Any issues should be addressed at User talk:Broadbeer!

I don't read this page a lot so please post requests and questions on my talk page and not here. --Broadbeer (talk) 23:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for botstatus approval

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 00:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Gary Russell

This bot recently added da:Gary Russell to the en: article on Gary Russell, a mistake previously made by WeggeBot. These are different people. Bondegezou (talk) 09:03, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki links on templates added outside of `<noinclude>`?

In this edit, an interwiki link is added to a template, and as the link is added outside of the <noinclude>, the interwiki link is going to appear on every page that the template appears on. And that is wrong, I guess… –Fred Bradstadt (talk) 18:34, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just remove them from the {{todo}} template. I then added it to the sub /doc article. Morphh ^(talk) 21:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The bot has been blocked pending contact with its owner. (Not by me, somebody was faster ;-) ) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 21:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

*cough* But seriously, here's another diff: [1] weburiedoursecrets inthegarden 21:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest that in the future, if/when the bot is brought back to operational status, it first check /doc pages of templates since that is where interwikis are typically located when using that format? — Huntster (t • @ • c) 21:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And check for noinclude tags anyhow. Sometimes it just dumped stuff outside something like <noinclude>{{/doc}}</noinclude>. Even if it disregards documentation, it should at least recognise the noincludes. User:Krator (t c) 21:45, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, all template mistakes today reverted. Anyone who is bored can re-add them properly, I guess... --- RockMFR 22:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same problem again

I just blocked the bot since it is doing the same (or similar) mistakes again. It damages template and template /doc pages by deleting interwiki links and adding interwiki links in the wrong place. See these edits: [2], [3].

I don't know if we should count this edit [4] as an error, but I link it here for completeness. It is the edit immediately after the edit above.

When you fixed the bot code ask me (if you see I am on-line, check my user contributions) or any other admin to unblock the bot.

--David Göthberg (talk) 14:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Response copied from David's talk page:

Hi David

You blocked my bot earlier today beacause a stupid edit in the doc-template. As stated before (in May) my bot very rarely edits templates (last time was in May) and only deals with new articles. The template edits was part of a cleanup on the danish Wikipedia which included a few template edits, of which the doc edit was the only faulty one. Therefore i would like to have my bot unblocked again as soon as possibly. Thanks in advance. --Broadbeer (talk) 14:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

End response copied from David's talk page.

Okay, I'll unblock your bot. I take it you mean the bot has no code for handling this situation since you are not supposed to feed it template pages at all? But since this has now happened repeatedly I suggest you add some kind of code in the bot so it for instance refuses to edit template pages. It was two templates that got damaged this time. I see that the bot has also edited a third template [5], but without damaging that one.

--David Göthberg (talk) 14:52, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I use the pywikipedia framework, so a lot of the bots roaming here probaly has the same eroor? But as I said I normally only work on articles. --Broadbeer (talk) 21:21, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, many bots used to have these problems some year ago. But now all of them are either fixed or blocked here on the English Wikipedia. It was a long time now since I last saw a bot screw up the interwiki links on a template /doc page. You can probably get pywikipedia code for handling interwiki links on the /doc pages from some other bot owner. Note that the same kind of template documentation is used on several of the Wikipedias.

--David Göthberg (talk) 22:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Query

I need help renaming about 200 articles. Doing this by hand would take me all day.

Can your bot rename articles, or be adapted to do so?

If so, please contact me.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 22:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I only do interwiki work here on the english Wikipedia. --Broadbeer (talk) 14:30, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]