User talk:Legobot

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Questions about bot's function.

Hello,

Regarding this.

I had knowingly placed both {{rfc}} & {{rfc|sci}} template links as it was my intent to invite comment from both the general community and specifically those with tech interests. The linked discussion has now been resolved, but for future reference is there a way to do this without it being reduced by the Legobot?

(Would it have been allowed if I'd entered the template links on separate lines? Would entering the template links in separate sub-sections be an effective/necessary work-around?)

Thanks for your time and attention,
--Kevjonesin (talk) 00:25, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

If you do {{rfc|sci}}, that should be good enough to get input from both the general community and people with tech interests due to WP:FRS. You could probably use separate sections as a work around, but I don't think that's a good idea. Legoktm (talk) 20:50, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Query about Legobot's capabilities

G'day, I am wondering if Legobot would be able to run a report on which editors have completed GA reviews in a set period? At Military history we hand out awards to editors based on the number of FA, A-Class and Peer reviews they do in each quarter, and some have suggested we should include GA reviews. There doesn't seem to be an automated way to do it at present. Thoughts? Regards, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 12:12, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't think this information is stored in the database once the review ends. You could probably find someone at WP:BOTR who is willing to generate a report though. Legoktm (talk) 20:54, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I will ask there. Regards, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 23:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

How nice to meet a new bot

I thought my talk page was being archived by Miszabot III and today I meet you. So well mannered, but we have not been introduced! I don't mind, coz a bot is a bot, kind of, but it would be cute to let folk know somehow. Fiddle Faddle 22:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

I believe it was a one-off, see WP:BON#MiszaBots down. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:03, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

It was supposed to be a one-off...hopefully I don't end up responsible for these bots. Legoktm (talk) 20:54, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Yeah; I just got a bit surprised as well... since when did Legobot do my archiving? :P -- ^t numbermaniac ^c 11:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for performing the archiving for Miszabot (which I use on my talk page) using Legobot. Much appreciated. Northamerica1000^(talk) 00:55, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Also appreciated here. Any chance of archiving WT:DYK in the near future? It's been over a week. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:24, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Sigma is working on taking over the bot tasks (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Lowercase sigmabot III 2) so hopefully he'll get to it soon. Legoktm (talk) 03:37, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Legoktm. Soon would be nice. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:53, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Legoktm, it won't be soon. Sigma just finished testing for the weekend (both our talk pages were archived more than once), and according to S's talk page the next major test won't be until Friday (November 1). It would really help a lot if you could do a single run to reduce the major Wikipedia talk pages (WT:DYK is one that's getting quite long in the tooth, as it's been three weeks since you ran Legobot there) that used to be covered by Miszabot II. Thanks for your consideration. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:34, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

I poked Sigma to archive WT:DYK, which his bot did. I've set up one more run in Talk:, User talk:, Wikipedia:, and Wikipedia talk:, and hopefully it's the last one I ever do :) Legoktm (talk) 03:08, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Task 13 Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Wrongly moved submissions hasn't run since April

Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Wrongly moved submissions hasn't been updated since April. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 19:54, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Why archiving

Dear Wikipedian. I notice that you and your colleague MiszaBot II archive ‘threads with no replies in 30 days’, on some Talk pages. Why is that? Was this line of action ever democratically decided? I would think archiving is only good in situations where the Talk page gets rather full, rather big. If that is not the case, I would recommend to let all 'older' discussions stand. They don't automatically stand in anyone's way if the page doesn’t get very long. That a certain discussion does not get a new reaction within one month does not automatically mean that some (perceived) problem is solved, or that it cannot be fruitfully discussed further at a (much) later moment. Even if a problem for the moment seems totally solved, it can still sometimes be worthwile at a later stage to re-read that discussion – which would be made needlessly difficult if one first has to go to some archive-page to search for it. Corriebertus (talk) 18:55, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Whether or not to archive a talk page is not a decision made by the bot or its operator -- there is an opt-in template somewhere on the talk page (usually at the top) that instructs the bot on which threads to archive and where to put them. If you don't want a particular page archived, start a thread on that talk page and see if there's consensus to remove the archiving opt-in template. —Darkwind (talk) 06:59, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

See also replies at User talk:Misza13#Why archiving. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:10, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Isn't archiving for Miszabot on my talk

Legobot isn't archiving for me in place of Miszabot. Is my syntax okay on user talk:Ross Hill? Ross Hill (talk) 17:23, 19 Oct 2013 (UTC) 17:23, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Legobot only does MiszaBot III's archiving when fired off as a special task, see #How nice to meet a new bot above. Other than that, the {{User:MiszaBot/config}} seems fine as amended here. Just as a matter of interest, why did you switch from ClueBot III (which still works) to MiszaBot III (which hasn't run for over two weeks)? --Redrose64 (talk) 20:07, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Because I found the ClueBot III syntax more difficult, and I thought Miszabot was still active. Ross Hill (talk) 20:42, 19 Oct 2013 (UTC) 20:42, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Beyonce, Archive 11

Could you tell me why these two short discussions were archived. The current Talk page is short and could easily contain them. thanks--Aichik (talk) 22:27, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) If you edit Talk:Beyoncé Knowles, near the top of the page (after the WikiProject banners but before the first section heading} you should find the {{User:MiszaBot/config}} template. Whether threads are archived or not depends upon some of the parameters in there. Not all are relevant; the ones that are relevant are:

|minthreadsleft=4

|minthreadstoarchive=1

|algo=old(31d)

This means that when archiving takes place, a minimum of four threads are to remain on the original page; that no fewer than one thread is to be archived; and that any threads that are archived should not have been posted to for at least 31 days.

At the time of the last archive, there were five threads on the page, so a maximum of one could be archived to leave a four-thread minimum; and the first thread on the page, 'The "Legacy" of an active artist', was last posted to on 8 September 2013 - 35 days before the bot run, so outside the 31-day cutoff. The bot operated as designed. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:45, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

CHU clerk

Seems to be running on some older code; Chris had fixed a few key errors before the bot went down. Any chance to get the latest build? –xeno^talk 22:03, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Chris kinda disappeared so I'm running the latest code in his SVN repo. Do you know what errors the bot is making? I can try and fix them... Legoktm (talk) 22:05, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

• Hmm what I saw in the last pass was : Lower case input leads bot to think username not exist. Let me check my recent req's to Chris. +Also move time to mark reqs done by crats up to 10-15 mins (cuz lazy). I think User:Anomie had also provisioned AnomieBOT for CHU/S clerking so depending on the amount of effort it will take you and how many cycles Anomie has, you might want to co-ordinate with them. Thanks both =) –xeno^talk 22:29, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
• I guess there was some unspecific error with auto-signing : User_talk:Chris_G/Archives/2013/July#CHUS_auto_signing. –xeno^talk 22:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Is there a way to trigger Legobot to archive a page (WP:CHU/S), something like {{User:KingpinBot/archivenow}} ? Not a big issue just wondering. Thanx. Mlpearc (powwow) 20:04, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Andrzejbanas - Too many threads

Can you put User talk:Andrzejbanas threads into archive, I think it was too many threads. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.176.160 (talk) 07:32, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) First of all, User:Andrzejbanas would have to request this action. Mlpearc (powwow) 20:07, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

CHU false positives

The bot is jumping to the wrong conclusions at a renaming request by User:Andys'edtits. It keeps claiming that "The request was made by [[User:Andys'edtits|]]", while the page history (and Andy's contributions) clearly shows that's not true. See bottom of the page here[1]. Yintan  12:25, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) - Perm link for above Mlpearc (powwow) 12:32, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi, sorry if inappropriate for me to comment here. It's my account, I thought I'd requested incorrectly, (still learning) but it was from me, I typed the username not 'signed' it first time - in case that was cause? Thanks in advance, --Andys'edtits (talk) 13:33, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can see it's not your fault. Your edit shows up in the page history, so the bot should have noticed that. Yintan  16:06, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Found the bug. For some reason the ' in the signature is urlencoded, so it doesnt exactly match the raw ' in the template. Weird. I'll add a check for this once I'm back at my own computer. Legosock2 (talk) 18:33, 28 October 2013 (UTC)