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Help with getting a response from a bot operator
I have been leaving messages for User:Legoktm since January, and no response [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] ... I have also tries sending emails, and no response. Any suggestions on what to do next? the thread in question is User talk:Legoktm#Duplicate parameter args (ping Magioladitis). Frietjes (talk) 19:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
- Frietjes I left them a message in IRC too. Let's wait. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:03, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
- Frietjes as far as I understand and after the small discussion I had with Legoktm on IRC, the bot should not be working at all. Its code was written for Toolserver and now it works by some miracle. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:56, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- Magioladitis, this doesn't explain why he cannot respond to comments on his talk page. Frietjes (talk) 13:30, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- Frietjes as far as I understand and after the small discussion I had with Legoktm on IRC, the bot should not be working at all. Its code was written for Toolserver and now it works by some miracle. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:56, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: Could you ask him about User talk:Legoktm/May 2015#Legobot not marking CHU/S requests as done, maybe someone else could update the code or take the task over if he has not time? –xenotalk 13:36, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- If someone wants to take over the bot or submit patches, that would be totally fine. At this point I really only have time for making sure it's still somewhat alive, which it is...
- @Magioladitis: Could you ask him about User talk:Legoktm/May 2015#Legobot not marking CHU/S requests as done, maybe someone else could update the code or take the task over if he has not time? –xenotalk 13:36, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes, xeno. I was online in IRC the entire day. No replies. I also copied the questions posed above on the channel. If there is anything else I can do, please tell me. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry, I turned off on-wiki notifications a while back. The indexer bot is pretty much running on magic smoke at this point, I actually thought I had turned it off. If you want to submit a patch or something, that would be great. Legoktm (talk) 18:40, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- Legoktm, how do I submit a patch? I don't use IRC, and you don't read your email or talk page. Frietjes (talk) 19:09, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- on line 160 of [9] change
elif param.startswith('mask='):
toelif re.search('^mask[0-9]*=',param):
which will make mask1=, mask2=, work as well as mask=. of course, I haven't tested this, so any python experts are more than welcome to correct this if I am wrong. Frietjes (talk) 19:18, 17 June 2015 (UTC)- @Frietjes: pull request done Mdann52 (talk) 19:44, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Does anyone who speaks this language: https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/chu.php and can figure out why auto-marking is not being done at CHU/S and prepare a patch? Thanks! –xenotalk 19:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Quick query
Hi all,
If anyone runs a bot, or knows which bot, runs with the useragent "Reverter/2.0", can you get in contact with me via email ASAP please? Not that you are in any trouble, I'm just looking into something, and knowing this will make the job so much easier :) Thanks, Mdann52 (talk) 21:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I've just blocked this bot for blanking numerous articles. The owner Smith609 does not seem to be around much. Next step? --NeilN talk to me 03:54, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- The owner sometimes responds to e-mail messages. It would be great if there were someone active who could take over this bot. I think Smith609 is too busy with real life. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:01, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- The code resides on Google Code, so the first task will be moving it, presumably to GitHub? I asked here for a relief operator years ago, to no avail. Given the importance of this bot to wp:V, perhaps it is something to which the WMF should dedicate some resources. LeadSongDog come howl! 01:30, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- I can have a look at this. I can't make any guarantees though. I'm suggesting this because I am working on a bot the works on archiving citations and rescuing dead links.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberpower678 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for looking into it. It's a high value activity, directly supporting wp:V, but has been in need of attention for a while now. The bot's talk page can be a busy place.LeadSongDog come howl! 13:19, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- I can have a look at this. I can't make any guarantees though. I'm suggesting this because I am working on a bot the works on archiving citations and rescuing dead links.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberpower678 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- The code resides on Google Code, so the first task will be moving it, presumably to GitHub? I asked here for a relief operator years ago, to no avail. Given the importance of this bot to wp:V, perhaps it is something to which the WMF should dedicate some resources. LeadSongDog come howl! 01:30, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Fetching pages with cURL
My bot (user:Rick Bot) has been successfully fetching pages for years with cURL. As of about yesterday it apparently can't anymore. I'm not sure, but I suspect the issue might be the requirement that a custom user agent string be provided. Has this just recently started being enforced? Adding "Rick_Bot/1.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rick_Bot)" as the user agent string doesn't seem to fix it. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:55, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
- Maybe the HTTPS-only change? What OS are you using? If it's an older version, you might not have the proper root certificate installed. Legoktm (talk) 17:07, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
- It was the HTTPS-only change. Thanks! -- Rick Block (talk) 18:20, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
ClueBot NG
Since 21:45, 19 June 2015 this bot always set revert ID to 0, which makes false positives impossible to report. See [10]. What's up?--GZWDer (talk) 17:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- Related thread: User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2015/June#CB NG not reporting revert IDs. I'm sure there were others, but I can't find them - the archiving of User talk:ClueBot Commons has gone screwy. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:36, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Reminder: Everything's scheduled to break this week
You know that I exaggerate, but the long-awaited "rawcontinue" change (see #API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month) starts tomorrow (Tuesday) with test wikis and there's a leap second tomorrow at 23:59:60 UTC, and that's all in addition to the normal development train and any remaining fallout about HTTPS. If you run into problems during the next couple of days, then knowing exactly when the problem started may be especially useful for debugging. I'll be watching VPT, but you may get more useful responses on IRC if anything goes wrong. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:27, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Jietse's bot
Jitse's bot (talk · contribs) has stopped working. It’s actually not been working reliably for a number of months; see its talk page for previous incidents. but it has now stopped altogether, as of two weeks ago. I did not notice sooner as I missed its daily updates dropping off my watchlist.
Unfortunately its owner Jitse Niesen (talk · contribs) seems inactive. Despite pings and at least one e-mail he has not responded to queries about previous problems and has not noticed the current hiatus which I would think he would spot if at all active. Absent being able to contact him to restart it I don't know if anyone else is able to; it is hopefully something simple.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 18:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
- I have now ascertained that Jitse Niesen is aware of the situation and will probably look at it within a couple of days. Michael Hardy (talk) 03:56, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Svenbot
Should we indef block Svenbot until Sven Manguard becomes active again? Bot has not edited for 1.5 years and he left a message in January 2015 that he is leaving Wikipedia permanently. If he returns we can unblock the bot immediately. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:29, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Are bots of retired users routinely blocked? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:57, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, for security reasons. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:50, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Jo-Jo Eumerus see for instance: Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard/Archive_9#Bot_that_are_inactive_for_the_last_2-4_years_and_may_lose_bot_flag -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:51, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Addshore if we follow the same routine we did last year, Svenbot should certainly be deflagged. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:54, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- I have removed the bot flag. ·addshore· talk to me! 11:56, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
OK. I think deflagging is enough. No reason to block. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:58, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Got it. I'd recommend to notify Sven on their talkpage once done, so they know why/that it happened when they get back. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:00, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- This message is linked to in the rights log. ·addshore· talk to me! 12:05, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- I left Sven a message in his talk page too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Lovely teamwork! :) ·addshore· talk to me! 12:11, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- I left Sven a message in his talk page too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- This message is linked to in the rights log. ·addshore· talk to me! 12:05, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Request for comment: Bot flags and bureaucrats
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Should we remove the bot flagging ability from bureaucrats and add it to a newly created a BAG user group? →Σσς. (Sigma) 07:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
- This is a noticeboard for bot owners. Please move your RfC to WP:VPR or such. Legoktm (talk) 08:01, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
- or to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:05, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
- Comment: If we were to do that the only thing left for the bureaucrats would be closing RfAs. As it stands, the bureaucrats are a dying breed, but we need them. Although there are 30 or so of them it's difficult to get more than a handful together for a 'crat chat in a reasonable time. What we need are more truly active bureaucrats. The only way we'll do this is to give them more to do, not less. By increasing their tasks, it would attract new candidates for 'cratship and prevent the group's ultimate extinction. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:05, 13 July 2015 (UTC)