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User:SDZeroBot/G13 Watch

Hi, I have found this report EXTREMELY helpful for identifying good drafts that were deleted but should not have been. Like dozens and dozens of them. Would it be possible for you to do a daily report of articles submitted to AFC? Maybe 24 hours after submission, one report of the drafts that were declined (for a quick check that there weren't any unfair declines), and one report of the drafts that remain pending (so editors can more easily identify drafts that might be good and/or drafts that they have the expertise to review)? Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:21, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@Calliopejen1: Wow, I am surprised. I had thought that G13 Watch is one of the less useful SDZeroBot reports that only turns up trashy pages. Glad to find it's useful. Regarding AFC submitted drafts, there's WP:AFCSORT and its subpages though they don't include text extracts. Maybe I should just add the text extracts there and drop fields like length and date created which are less useful.

Regarding a daily report of AFC declined drafts, I think that's a good idea! Will look into it. – SD0001 (talk) 16:32, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. FYI, I don't find WP:AFCSORT that helpful for my purposes. My usual goal is to find good-faith editors working on encyclopedic topics, irrespective of category. It is much easier to identify these people/articles based on two sentences of the article than based on the category, because just about every category has tons of COI trash in it.... Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:36, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Calliopejen1 Done User:SDZeroBot/Declined AFCs. Thanks to User:Earwig whose bot does all the hard work to come up with the list of recently declined articles (Template:AFC statistics/declined). My bot merely reads off that list and converts the data to the more human-friendly form. – SD0001 (talk) 06:05, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Oops, I meant User:The Earwig. – SD0001 (talk) 06:07, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Awesome, thank you! Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:10, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

For User:SDZeroBot/G13 Watch, could you add the pre-deletion page size to the report? This is helpful in reviewing deleted articles; very small articles generally aren't worth looking at (low error rate, and not a great loss if someone has to write it again later). Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

It's a good idea, but unfortunately not that easy because this task uses a database that would need schema changes. Let me see. – SD0001 (talk) 06:05, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi, User:SDZeroBot/G13 Watch has been showing 0 entries for the past few days, even though things are definitely being deleted on an ongoing basis. Do you know the reason for this? Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:38, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Calliopejen1, the program appears to have mysteriously stopped working. I restarted it. Since neither me nor the bot is an admin, it relies on a 24x7 running program that grabs the excerpt as soon the G13 nom is made (though the on-wiki edit is done just once a day). For this reason, it's always been a bit unstable. – SD0001 (talk) 04:16, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Calliopejen1 And now G13 Watch is back up, with a size column! Should be more reliable from now on, unlike last time. – SD0001 (talk) 10:12, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Ah, bureaucracy

Apologies for the extra bureaucracy at your ongoing BRFA; as Primefac demonstrated, I most likely should've just approved for a trial. I should've noticed that your intention was to take entire categories of categories at once, and tag each member category as a setcat without manually inspecting it. Looks like the BRFA is otherwise going well, so at least I didn't hold it up too much. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:34, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon

Hello, SD0001,

I just wanted to thank you for adding the Last Edit column to this report. The page has turned out to be an invaluable tool, both for those working in AfC and for those, like me, who clear out old drafts which are less than promising. Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible

Hello, SD0001,

Typically, SDZeroBot issues this report at 00:00 UTC each night but today, it just skipped it. No report. This has also happened occasionally with User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon. It typically is also issued around 00:00 UTC but sometimes, there is just no report for the day even though reports are issued even when there are no drafts listed.

I'm not sure if you are on Wikipedia much now but if you are, could you manually run the SDZeroBot G13 eligible report? Because we were missing a G13 soon list for the day, it should be pretty long list. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

@Liz: done. – SD0001 (talk) 12:52, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much, SD0001! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:17, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

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Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:04, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Shankar's Weekly

On 2 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shankar's Weekly, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru launched Shankar's Weekly, even though its founder described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shankar's Weekly. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Shankar's Weekly), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon

Hello, SD0001,

User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon is usually issued at 00:02 UTC but for some reason, about once every 7-10 days, it doesn't get issued. It isn't issued later in the night, the bot just skips that report. That happened today. Could you run your bot and issue a report for Nov. 7, 2020 for drafts that expire Nov. 13th? That would be very helpful. Thank you so much. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:29, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

@Liz: done. There was a spam-blacklisted link in one of those excerpts that was blocking the save. Should be handled now. – SD0001 (talk) 04:42, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Oh, this has happened to me when I've tried to archive talk page comments from months ago and they contain a now black-listed link. Thanks for being so responsive to my message. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:54, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, SD0001,

Once again we didn't get a daily User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon. Could you check on that when you get back on Wikipedia? Thanks so much! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:21, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

@Liz: manually run. It was originally a random "Connection lost" error which seems to occur annoyingly often. – SD0001 (talk) 06:28, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

It looks like it was generated last night. Thanks! It really helps to be able to address G13s throughout the day & night rather than having a dump of 200+ all at once. But G13 eligible is still very useful as a daily backup report. Thank you for being so responsive to requests. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:24, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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Another AFC-related report that could be useful

Hi SD0001, would there be a way to do a bot report of pending articles that have titles identical to titles on other Wikipedias, with links to those foreign-language Wikipedia pages? If an article exists on another Wikipedia, it's a good indication that the draft should be approved. Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:19, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 Deferred to WP:BOTREQ#AFC_drafts_that_have_titles_identical_to_titles_on_other_Wikipedias. I don't know of a way to do this since wikidata is unlikely to be helpful for AFC drafts. Not sure if it's even possible. – SD0001 (talk) 06:37, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible

This is a very minor point, SD0001, but it is weird that there are 16 eligible drafts on this page but the "count" is 198 for some reason. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:15, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

@Liz: Ahhh! Looking at the logs it seems the reason is SDZeroBot found 198 eligible pages from the database query, perhaps because it is lagging. All of them but for the 16 had either been edited or deleted within the period by which the database was lagging. – SD0001 (talk) 17:03, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

So, I don't keep creating new threads, SD0001, I'll just add that there was no User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon report today (for Nov. 24, 2020). Probably another bad link getting things stuck? It's still a useful report, even if it is issued hours from now.

Thanks for answering my question about User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible. It's remarkably reliable so it was unusual to find an error. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:31, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Liz: Should be sorted now. This time someone was using Https://g.co instead of https://g.co, the caps change was tripping up the spam link remover logic in the code. – SD0001 (talk) 05:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, SD0001. I've run into the problem editing some article talk pages, making an edit to the page and the change not going through because an earlier talk page post included a link that was now on the blacklist. No problem when the comment was initially posted, but now unacceptable. Thanks again! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:48, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Hey, SD0001, no G13 eligible or G13 soon reports tonight! But lots of AfD notices that I never noticed SDZeroBot did before. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:12, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

SD0001, no User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible report yesterday or today. It's not as essential as the G13 soon report (which was produced today) as Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts produces the same information as the G13 eligible report. But the database report is generated 8 hours after your G13 eligible report is produced . Thanks and have a good weekend! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:24, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Database connectivity issues. Let's see if it happens again. – SD0001 (talk) 16:07, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

In appreciation of your selfless work

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		Thank you ever so much for your selfless work in responding to my request and generating WP:URFA/2020. All of the editors running all over the Wikipedia trying to find which old FAs need review now have an organized list! Most appreciated, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:37, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

SD, thanks once again for everything ... this list is already breathing new life in to FAR. Could you have a look at one error found here? Did you put a limit on the N? If so, we mayneed to separately look for any other high Ns. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:56, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

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Reviewing edits

Moving my reply github, since it's really more of an on-wiki thing:

Anything I push I take responsibility for, so even for my own sake, I review every edit just like any other edit. Moreover, there are only a few of us entrusted to edit those pages, so to "just rely on trusting the user" would defeat the purpose and, at least IMO, would be preempting the community and bordering on irresponsible. It's trivial to break things for thousands of users, which is why I make an effort not to make notable changes if I can't guarantee to be somewhat available or responsive for a while after.

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello SD0001,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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18:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Another WP:URFA/2020 favor

Hi, SD0001; I am here to ask another favor for WP:URFA/2020. Some articles have run TFA twice,[1] so I should have asked you to check for the |maindate2 = parameter. Are you able to easily run through and flag any old FAs that have a maindate2 ? If this requires a lot of work, it is not worth it, so don't feel you have to ... but if it's easy, and you can generate a list, I can swap them in. The list is doing what it's supposed to do, so thank you again for that! Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:20, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

@SandyGeorgia: Yeah it's pretty easy: User:SDZeroBot/Featured articles: maindate2. – SD0001 (talk) 20:32, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Amazing ... thanks so much, I will swap those in now. Best regards, and thanks again, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:38, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon

Hello, SD0001,

If you check today's report, you'll see that there is some problem with formatting the page. This doesn't happen often (maybe once every few weeks) but I don't know how to fix it or why the bot's posting of the table is skewed. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:28, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

wikimedia-gadgets

Hi! Regarding the wikimedia-gadgets organization on GitHub, can you please grant permissions for managing the wikimedia-gadgets/redwarn repository to the "RedWarn" team under the organization? I've created it so that Ed and I would be able to push into that repository, but as of now, I'm lacking permissions, so I can't set up the mirror hooks.

Aside from that, would it be possible to start a communication channel with the members of the organization? The only method right now seems to be on-wiki, which is generally a timesink (and a hassle). Personally, I'd be interested in a Discord server since it's much more feature-rich than other alternatives, like IRC. We can just link up an IRC channel to such a server for those who don't want to make a Discord account after all. Interested to hear your thoughts on this soon. Happy holidays! Chlod (say hi!) 10:11, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Chlod. I've enabled write access as a base perm for all members, and full admin access for you to redwarn. Regarding a communication channel, yes I'm quite interested in that, though I myself have little experience with Discord/IRC. At a minimum, we should having an on-GitHub discussion venue, but it seems like the only way to set one up is to create a team. I created one called "Org talk", but it seems I have to manually invite every member, which is just a pain. Do you have any better ideas? A Discord channel I guess would be nice to have if you can set one up! – SD0001 (talk) 10:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

I've set up a Discord server. I'll add in IRC integration in a bit. Just authenticate yourself there and I'll give you the moderator role. Thanks! Chlod (say hi!) 12:32, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Done. Had never used Discord before. This is indeed so much cooler than IRC! – SD0001 (talk) 13:26, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Test Wiki RfA

I am requesting adminship on Test Wikipedia. See my reasoning there, if possible. BlackWidowMovie0 (talk · contribs · moves · rights) 23:00, 19 December 2020 (UTC)