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Can one stop your bot?[edit]

Dear Anomie, this might sound strange as a question. Sorry! Sometimes i translate my german articles into the english wikipedia and post them later. Therefore i store them in German on my place "Gyanda/my new site". And then slowly, slowly i look for the right links, format the references etc. Unfortunately for me, your bot is so fast, it changes all my formatting in a minute from the german format to the english. But i would prefer to do this "alone" as i keep learning by this. Is there a way to tell the bot: Please don't change things here as i'm working on it? That would help me. Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 19:56, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Gyanda: This may be of help Template:Bots#Important_notes. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 20:06, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your quick answer. Am curious to find out if i did it right :-) just added it to my site. Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 20:30, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Self Service[edit]

Hi! I need help from you. Tonight i did a page about record producer Self Service - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Service, but page was already created, it was #redirect Bruno Bozzetto#Shorts created by AnomieBOT. When I go to this page from a computer - it's all good - I go to the Self page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Service). But when I go to this page from a mobile phone - I go to the previous page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bozzetto#Shorts). How can I fix this? Thank you in advance! Felix Montana (talk) 09:22, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Asking about a Bot[edit]

Dear Anomie, How can I add a Bot with following all rules of Wikipedia ? Abhimanyu Kapur (talk) 15:03, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Start by reading through Wikipedia:Bot policy. That should tell you much of what you need to know. Anomie 16:54, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:INTADMIN#Alternative_proposal,_quick_expiry_only[edit]

 You are invited to join the discussion at WT:INTADMIN#Alternative_proposal,_quick_expiry_only. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:04, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 September 18 didn't get created[edit]

Good evening, I noticed that Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 September 18 was still redlinked this evening after the time that your bot usually creates it so I created it manually. I wanted to let you know in case something needs to be fixed. --B (talk) 00:19, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Looks like maintenance today caused some of AnomieBOT's tasks to error out. I've restarted them. Thanks for the heads-up. Anomie 01:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

List of ISO 3166 country codes[edit]

I've made numerous changes to the List of ISO 3166 country codes. I've replaced the first column labled "Common country name" and replaced it with a column labled "ISO 3166 Country name". I've also added Wikipedia article and other common country names cross-references. I've added a footnotes sections. Please take a look at this article and let me know if it meets your expectations. You may wish to remove the disputed tag. Thank you very much for your comments.  Buaidh  talk contribs 17:02, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Copyrights in relation to patents[edit]

Hi Anomie! I noticed that in the past you were involved with patent license templates for uploaded files. Please join a discussion on the topic here: c:COM:Village pump/Copyright#Reproductions_of_patent_text_and_illustrations. —Catsquisher (talk) 17:57, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

@Catsquisher: Good luck, I think you're in the right there. But people in the past discussions doing things like trying to apply German law to US patents was part of what made me give up on Commons; I'm not going to involve myself in the discussion there. Anomie 18:15, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. Given my recent I experience on Wikimedia I feel your frustration. Take care. —Catsquisher (talk) 18:19, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Image censor[edit]

Do those scripts support Opera? Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 02:45, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

I don't know. Try them and see? Anomie 11:20, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

sys bot - Requests for approval denied[edit]

Hello Anomie,

I have some questions regarding the approval denied for my sys bot:

here seems to be no reason you need apihighlimits for this task

I would like to use as much historical revisions as possible to track historical change of business activities of companies (for instance, I would like to track how Volkswagen did change his business towards low carbon emissions vehicules)

, and you've not made any other edits so there's no evidence you have the understanding of the English Wikipedia's policies and guidelines that is required of a bot operator (see WP:BOTNOTNOW).

How could I show evidence that I have the understanding of the English wikipedia policies and guidelines ?

You might also see mw:API:Query#Continuing queries.

This query seems to be very useful to get all revisions from Wikipedia but it seems that we cannot combine it with the pageids parameter. So it's impossible to get all revisions of a specific article id. Do you have any suggestions ?

--SysEqLo (talk) 15:49, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

I fail to see how fetching thousands of revisions of Wikipedia articles is going to "track historical change of business activities of companies", but I'll leave you to that since I don't really need to know. You don't need apihighlimits to fetch revisions.
You show that you have understanding the English Wikipedia's policies and guidelines by being a productive (non-bot) editor for a decent period of time and a decent number of edits. Before you ask, there are no specific thresholds for "a decent period of time" or "a decent number of edits".
Use of continuation is independent of using the pageids parameter. Anomie 19:34, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 7, 2018[edit]

What would you like to do with the way this appears in the recentlist template at the bottom of the next 3 TFAs? It's currently written [[Déjà Vu (Beyoncé song)|"Déjà Vu" (Beyoncé song)]]. Do you see an alternative to putting the quote marks after the pipe? Whatever we do, I'd prefer to be consistent. - Dank (push to talk) 00:19, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Dank: Personally I don't have an opinion on that, I was just fixing the link to clear the AnomieBOT error at Special:PermaLink/867478954#TFATitleSubpageCreator: Cannot find featured article in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 7, 2018. Since we have the guideline about quotes being outside the bolding/link, it doen't seem worthwhile to update the bot to allow them inside. It might be better to ask at that MOS talk page. Anomie 00:28, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Not sure what to say to that ... it's easily fixable in this case, but it might happen in the future that there's no way around updating the bot to handle things like [[Déjà Vu (Beyoncé song)|"Déjà Vu" (Beyoncé song)]]. If we get an article title that for some reason needs to appear that way in the TFA blurb, we'll have lots of time to catch the problem and work on it, we tend to have the next month's TFAs selected by the middle of each month. - Dank (push to talk) 00:40, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
If we run into that situation we can deal with it then. It seems unlikely to me that we'd want the disambiguator visible in the blurb itself in the first place. Anomie 11:49, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Agreed. I think it's unlikely, I just can't rule it out at the moment. - Dank (push to talk) 12:57, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

List of motor yachts by length[edit]

Hi, in your recent edit, I was just wondering what "weird <nowiki>" you were referring to? Thanks - wolf 02:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

The <nowiki> wrapping the input to {{row counter}}. Anomie 02:31, 9 November 2018 (UTC)