User talk:DatGuy/Archives/2022/February

Latest comment: 2 years ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic WP:AFC Helper News


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 superseded tasks...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 Of these,  Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with  N2 8 denied,  ? 2 withdrawn, and   2 expired).

January 2020

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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Strange edit by DatBot

In this edit DatBot made a vandalism report, claiming that an IP editor had triggered an edit filter, but I can find no record of any edit filter log or editing for this IP address or any other address in the same /64 range. JBW (talk) 14:59, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

@JBW: I'm not sure honestly. Quarry also does not find it. If it happens again then I'll take a deeper look. Dat GuyTalkContribs 17:41, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
@JBW: This typically means that the entry was oversighted. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:44, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
@Suffusion of Yellow: Yes of course, that's probably it. Thanks 😊. JBW (talk) 21:31, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Re-resizing new version of the same image.

Hi. Regarding User:DatBot. I've replaced the image File:EddieHall v HafþórBjörnsson.jpg with a more recent version, but this new version needs to be resized. Given that the bot resized the previous version of the image, will it re-resize this new version? Does it have any logic preventing it from resizing the same image multiple times? Melmann 12:18, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Melmann: The bot will respond to this tagging. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:33, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
The bot does not take into account any previous edit it made to the file. Dat GuyTalkContribs 19:15, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the explanation. Melmann 07:27, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Images distorted

Just FYI, File:Seattle George Monument, Seattle.jpg and File:The Electric Lady Studio Guitar, Seattle.jpg were distorted. Thanks, ---Another Believer (Talk) 03:52, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

@Another Believer: I believe this is because the (corrupted?) metadata, as seen in the bottom of the file page, has the width and height flipped, but then applies a rotation. The bot uses Wikipedia's supplied dimensions, which have the rotation applied, and resizes it based off that. It's unfortunate but I have only seen this happen about ten times overall, and I don't know of a good way to fix this. Dat GuyTalkContribs 18:00, 13 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) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)