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Cyberbot I broken
Cyberbot I (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
Note history at Spring Championship of Online Poker - repeatedly (every minute) trying to add the AFD template. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 16:21, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- I disabled the task in Special:Diff/1021047155, which didn't work. Also, the previous time Cyberbot I malfunctioned was only two months ago. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:31, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- It's my own AFD, but maybe somebody can just close it and then re-open it? For the approximately zero other editors with the article on their watchlist this is annoying, but I'm not sure it's so bad to justify blocking the bot. Also @Cyberpower678:. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 16:33, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- Izno has page-blocked the bot, per discussion on Discord. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 16:46, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- 力, something unique is happening on that page preventing the bot from seeing it’s own restoration of the template. However when I revert the page back to the revision just prior to its improper removal, the bot sees it again. It’s a very interesting glitch, but I can dive into it right now. I’m leaving the bot unblocked for now as the reversion seems to have made the glitch disappear. —CYBERPOWER (Around) 17:47, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- Izno has page-blocked the bot, per discussion on Discord. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 16:46, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- It's my own AFD, but maybe somebody can just close it and then re-open it? For the approximately zero other editors with the article on their watchlist this is annoying, but I'm not sure it's so bad to justify blocking the bot. Also @Cyberpower678:. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 16:33, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
The API says "Incorrect username or password entered" but the username / password is correct
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I find in the past one day, cewbot can not login and shows the message as title says. I try to login from browser, I need to pass captcha. I change the password, it seems going better. But a few minutes later, the error message appears again. I do not know the reason. Can someone help me? Kanashimi (talk) 12:37, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Kanashimi: are you using BotPasswords or OAUTH? If BotPasswords, you may need to regenerate, log on to the WEBUI as the bot account and change at Special:BotPasswords. — xaosflux Talk 16:10, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Bot flag of TolBot
Hello! I am unsure where to put this, so I figured I'd leave something here. I got a temporary bot flag for my bot's trial of task 1 (BRFA) but it's set to expire in a few days. Task 3 is now approved (BRFA) but I don't currently plan to run it before my bot flag expires. Could someone please either extend the bot flag or grant it indefinitely? Thanks, Tol | Talk | Contribs 19:14, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- Done, thanks. Didn't get flagged as a temporary assignment on the accepted bots page, so I didn't even think to check. Primefac (talk) 19:30, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- Another note: I'll be adding {{NOINDEX}} to the ten subpages of Local without it soon to test; I believe this is uncontroversial and approved with the rest (I take it that the header template {{User:COIBot/Summary/LinkReports}} is for LinkReports, not Local). Tol | Talk | Contribs 22:22, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- Done, diffs:
- diff #1023350052
- diff #1023350053
- diff #1023350054
- diff #1023350056
- diff #1023350057
- diff #1023350058
- diff #1023350060
- diff #1023350061
- diff #1023350064
- diff #1023350066
- — Tol | Talk | Contribs 22:28, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- Your first diff duplicated the noindex call. That shouldn't be happening. Primefac (talk) 23:06, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- That was because I clicked it twice; it was entirely human error. It started running the first time and only got to the first, and then I clicked it again and it did all of them (as search is not updated quickly). Tol | Talk | Contribs 23:09, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- Your first diff duplicated the noindex call. That shouldn't be happening. Primefac (talk) 23:06, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- Done, diffs:
BAG IRC channel on Libera.chat
@The Earwig: to confirm I'm in control of the Headbomb account on libera.chat Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:07, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- May as well bug The Earwig as well, I'm "NoSQL". SQLQuery me! 23:38, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- Anomie took care of it. Thanks! (Any other BAGgers can ping Earwig or anomie on Libera to get voiced in #wikipedia-en-bag connect.) — The Earwig (talk) 05:17, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Heads up for CSRF token change
I imagine most people this affects have seen it already, but just in case, I'm giving this more visibility. If you run code that uses CSRF tokens, you'll need to know about this change. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:34, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- What is a CSRF token? wbm1058 (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- See Cross-site request forgery#Prevention. I've created the redirect to point there. — Wug·a·po·des 21:24, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. That helps clear up the unexplained jargon. Note the previous discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Archive 22#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage. There is still some deprecated usage showing on the Special:APIFeatureUsage report from someone likely using an old version of botclasses.php. Is is possible to determine what the ID of the account making these deprecated edits is? I think there's a chance they have a "hearing" problem kind of like the users editing with smartphone apps do. I just noticed that some of the framework functions that I don't use have not been upgraded.
function rollback
still usesrvtoken
andfunction userrights
is still usingustoken
. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:49, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. That helps clear up the unexplained jargon. Note the previous discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Archive 22#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage. There is still some deprecated usage showing on the Special:APIFeatureUsage report from someone likely using an old version of botclasses.php. Is is possible to determine what the ID of the account making these deprecated edits is? I think there's a chance they have a "hearing" problem kind of like the users editing with smartphone apps do. I just noticed that some of the framework functions that I don't use have not been upgraded.
- See Cross-site request forgery#Prevention. I've created the redirect to point there. — Wug·a·po·des 21:24, 2 June 2021 (UTC)