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A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	What would we do without DatBot?? -- TNT (talk • she/they) 00:29, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

One thing for certain is resizing images in a much slower place! Long time no see, hope you're well. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 00:34, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

September 2019

Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5
Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"

November 2019

Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT
Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request).

December 2019

Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8
Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that.
200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 was approved to remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot) changed lots of http links to https using JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies.

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
Will reFill ever get fixed?
What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Hello, DatGuy. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 13:01, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

DatBot feature request

Hey DatGuy. Would it possible to add additional notes (beyond the filter title) when DatBot makes an "immediate" report to AIV/TB2? That is, could we put stuff like this in User:DatBot/filters:


note 42 = '''This filter causes a large number of false positives; use extreme caution before blocking.'''
note 123 = Contact [[User:Alice]] for questions.
note 456 = [[User:Bob| ]]

Then DatBot would say:

* {{IPvandal|8.8.8.8}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/42|filter 42]] (LTA 42) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|wpSearchUser=8.8.8.8}} details]). '''This filter causes a large number of false positives; use extreme caution before blocking.''' [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 18:10, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

I don't know about the "vandalism" reports; wouldn't want to flood AIV/TB2 with dozens of comments, so probably best not to change anything there. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:52, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: I think it would be best to make the filters more readable by changing the content model to JSON. It will lead to around a day of downtime for the abusefilter reporter task but will hopefully lead to long-term readability and scaling improvements. Could you please Special:ChangeContentModel for User:DatBot/filters from wikitext to JSON? Thanks. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 15:23, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Is there a way to override the default full protection of user JSON? AFAIK changing the content model of that page would prevent non-admins EFMs, including me (and you, unless you log in to the bot account), from editing the page. So it will need to be outside your userspace, e.g. at Template:DatBot filters or Wikipedia:DatBot filters, and then EC-protected manually. Do you have a preferred location? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:44, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: that makes sense, I went to a page I found in the model change log and editing worked but recalled doing something similar earlier and it didn't work. Either page you suggested works. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 20:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Ok,

Done by ToBeFree. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:41, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: should be good to go. There's an example in Template:DatBot filters and documentation at Template:DatBot filters/doc. I'd suggest if you have spare time adding them one by one and monitoring the bot's edits to make sure everything's alright, but if you believe the filters are ready to be added all at once I'll do that tomorrow. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 00:56, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Hmmm, doesn't seems to be working. See Special:Diff/1059375142 and Special:AbuseLog/31470082. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:43, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Whoops, I accidentally forgot to turn it on. Give it a go now. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 12:54, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Works now with hits = 1. But with hits = 2, time = 1000, I get nothing even with 3 or 4 hits in a row. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:03, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: just tried it and it seemed to work fine. Perhaps try again? Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 22:16, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, worked the second time. Didn't realize I needed to wait five minutes after updating the template. I've copied everything from the old page, but I'm leaving the report page as your sandbox for a bit. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 07:13, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Seems to be working; thanks again! I switched back to AIV. One more question: the doc page says If a user hits any combination of filters 'vandalism' a total of ten times within five minutes, he's reported to AIV. but the old behavior was five times in five minutes, and DatBot is still saying Tripped 5 abuse filters in the last 5 minutes. Which is correct? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:59, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: it was indeed previously set to five times in five minutes, but that led to the obvious issue that any specific filter hit five times in five minutes will be skipped because the user is already reported for five global hits. I've added a 'global' section to the filters page that can also be updated. There's also a title tracker which reports if five filters have been tripped in the last five minutes on a page (rather than by a user) on the #wikipedia-en-abuse-log ^connect channel. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 20:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Makes sense. I might try different settings there later. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:39, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Seems to be skipping a few, e.g. Zubinia tripped filter 1160 which has hits: 1, but was never reported. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:21, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Problem seems to have stopped ... did you change anything? In any case thanks once more time for implementing this feature! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:59, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I made the duplicate hit per edit check be ignored for vandalism filters. Zubinia for example tripped both band vandalism and filter 1160 simultaneously. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 14:26, 26 December 2021 (UTC)