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2015 thesis on Bots and Wikipedia
This morning, I stumbled upon
- Clément, Maxime (2015). Collaboration et automatisation dans le transfert deconnaissances: Perception des agents logiciels parles contributeurs de Wikipédia (PDF) (M.Sc. thesis) (in French). Québec, Canada: Université Laval.
It's a truly fascinating read if you're into bot history and social norms related to bots on Wikipedia. It mostly covers 2009–2014ish, and is in French, but the appendix also contains a copy of an English summary/prior research published in Computers in Human Behavior if you don't speak French. Those who have access to that journal can find it directly at
- Clément, Maxime; Guitton, Matthieu J. (2015). "Interacting with bots online: Users' reactions to actions of automated programs in Wikipedia". Computers in Human Behavior. 50: 66–75. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.078.
They get a couple of minor details wrong (for instance, they claim I'm an admin), but by far and large it's on the money. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:11, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Limits on custom signatures
Please see mw:New requirements for user signatures. One of the goals is to make it easier for bots/scripts/tools to recognize custom signatures (e.g., by requiring that they all contain a link). Please share information or examples over there. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:16, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Commented, but holy hell does that VE hot garbage make it impossible to make any sort of sensible comment or edit them after the fact. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:40, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hey, don't blame VE for that. That's pure, unmitigated
LiquidThreadsFlowStructured Discussions --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:14, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hey, don't blame VE for that. That's pure, unmitigated
New Pywikibot release 3.0.20200306
(Pywikibot) A new pywikibot release 3.0.20200206 was deployed as gerrit Tag and at pypi. It also was marked as „stable“ release and the „python2“ tag. The PAWS web shell depends on this „stable“ tag. The „python2“ tag indicates a Python 2 compatible stable version and should be used by Python 2 users.
Among others the changes includes:
- The Site method
media_wikimessages()
may return MediaWiki messages for foreign language codes. - For ISBN related tasks the
stdnum
package is required. (Task 132919, Task 144288, Task 241141) - The modules
weblib
andbotirc
were removed (Task 85001, Task 212632), also some outdated methods.
The following code cleanup changes are announced for the next release:
- Test Site should be invokend by
Site('test', 'wikipedia')
instead of the deprecatedSite('test', 'test')
. - MediaWiki versions prior to (LTS) 1.19 will no loner supported (Task 245350).
- The submodul „compat“, which was introduced to facilitate Pywikibot „compat“ to „core“ migration, will be deleted.
- For Python 2 the package
ipaddress
is mandatory (Task 243171); the submodule tools.ip will be deleted. - Python 2.6 supporting backports.py will be deleted. (Task 244664)
All changes are visible in the history file, e.g. here
Best @xqt 07:33, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bot expirations?
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bot expirations?. Sdkb (talk) 08:25, 10 March 2020 (UTC) Sdkb (talk) 08:25, 10 March 2020 (UTC)