdel script (WP:THURSDAY?) again

Hi again, the revdel script User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js seems to have another issue, although it might be User:Enterprisey/url-select-revdel.js that has the problem. The last couple of days, the scripts are correctly identifying the revisions to be deleted but then when I hit the change visibility button the script isn't either setting the option to delete the revision text nor is it populating the reason box and the source pages. Nthep (talk) 12:28, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Hey Nthep! This is fixed now. Indeed it looks like a MW software change last week was the cause. — The Earwig (talk) 05:41, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks (again!) Nthep (talk) 13:20, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

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We're back up now. Sorry for the trouble. — The Earwig (talk) 06:25, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

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Six years ago, you did me a favor by assessing some articles for WikiProject Medicine. Now I am back with a new request: Do you know how to extract the mw:ORES assessments? I'd like to have all stubs tagged as being stubs. (In my experience, ORES is 100% reliable for stub ratings.)

@Nettrom did some research on this in the past; I don't know if any of that would be helpful.

Eventually, after Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Display assessments on inactive wikiproject banners and Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments get settled (pinging @Aymatth2 and @Piotrus), I'd like to have this run for all unassessed pages. More than 400,000 existing articles are tagged but not assessed for quality, and about half of those are stubs. There's no need for Stub assessments to be assigned by a human; doing it by bot would be ~200,000 minutes (=five months of round-the-clock work) of volunteer time saved. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

As someone who was pinged and who often does assessment, I concur that bots should be perfectly fine assessing content as stubs based on length (249 words of prose or less, IIRC based on WP:STUB). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
WP:STUB is vaguer than that, as multiple methods are used and acceptable. ORES is conservative about its understanding of stubs (what I call a "good stub", ORES labels as Start-class), though, so if we can use ORES's rating system, anything it tags as a Stub will be accurate.
A bot should be able to detect errors in Redirect-class (both articles that are incorrectly listed as redirects and articles that have been merged/redirected but are still listed with a different rating). Beyond that, I've generally found that when the rating is off by 2+ classes (e.g., ORES says Start and the rating says B-class, or vice versa), then it's worth a human review. When ORES suggests an adjacent rating (e.g., long Stub vs short Start), it's less useful to pay attention. I wouldn't recommend that for a bot, though. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:13, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
ORES is good at predicting how humans would assess an article, but both ORES and humans place much too much weight on length. An excellent two-paragraph article would never get an A rating even if it is gives complete coverage of the subject. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:48, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
Hey WhatamIdoing. I think this is an interesting idea and potentially a good bot task, but I'm afraid I don't have much bandwidth to commit to it any time soon. It might be best if we can find another bot op to work on it. — The Earwig (talk) 04:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Shall I take it to WP:BOTREQ, and is there anything beyond the link above that I should tell them? WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:13, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Yes, let's take it to BOTREQ. The links above and one to this discussion should be sufficient for context. Thanks! — The Earwig (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
I've posted this to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 84#Stub assessments with ORES. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:06, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

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Hey, wasn't sure the best place to poke you — I have an earwigbot PR open to add DuckDuckGo as a search engine option. I think it'd be interesting to compare the results from the Google Search API and DuckDuckGo's search API. What do you think? — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 09:37, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

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copyvios.toolforge.org is down

Hi, I just wanted to let you know your tool is down: 

$ curl https://copyvios.toolforge.org -v
*   Trying 185.15.56.11:443...
* Connected to copyvios.toolforge.org (185.15.56.11) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=toolforge.org
*  start date: Mar 18 10:47:38 2023 GMT
*  expire date: Jun 16 10:47:37 2023 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "copyvios.toolforge.org" matched cert's "*.toolforge.org"
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x561fa31fc2e0)
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: copyvios.toolforge.org
> user-agent: curl/7.74.0
> accept: */*
> 
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* old SSL session ID is stale, removing
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
< HTTP/2 500 
< server: nginx/1.14.2
< date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:51:23 GMT
< content-type: text/html
< content-length: 291
< 
* HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)
* stopped the pause stream!
* Connection #0 to host copyvios.toolforge.org left intact
curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)

Thanks Metamorforme42 (talk) 09:01, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Many tools are down, there was an announced maintenance period. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Scheduled_tools_downtime_next_week —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:11, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for the link @TheDJ. Sadly, it hasn't been announced on my local wiki. Metamorforme42 (talk) 09:42, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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Copyvio exclusions

Hi Earwig! I noticed a mirror site for Spanish Wikipedia, and I wondered if we can add them to the exclusions page of the Copyvio detector. The page is https://es-academic.com/contents.nsf/eswiki/, let me know if I can help with anything, and also thanks to you for the tool!! Best, Soylacarli (talk) 15:20, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Added, thanks! Might take a few hours to update. — The Earwig (talk) 15:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Ben, the copyvio tool is not functioning properly today. It is throwing a 502 Bad Gateway error, or failing to load at all (it just spins and spins). If you have a minute I would appreciate it if you could have a look. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 16:34, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Hey Diannaa, I'm not seeing any issues at the moment, are you still having problems? — The Earwig (talk) 17:43, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
I just resumed editing after some real-life activities and the tool seems to be functioning well again at this time. Thanks for taking a look. — Diannaa (talk) 20:35, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

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I'm afraid there's once again a problem here. Would appreciate your attention.--Ipigott (talk) 06:38, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Looking. Harej, did you make any changes to the way the bot runs on Toolforge? It looks like its virtual environment has disappeared. — The Earwig (talk) 15:21, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
I recreated the venv, and it seems to be running now. We'll know for sure in about half an hour. — The Earwig (talk) 15:41, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Fortunately that resolved the issue, though I still don't know how it broke in the first place. — The Earwig (talk) 03:57, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

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Comment Search summary - filter by date

Hi, can you take a look at [2]. I get no responses from Σ and I saw you co-manage some tools, so maybe you have access to that tool as well? If the source code is available I can try and donate the change myself. thanks Kotz (talk) 15:29, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Kotz. Thanks, this is a reasonable feature request. I've added it to the tool. Hope you find it useful. — The Earwig (talk) 04:07, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Cool!! Thanks a lot. I'll check it up and either put it up for use immediately or come back to complain some more. Thanks again Kotz (talk) 10:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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Love it! Thanks Eek! — The Earwig (talk) 04:24, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
surprisingly for me, you are young. I always thought of you to be in 40s/50s —usernamekiran (talk) 00:05, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Heh, thanks... I've heard this quite a bit at meetups. — The Earwig (talk) 08:31, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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Copyvio lang hu

Hi! Copyvio Detector doesn't work with lang=hu. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=hu&project=wikipedia&title=Rakovn%C3%ADk&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 Could you please post your answer here? Thanks, Bean49 (talk) 21:25, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll reply there. — The Earwig (talk) 03:34, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

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Copyvio Tool 504 Gateway Timeout

Hi,

The copyvio tool is timing out already, could you take a look at it.

Thanks, Seawolf35 T--C 15:47, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KiranBOT 8

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KiranBOT 8. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

I have commented there, your response/feedback would be appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Replied there. — The Earwig (talk) 04:41, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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