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== Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity ==
== Defaultsort, listas and & ==


In general I put "and" in the listas, but it is also important to space it: so Chas&Dave becomes "Chas and Dave". ''] ]'', 18:56, 17 August 2009 (UTC).
:It is a fix I need to make to the bot, yes. ], ] 03:31, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


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Hi,
I've just created a page on nick Davies, so thought I'd give you a heads up as I see you previously successfully nominated a page with the same name for CSD. As far as I can see, the subject is very notable, there's info on some awards and books already in the article. I'll be working on it a lot more over the coming weeks, I was surprised to see it had been speedily deleted before, as there's a mass of information, interviews, awards details, book reviews etc on the internet, and thats without even looking at other sources. Cheers. ] (]) 13:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
:You're fine, the previous "article" was a short blurb about some unnotable 17-year-old kid. ], ] 23:31, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
::Ah I see, that makes a lot more sense :-) ] (]) 09:39, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


Thank you for your past contributions to the project. <!-- Template:Inactive admin -->—&thinsp;] 00:05, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
== Can you do a run please? ==


== Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity ==
I set all the Listas for biog articles (talk) with names like Xxxxx of Yyyyy (dealing with accented characters but probably with a lower-case "o") some considerable time ago. I am now running into these in main-space with broken DEFAULTSORT, seems a shame to waste the work. ''] ]'', 19:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC).
:Sure thing. Gimme some time, right now the bot isn't programmed to bring the listas into sync with the DEFAULTSORT (if the page already has a listas on it). ], ] 23:57, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


== Your block of Logicist ==


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What possessed you to do this? He has added a wealth of material to the ] article . The content he has added seems fine to me (except that the article now ends in mid-sentence, as a result of your block). The previous version of the article (which the damian account largely contributed) only went up to the early nineteenth century. Logicist has got as far as ]. Who is going to complete it. You? I am lost for words. Logicist also seems to have made some good contributions to the article ] ] (]) 06:00, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Established ] provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed&#32;if you do not return to activity within the next several days.
:He to being a ] of ], who is under a . Enough said. ], ] 12:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
:: I also asked you, who is going to complete the section that is half-finished o/a your block? It strikes me as extremely irresponsible. Our main duty is to the project and to adding to the sum of human knowledge available online. You have damaged that objective, ''seriously''. What do you have to say for yourself? ] (]) 18:50, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
:::Our main duty is to protect the encyclopedia. Peter Damian has proven himself incompatible with that goal. As for his articles, it doesn't matter who is going to finish them; honestly, anyone is free to. I don't really feel the need to divulge any further into my reasons for this block; if you have an issue with it, feel free to take it to ]. ], ] 23:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
::::How do you know that the "Peter Damian" on Misplaced Pages Review was indeed operating the "Logicist" account on Misplaced Pages. Was a Checkuser run to confirm? Or, is it now within the power of any banned editor to get any similarly-interested editor in good standing blocked, merely by announcing it is "him" (or "her") self on Misplaced Pages Review? -- ] 02:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
:::::Ahem...he admitted it on Misplaced Pages. See . ], ] 02:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
I have to echo the sentiments of Paultim. I am the primary author on the ] history stuff, and ] has been supportive of my efforts, and a source of very useful information & critiquing. At this point Logicist's work on ] is in Logicist's name-space, so as far as I'm concerned Logicist isn't much a threat to anyone.


Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at ]. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at ].
By the way, what is ]'s offense? I hunted for it but couldn't find it. Since everything associated with them is blocked, I can't find out what the hell the trouble is. Lemme know, Bill ] (]) 22:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
:Careful, Mr, Bailey. You may open a can of worms here that ends up getting you yourself blocked for a bit of "corrective meditation" time. I just thought I'd add, though I've never had much more than a passing interest in logic, the ] was inspiring enough to me to ] for the encyclopedia. -- ] 13:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
::Let's basically put it as "he pissed off the community enough to where the community voted to ban him". You can read more about it . Thekohser, I don't see any need for a block here, nothing wrong with asking questions. ], ] 23:10, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


Thank you for your past contributions to the project. <!-- Template:Inactive admin -->—&thinsp;] 00:00, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
== "attack" subpages that are really meant to document abuse before submitting it ==


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you used to have a subpage documenting what you perceived to be abuse by tothwolf. recently, I've run into a problem with an admin wikihounding/harassing me and I've decided to document it so that I can report it. the abuse goes back quite a while and it would take me a long time to track down the diffs, so i've created http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Theserialcomma/InappropriateAdmins. I was almost immediately then contacted by another admin who warned me that I might actually be attacking the admin in question by having a page like this. Would you please advise me as to whether I can continue to add diffs to this page, or if I should delete it?
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Thanks ] (]) 06:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
:I don't know what the official stance on it is, but my personal feeling on it is that what's in your userspace is yours, and as long as you're not calling attention to it (outside of the appropriate forums), it shouldn't be an issue. However, once it's discovered, I could easily see how it would be a source of annoyance for the person you're documenting. I guess my suggestion would be to keep it documented on a file on your computer, instead of on-wiki. ], ] 06:13, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
::the subpage you created that i'm referencing has been deleted. even though i cannot see it, could you give me the diff so i could add it to my evidence? i was accused of being involved in the situation somehow but i wasn't, so it'd be useful. thanks. ] (]) 06:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
:::Theserialcomma, I've had no interaction with you regarding your current ''problems'' with other editors and I suggest you leave me out of it. Based on what I've been observing from my watchlist you seem to have brought it on yourself. --] (]) 08:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
::::this isn't about you, tothwolf, so you can back off now. ] created a subpage that documented some perceived abuse by you. none of the evidence that he gathered had anything to do with my interactions with you. except, then Jeske Couriano randomly came here to tell Mikaey that there is "an agent provocateur".
::::Jeske's exact words are .
::::] responds: . Actually, I was literally uninvolved in any of the evidence that Mikaey gathered. Jeske Couriano attacked and blamed me without examining the evidence in any way.


Thank you for your past contributions to the project. <!-- Template:Inactive admin -->— ] <sup>]</sup> 03:57, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
::::So yes, you are right, Tothwolf, this should have nothing to do with you. You and I have had no recent interactions until you came to this page. This is about Jeske Couriano hounding me. You don't need to respond to this any further because we have nothing else to discuss. I am currently gathering diffs of Jeske's abuse (e.g. ], but if any of them involve you, I'll make sure to say "a user" instead of your name. I have no intention of further communicating with you. Thanks. ] (]) 20:10, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
:::::Let me be blunt, chummer: Were it not for your interesting contributions history, accusations of bias against one of THE most neutral administrators I know, and your harassment of Tothwolf and SarekOfVulcan, I wouldn't have interposed myself. However, I was here when H got chased off and JVM attempted to escalate his harassment. I don't want to see any more legit editors leaving the project because someone took undue interest in them, as you have.
:::::It is because you have such a history that I'm even bothering to call you out. All I see in that contribs history, in between category removals, is pestering other users, including taking an unhealthy interest in Toth and SOV, accusing GWH of not being neutral, and, recently, butting into my business with an unrelated user. You are not innocent by a long shot, TSC; if you keep denying it asking for diffs you will regret asking for them. -<font color="32CD32">'']''</font> <font color="4682B4"><sup>(] ])</sup></font> 20:25, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


== ''Bots Newsletter'', December 2021 ==
== Time For Yet Another Run ==


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Our ] was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.
Thank you.
:] (]) 20:42, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
:It's on my to-do list. ], ] 17:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)


<span style="font-size:125%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
== Histmerge list ==
* Between September and December 2019, there were 33 ]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful ({{nayd}} 3 denied, {{idkc}} 3 withdrawn, and ] 2 expired).


<span style="font-size:125%">'''September 2019'''</span>
Hi! What should be done with the entries where a copy-paste move was made, but both articles have since been deleted? Just remove them from the list? Or should they be merged regardless? I think the GFDL only concerns content that is actually used in the project. What do you think?
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ], ] · {{idkc}} ], ]
*'''TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput''': ] ] that ] for maintaining on-wiki records of ] appeals stopped working a while ago. ], the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Misplaced Pages", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While ] was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, ] ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
*'''Article-measuring contest resumed''': The ], which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by ] following a ].


<span style="font-size:125%">'''October 2019'''</span>
By the way, typing "Misplaced Pages:New histmerge list" every time is a pain, so I took the liberty of creating a shortcut at ]. Is that convenient or what? :P ] (]) 10:54, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
:Works for me. As far as deleted articles, yeah, it happens...I think we can pretty safely ignore those, since they're technically no longer part of the project. Might not hurt to watchlist them, just in case they get undeleted as part of DRV or some other undeletion process. ], ] 12:33, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
*'''Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill''': ] ] that ]'s bug reports were going unanswered; creator ] had retired from Misplaced Pages, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, ] had ], saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!" <br />

<span style="font-size:125%">'''November 2019'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ] · {{idkc}} ]
*'''Old bots do new tricks''': ] prowled redirects, ] archived ] requests, and ] removed links to ] deleted at ] (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator ]'s ]).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''December 2019'''</span>
* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ] ·] ], ]
*'''Redirects to be autopatrolled''': A ] at ], closing with unanimous consensus that new ] should be ] by bot. ] wasted no time, and submitted ] the next day; it passed two days after that.
*'''200,000 bios get short descs''': Along a similar vein, ] was approved to remove disambiguation pages from ] and a new bot (]) changed lots of ] links to ] using ]. One particularly neat task, ], automatically generated ] for more than 200,000 biographies.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''In the next issue of ''Bots Newsletter'':'''</span><br />
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
*What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
*What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
*Will reFill ever get fixed?
*What's up with ], anyway?
*Python 3.4 deprecation? In ''my'' PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 ''Bots Newsletter''. Tune in, or miss out!

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== Bots Newsletter, January 2022 ==

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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.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 ]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with {{nayd}} 8 denied, {{idkc}} 2 withdrawn, and ] 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''January 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ], ]
*A new ] release dropped support for ], and it was expected that support for ] would be removed in coming updates. ] itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
*Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ], the successor to ], and ], whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for ].
*], an ] operated by ] since 2006, was ] after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been ]'d.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''February 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ]
*On February 1, some ] were raised about ] performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator ] (who originally coded the ] of ]) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily <span class="plainlinks"></span> for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
*On February 18, ] got into a <span class="plainlinks"></span> with ], and had to be partially-blocked from ].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''March 2020'''</span>
* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] ·] ]
* In March, a long ] was started at ] by ] about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- ] changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be ] hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).
* Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were ] (removing blocked users from ]), and ] (removing ''unblocked'' users from ]). ] was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were ] (to patrol ]), ] (to merge stub tags), and ] (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in ]).
<span style="font-size:125%">'''April 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ] ·] ]
*A ] on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by ], who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding ] to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was <span class="plainlinks"></span> on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several ] were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
*] joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block ]es belonging to ], public ]s, and ]s. New tasks approved for existing bots included ] (] categories), ] (taking over some tasks from the inactive ]), and ] (updating data at {{tl|Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, ] was approved to scale down non-free ]s — I didn't even know that was a thing.
* A ] at ] was started by ] about whether ] should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Misplaced Pages specifically (as opposed to ], ], ], et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its ]:
:<blockquote>Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Misplaced Pages. Pages reachable via ], like a talk page at ] or at ] could also be acceptable External sites like ] or ] (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise ]) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.</blockquote>

<span style="font-size:125%">'''May 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ], ], ] · {{idkc}} ]
*], an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Misplaced Pages. The page, located at ], is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.
*Other approvals for this month were ] (processing redirects in {{tl|R from scientific name}}), ] (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), ] (removing blocked/locked users from ]), ] (updating ]), ] (adding <nowiki>{{</nowiki>]|living=no<nowiki>}}</nowiki> to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and ] (deleting and nominating empty categories).
*General syntax fixing tasks were approved for ], ], ], ], ], and ], as well as ] ], ], and ].
*Seven bots who fell below ] (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].
*On May 12, ] was ].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''June 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ] · {{idkc}} ]
*In July 2017, ] made a ] that a section of the ] be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, ] code was written superseding ]'s tasks on that page, and operator ] was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a ] of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.
*On June 7, ] blocked ] for ], saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a ] was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Misplaced Pages". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and ] requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer ] responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper ]), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a ] in which a ] had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
*] opened a discussion about ], and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on ". Some disagreed: ] said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".
*Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: ], to replace ] for handling the ], and ], to remove {{tl|user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using ].

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Conclusion'''</span><br />
* 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 ] 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... <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">''']'''×''']'''</span> 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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== Ways to improve Extended Graphics Array ==

Hello, Mikaey,

Thank you for creating ].

] have tagged ] as having some issues to fix, as a part of our ] and note that:

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The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and begin it with <code><nowiki>{{Re|</nowiki>Fiachra10003<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>. Remember to sign your reply with <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>. For broader editing help, please visit the ].

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] (]) 19:40, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

* ] appears to be the person who actually added the offending material to this article that you created way back in 2009, but Page Curation sends this notice to you. I will copy it to 4throck's talk page. ] (]) 19:46, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 19:46, 29 December 2022

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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Information icon Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:05, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Information icon Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:00, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Information icon Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux 03:57, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Misplaced Pages's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Misplaced Pages's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Misplaced Pages", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Misplaced Pages'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 Misplaced Pages'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 pythonA pythonA python0.4 pythonsYeah, 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 Misplaced Pages. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Misplaced Pages 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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Ways to improve Extended Graphics Array

Hello, Mikaey,

Thank you for creating Extended Graphics Array.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Much of this page appears to have been copied from https://www.minitool.com/lib/1024-768.html, which does NOT appear to be a wikipedia mirror site. Please rewrite it so that it does not violate copyright

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Fiachra10003}}. Remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Fiachra10003 (talk) 19:40, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

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