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Bots Newsletter, March 2018
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Greetings! Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
- News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
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DPL acronym
Hello bot operator,
I noticed that the user page of your DPL bot does not state what DPL actually stands for. In the interest of clarity, could you add it? I tried adding it myself, but apparently, that makes some user nervous. Thanks in advance! --IByte (talk) 09:30, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 April 2018
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Alexender the great got porcessed41.190.244.9 (talk) 23:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
<ALEXENDER ;the great got with porcession of unruly tyant behaviour attitude command and self disciplened;He was a warrior commando king ruler leader husband sodomist with several comcubines A "conquera instint as distinct"His histroy together with other greats is archives for many years ;Many his spirit rise from death grave and cemetry>41.190.244.9 (talk) 23:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Sleeping Satellite links
Thanks for your notice regarding the disambiguation links for John Hughes and James Fraser. I have since removed these links as appropriate as the names don't relate to any of those on the list with the same name. Jccgclrc (talk) 23:20, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 June 2018
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The Signpost: 31 July 2018
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Bots Newsletter, August 2018
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Greetings! Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
As of writing, we have...
Also
These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.
Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
The Signpost: 30 August 2018
- From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
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- From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
MORONS!
You DELETE and remove articles of devices created outside the USA so you can rewrite history. One of the purposes of Wikipedia is to allow the truth to survive, regardless of what a monster may like. I come from "Bootloader" and a fundamental error is that nobody dares to write how it works: very simple all programmes start at program counter P pointing to a location more then 0 and takes the nest, address 1 and so on. Boot is to direct the PC to where the code is, or where it is to be loaded from. Well, we booted a lot of big computers outside the US in 1980, and none of them are used as example. NADA. So: why mention marginal unknown companies like DG and DEC, and not a thing about the giants at the time? - makes me really wonder
Then I came here because you have delete all references to the FreePad again. As if I do not have the right to the photo and cannot donate it to Wikipedia. I claimed all rights to the name "FreePad" and been awarded these, both Norway and the UK and the US. I don´t know who owns SCreenMedia, but they lost the name in bankruptcy court. I registered it in the UK.
A simple question: Do we have to make an alternative Wikipedia? We cannot upload every time those "bots" remove things, and there is no simple way to save and protect content from being wrecked by the way things are done now.
Update the procedures and the bots and notify me - I am not visiting Wikipedia to check, I will come down on you very randomly, but you have been warned and you can get it touch me me by a simple email.
Get on with reseting what you have deleted and inform the world. In the meantime, I will consider making an alternative to this. KHF 16:40, 6 September 2018 (UTC) This is original material written enraged. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khflottorp (talk • contribs)
Thank you - AliPay wiki page
Dear JaGa, thanks to your bot I've fixed the wrong link to the Zelle (payment service) in the AliPay wiki page. Nicola Caione (talk) 12:03, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 October 2018
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A barnstar for you!
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A barnstar for you!
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hai, my id address is WilliamsS.wu. i create a article that name is GEET Engine. you say that the article have a lot of mistake. i rewrite again, but the common still say that have unrealiable source. i fund all of the information from six website or article. why the reviewer still say this article is a unrealiable resourece. can you help me to check this one. because this is my final assiangment. thank you!
The Signpost: 28 October 2018
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Disambiguation links elsewhere
Hi JaGa, I see here that you created a bot for disambiguation links. I think it is working very well, since it helps repairing the links and people are made aware that these links should not remain there. I am curious if you would like to operate it on nl.wikipedia as well? And what would we need to prepare, in case you'd like to help us there as well? Ymnes (talk) 09:26, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Since I posted my question here last week, you haven't replied yet. I don't know if this means that you're not interested in helping us to set it up or even helping at all. Or maybe you have forgotten to reply? At least I set up a poll on Dutch Wikipedia to ask if others feel the need of introducing the message systems of disambiguation links. Including myself, the score is 20 times yes and 2 times no. So the Dutch community is quite overwhelmingly positive in introducing it. See here (ja=yes, nee=no). I hope that you will at least reply. If you don't feel to work on it, but do want to help in another way, reply so too. :-) Ymnes (talk) 15:36, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 December 2018
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Potential issue with Dablink
Hi. Not sure if anyone else is having difficulty with this, but for the past few days, when I click the link I continue to get the message, "User s51290 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections". Any idea what could be the problem? Onel5969 TT me 11:56, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
- @Onel5969: See WT:DPL#Technical difficulties...please stand by. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:08, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
- That explains it, thanks R'n'B Onel5969 TT me 15:19, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
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Congrats
Congrats on your graduation and on starting med school! Best of luck! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:22, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Russ. I hope things are going well with DPL. --JaGatalk 18:16, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Bot is editing while not logged in
Hi, great bot, thank you very much to all who worked on it! I accidentally linked to a disambiguation page, the bot did a good fix, and the message it sent allowed me to further refine the link.
Right now it is not logged in, it edits as 2601:541:4500:1760:A508:B7C:1EE8:A293 but still sends out messages. I think that's a bit confusing to some, see the "Welcome" on the 2601:541:4500:1760:A508:B7C:1EE8:A293 Talk page.
-- Peter NYC (talk) 17:41, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Peter NYC: Although those logged-out edits are indeed concerning, they don't appear to be from JaGa's bot. They don't have the same edit summaries nor are they the type of edits this bot typically makes. (Edit: In fact, looking more closely at the edits, it's not at all clear that they were from a bot at all.) --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:24, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @R'n'B: Well, 2601:541:4500:1760:A508:B7C:1EE8:A293 fixed a disambiguation in a cite here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_H._Taylor&diff=898572731&oldid=898495779&diffmode=source and then I got an email saying "DPL bot left a message on your talk page in "Disambiguation link notification for May 24". Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Charles H. Taylor, you added a link pointing t..." and there was a message on my talk page.
-- Peter NYC (talk) 20:48, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
- Um, yes, both of those things happened. That doesn't mean they're connected. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:30, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @R'n'B: I don't want to be difficult, I'm still learning and want to learn more about bots, but how can these two things happen and not be connected? -- Peter NYC (talk) 20:32, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
- Let's look at the timeline --
- At 23:42, 23 May 2019 (UTC), you edited the Charles H. Taylor article and inadvertently introduced a link to a disambiguation page.
- At 09:55, 24 May 2019 (UTC), DPL bot left a message about this link on your User talk page.
- At 13:32, 24 May 2019 (UTC), 2601:541:4500:1760:A508:B7C:1EE8:A293 edited the same article to fix that link.
- So the anon user's edit was three and a half hours after the bot made its daily run.
- In any case, DPL bot only does a few specific functions, which are listed on its user page, and those don't include fixing links to disambiguation pages in articles (which can only be done by human editors except in special cases). If you look at DPL bot's contributions in the main namespace, you'll see that (1) the edit summary always begins with the prefix "Robot:", and (2) the only edits in this namespace are to add or remove the {{dablinks}} or {{incoming links}} templates. The anon user's contributions don't match up with either of these criteria. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:04, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
- Let's look at the timeline --
(talk page watcher) @R'n'B: I really appreciate that you took the time to explain all this, thank you very much!
-- Peter NYC (talk) 00:16, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 May 2019
- From the editors: Picture that
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The June 2019 Signpost is out!
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Hatnote Disambig
Use of a Disambig link in a Hatnote may be valid.
Consider <blockquote style="color: green">''For other uses, see [[Malvern]].''</blockquote> as an example.
Should I just ignore the automated message, or is there something else for me to do? A fix is not in order in this circumstance.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 11:55, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
- Please see WP:D#HOWTODAB. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:27, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 July 2019
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- Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
- News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way
- Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
- Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract
- Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things
Bots Newsletter, August 2019
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Greetings! Here is the 7th issue of the Bots Newsletter, a lot happened since last year's newsletter! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.
Two new entries feature in the bots dictionary
As of writing, we have...
These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.
See also the latest discussions at the bot noticeboard. Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
The Signpost: 30 August 2019
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The Signpost: 30 September 2019
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The Signpost: 31 October 2019
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I have since corrected that, thank you for pointing it out to me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truckonout (talk • contribs) 05:41, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for the notification
Thank you for your bot's notification concerning my link to a disambiguation page from my edit at the end of section Action at a distance#Quantum mechanics. This was done accidentally (I did several edits without publishing then published the wrong edit) and I have just fixed it.
I have always disliked bots for deleting photos that were probably in the public domain, and for giving incorrect notifications, but I see that bots can be very useful, too. Thanks for your bot.
There is also need for a bot that will detect WP errors (example: an error message in red that appears when a Named Reference uses an undefined name) and report them to editors who sign up to correct such errors. David Spector (talk) 14:18, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
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Disambiguation Links report
Hi. The disambiguation links report at [1] seems to be broken and is giving error 503 today. Can you please explain this problem. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 22:17, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Pkbwcgs: The tool has not been serviced for a few days now, along with Disambiguation pages with links, Templates with disambiguation links, etc. We miss them and would be grateful if they could be restarted. Certes (talk) 10:41, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- Please see User_talk:DPL_bot#Disambiguation_pages_with_links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:37, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
Links?
Your bot claimed that I put a Link into the SLIDERS article, and I did no such thing. At best I removed a link that didn't link to anywhere about some kind of rumor, and rumor does not belong in Wikipedia. Wikipedia should be a place for fact, and the fact is that I did not put any link anywhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxcardun (talk • contribs) 17:42, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) Maxcardun: Was this not your edit? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:03, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
You know I remember taking off the information about that so called "video game" and I know I took the information out about the 2020 Australian Filming/Release, but not much else in there. Strange. But I don't remember putting In a Link on that page.
Are you showing me Several of my edits at once or just one edit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxcardun (talk • contribs) 19:38, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
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Added the link to a disambiguation page on purpose--thought it would be helpful to interested researchers on a broad topic
Since Wikipedia disapproves of this practice, I have removed this link to a disambiguation page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yorick1952 (talk • contribs) 14:19, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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Hunter Brook link to Brook page
Your bot detected that I edited Hunter Brook to link to the Brook disambiguation page, which is correct. However, the first line in the Brook age is a definition of the term "brook", which is exactly what the Hunter Brook page needed. There is no error. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 01:27, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
What a wonderful bot
Huge THANK YOU for catching my oversight on the Eero Järnefelt page, yesterday. What a helpful, creative and quick-acting way to make Wikipedia accurate and useful. Nice work writing it, and putting it out there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johannes der Taucher (talk • contribs) 11:48, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
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disambiguation
Hello! I'm going to erase the links you named for disambiguation in the page Fernando Bravo James. Thank you for your attention Isadora 10:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadezhda Bravo Cladera (talk • contribs)
Disambiguation link notification for May 6
Iphigenia in Aulis Fixed. Specific link now specified. Darylprasad (talk) 00:43, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
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DPL Bot
Hello JaGa. Links to Dabsolver and Dablinks in messages such as this one no longer work. I can't find the current location of the Dabsolver tool.— Diannaa (talk) 14:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
See User talk:Dispenser#Dabsolver and other tools for where to find the tools.— Diannaa (talk) 15:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)