User talk:AnomieBOT
Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki. |
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Why is the link to a linkedin page an unreliable source? I assume a website could be like that - but on the other hand a website should be a good source of information and confirmation of data. Could I remove the comment in the bio I prepared? thanks Lemonidess (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- This is the user talk page for a bot. All AnomieBOT did was add a date to a tag added by some human. If you're referring to Przemysław Krych, that addition was in Special:Diff/1212040660 so you should go ask at User talk:Theroadislong. Anomie⚔ 19:52, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Protection of article
Asking for protection of the article Paola Cortellesi from non registered recidive vandal who also admitted they are doing it for personal ideological and political beliefs and keeps causing disruption. 151.38.224.195 (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) AnomieBOT does not protect pages. You should file a request at WP:RFPP. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:42, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
TFATitleSubpageCreator: Cannot find featured article in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 12, 2024 - Fixed
Help! I can't find the featured article link in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 12, 2024 in order to populate Template:TFA title/May 12, 2024. Please correct the link or create the template manually. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT II⚡ 00:01, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- Not at all familiar with these templates, so rather than just removing I'm leaving it here for further review. Primefac (talk) 06:24, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- Two years ago, after getting tired of edge cases when trying to scrape links out of the wikitext, I switched the bot to looking for {{TFAFULL}} which is a lot easier to parse for. In this case I see the {{TFAFULL}} was present originally but was removed in Special:Diff/1215188470 by User:MaranoFan. Looks like I forgot to update the bot's complaint message, and also that I forgot to ever add a check for the day being added to Template:TFA title/data.json. Anomie⚔ 13:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Retrieving named refs from other articles
Would it be possible to get some information on exactly how this works? In particular, I'd like to understand why it didn't activate for this edit. Further details here. Sunrise (talk) 01:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- At the moment the bot only checks pages linked in edit summaries. I turned off the linked-pages check in July 2023 because it seemed too often to cause false positives when people name a ref based on the newspaper or website. Anomie⚔ 00:31, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply, and I'm glad to hear the edit summary check is active. For the edit I'm asking about (which was in 2019), why does it seem that neither the edit summary check nor the linked-pages check worked correctly? Sunrise (talk) 19:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Digging into old on-wiki logs, I find it says "Terminology of alternative medicine: Revision 894510465 is transcluding something too b0rken to fix (Ref contains <ref>), skipping". Due to limitations of the expandtemplates API action (e.g. T235882), the bot can't handle refs inside of refs, for example when {{refn}} is used to contain a
<ref>
. - In 2021 I added support for some templates, including {{refn}} and {{efn}}, so that's not so much of a problem anymore. The bot still doesn't support other templates like {{r}} or {{sfn}} that do more than just add a single ref though. Anomie⚔ 00:30, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Digging into old on-wiki logs, I find it says "Terminology of alternative medicine: Revision 894510465 is transcluding something too b0rken to fix (Ref contains <ref>), skipping". Due to limitations of the expandtemplates API action (e.g. T235882), the bot can't handle refs inside of refs, for example when {{refn}} is used to contain a
- Thanks for the reply, and I'm glad to hear the edit summary check is active. For the edit I'm asking about (which was in 2019), why does it seem that neither the edit summary check nor the linked-pages check worked correctly? Sunrise (talk) 19:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Anna Panagiotopoulou
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Panagiotopoulou&oldid=1224190278 και oxi Anna Panagiotopoulou 2A02:587:CC0C:1000:A48C:7F4D:6CF8:410F (talk) 10:52, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- You seem confused. You linked to an edit where AnomieBOT added dates to {{citation needed}} tags added by a human editor in a previous edit, which likely means you should talk to that human rather than posting here. Anomie⚔ 11:32, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
About PeerReviewArchiver
Hey Anomie! Per a rough consensus at this discussion, it seems there's some need for additional automated archiving of peer review pages. Since AnomieBOT already performs a very similar task, would you be willing to expand the PeerReviewArchiver function to close reviews that have gone unanswered for over three months? Let me know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 01:50, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'll post at the discussion there. Anomie⚔ 11:31, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
Date parameters on infoboxes
Hi Anomie, I hope you're doing well. I noticed on a Russian village article that AnomieBOT had added a date parameter for the {{Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} infobox back in July 2020, when date parameters are invalid – see Roza, Chelyabinsk Oblast's history for an example. You might already be aware of this, but I thought I'd let you know to avoid the same issue happening in the future. I've rollbacked the ones that were still rollbackable, I don't know if you want to try and reverse it for the ones remaining that aren't. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 17:49, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Ferien: That was almost four years ago. At the time, the infobox template was very different, and contained some undated
{{citation needed}}
tags. Do you have examples of it happening recently? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:23, 12 June 2024 (UTC) - I've traced it to this edit. Anomie, that's your bot too; was the
|date=__DATE__
code intentional here? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:37, 12 June 2024 (UTC)- That task is based off of WP:AWB/DT, which {{Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} was on at the time (and had been since at least 2011). * Pppery * it has begun... 22:42, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's right. Specifically, it was added in October 2010, and finally removed in March 2023. Since AnomieBOT was told it was a dated maintenance template, it unsubstified it and it dated instances of it on pages that happened to be in categories indicating that some maintenance template was missing a
|date=
. Anomie⚔ 23:23, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's right. Specifically, it was added in October 2010, and finally removed in March 2023. Since AnomieBOT was told it was a dated maintenance template, it unsubstified it and it dated instances of it on pages that happened to be in categories indicating that some maintenance template was missing a
- That task is based off of WP:AWB/DT, which {{Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} was on at the time (and had been since at least 2011). * Pppery * it has begun... 22:42, 12 June 2024 (UTC)